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The reoccurring theme of being unwanted in your childhood and seeing yourself as some kind of monster and how you feel like you have to move mountains to get people to like you

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This moment's so cathartic to me because Donnie's forever doomed to be pushed into the spotlight when Leo's at a complete loss.

And Mikey's just watching it all go down while Raph found the audacity to glare right back at Donnie, I can't with these kids.

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Katara with ulu knives

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We need programs that benefit future generations because it is crystal clear that capitalism will leave absolutely nothing.

The wealthy have no connection with humanity and humanity has no influence on the wealthy.

This is why We The People was the genesis of the country. The People will provide. #VoteBlue

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I think a big part of protecting children is giving them more (and when applicable, better) options.

I don’t just mean encouraging them to exercise autonomy more; Though that certainly helps, I’m talking about something I haven’t really covered. I mean giving them more options to choose from, particularly in their social circle. Children need to be able to go to more people for support than the mere handful they are so often presented with. Very often, their only options for people to socialize with, whether hand-picked or determined stochastically, do not meet their needs, whether for leisure, emotional support, or gaining knowledge.

Some kids’ only option for consistent peer relations are their classmates, siblings, and cousins. Not all kids are even able to tap into all three of the aforementioned relations, and even those who do might not wind up with anyone among those peers that would be their friend. Some are even outright rejected.

Even worse is the fact that inter-generational friendships are often avoided. This most critically leaves youth with fewer options for vital advice and emotional support, and fewer models of how an interaction between an adult and child should be. Usually, what they are able to choose from is a whole bunch of bad options because of this.

Namely, I mean the idea that only predatory people seek and accept positive relationships with youth. This means that non-predatory people are reluctant to interact with kids, which means that a: the kids are left with abusers as the only adults willing to interact with them AND b: kids are even more susceptible to abuse because they don’t know what a healthy interaction with an adult is like.

The growing stigma against inter-generational solidarity is literally leaving children vulnerable to abuse.

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Made this for u 💝

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ohh my god a teenager online posted something that reveals a less than perfectly developed understanding of the world around them? should we tell everyone? should we screenshot it and share it everywhere so we can pat ourselves on the back for being so much wiser than Kids These Days? should we invite a boomer comic artist

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"can men be lesbians?" bestie in 100 countries women can't be lesbians is this really the most pressing issue rn

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Something so profoundly fucked up between the inverse ratio of shrinking middle class and ever increasing aggression of advertisement

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if sex work was legal the workers could unionize

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I think a lot about how, if the glorious violent revolution happens, every kid with significant medical needs in a hospital where power gets cut will die.

You can decide you're willing to sacrifice your own life, but you don't get to tell everybody else on the planet that they're acceptable collateral damage.

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I was about to study some chemistry or draw my own OCs today but then, boom, I found out that Piandao/Jeong Jeong ship exists and I’m a weak, weak man 😞