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A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

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The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

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Just a thought for the night, but remember in 2016 there were all these accounts that seemed really really telling you all the ways Hillary Clinton was some kind of demon woman, just the worst, and really Trump wouldn't be worse and maybe he'd even be better?

and then it turned out they got banned for being literally Russian agents and never came back because spoiler they were?

does it feel like that all over again? just a thought.

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the heteros are so funny “cAN MEn and woMEN BE FRIENDS???? :o” like dude everyone is hot get over yourself

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I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…

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Plz I need a second season

#dead boy detectives

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#these are like the tumblr version of hieroglyphs

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By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

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Loving the new counterpoint that not only is posting activism, not posting is complicity. Why doesn't everyone with any fame or internet presence immediately release a lengthy but perfectly-worded statement telling us where they stand on every issue? Is it because they're evil??? It must be because they're evil

And then the usual answer is "they don't post online very much". Which is all very suspicious, don't they know everything of importance is done by posts on social media now

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I always say “crazy people still get sick” to remind my colleagues who may not have struggled with mental health not to discount symptoms in someone just because they also have mental health issues, but it’s also important to remember that crazy people can still be dicks. Mental illness does not give anyone permission to be an asshole in a way they can and should recognize and prevent. I can’t tailgate and yell “I HAVE DEPRESSION” to somehow magically make myself not an asshole. Keep that in mind when watching YouTuber apologies and when deciding what behavior you’ll allow yourself to engage in.

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we never should have let cis people get away with “sex is biological, gender is social”

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In his posts, Trump accused Biden of being weak on both issues, saying: “Biden is weak, corrupt, and leading the world straight into World War III…Crooked Joe is caving to the Far-Left Pro-Terrorist Mobs because his donors are funding them, and he is too WEAK to demand LAW AND ORDER!”

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i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it's actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.

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RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

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helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!