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flicker

@ flicker @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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ADHD advocate, former certified peer recovery specialist (specializing in suicide ideation when comorbid with neurodivergence.)

I don't usually pay attention to whichever instance I've drifted into from all, so if you see me in a weird place, that's why!

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  • A dear friend of mine was complaining about Greta back when she was still a kid, saying what right does a kid have to complain to nations? I huffed. I pointed out she has more right than any of us- the most of her years are ahead of her. She can't control what world she inherits, only the people she's screaming at can do anything.

    Back in the 90s, when I realized what shape things were in then, my adults just told me to shut up. They said they didn't care. Greta had supporting players who let her express herself on these, the things that matter. I wish we had more kids whose parents let them address the world like this. It's going to be theirs. They should have a say in what it looks like.

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  • Also those new movies were a lot more fun than they had any right to be.

  • My New Hobby- Googling Legislation + Heritage Foundation (See Body)

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  • If you're interested, there's some fascinating psychological work done on people like me who were kids living near and in OKC at the time. Not surprisingly, kids who were allowed to watch the live footage of the news that day tended to have higher incidences of PTSD and anxiety disorders as they grow up!

    I recommend to anyone (who wasn't living there at the time) to check out the Memorial. It's absolutely gorgeous. But they play news footage from KFOR that we all watched on TV and that is... stressful!

    It just occurred to me I should write this down somewhere for posterity...

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    A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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  • My New Hobby- Googling Legislation + Heritage Foundation (See Body)

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  • Oof. I lived in OKC when that happened.

    I don't support the death penalty, but that made me come real close.

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    A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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  • Punching someone also has the risk of being fatal.

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    A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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  • I don't like arguing from a legal standpoint, because a legal standpoint is not necessarily a moral one, but where I live, things are different.

  • How can I stretch a 100 year old cowboy hat to fit my fat head?

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  • This joke is made all the better by the character's name being Dr. Kalgary.

  • Pride merch rule

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  • I want to run this booth.

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    A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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  • I keep thinking... nobody (that I know of) was mad when that one guy called the other the n word, and threatened to beat his ass, so he bashed his face in with a twisted tea. A woman gets slurred at and spits in a guy's face, and it's okay to hit her? Three times? She's not allowed to defend herself?

    It's hypocritical. Either hate speech is violence or it's not.

    (In case it's not clear, I may not have violence in me, but I fully believe twisted tea guy did the right thing.)

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    A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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  • That (and that history of mental illness) make me think they should've put her in a mental institution. The woman is not well. The attention from this isn't going to fix it either, that's for sure.

    I mean, there's video of her getting beaten on by a couple of men either earlier this year, or last year. She said before the whole knife incident that she'd kill the guy if he laid hands on her, because no one is going to ever do that to her again. "Never again" is something I've heard from many other survivors. This woman has a responsibility not to be around others who might trigger her (especially while she possesses a knife) but I feel like that's the survivor mantra.

    And I feel like she's not getting grace that I would get in her position.

    Now I love sharing what my fiance thinks when stuff like this happens, and his opinion is, she shouldn't have escalated it, she was wholly wrong, 15 years is dumb. It's hilarious that we have very different reasoning and the same conclusion.

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    A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

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  • I think if you were all up in someone's space screaming at them, there's a certain level of expected spit contact there just from talking, right?

    Which is another reason you and I wouldn't be in this position. Gross!

    But I do want to clarify I don't think she should be able to just like, walk away scot free from this. I just whole-heartedly disagree with people who want her dead. Or who think that fifteen years isn't a long enough sentence. Fifteen years is a long time. People are way too ready to discard people in this country.

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  • He said video showed Hodges hurled slurs at Cruz, and that she only used the pocket knife — which she bought at a dollar store moments before the altercation, prosecutors claimed — after she felt threatened.

    Hodges took off his jacket in the video, “the international symbol in New York City for ‘Let’s go, we’re going to fight,’ and rolls up his sleeves and hits her,'” Schuman told the court.

    “While he’s still berating her, he called her a f—-t and a t—-y and she spit on him.”

    So let me first say, I took that word for word, in the order you see it, from an earlier New York Post article. I hate giving them any attention, but the screenshot of a headline we're commenting on came from a blurb from the same website, as an 'update' to the article I linked. It really shows that ya'll didn't actually read anything, and are just commenting on other comments. They were at a bodega, where she allegedly cut in line. That's what started all this. She was supposed to 'get him fired' when he was off duty? You know how hard it is to get a postal worker fired?

    So they're just two people at a bodega. She allegedly cut in line- I can't see her saying she did, or didn't, or where there was any reported camera footage. This dude starts screamin and cussin. She spits in his face. He hits her three times, she knifes him with the knife she just bought next door.

    The fact that people are jumping to defend a guy hitting a woman for spitting in his face, because it's "escalating" and disrespectful, but ignoring that it was a response to escalating and disrespectful behavior, is ridiculous. You don't blame the guy who got knifed for yelling slurs first? You don't blame the guy for striking her after getting spit in the face? Why is she supposed to quietly and meekly accept this behavior when he can make her feel unsafe?

    A man makes me feel unsafe and then hits me, three times! Three! I should absolutely knife him. I probably should've knifed him after the first time. (I'm kind of a big wimp so I don't think I'd be able to knife a guy, but I for sure would be right to defend myself.) And you know what? I'm a dumpy, middle-aged, short white woman. If a guy hits me even once and I knife him in self defense, and then say, "he deserved it," there are a lot of people who would be agreeing with me.

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  • This is so disgusting because she totally deserved to stab him in self defense. Getting hit three times necessitates self defense.

    And I, a ciswoman, laugh when shit gets real because I have weird berserker blood or something. I can't control it, so if I'm going to stab someone in self defense, I would probably be laughing, too.

  • Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

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  • If I choose to have children, they'll be home-schooled, and their internet use will be entirely supervised until they're older. None of this, hand-a-toddler-a-tablet nonsense.

  • Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

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  • Ya'll are forgetting it also doubles as childcare for all the workers you're employing, but paid for by the state, which is why capital was behind it.

  • Any tips on loosing weight when you've got ADHD?

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  • I'm about to try Nutrisystem. Here's hoping.

  • POV: ML insults you for not supporting [Insert Authoritarian State]

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  • They call us radical liberals for wanting to dismantle the chains of oppression and leave them dismantled. It would be impressive if it wasn't so stupid.

  • Someone finally decided to sue the fediverse via karmacourt, and it's no surprise who it is

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  • Love the petty bullshit of all your replies to me telling you off, which were correct, including links to the same comment where someone says I could've made my point clearer.

    Congrats. You found one person who says your reading comprehension might be understandable, out of the entirety of the rest of the commenters here, who all tell you to stop with your bullshit crusade.... and your reaction is to passive-aggressively try and shoehorn their one comment into every single other thing you reply to me with.

    I'm going to tell you, even though you refuse to listen- "engagement" isn't a metric of success. If 300 people tell you to shut up, that isn't 300 new friends. That's "you are wrong," writ large. And since you don't understand this either, on any of these other posts you make- people stopping replying to you also doesn't somehow make your points true. It just means you're more exhausting than entertaining.

    This is to just to say, I'm done here. I'm going to go back to blissfully ignoring you until your next bullshit move to try and defend Leni, at which point I'll probably link whatever new folks are stumbling on your ongoing nonsense to this thread. Or any others. Goodbye. Enjoy your meaningless reply. I won't be answering it.