unconsequential

We could all use a good collective cry too. Just let it aaaaaaall out.

I keep saying this. Like who is writing this season? I can’t take headlines seriously half the time because they seriously sound made up. Like, we’re all trapped in a season of the Truman show and all the writers are on strike.

I feel most of the US could use a good collective primal scream therapy session, this could really take off.

You know what prevents crime? Better standard of living and overall living conditions. But sure let’s go robocop surveillance state instead. Can’t mess with the profits.

Yes they will treat you. But they will harass the shit out of you. I couldn’t properly identify myself or another victim after a critical accident and the other person almost lost their arm. I was failing all the other questions too (date, president, etc) but they wouldn’t stop asking like clockwork. It took hours to get an MRI and xray. I had two broken vertebrae in my upper back and severely concussed. They just kept giving the other passenger blood transfusions but refused to operate. They finally did a temp surgery on their arm but didn’t do a full surgery until after they were identified and it was confirmed they were well insured (union). It was a mess. Hospital and medical insurance took their entire settlement as payment for that shitty service too. We were struck by a drunk driver. Oh, and we both had stellar insurance (different unions but good insurance) and neither ambulance would take it. 5k for mine and I think theirs was more. And again, the whole settlement went to the insurance to pay the hospitals for that stellar bedside manner of letting me suffer for hours confused af and them almost die and lose their arm. Second surgeon was not happy. The other guy also was checked in as a John Doe at another hospital and they lost all of their teeth and most of their lower jaw. Also horrible delayed service. They care more about figuring out who you are so they know you’re “in network” than treating you.

So they just attacked a civilian activist ship in Tunis and now they attacked Qatar. Last week they murdered government officials in Yemen. What country won’t they attack? They’re already bombing and invading pretty much all of their neighbors, stealing land as they go. They threaten their own allies every other week. Like, show me any other country that behaves this terribly. And I don’t even have to mention their long standing tradition of supremicist ideology and ethnic cleansing.

Looks like Tunisia is on the payroll

Wait until you see the rabbits

Give us back our Luigi!

And some tacky af tattoos. Trademark brands like Monster or those shitty stars with blowouts and a random bloody rose.

And reverts? Converts? I hear your anger. But writing off entire global communities as ‘insane’ or ‘abused’ ignores the reality of human agency, diversity of interpretation, and the courageous work of people, including LGBTQ+ people of faith who are reforming traditions from within. Dismissing them isn’t ‘objective’ or make you ‘better’ it’s another form of erasure. You’re repeating a lot of dogmatic, dehumanizing and brainwashing rhetoric yourself, so I’m going to leave you to sit with that. Hope you can find closure.

Yeah, that was not what was said. It seems you’ve had some deep emotional reaction here and I’m sorry if there’s some underlying religious trauma that was triggered. But reducing billions of people worldwide who experience faith or some form of spirituality to “insane cultists” isn’t a whole lot better than the extremists you’re hoping to lash out at.

It’s also ignoring the agency of the individuals at the frontlines of reformist movements within their home countries and communities. I doubt that was your intent, but rather you’re struggling with your own inherit bias and potential past negative experiences. But I’ll remind you gay marriage and LGBTQ+ pastors or churches didn’t spontaneously appear. They were spaces created from within groups of people who experience faith. Those parallel discourses are integral to systemic and long lasting change.