A Message Of Solidarity

This is a message to all oppressed peoples across the entire world including the people of Palestine, refugees struggling to survive in refugee camps in locations such as Kenya, immigrants, migrants attempting to cross into the US from Mexico, queer people, black people suppressed in the Southern US, the disabled, and countless other groups. It is not a vocal minority that suffers nor are those aligned with the right the silent majority. No, the majority of the world's population is oppressed in some way. See: unethical labor practices in the US, India, and China. The truth of that matter is that a small minority of people want to rule the world under the capitalist system more than they already are.

Capitalism is not just or kind, it is all about maximizing profits and for whom? Not the workers or making things better. The infamous "First They Came For" poem has to be updated with how the world has been going largely downward after 2015 ended. That was also the year I really noticed how bad climate change was already getting at the time. This is a message of solidarity to every oppressed person in the world, including children being abused by other people and children by and large because many people see them as the property of their parents. When I was a minor, my mom dressed me up like a doll and would post pictures of me on a certain site and get all these likes and comments like how I should be a model. I miss her, she died far too soon but I have to right to speak my mind on how I viewed her as a person. She was selflessly selfish, she did a lot for me and is honestly a part of how I became who I am today.

But this isn't about me, this is about all oppressed peoples, no matter where they are. Dehumanization is playing out on live TV in the terrible country I live in. This is unacceptable, any form of hatred towards a minority group is uncalled for and must be condemned until the end of time. Because most of us are oppressed, this is our time to fight back and be militantly happy despite countless efforts to make us be consumed with our own pain and despair 24/7. We are the people, we are the workers of the world and others who make the world actually go around. We are legion, we are stronger together rather than as competitors eating each other alive. Those in power have all the financial and political power but they do not have all of the social power and that's part of why they're working so hard to crush any form of resistance we can muster, even just making artworks.

To the people of Gaza, I stand in solidarity with you. You do not deserve to see everything around you being bombed to the ground. What is happening to you is total war, the complete destruction of a specific location, regardless if it has civilian infrastructure or not. Most of your hospitals, homes, schools, and more have been bombed to oblivion ironically by a state set up for Jews in large part due to the Holocaust. You are not fodder for the gleeful destruction that those who are killing you are partaking in. You are as human as anyone else is. Gazans are currently being among the bravest people in the entire world. They are struggling to survive and trying not to let the establishment silence their pleas for help while also building connections with people and organizations from around the world. You truly do not deserve this.

It's clear now that the nation of Israel has normalized what it's doing to you and actively engaging in step 9 of genocide: extermination against you that it must be opposed by any means necessary. Including military intervention should it be the only way and the ending of weapons shipments to the army of sadists trying to bomb you out of existence. Israel and its accomplices must face recourse. Except that there's now a ceasefire in place. I really don't trust it. The people of Gaza still need our help. Most of them have lost things and people very precious to them. The timing of the ceasefire is really suspicious. I don't trust it. But still.. All of this is the result of decades of actions against Palestine which used to control a lot more territory but is now not even a nation fully recognized by the international community. The people of Gaza didn't ask for any of this crap, nor did any other Palestinians. I wish I had more words to say on this at the moment but I don't.

To my fellow gender nonconforming people, I stand in solidarity with you. The world treats us as if we don't exist, like our identities are figments of our imagination but they are not figments of our imaginations. I should know, I am a fiction writer and longtime consumer of fictional media including countless anime, books, movies, and cartoons as well as a roller coaster enthusiast who has been to every single currently operating Disney and Universal theme park in the US as well as the likes of Knott's Berry Farm, Legoland Florida, and SeaWorld Orlando. But even if we were just imagining our identities, there would still be no reason for others to try to shame us for who we are. The imagination is an infinite force of immense power. The cultures of the world and internet would be nothing without it. Actually, we wouldn't even have modern technology without the imagination. Using your imagination and being gender nonconforming hurts no one and is nothing to be ashamed for.

If you identify as some kind of gender nonconforming identity, you are a valid and deserve support. People must use your preferred pronouns if they know or come to know them. It's a basic courtesy to do so. We exist and we are who we are. No one can tell us who we are better than ourselves because other people cannot read our every thought, past and present. It's hard to figure out gender identity if you don't identify with the gender you were raised as. If you are struggling with that, I believe in you. You will figure out who you are. It may not be anytime soon but that time will come as long as you don't give up and be honest to yourself. Non binary people and others who use they/them pronouns have now been used as a punchline for a pro you know who advertisement campaign that I had the displeasure of hearing a couple times on TV. And you know what? If they want to use us as punchlines so badly, there's nothing stopping us from using what they have used us for in order to clap back.

We are here and they can try to wipe us out but we will never disappear until the eventual extinction of humanity happens in the future at some point. As long as humanity exists, we will exist, just as trans boys, men, girls, and women always will. They tried to wipe us out in Europe in the late 30s to 1945 but they failed. We're now more visible than ever along with our trans siblings, part of the much broader family known as the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Gender nonconformity didn't just pop into existence in like 2014. We have always existed, it's only in recent times we realized that there are so many of us out there. Though in many indigenous communities, that's different because the colonizers enforced their false 2 gender binary upon them as part of their efforts to assimilate and hurt people.

The assertion that only 2 genders exist is an imperialist lie. Gender is a social construct, other animals don't have gender identities as far as we know. So what makes us so special by comparison? Besides, all of the labels and very words we used were made up to begin with in order to advance our needs as social creatures. There are an unlimited number of genders. Pizzagender exists out there but I don't know anyone who identifies as pizzagender. There's over 8 billion people on this planet, do people honestly believe they will all identify as the gender they were assigned at birth? That's utterly ridiculous, there's far too many of us for all of us to be cisgender even if we ignore the social origins of the concept of gender which is not a natural phenomenon we see in other creatures. Again, we aren't going anywhere, we deserve our identities to be respected. If someone tells you their pronouns, you use them or do not deserve their respect or for them to be completely nice to you.

Also, let's be clear about a few things. The idea that people are assigned a gender at birth is hilariously absurd when you think about it for long enough. Like, hello? People have to be assigned genders upon birth according to society? Is that even very useful? Excuse me, you're telling me that parents/doctors feel the need to assign newborns genders?! "Oh, this newborn has male genitals. Therefore, THIS NEWBORN IS A BOY!" The idea of gender assignment just feels really strange and silly now that I've learned all that I've learned. I get it makes life kinda easier for newborns when they grow into kids and so forth but wouldn't it be better to just- Okay, I just thought about again. Let's just toss the gender assignment thing out for the time being.

Parents should raise their children in a way that allows them to express themselves however they want to and just let them figure out their gender eventually. Yeah, you can dress your child in clothes that fits their physiology because that's actually important to do so because of those physiological differences. But you need to let them play with and dress in whatever they want. Let kids be kids and give them space to figure out who they are and help them do so. Because at the end of the day, you cannot define who your kid is going to turn out to be. That's something out of your control so just be there for the wild ride that may potentially send you on.

Also, the assertion that there's only 2 genders to the point that some people go around telling people who don't basically identify with their genitalia that they are the gender also assigned to their genitalia is utterly hilarious. Like the energy reads of a person seeing a gender nonconforming person's NSFW account or something like that and typing to them in all caps: "YOU ARE A *MAN or WOMAN*, STOP DENYING IT YOU GENDER FREAK! YOURE PART OF THE TRANS AGENDA!" We literally have people going around acting like the gender police and being annoying and unprompted for as a result. Gender is not what's in someone's pants unlike what some creeps believe and have asserted through actual laws that promote genital inspections by non doctors for girl's participating in school sports. So very creepy. No one gets the right to assert who you are other than yourself. Sorry, sunshines who act like they know people's "real" genders based on the names, appearances, and/or genitals of those people but that isn't up to you to decide so mind your own business. And get some help, this isn't healthy for you and I feel little but pity for the likes of you.

To trans people who aren't also gender nonconforming(for all diverse gender identities that aren't based on the gender you were assigned or raised as are part of the trans umbrella), I stand in solidarity with you. I just believed it would be best to give a section to all of you as well because of the hate you specifically get. The hate gender nonconforming people get is not nearly as loud and noticeable as transphobia is. Like that weirdo whose last name is also the name of a pretty popular medieval weapon. Yeah, her. She's been spewing out loads of garbage like "blah blah we're going to keep men who dress as women out of OUR bathrooms blah blah blah". Can you imagine being so obsessive that if you find out someone is trans and decide to fixate on them to the point you convince a major media uploading platform to basically ban their stuff? Yeah, that's literally what that weirdo did. Anything that comes out of her mouth must be seen as evil or subtly malicious at best.

She's an utter clown who is choosing to waste her time on demonizing trans people instead of fixing any actual problems like unemployment, the health care and mental health crises, poverty, homelessness, the lack of high speed rail and very low amounts of public transportation around, plagiarism committed by AI slop worshipping and foot kissing multi billion dollar corporations who have no shame, empathy, or care for humanity itself, increasing numbers of newly disabled people, Disney's ridiculous price hikes for Disney World, and so on. There are thousands if not more like her being like this hate mob when you consider their combined hateful actions and efforts. So if one person is this toxic, can you imagine what the others like her are saying and doing just because some people realized their assigned gender at birth is the exact opposite of the gender they actually resonate identifying with? Trans people deserve whatever they need to be who they truly are on the inside. Hormone replacement therapy is not a novel idea or experiment, it's been around for some 50 years.

Trans people used to get DIY HRT shots. In a book I read I can't recall the name of that was available to borrow at my local library, there is this light skinned black woman who refuses to pass as white whose partner undergoes a DYI procedure to get top surgery to help him transition. His name is Early. It's a really good book. If you can find it, I highly recommend you read it. In another book, Stone Butch Blues, the main character undergoes HRT if I recall correctly. It touches on the struggles for women and masculine presenting women to be together as lesbian partners several decades ago following the Stonewall Riots. An excellent read I also recommend. Those in power can ban HRT but that's still not going to stop some people from getting it or helping others get it. If it has to be done underground again, it will be done underground. The region of sorts I live in has recently passed some anti-trans laws and all I have to say is that anyone who was involved with getting them passed is a scoundrel of a person and deserves the condemnation coming for them as well as being removed from office if they are in office.

Trans people are who they say they are. Anyone who says a trans man is a woman is an a**hole. A straight up ahole. Or totally clueless about trans identity, end of story. Anyone who asserts that a trans woman is a man or vice versa is not a good person or wildly misinformed or both and therefore deserves not a single queer person's respect or friendship. I want nothing to do with people who say such utter nonsense. Any debate on or questioning of trans people is outright sus at best but usually just twisted and messed up. And the fact that both Labour and the Democrats have thrown trans people under the bus says a lot about the current state of affairs. No one is coming to save trans people or really anyone else for that matter so we all have to stand together to have a chance of not being slaughtered and silenced into oblivion for years to come. Trans men are men. Trans women are women.

Transphobes are just a bunch of aholes even more so than the aholes under the command of Dark Helmet on Spaceball 1 aka Mega Maid from Spaceballs. At least the villains of Spaceballs only end up hurting themselves.. Trans rights are human rights. If that fact pisses you off, you aren't in solidarity with the people as a whole. You're behaving how those in power want you to behave and I sincerely hope you get the help you need to get better because transphobia isn't healthy for anyone to harbor. There is no debate on transness nor is there an ideology called "transgenderism". Only the likes of obsessive villains like Pmurt Nedib and Katherine Glassgate from my stories spout such bullcrap as "trans ideology is blah blah blah". Transphobia and other forms of bigotry trick people into playing right into the hands of the most powerful awful people on the planet.

Don't be fooled. If you see transphobia, call it out. If you have a friend with transphobic views or just "has questions" about trans people, call them out and try to get them to do better. If you can't help convince them to fix their heart, dump them, they aren't worth being around if they insist on continuing to be transphobic. Them losing you would then be on them for insisting on believing such harmful crap that not even Morty with Rick & Morty would necessarily get easily tricked into believing. But I'm sure Rick would have a field day lecturing those who spout transphobia, starting by calling their beliefs: "a load of complete and utter crap. How did you even come to believe such unscientific hogwash?!" In fact, many many fictional characters, should they have the existence of trans people explained to them would outright criticize transphobic people once they fully understand it all.

At the same time, even if none of that was explained to them, many would still oppose transphobic hatred out of sheer dislike for intolerance and hatred. Mickey Mouse would probably call it unfriendly and at least tell transphobes to try to be real pals and stop saying such hateful things. Or he would just be confused and concerned for them due to their hatred. Many other characters would probably be confused at first. Even some of the antagonists and their cohorts would be confused at first as well. Trans people must be supported at all costs because what is happening to them will eventually be inflicted upon to anyone else seen as deviant, a "wokeist freak", and a threat to the status quo.

Trans people and what's happening to them are the canaries in the coal mine. Broader society doesn't care about people in the trans umbrella as a whole very much and look at what's happening as a result. Then there's the dehumanization side of things. Trans people are being labeled as "unhumans" and other dehumanizing things. When someone no longer sees an entire group of people as human through dehumanization, it only becomes easier to get them to see other groups as not human as well. Dehumanizers are gatekeepers of what it means to be human and who counts as human and who doesn't. In their minds, anyone they hate isn't human because they aren't like them. Dehumanization is intolerable and must never be accepted or normalized. Whether people like it or not, every individual born from a womb and is made of human skin is human.

We all poop. We all fart. We all burp. We all pee. We all vomit sometimes. We all need sleep. We all eat food and drink fluids. We all need love. We all need fun. So some people need to cut the crap and realize that every single fellow meatbag of theirs covered in human flesh is human. Trans people, you deserve all the love and support you can possibly get and more. If you need to transition, get HRT, get top and/or bottom surgery, or even just socially transition and that's it or whatever else, you need to be able to do that and deserve the support and resources to do it. And for real, that weird transmedical term is completely unnecessary and is just attached with alarm bells and red flags, isn't it? A trans person is still trans even if they have only just found out "oh, I'm trans". That's all someone needs to be trans. No procedures or anything, just that is all they need to be trans. End of story. There is no debating this, this is bone fide fact and reality. I will not argue with someone over this. I will just tell them this is reality whether they like it or not.

And trans women, you don't need to have procedures to be a trans woman. That said, if you need them, you need to get them as soon as possible. You are who you say you are. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of crap or completely lost in the woods level misguided. And if you want to keep your genitals as they are, that's perfectly valid. There is a power in that just as there is power in having your bottom transformed. Trans men, I speak the same kind of thing to you. You are men, not women like some people think. If you identify as a man despite having the physiology of a woman, you are a man. That's it. Society tries to keep you leashed to the subordinate role those aholes want all women to be in as well because they can't see your identity in favor of fixating on your bottom and genitals like a bunch of weirdos such as the over 200 Republican representatives who just voted for national genital inspection requirements for girls sports which is just disguised pedophilia and transphobic at the same time. I said it. Transphobes who enforce gender roles are weirdos. All bigots are weirdos, the bad kind of weirdos, in fact. The joy of the oppressed is the purest form of joy. Pass it on.

To all people who aren't straight, I stand in solidarity with you. There are gay penguins. Of course people can be of all kinds of sexual orientations. This isn't a debate either. Pansexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, omnisexual, and all other sexualities out there are real. There is no discussion to be had unless it is to educate or reinforce the information, this is cold hard fact. The governments have no business getting in between 2 or more consenting adults. If they dare get in the way of that, they must be fought against until they finally back off or are brought down. Being gay or trans or whatever has nothing to do with disgusting things like pedophilia. Pedophiles need to be kept away from minors and get the help they need to overcome their sickening desires for children. Children cannot consent to sexual activity and we must protect them. We must especially protect the likes of queer children and children who were abused by other people. The concept of sexuality is something of a social construct as well, much like gender is.

Every sexual orientation is a label. People need to just love whoever they want. Free love for the win. Same goes for relationship anarchism. People love who they love and as long as the feelings are mutual and consensual (and not pedophilia on one side), there's nothing wrong with that. If someone is bisexual, they aren't confused about their romantic, sexual, and/or relationship preferences. Our brains are powerful things. They can hold like a whole terabyte of information. To give you an idea of just how much a terabyte is.. A typical screenshot or picture takes up to several megabytes of storage. 1 terabyte is 1 million megabytes. That means it takes a terabyte to store several hundred thousand pictures and screenshots. The brain is able to creatively function far better than any algorithm can. A person can have up to 150 social relationships at once in their lives. That limit of 150 is called Dunbar's Number.

So yes, people can easily handle being attracted to 2 genders or more or even all genders, it's really not that hard on the brain at all. I'd argue trying to learn every bit of information on just 50 of the world's greatest roller coasters in a single day including Space Mountain which just celebrated its 50th birthday is harder on the brain. I believe that people attracted to people of more than just one gender are pretty lucky because they have a wider range of people to potentially have as partners. And for the record, things like boys liking boys and girls liking girls isn't some big deal that people have to gossip about. Yeesh, some people need to just chill out and let people love who they love. Diverse sexualities doesn't hurt anyone. Your paralysis demon is a greater threat than the mere existence of people who aren't heterosexual. Your paralysis demon only exists for you. So there you have it.

There are so many sexualities that exist from a terminology and labeling standpoint that there may as well be one where someone is somehow only attracted to people known as pastafarians I believe aka people devoted to the Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster which may as well have as much validity as the Catholic Church with how little we know about the origins of the universe. Queer pride is not a sin. It only exists because LGBTQIA+ people in the immediate years after Stonewall needed a way to celebrate their identities in a world almost seemingly completely hostile to their very existence. Pride began as a riot.

The powers that be wanted the queer people of the time to not have a shred of recognition or support, much less the same rights as so called "normal" people. And that's what the powers that be largely want to have going on again in this chaotic symphony that has been about 50.5% of the 2020s thus far. She Ra and The Princesses Of Power, Steven Universe, The Owl House, Sailor Moon, No. 6, Sword Art Online, and other animated series have queer characters or at least, pro-queer attitudes, as subtle as they may be in the hilarious Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online with Pitohoi making some interesting remarks both in Gun Gale Online and in person. They are the kind of shows that everyone needs to watch. Not being straight is normal and okay. Then there's the musical remake of the original Mean Girls movie in which Janis is canonically lesbian and it's just so perfect, let's be honest. I could go but I think you get it. All sexualities are valid. Zoophila and pedophilia are not sexual orientations or valid, they're wrong because they are feelings towards individuals who cannot consent.

Anyone who calls themselves a "MAP" or "zoosexual" are full of themselves and don't belong in the queer community at all. It's okay to be gay or just not straight in a different way. If you don't believe that, I hope you look for the information you need to fix your heart because the more allies who are truly committed to helping the likes of us, the better. I myself am not just non binary but I also lean towards being gay. I like guys and call myself gay still because I knew I was gay over a year before I figured out I'm non binary. I also like some fellow non binary people as well. This is reflected in the stories I write where my self insert OC who is me but as someone who lives in another body in another world due to being isekaied to Animal Crossing New Leaf at the end of 2017 and has become a knight as well.

Many of the friends I have as my self insert are also queer including my partner in my stories: a non binary pegasus/Miitopian knight who speaks with a mixture of medieval knight speech, causal speech, logical speech, and adorable cinnamon roll, is sometimes easy to make blush speech and vibes. The cinnamon roll cuteness factor quite literally completes their personality.

To black people, I stand in solidarity with you. Racism is alive and well in the world, like an ancient evil that will never stop until it is destroyed. Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1965 which was only possible through the bravery and organization done by the likes of Rosa Parks and MLK Jr. and their supporters and allies, black people are still very much oppressed in the US 60 years later. Some of the bastards in power want to undo every bit of social progress made since the US Civil War which was not a war over states' rights. It was always about slavery. States' rights is just a thinly veiled excuse to mask the intentions of people who are like Neo-Confederates. In many places, black people have lower income and are disproportionately affected by a wide range of very bad things. A lot of white people especially either don't give a damn about them, pretend to support them, or just outright hate them.

Slavery and racism against black people have built up capitalism as well as the US's corrupt system that has always favored the rich and powerful. White people often make excuses if they're allies who half a** being allies. Angry black women are seen as violent and dangerous just for being black women who are angry. When a white woman gets angry, they aren't seen the same way though misogyny gets millions of people to say some serious BS to angry women just because they're angry. Black people are often treated like criminals, at least here in the US which is a uniquely racist country deep down. They are more likely to be shot dead by the coppers, even if they are unarmed because of racism as well as the training them coppers get. Coppers often get training at least in the US to bring down someone they view as a threat swiftly and mercilessly. And they don't respond very well to being called to help deal with someone having an emotional breakdown either.

It's like most are trained in the states to see black people as inherently violent people that need to be put down which just isn't true at all. I have lingering resentment from an argument I was briefly in over 4 and a half years ago. My mom and grandma, both of who have since passed away sadly, said some really messed up things. They basically said black people are lazy and criminals and agreed on that. This was largely due to the racist crap the media was saying in reaction to the failed BLM demonstrations not just nationally but internationally. The mainstream media is partly to blame for what's going on now as well. What kind of brainworms or mind flayer worms do you have to have to believe such utter nonsense? Okay, no worms are actually involved unless we're talking about a weirdo antivaxxer whos's the living nephew of JFK and had an actual dead worm found in his brain. But still, it takes a special kind of hatred and delusion created by society to believe that any group of people can be generalized as "lazy criminals".

I'm sorry but that kind of thing is unacceptable. I will not tolerate anyone who spouts that crap so casually. Bigotry is never acceptable, even if it comes from the elderly. I could talk about the ways that my mom and grandma were actually great and the ways they were legitimately also terrible but that's a topic for another written piece. I'm just flabbergasted, looking back that anyone could have tolerated such hateful bullcrap, I was in the right for calling it out but because I failed to convince either of them due to being angry and yelling, I soon went outside to cool down. It was clear I wasn't going to change their minds by yelling at them. The only chance I had was trying to have a calm conversation with empathy and emotion still part of it with either of them but that never came to be.

And now, it's too far and grandma was so entrenched in her beliefs at her age that there was almost no way I could have convinced her to fix her heart. I'm not going to play completely civil when someone says something bigoted anymore. I will call it out when I see it because this isn't a game. This is real life and we better damn well try to help other people get through this living nightmare we're all currently stuck in instead of just selfishly sticking with our own self interests all the damn time. Black people, all the crap happening to for quite literally the color of your skin and all that is uncalled for and you don't deserve it. If anything, anyone blatant racist whose heart cannot be fixed might as well just poke themselves in the eye at this point and get bent. If someone is open to actually talk to me about our differences in opinion, I'm open to it but they have to realize I'm going to try to avoid sugarcoating things. I prefer speaking the truth when I can. I'm tired of people trying to spare my feelings by not telling me how they really feel and I'm tired of me doing the same thing as well.

Racism is a disgusting belief integral to the function of the systems that run the US and it must be dealt with and rid of as much as possible. Reject all forms of bigotry, stand together with the marginalized and give those terrible people in power the middle finger. Black people deserve reparations for what has been done to them and their ancestors. Most of them are only in the US because of the Transatlantic Slave Trade that brought their ancestors to North America to be used as slaves. And slavery has never gone away, prisoners are slaves to this day in the US. Black liberation, much like queer liberation, disabled liberation, the end of the genocide in Gaza, and so much more is supremely important, far more important than whatever excuses so called allies make up for not helping people they can help. If you think my words are harsh, too bad. The dehumanizing and bigoted things said to black people are far more harsh and rancid than any of the words I'm saying can possibly be.

I'm a white person and I'm trying to be full on antiracist. Not being racist isn't enough. Cool, you say you aren't racist, whatever, you might be lying, blah blah blah. Fellow white people, saying you aren't racist doesn't show any proof of actually not being racist so you might as well stand up for black people along with other people who aren't white and say something along the lines of: "screw racism, these people are just as human as I am, screw bigotry and every bastard behind its continuation and poisoning of the minds of millions and millions of people!" You cannot generalize a group of people as "lazy criminals" and expect things to go well. Generalizations have been the bane of so many groups, including furries even. Not all furries are gay or wear animal costumes (which we furries call fursuits).

You cannot judge any group of people and label them all as this one thing or other thing without creating harm. The black people who do commit theft most often do so to survive because the system and racism has left the likes of them poor by no fault of their own. Desperation to survive is one of the top 3 reasons for crime. If people are given what they need to actually survive, the crime rate is going to decrease very significantly as a result. It's not rocket science. Black people are a backbone of society and they deserve to be treated decently like white people are. That means no more blaming them for stuff or making up lies about them to get people to crap on them. And let's be real again, black people often make for the best cartoon and anime characters out there in case you needed more reason to stand with them. When you see racism, call it out and tell people who practice it to knock it off. It's time for all this crap to stop but with what those in power have planned, they will do everything in their power to never let it end.

To disabled people, I stand in solidarity with you. This includes those who are handicapped, suffer from mental illness, have trouble moving or speaking, have become disabled due to the after effects of contracting certain illnesses like Covid, have multiple sclerosis, those dealing with Alzheimer's disease, and so on. There are a myriad of different kinds of disabilities out there. Some are more visible, some aren't. It all depends and guess what? Disabled people deserve the help they need to live happy and healthy lives. It's literally that simple. All marginalized people, not just the disabled deserve to have joy, their needs fulfilled, equal consideration and treatment to others, and all of that. My mom was handicapped and I wish I helped her more often with pushing her wheelchair years ago. The disabled have been targets by society through the pseudoscience of eugenics practices, many of which have had a comeback in recent years. Eugenics is just completely sadistic and must be stopped.

People often treat the disabled with disdain, ignore them like they don't exist, refuse to recognize those who are only mentally disabled as having mental disabilities, and/or a number of other twisted things. Ableism is the hatred, discrimination, and mistreatment of disabled people. It exists, contrary to what some angry online posters argue. And you know what? It's all a load of crap as well and it has to stop. Disabled people deserve to be happy and get the help they need, I would say this a million times to someone if that's what it took for them to finally get it. I will not accept people treating disabled people like crap and neither should any of you reading this. No one gets left behind. Those are the words our collective efforts to change this twisted human society should use as a rallying phrase and war cry. Fus Ro Dah is a amazing war cry but "no one gets left behind" is a better one even though it doesn't sound nearly as epic.

And I speak as someone who loves using Fus Ro Dah in Skyrim to stagger enemies. Did you know that society isn't very safe for disabled people, especially those who are immunocompromised? Check out the Covid Safety Handbook by Violet Blue, it tells you a lot of the details in a kind and inclusive way with well written language that shames no one reading it or listening to it as an audiobook. The truth of the matter is that not everyone is as healthy and able bodied as they appear to be, that's just how the world works, I'm afraid. Many disabled people cannot safely go out in public now that society has gone YOLO and said "we're done now" to doing a lot of things to prevent the spread of disease, even during illness season. The immunocompromised are vulnerable to being impacted by catching a disease and having a worse time with it than someone who isn't immunocompromised and potentially dying from catching it.

There is so much more I want to say about black people, the disabled, and the others in order to educate readers not in the know that much more it I'm trying to include every oppressed group I can so I'm not able to do that. Welcome to real life, people. This is what's going on and what we're dealing with. No one gets left behind. If you abandon one group of people completely, you might as well have abandoned almost every other group as well. Every marginalized group matters and that includes disabled people. This isn't something to be debated, this is for real. I have been avoiding outright using swear words in order to be more inclusive of readers who are below the age of 18. But if I held nothing back, I would have more than a few swear words directed towards ableists and other bigots in this writing. This is a message of solidarity, I'm not going to sugarcoat anything in this, just as I have been refusing to do so up to now.

We cannot tolerate the intolerant. The intolerant have broken the social contract of tolerance. There is no paradox of tolerance anymore, it has been solved. We have no good reason to tolerate the intolerant so don't tolerate them. Disabled lives matter and I will gladly die on this hill, with something puncturing my heart. The Nazis killed disabled people in the Holocaust along with Jews, trans people, the Romani, and others. Hating the disabled is Nazi crap. Don't do it or stop doing it if you are doing it. Disabled people, there is so much help and support I want to give you but I can't because of time and financial constraints. That said, you can come to me if you need help and I will try to help. Same goes for any other oppressed person. Helping the disabled is one of society's true responsibilities and it's about time more people learn this fact and act upon it. Again, this is a message of solidarity. No one gets left behind. Unite and fight. The resistance never quits. When life is bringing you down, respond with a smile. It will give you the strength to keep moving forward. But don't smile like Pitohui does in battles in GGO like in the 2nd and 3rd iterations of Squad Jam.

Also, there are so many forms of disability out there and no one deserves any frack for having any of them. But we need to talk about sanism now. Sanism is basically a bigotry centered around people who are mostly considered out of their minds and all that. Sanism uses terms that insults peoples' intellect as well as things like them personally due to what they have going on. Words like crazy and hysterical originate in unsavory places such as asylums where people would be sent and tormented just because their minds were not "normal" and stuff like that as well as misogyny. I'm going to put this as simply as possible. Treating people like they're incapable of sprouting a single logical thought is evil. Don't underestimate anyone because even the most incompetent individuals can still do a lot of damage to innocent people. And there's so many forms of intelligence that it's just absurd to use IQ tests or insult the intelligence of some people. Insult them based on their actions and personalities instead. I don't know the full run down on what sanism is but I know enough to not use words like "crazy" anymore.

Instead, I say things like weird, strange, bizarre, nonsensical, ridiculous, pathetic, absurd, wild, chaotic, unpredictable, and illogical in place of such words. It takes time to filter out words like crazy out of one's vocabulary but it can be done. I did it and so should you. Any word that originated in referring to people they would use to lock up in mental asylums instead of trying to actually help them in large part due to having no understanding of mental health or mental illnesses shouldn't be used anymore. That's my take on things because people with mental issues are not in a good place and they need help and support to navigate them and try to live full and happy lives.

To Asian people, I stand in solidarity with you. You are not to blame as a whole for the Covid-19 pandemic. You do not deserve to be hurt in the ways you have been in that have mostly gone under the radar in the US. You aren't inferior to white people nor can people generalize you as smart. The smart Asians stereotype is as harmful as the "black people are lazy" lie/generalization is. It puts uncalled for pressure on Asians to perform better at school and such as well as be expected to know everything or even, cause them to be more mocked for being smart and wear glasses at times. There's more to that stereotype than even I know or have come to realize but still, it is a problem as well and it must be ended. Stereotypes don't do anyone any good anyway, they just promote lies and utter nonsense as well as mockery and worse. Asian people shouldn't be looked at with suspicion. There aren't anymore suspicious than the average person is. But you know who are far more suspicious than Asian people are? Why, nice rich people, of course. Also, in the US, anti-Asian sentiment is nothing new. The Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese Internment Camps are proof of that.

The former barred Chinese immigrants bound for the US west coast in the late 1800s. The latter gathered up all the Japanese and Japanese Americans also in the west coast due to suspicion and fear of them generated by Japan attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, leading to the US entering World War 2 and fighting the Axis Powers across the world along with the other Allies. In internment camps, victims were put through some seriously messed up things. Ironic that an entire group of people was all rounded up and mass relocated to camps just because the nation they have roots in attacked the nation they were now in. Almost as if the US government refused to believe that Japanese Americans could hold any loyalty to the US.

Italians and Germans were similarly looked at with suspicion which is again, ironic because fascism was so popular before the US entered WW2 that there was a literal Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in New York and guess who attended? A lot of white people, essentially. What I know about bigotry is mostly based on how it manifests here in the US. That said, I also know that the bigotry here was exported to countries like Uganda and Kenya to play a little cruelty experiment on the queer people of those countries. To this day, people have fled Uganda to escape persecution for being gay or queer in general. Ugandan homophobic laws can be traced back to the American bigoted religious right. Because no one in the west will really bat an eye if a third world country begins discriminating against queer people, they figured they could test their sick agenda on the people of the likes of Kenya and Uganda.

And then there's the fact that the US has let Covid get out of control again and again. New York City was once the center of Covid chaos in spring 2020, never forget what happened that spring. I know this brings up a lot of difficult thoughts and memories for you. And I hope you're doing your best to confront them now that I'm bringing this up. Despite, Covid becoming #1 in America as opposed to another country, certain people still demonized Chinese people anyway, leading to an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans. I have to admit, I haven't entirely rid myself of bigotry against Asian Americans and I wish it would just go away already but I need to actually face it to get rid of it. What I'm afflicted with is that suspicion towards Asian people I was talking about, especially Chinese people. With China's communist government and largely capitalist economy and all that censorship, I ended up being suspicious of Chinese people, thinking that they were all CCP members or something like that years ago though that's at least gone now. The remedy for my problem is interacting with Chinese people, including people from mainland China.

If you want to overcome internalized bigotry against any group of people, you have to talk to members of said group(s) and get to know at least 1 or 2. It's really not complicated at all. Racism in all its forms is a disgusting blight upon the world and must be dealt with at all levels until children finally grow up in a world where people don't foolishly divide humanity into several "races" based upon the color of their skins. Nay, actually. Racism must be fought against for eternity in whatever way is needed to ensure it can never come back once it is purged from society itself along with from inside the human population.

Instead of judging Asian people for their appearances, don't assume really anything about them until you interact with them and just keep an open mind. Assumptions are often dangerous and have killed people in the past. The strange thing is that some people have said that Asian people are going to be assimilated into being part of the broad group known as white people and all I have to say is that doesn't sound like a good thing at all. White identity is largely racist and has led to the rise of white supremacy which is utter nonsense. The notion that any group of people designated by their literal skin colors is superior than people who don't have those skin colors is so evil yet so ridiculously hilarious. Like think about it. Doesn't that sound just plain out absurd? No one is superior to another unless we're talking in anatomical position terms or in relative position physically. And that superiority is different from the often arrogant and truly twisted supremacy white supremacists and others feel. No group of people classified as "different races" is superior to any of the others. And that's that.

Case closed. People who feel superior to others are arrogant losers and almost certainly absolute chumps.

To indigenous people, I stand in solidarity with you. The indigenous people who lived in North America before the Europeans came and nearly eradicated them out of existence during their efforts to colonize and invade the Americas were truly living with the land. And to this day, those descended from those who lived through the smallpox and other things the Europeans brought with them are often caretakers and protectors of the land. Their ancestors understood we have to live in harmony with nature and passed down techniques throughout the ages to help with that such as making small fires happen to strengthen the ecosystem in case of a full out wildfire, among other duties. In the US and Canada, officials and others used to kidnap indigenous children from their tribes/families and enroll them in boarding schools to whitewash and assimilate them. To this day, what happened hasnt been fully rectified yet.

They tore apart so many families and brainwashed thousands and thousands of indigenous children into joining white culture and doing away with their indigenous roots. Because of that, some young people online have been finding out they have indigenous ancestry and some of them have since gone on to connect with their tribal relatives and figure out where they came from. The only truly native Americans are indigenous, not white people. White people came from Europe. I have very very distant relatives I will never meet in Eastern Europe. Indigenous efforts to bring land in the Americas that once belonged to native tribes must be supported for they know how to take care of the land while white people by and large have led efforts to poison it.

We can live in harmony with nature if society stops obsessing over growing the economy infinitely(which is unsustainable and will eventually collapse in on itself), building things that no one actually wants or needs everywhere, car culture, and so on. We can have plant life infused architecture. That's literally a thing in some places. Humanity has largely desperately tried to cut itself off from nature now that it has become the ultimate predator and top species on the planet. And yet, most people would still be killed by some of the most dangerous animals out there if they encountered one or some randomly one day. Another painful form of irony. And because humanity has cut its ties with nature and mostly stopped caring about working with it, all kinds of horrible things have been going on for a very long time.

Did you know that factories were extremely unsafe 100 years ago to the point that in meat factories in the US, if someone were to lose a finger, the bosses in charge wouldn't care and just let it become part of the processed meat they sold off? The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a relevant read to this. That's why the FDA is now a thing. And you know what else? It's shameful that left wing white philosophers and other thinkers just straight up took ideas from indigenous people and not give them the credit they deserved or the opportunities they also deserved to take charge of helping change things and helping guide others. The tribal way of life is far less oppressive than the capitalist way of life. It has more passion and liveliness and from what I understand, a strong focus on nature shared by many indigenous cultures.

Nature is beautiful. It gave us what we have. Humanity is part of the ecosystem and nature and people have to start acting like it is because it is. Go ahead, people. Touch actual grass and spend some time in nature in the near future. It has a beauty that no human could truly capture through any medium despite countless passionate attempts to do so that have done a really good job doing so. The best way to experience nature is to go outside and surround yourself with it. Indigenous liberation would end the ignoring of their pleas against climate change and fossil fuel companies. Indigenous people are shrugged off by broader society and hardly anyone takes what they have to say seriously. It's so bad that cultural appropriation is one of the biggest ways racism is perpetuated against them. White people have worn indigenous fashion as fashion statements and for clout. To hell with that trash behavior.

I refuse to dress up like a stereotypical Native American. I'm sticking with something from the homeland of my ancestors instead: knightly plate armor which I do in fact have for real. And even as an artist, I refuse to draw indigenous clothing or anything else like that unless an indigenous person asks me to and if they do, I will do my research and be as respectful as possible in my approach to drawing it. Indigenous people are a crucial backbone to movements fighting against climate change and for climate justice. They matter and their voices must be heard, as with all marginalized groups as well. Attempts to stifle or even eradicate indigenous people in the future must be opposed and anyone who mocks them deserves all the condemnation in the world. Those kind of aholes deserve to be laughed out of the figurative public square. Bigotry is not funny. That means mocking trans people and indigenous people is not okay. That means Dave Chappel can go stick candy canes in his eyes already.

Making fun of the marginalized does the ruling class of modern aristocrat losers a huge favor. Don't do them any favors. I refuse to tolerate hatred against indigenous people either. Bigots can get help to change to actually be decent people or they can just get lost and never bother any marginalized person ever again.

To other ethnic/"racial minorities", I stand in solidarity with you. I don't know as much about most of your struggles dealing with racist bigotry as I would like to so I had little choice but to group you all together for this section. I really don't know enough about the hatred hispanic people face but I do know that it often crosses with xenophobic anti-immigrant BS like the hate directed towards the immigrants in Springfield, Ohio specifically because the puppets of the real ruling class just had to fixate on a immigrant community in a location most people had never heard of before. And I also know that white supremacy plays a role in their oppression too. I really should have researched how racism specifically against hispanics manifests before writing this. My sincerest apologies to them for not being able to depict the hatred they deal with by and large the way I have been doing for other groups up to this point.

There is nothing wrong with being hispanic or really any identifier that is seen as evil and/or dangerous/annoying by the bigoted far right that doesn't fit exactly into straight cisgender white Christian man. That kind of man has more privilege than any other group besides the rich and powerful, followed by their women counterparts I believe. Let's now talk about Middle Eastern people who tend to be muslim. Also known more simply as brown people, Middle Easterns also face discrimination such as being labeled terrorists due to the intersection between hate against them and Islamophobia. And Jesus Christ was a Middle Eastern Jew, white supremacist Christians are just full of themselves. Just look at them and their pathetic refusal to acknowledge that their lord and savior Jesus Christ was a Middle Eastern Jew and not white. I hope some of them come to their senses and realize just what kind of warped and messed up perception of reality they have had due to embracing white supremacist horse crap.

We'll talk more specifically about Islamophobia later. Let's not forget latinos, pacific islanders, romani, and others not mentioned. This is going to sound very stereotypical white person but I want to be honest so I'm going to say it. I don't really know the difference between latinos and hispanics. I'll be researching after this is done because I must learn more and that's not just because I always crave to learn more. My thirst for knowledge will continue on indefinitely. And I get this sinking feeling that if I don't know the difference, a lot of other white people don't either and that has likely caused some harm to be done in the past. The romani are an ethnic minority from the Balkans I believe. "Gypsy" is a bigoted slur against them which is why the villain of The Hunchback Of Norte Dame, Frollo used it when he killed a romani woman. And then, the church ended up getting him to raise her son, Quasimodo. Frollo was a sick man in the story and he got exactly what he deserved. He treated Quasimodo like dirt and the way the original movie version had him get bent in the end was just satisfying.

Quasimodo is a seriously underrated character. And Esmeralda and Madellaine are seriously great and underrated as well. Do not use the word "gypsy". They're called romani, not "gypsy". I don't know anything about how pacific islanders get treated by white dominated society. So I can't speak much on them here. But know this, they exist too and they deserve to have their voices be heard. This also extends to the pacific island nations who are currently doomed to be flooded completely due to climate change caused increasing sea levels. Soon, countries like Fiji will be all but gone and their people will have to evacuate and leave their homes while it's still safe. And then, other countries will have to take them in.. And many countries hate immigrants.. *cough cough* Europe and the US. *cough cough*. There are also the likes of the Uyghurs in East Turkestan(free East Turkestan) who have been infamously subjected to horrifying acts of oppression by the Chinese government.

What has been happening to them has been referred to as cultural genocide. Genocide doesn't have to involve mass murder to be accomplished. Genocide is the intended destruction of an entire marginalized group of people. One of the ways it can be accomplished is through assimilation. The Chinese government has tried to assimilate the Uyghurs through education camps from what I heard when the situation made international headlines before the world decided to mostly forget about it. The hypocrisy in the west condemning China for that before the Gaza genocide began and the US decided to just let that happen and refuse to call it a genocide. The ruling class need to leave other cultures and peoples the hell alone and just let them live and thrive already. There are other ethnic groups and such I have not mentioned for I do not know of all of them but know this, I stand in solidarity with them by default too.

But saying that I stand in solidarity is only a small statement on its own. But this entire message? It's so long that it has a powerful thing. It's a long series of words that showcase bold statements and other things. My goal with this message is to empower people to stand up for themselves and other groups of people as well as their own people and to encourage more conversations about the tainting power of bigotry and other twisted things bred by lies stemming from the rich and powerful along with truly strange hateful weirdos who aren't part of their exclusive club. Screw all bigotry, let all forms of bigotry just die out. The end of systemic bigotry is long overdue. All the blood and suffering being caused by bigotry seems to have no end in sight but if we are willing to fight hard enough, we can change that and really make the ruling class crap themselves. Who else wants video footage of such a thing because it'd be funny to watch? It'd sure be a perfect thing to go viral on that trending China based TikTok alternative, wouldn't it? I believe it's called RedZone because I literally just got kinda flooded with ads of it on YouTube. And now, the ban's gone anyway.. (Don't believe for a second it was lifted with any actual good intentions in mind.)

To Jewish people, I stand in solidarity with you. Let's make something clear before I go in deeper. Zionism does not serve the real interests or concerns of Jewish people. It is imperialist nationalism disguised as a core Jewish ideology which it is in fact not. If it were so core to Jews, why then are so many Jews anti-zionist? Let's not forget the fact that zionists are the ones who are working on exterminating the people of Gaza right at this very moment. And apparently, a ceasefire may actually end it soon because Israel is kind of tanking now? Hard to believe though, those bastards have amped up the killings since the latest ceasefire was announced. Either they're rushing to slaughter as many innocent Gazans as they can or the ceasefire is just another empty rouse they're using as an excuse to rush their sadistic desires of wiping Gaza and its people off the map.

From what I understand, core Jewish beliefs align with actual good morals and attempts to make the world a better place. Jews do not deserve persecution or discrimination or any form. Judeophobia, a term that better describes hatred against Jews than anti-semitism and is one I picked up from a Jewish website that documents that persecution of Jews throughout history is one of history's oldest forms of bigotry. The Nazis just recycled earlier anti-Jewish hatred and lies from the 1700s and earlier. Not to mention vampires were originally anti-Jewish coded and injected with all kinds of lies about Jews to stir up hatred and resentment towards them. Nowadays, vampires are no longer tied to that crap, now that "blood libel" has mostly died out.

Though the US far right have attempted to bring it back to justify persecution of trans people, if I'm not mistaken. The history of Judeophobia is largely tied with the Catholic Church, going back as far as 1000 years ago. Since around 1000 years ago, Jews have faced persecution numerous times in Europe over the centuries. The Holocaust was far from the first time Jews were displaced by force by European bigots, the Church actively worked to help destroy Jewish communities throughout Europe. Jews have been labeled a great number of things: greedy and in control of the world's money and power(still persists to this day, see lies about George Soros), ugly, and much more. It's like Judeophobia along with racism are the archetypes for nearly all other forms of bigotry that are out there. The Nazis and others have successfully isolated Jewish people and tricked people into thinking Jews are their own race in the past which is just blatantly absurd.

It is more so that a lot of Jews are an ethnic group but anyone can become Jewish if they embrace Judaism. Jews have a place in society equal to the place every other group of people deserves except for the ruling class and other oppressors. The only groups that deserve hatred are the ruling class and the other oppressors who follow their twisted wills. Because intolerance along with a lust for power and control cannot be tolerated. The ruling class feels like a mix between total losers, sadists, power and money hungry scoundrels, religious extremists, stuck up modern aristocrats and robber barons, and literal Plastics like Regina George from Mean Girls. All oppressed peoples have the right to defend themselves, their rights, and their people from tyranny. Even if that state says they don't have that right, screw that. They have that right. Always have, always will. Don't think for a second that the ruling class have any average person's best interests at heart because they don't. It's all about them or their sadistic desires for our world to become a dystopia.

If the state will not grant human rights to or take away the human rights of a marginalized group, that marginalized group along with the people of the state as a whole should come together and take action to make the state give those human rights. Or the state should be completely replaced by a new system. If a state takes away someone's rights, they really deserve to get those rights back, even if it has to be done by force. Human rights to the marginalized have never been granted by people just asking governments for them. No, people had to protest and take other actions to make those in power give into their legitimate and well justified demands. It has happened every single time. Marriage equality was only achieved in 2015 in the US after decades of action by millions that began with the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

Jewish people don't secretly control the world. If anything, Christian extremists have more sway over the world. I may want the eventual abolition of religion but I still respect the need it fills in many people's lives and support freedom of religion as well as freedom to have no religion. Religion gives so many people an actual sense of community, something that is missing in the lives of so many people around the world. I suspect the rise of subcultures happened because of this lacking in a sense of community in many places around the world, coupled with the needs for the oppressed to build on each other and fight together for their rights. There is nothing inherently bad with Jewish people nor is zionism a legitimately good thing for Jews. It is not a good thing because it has led to actual genocide and blame deflection and all kinds of other crap. Opposing zionism is not an anti-Jewish thing to do, many Jews are against zionism themselves.

I could say things like all of this billions of times but some people in the area I live would still not get it. So please, try to understand what I'm trying to tell you if you don't understand some parts if not all parts of this. Let's talk about intersectionality for a minute because many marginalized people are part of several marginalized groups at once. I'm gay, non binary, and neurodivergent. I'm an example of what I'm saying here. But there are others who are part of 4 or more groups out there who then face even more oppression and discrimination as a result of such. Intersectionality is the awareness of the fact that the oppression of all marginalized people is linked together and part of one singular collective struggle against the ruling class.

The real main conflict is class warfare, not culture wars. Bigotry is a tool of class warefare. It's the ruling class against everyone who isn't part of their all exclusive club of rich and powerful scumbags and pawns. When one person is bigoted towards one marginalized group, you can bet they also hate and/or fear another marginalized group at minimum. It's much easier to hate one marginalized group when you already hate another. Transphobic bigots here in the US are often racist and misogynist as well. So.. with all of this in mind, we all have to stand together as the majority oppressed populations of the world. Our collective struggles are global. We all have the same enemies. We belong fighting together for the liberation of all of us, including the workers as well. The ruling class would see their world crumble in mere days if all of us went on a global strike for a day and refused to obey them in any way during that day.

The power they have is a social construct. Therefore, their power can and will fall eventually. Intersectionality reminds us all that our struggles are linked, colinked, and so on. Women's rights, trans rights, children's rights, indigenous rights, etc are all tied together. To truly liberate one group of people, all people must be liberated from the oppression of systems such as imperialism and capitalism. No one is free until everyone is free. At this moment, most of us are slaves to the systems to varying degrees. And that's not acceptable. The world didn't used to be like this and it doesn't have to continue being this way to the point that it feels like we're all living in the jungle and it's getting worse every day. The systems that chain us weren't inevitable because the worst people possible, who are not ideal for social interactions are the ones who forced the world to become the terrible place it has become at the end of the day. We didn't ask for the world to be like this. I didn't ask to be backstabbed and lied to by society.

We didn't ask for the US, China, Russia, the UK, and other nations to just constantly stab people in need in the back. The liberal portion of the ruling class have loudly betrayed the people in the UK, US, and France in just recent months alone. And guess what? My existence as a marginalized person is inherently political because the ruling class loves tormenting and playing with the lives and rights of marginalized people around the world. We have no choice but to be political. They made our very rights political wedge issues so here we are. Allies of the most marginalized especially, I'm so sorry you have to hear this all but this is the truth of the matter at hand. There are over 60 worldwide problems and every last one of them can be traced back to the ruling class including CEOs, billionaires, monarchs(abolish monarchies already, they are useless to the people and only useful to the ruling class), corrupt politicians, and so on. I rest my case on intersectionality for the moment.

To Muslims, I stand in solidarity with you. Muslims are another group of people who have faced oppression by the ruling class. Let me tell you a story. In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was trying to have control over Afghanistan which bordered it at the time. So the west decided to back resistance fighters who were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Including one Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al-Qaeda. The US literally backed the likes of him in order to kick the Soviets right out of Afghanistan. On September 11th, 2001, the entire US was shaken by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon along with the one that failed to reach its intended target due to the passengers pulling what was essentially a mutiny on the terrorists who hijacked their plane. All of them died in the resulting crash. Over 2,000 people died that day. The entire World Trade Center was destroyed and the rescue efforts for that complex have been forever memorialized in history. 9/11 happened before I was even born.

My siblings older than me were in school when the first plane hit one of the Twin Towers(I have a story about being called a Twin Tower in middle school but I'm not going to, just know that I hated it because it made me think of 9/11). My mom was freaking out. I know this because she told me years before she passed away. In the US, people ask around 9/11: "where were you on 9/11?" And amongst all of the nationwide reactions to what happened that day, guess what else happened? A sudden skyrocketing of discrimination against Muslim Americans. Over 10 years later, this would set the stage for me briefly believing all Muslims are terrorists and religious extremists when I started watched news reports on the terrorist group ISIS. It's a good thing I forgot about the crap I had been led to believe and eventually learned that my view of Muslims at the time was painfully wrong.

I have learned little bits of relevant information about Muslims over the past decade or so and now have come to the following viewpoint. Muslims cannot be generalized as anything but human beings who practice Islam. When you meet a Muslim, you can't assume really anything about them without causing possible problems. Have an open mind and be willing to be friends with Muslims if that sort of thing just happens naturally. When I develop a friendship or romance with someone, it just kind of happens naturally and completely unplanned. Muslims deserve not a single bit of the hatred that still afflicts many of them out there. And you know who's Muslim ban 8 years ago reads like a modern Chinese Exclusion Act, doesn't it? It's wild to think that due to the string of global terrorist attacks started by ISIS would lead to such a vast array of effects such as the Muslim ban in 2017 that for the first time as far as I knew, my local amusement park would install security measures in front of its entrance. Those measures remain to this day.

And then, there's the recent phenomenon of zionists, Islamophobes, and genuinely clueless people labeling all Gazans as "Hamas terrorists". Gaza had 2 million people on October 7th, 2023. Do you honestly believe that it's possible for an entire population of 2 million people, including children and the elderly to be all armed militants? That's ridiculous. And you know what else? Hamas has been from what I understand trying to liberate the people of Gaza from zionist Israel for years and were forced to turn to extreme measures as a result. When a marginalized group is denied the opportunity to peacefully organize and try to make things better, they are left with violence as the only solution for them. That's what's beginning to happen here in the US too. And once those fighting US oppression in the US are not even allowed to peacefully protest anywhere without being cracked down on and labeled as violent radical extremists, they will have to turn to violence.

But by the time they do, tens of millions of people will have already believed they were violent extremists well before having to resort to actual violence. This in turn will lead to further murders, crackdowns, arrests, and worsening public sentiment towards what they're trying to do: liberate the marginalized and make life better for everyone in the US. The situation for marginalized people has become more dire in the US than it has in decades. If things keep up, 50 people protesting for say, trans rights in front of city hall in a small city will be labeled as violent and punished and broken up by the enforcement arm of the American ruling class: the militarized US police force who function like another military branch except their focus is on civilian areas. Muslims were just another scapegoat to the ruling class. Someone to pin the blame on for everything that's going on. And now, the scapegoat is trans people.

Scapegoating is a classic bigoted and oppressive tactic. If they can blame someone else for their problems, the ruling class will get away with ruining everything scot free. Oh wait, that's already happening right now at this moment. But there is hope. We must work together as many groups fighting for change and make sure Muslims know we accept and love them for who they are. There is always hope as long as someone is willing and able to fight oppression. The systems of the world beloved by the ruling class are unsustainable and will eventually fall apart. See AI slop programs and how they're basically eating themselves now as an example. If enough people stand up, not even the largest economy in the world will be able to stop them from defeating the ruling class. The oppressed have the numbers and the love, care, empathy, and desperation to survive in even countries where there's enough food, water, and shelter to go around to take care of everyone in them.

This message of solidarity is the result of like an entire decade of me learning things and developing myself as a person while discovering what kind of person I actually am. I know who I am and there's so much power in knowing that. Everyone needs to know who they are to have more confidence, willpower, and to be able to more readily resist the ruling class. Even I know who I really am, no one else can define who I am. And I hope all of you find out who you are deep down too if you haven't already done so. And let me say something else to finish this section off. The Shira laws that oppress people in the Middle East are disgusting. They force an explicitly oppressive interpretation of Islam onto the people of most Middle Eastern countries which also tend to have homophobic laws.

They must be brought down as well. Shira laws are similar to what the fanatic Christian far right want to impose on the US and with their favored guy getting back into office, their twisted malicious and control freak level dreams may come true. The Russian government sure is happy with how they've oppressed their citizens in a similar way to what the Christian far right want. Watch games like Miitopia be rated 18+ in the US just like they are in Russia someday despite being very much kid and family friendly. The US far right wants to label trans identity as inherently pornographic, such a rating raising would be in character for them.

To the homeless, I stand in solidarity with you. Homelessness is not a natural phenomenon. If an animal in the wild loses their home, they can go somewhere else and establish a new home if they survive the journey to do so. If a person loses their home, especially in the likes of the US and other countries whose people largely live in third world living conditions, they can't just move somewhere else and call it home. Instead, they struggle greatly to survive now that they're homeless. In the US, you aren't allowed to establish a new home anywhere you want or need to. Instead, if you set up a tent, the police will come to evict you, even when it's freezing cold outside. And it's not like just anyone can afford a new home. Greedy companies like BlackRock buy up homes and apartments wholesale, raise the prices, and do whatever else they can to keep the homeless on the streets and the average worker poor and struggle to even just pay rent in collaboration of other terrible companies and other entities.

Does the government stand up for the homeless in the US? No. It doesn't really do that anywhere. And if someone starts living in an empty unoccupied house or apartment, they could be arrested for illegal squatting when the house or apartment is just sitting there with no one living in it. Animals make their homes in such places at times and in Skyrim, no one cares if you start living in a unoccupied house, though the game won't let you sleep in any beds in said house I believe. And there's more empty houses than you would think so let's just let homeless people live in them. And we could also abolish landlords while we're at it. That term disgusts me when I think about it for more than a brief moment. But still, homeless people need shelter so if they can't afford shelter, they still need to have shelter without having to go into nature itself to dig a hole in the ground or something and make it a home.

We have the energy, money, and resources to house the homeless so let's just do that. Without a home, homeless people are forced to be like wanderers, living anywhere they can before someone kicks them out or they run out of money to stay inside of a hotel room. Homelessness is not something that just happens, it's deliberate and guess what it does to homeless people? It makes it so much harder for them to find employment and be able to count on having access to showers and laundry devices. Because of the bs crap in which many jobs expect people to show up to job interviews with well groomed clothing and business casual clothing if not "better" and more business with less casual.. Many homeless just aren't going to get hired because their situation leaves them often lacking access to showers, washing machines, and dryers.

As if it wasn't hard enough to get a job here in the US. I have heard horror stories of people applying to countless jobs for months on end before finally finding a job and it isn't a rare occurrence either. The American Dream is dead. Many many young people like me are not confident in believing they will definitely afford to buy and live in a house someday anymore. And college degrees don't guarantee well paying jobs anymore. This fuels into the cycle of homelessness. And the number of people who are homeless will only rise in the coming years due to rising costs of living, inflation(which makes the pockets of rich people even bigger and more round than they already were), people being disowned and thrown out of their homes by family members or others, and so many other things.

Homelessness in the US is almost a death sentence at this point. Homeless people then often find themselves getting hated on, blamed for things, or just completely ignored despite pleading for help out in public. So many people in Gaza are homeless now as well. The IOF blew up their houses without mercy. And you know what makes this even worse? The scoundrels who go around, pretending to be in need and scamming people out of their money. Some of those scoundrels have shamelessly uploaded videos of them doing that themselves online. Because of the way terrible people exploit the kindness of others, less people are willing to trust the words of people genuinely in need, including homeless people.

I was scammed by someone pretending to be in need myself so I know what it's like to be scammed. But I'm not going to talk about that situation. It's over. I despise scammers with every fiber of my being. Every last one of them.. Those bastards who scam the kindness people like me try to give.. It boils my blood. When they scam kind people, they only make people trust those in actual need that much less and it's not easy to get people to believe the words of someone actually in need after something like that happens. Some people scam out of necessity as it's the only way of survival they can think of and it breaks my heart that they have to scam to survive. But many others scam people just to make themselves richer. What a bunch of greedy scumbags. For fellow human beings, they are as disappointing as the rich and powerful are. They don't give a damn about the survival of the ecosystem. If capitalism destroys the entire ecosystem, we go down with it.

The best way to tell if someone saying they're in need is or isn't actually in need is to take the time to talk to them yourself and have a real genuine conversation with them. And look up signs that they're just scamming you. But some people in need have been vetted on sites like Bluesky by trustworthy people and groups so you can also see if they've been vetted or not. And if they haven't, you can vet them yourself. But once again, the homeless needs to be housed so forget all of society's pathetic excuses. Just house them already and have them pay back the kindness someday through a job or something without turning around and exploiting them. There are a lot of people who are visibly homeless online and that's no accident. That's an intentional development caused by society's attempts to make people stop caring about art, other people, science, education, avoiding getting other people sick, and so on altogether.

The homeless do not deserve to be homeless. Crime would go down if homelessness was properly taken care of. But instead, homeless camps and tents get evicted even in the coldest days of winter and some butt biscuits have designed and/or implemented anti-homeless architecture in things like bridges and other places homeless people go to rest. If homelessness isn't solved and the homeless are just gotten rid of just as they are right now because society wants them to just go away instead of trying to help them get housing so they don't have to see them everywhere, things are only going to get more twisted in this wretched society. The way homeless people are treated in the US is a moral failing just like how poorly the US and some other countries treat immigrants, trans people, artists, and many others.

By and large, the average white person is likely committing multiple moral failings at the same time themselves. Luckily, that's not always the case but still.. Homelessness is the intention byproduct of even bigger problems. Remember that and support the homeless and stand with them.

To the immigrants, I stand in solidarity with you. You are not saboteurs stealing jobs from "real Americans" and the other crap they say about you. I'm not going to name names but there's one member of my family who was casually xenophobic(anti-immigrant) in a brief discussion we had. 3 days later, I blocked her online and more recently blocked her phone number because I learned of it from someone else. I wanted to try to have a in person discussion about how vast differences in beliefs but she didn't wanted it and she has been part of that 45 centered cult for years. And I read an article about how letting go of people like her from my life is actually the best way to attempt to get them to come to their senses.

Its simple. If a family member gets rejected by some members of their family due to being part of a hateful movement, it's possible they might realize they have been lied to by that movement and snap out of it. But that's not the only reason I blocked her. There's more to it. For several years, almost 5 in fact, my view of her has been strained. When Id think about her on the rare occasions I would, I'd often think about how problematic some of her views are. That's not the sign of a healthy relationship. And I just didn't feel comfortable having someone in my social circle whose moral differences bother me to the point I felt like I'd have to not be authentic or truthful about myself around her just to get along with her. And you know what? I had to avoid bringing up politics just to get along with her. That's toxic.

I can't have a true friendship level relationship with someone like her. Our differences just aren't simply political, they are moral and I do not feel that safe around her. Her casual programmed disregard for immigrants was the last straw. I'm sorry but I cannot tolerate bigotry. I'm part of the "intolerant left" who loves diversity, tolerates tolerance, and doesn't tolerate intolerance. I don't think I can convince her either nor do I have the energy to really try. All but removing her from my life was something I felt I had no choice but to do. Her existence in my life has been a drain on my energy to an extent and just literally uncomfortable. She wanted us to stay friends but I just can't. Not when her vote in the election was a vote against queer rights. She supports the person she voted for with all her heart and he sees queer people like me as threats to be silenced and as inferior and vermin.

Do you feel the pain I'm expressing through some of my words? You can, can't you? This is what it means for me to be raw and honest about my thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and worldview. I love the person I've been talking about but I just don't feel safe around her. I don't feel like I can really talk to her about anything I'm genuinely concerned about without getting some nonsense in response mixed in with some actual decent words at best. I even put a little effort into being friendly towards her last year in an attempt to try to convince her to meet me in person on a nice day at a local park filled with beautiful trees. She feared we would just yell at each other but she didn't see that I still wanted to try to talk to her. And I'm pretty sure my family largely thinks I'm kinda disinterested in a lot of things and have beliefs that are just plain strange to them but I don't really know because no one is really completely honest with me or at least, it feels that way. But still, for me to try to talk to someone I have vast moral differences with all of that in mind and the love both of us feel for each other..

It should have been enough.. I even experienced the likes of When Violence Is The Answer by Tim Larkin and The 32 Principles Of Jiujutsu by one of the heads of the world famous jiujutsu school of martial arts: Gracie University and learned a lot out of them. One of the things that was in both is relevant here. The avoidance of snapping back at someone arguing with you. The latter teaches you to not say anything and just let them out of energy and calm down. The former teaches you to just walk away. I was willing to take the conversation slow and steady and I should have communicated that to be honest. But I'd rather build community with others and reach people I can much more easily reach, that's better than letting her be a part of my life, I'm sad to say.

Immigrants, the hate you get is manufactured. Nearly all bigoted hatred is indeed manufactured but I don't need to go into detail about that. Why do people hate you? They don't want to see you, their hate intersects other forms of bigotry a lot of the time, or a bunch of baloney some people made up to get people mad at your existence. They say immigrants are coming to steal their jobs when in reality, it's the billionaires and other CEOs who want them to think that. If immigrants are coming to steal jobs, why are those in power INCLUDING THE CEOS LETTING THEM DO THAT?! If this claim were actually true, here's the reason why they wouldn't stop them from doing that. You ready? Take a few moments to get into a calmer mood if you need to. This message is heavy and highly emotional and passionate in nature. I get it completely.

The reason is because they can pay immigrants less than the average legal citizen without immigrants giving them any trouble for doing so. Because the first languages of immigrants aren't English the vast majority of the time and they come from places like Latin America which have long been exploited by the US as seen through the infamous history of Chiquita and the banana republics, they don't always understand what their bosses are saying or doing. The average immigrant probably doesn't know about any labor laws or minimum wage. When immigrants come to say the US, they are running away from a troubled life in their home countries and are desperate for any kind of work. Desperate people are willing to do just about anything to alleviate their desperation because they are in such dire need of getting out of their circumstances.

So no, I will not tolerate xenophobia from anyone even though anti-immigrant stuff has been completely normalized here in the US to the point few people bat an eye when even the Democrats mistreat immigrants and send them back only for them to likely die as a result. But anti-immigrant sentiment is far from new. I mentioned earlier how Eastern Europeans and the Irish were hated quite a lot when many came to the US. And later on, they would be seen as white people just like Western Europeans including the English, Welsh, and Scotts already were. Xenophobia is almost like a tradition, especially in the likes of the US. It isn't just anti-immigrant, it's hatred, fear, and suspicion of foreigners of any kind in general as well if I'm not mistaken. That kind of crap doesn't actually make any sense. So what if someone is from a different country? People have some common things going on in their cultures and such. Now that the internet and non-American tv shows have exposed a lot of many cultures to the world, there's even less reason for people to hate foreigners.

The chances someone from one nation has come to another to sabotage it is really low when we're talking the percentage of people who go to other countries just to mess them up out of the total number of people who come to other countries for whatever reasons they do so. I'd be more suspicious of nice white Christian preachers on the streets if I were some of you than of foreigners. And considering my beliefs include the abolition of states, I literally increasingly do not care for labels such as foreigner. We all live on this planet, no one should be shut out just because they're not from *insert country name here*. Many immigrants emigrate to another country with almost nothing, just the clothes on their backs, their families, and maybe some essentials and keepsakes. And they usually don't have cars or anything like that so if they want or need to go anywhere, they have to walk, get a ride, or use public transportation.

The amount of public transportation in most of the US is laughable at best and nonexistent or dysfunctional or abandoned at worst. The trust in public transportation is too low in places that aren't like Chicago or New York City. There is seemingly no mass movement to bring public transportation and high speed rail everywhere to connect people and places. And yet, look at how China and Japan are doing with high speed rail. The world knows well of Japanese bullet trains. And for good reason. And China's high speed rail networks have exploded in developed in just this century alone, a century that is now just over 25% complete. So immigrants get to be subjected to the transportation problems of the US should they choose to emigrate to it and aren't rich. I have a fresh story to share of walking in snow to get to work.

It was horrible beyond words. I was panting and somewhat exhausted during like half of the walk but had to keep walking to try not to be late. I walked in so much damn snow and tried to avoid it by running across a street, having seen areas of less snow on that side only to run into giant mounds of snow on that side too and ending up going back to the other side because it looked less deep now. And because of that, I had to painstakeningly walk in a lot of snow across several houses' yards. And most of that snow was inches deep and connected to all these big mounds of snow built up by snow plows clearing the roads of snow. My shoes and socks got wet from melted snow.

My rightmost ankle, which I kinda messed up for a while 6 months ago was heavily exhausted by all that effort I had to put in to walk through all that damn snow which only continued on for ages until I started walking through a stretch of road where paths and lots were mostly clear of snow. It was just so terrible. I'm so lucky I got my ankle to recover from a lot of the exhaustion within the first hour of my shift at work. But my troubles weren't over yet even though it sure felt like they were. That's because I hit my knee on a counter at home by accident and then, hours later, that painful headache version of lightheadedness developed and prevented me from really thinking about much. It began to recede after I drank some water so I could actually think again but gosh did it suck.

So for immigrants who made it to parts of the US that actually still get snow, you can imagine how tough it is for many of them when they come to snowy at least during the wintertime regions with almost nothing on them or with them. This also applies to homeless people. And then there's when it becomes bitingly cold.. Frostbite, anyone? I wonder how many homeless people and immigrants have frozen to death because many people including in the US have been conditioned to be cold and cruel or indifferent towards them. My fellow white people especially, check your biases as well as viewpoints and feelings about people who are different from you. Immigrants deserve to be treated as the fellow human beings they are.

They just want to survive and be happy too. If the nations they came from were so great, they wouldn't be running away from them which is interesting in the context of immigrants coming to the US southern border with Mexico to enter the US. Most of them are leaving behind countries that have been deliberately destabilized by the US over the past 100 or so years in the name of "fighting communism" or to get the American people their precious cheap and mass produced United Fruit Company(at the time) or Chiquita bananas. Did you know the bananas sold over 100 years ago no longer exist because they literally went extinct? That apparently happened in addition to the establishment of banana republics throughout Central America. Nothing more democratic than invading other countries to make their people produce and harvest cheaply sold bananas to your nation's people, right?

The irony is painful. Some of those who go to Kroger or likely some other grocery store chain run by a board of absolute scumbags who are probably indifferent to any of their employees dying due to being employed by their companies to buy their precious bananas among other things hate immigrants coming from nations such as Guatemala where said bananas are grown, harvested, and shipped from. Yay, CHEAP BANANAS for the xenophobic consumers among other consumers who love those damn bananas that come straight from countries whose migrants from them are hated by those same xenophobic consumers! In all seriousness, xenophobia is not very funny besides the fact that its existence is contradictory and just unnecessary and an obstacle in the way of progress. It's also just pure evil. Immigrants aren't as evil as the media make them out to be. And there is no "border crisis".

That "border crisis" is just a distraction and a means to turn people on other people. And the hate towards immigrants it generates aligns with all other forms of bigotry in getting we the people to fight and scrabble with each other instead of fighting the real enemies of the people. It's not the radical leftists who are the enemies of the people, it's the rich and powerful. It's always been them. Do you know why the French, Haitians, British colonists(in the 13 colonies), Mexicans, and others have had revolutions? The people got pissed off with the rich and powerful and got violent. Hatred has been used to keep people in line for centuries when the actual interests of most people actually align well with the interests of the marginalized. I reserve most of the resentment I have towards the rich and powerful, redirecting a lot of it from people who don't actually deserve it and I should have never lashed out at through a post over 2 years ago.

And you see this all the time in fiction too. It's almost always some corrupt person or group in power that's the enemy to the main cast of good characters. In Justice League Unlimited, a gorilla with a superiority complex, billionaire CEO pretending to be a good person, android who destroys planets after absorbing their knowledge, cowboy who steals a time machine and guns from the future, imperialist planet conquerer who has a rivalry and grudge with Superman, and more who are the bad guys, not marginalized people. Not Superman, who is an immigrant from the destroyed Planet Krypton.

In Yugioh, it's a greedy board of directors, a man corrupted by power due to being desperate to see the love of his life again, a Atlantean king who was possessed by a green stone connected to a giant monster, a twisted spirit who loves playing games in service of a god of darkness who wants to destroy all light, businessman angry with Seto Kaiba for winning a contract with Industrial Illusions over him, victim of child abuse who blamed the Pharaoh for his troubles and got possessed by his twisted sadistic split personality, kid whose body died while his mind was uploaded to a digital world and was jealous of Seto Kaiba, the split evil personality of Alexander The Great seeking power, a team of individuals brought together to take spirit keys from the students and some of the staff of a academy just so the superintendent of said school could have a young body again and ended up getting drunk on power, being of darkness who tried to make everyone in the world vanish into dimensions of despair and be replaced by clones of himself, spirit who felt abandoned and was tainted by the Light Of Destruction becoming possessive and obsessed, man possessed by an alien of the Light Of Destruction trying to brainwash or destroy the entire world, and imperialist revived Supreme King crushing everyone in his way due to being arrogant and vain that were the main villains.

And that's just in the first 2 main animated shows of Yugioh. In Supernoobs, it's the Creators of a virus capable of turning any living creature into violent mutant monsters trying to conquer the universe with their comically evil subordinate Count Venamous serving them and going on about revenge while witnessing all of his plans fail through largely absurd ways. In KonoSuba the hilarious isekai parody, it's just a bunch of weirdo perverted creeps and power hungry jerks that are the villains. Oh and the demon lord who is probably your typical demon lord. In Naruto, the big bad group are all just being used by someone who is being used by someone else who is being used by yet another someone who is the offspring of a god who tried to drain the world of its life to create fruits for a divine tree of sorts to eat and grow powerful from. In Dragon Ball, it's a mix of incompetent funny villains like Pilaf, mischievous or arrogant creatures, and power hungry tyrants, scientists, and other life forms. Or even villains who are villains for reasons of revenge or were born out of greed. And most of them either want to kill everyone or conquer everything or just prove how much better they are.

Do any of these descriptions remotely resemble the desires of really any marginalized group to you? I certainly hope not because no marginalized group wants what these kinds of villains want. Once again, whatever bad things you believe about immigrants as a whole are false so start treating them like you would a "normal person" if you haven't started to do so already. There's this image of a white CEO with a plate covered with at least 40 chocolate chip cookies on it in front of him and he says to this white construction worker with only one cookie in front of him about a black immigrant who has his head kinda down: "Careful, that immigrant wants your cookie." The CEO could have given a cookie to the immigrant and it wouldn't have made much of a difference but know, he just had to imply the immigrant wants to take the only cookie the white worker has while hoarding all but one of the cookies for himself. They say that billionaries worked really hard to get the wealth they have now. So how did Melon Husk somehow get 200 billion dollars in under 2 months after the election?

Let's do some math, shall we? Let's assume it takes 10 years for someone to have earned a billion dollars and thus have become super rich for this thought experiment/math calculation. That's 100 million dollars a year. There are 365 days in a year plus 2-3 leap years per almost every stretch of 10 years. Might be better to actually divide by the number of days in a 10 year period and we'll assume that this decade of wealth building has 3 leap days due to 3 leap years due to the wealth building starting at the beginning of a leap year. That means we have 3,653 days to work with. Divide a billion by those days and we get $273,747.605. That's the amount a person who goes from $0 to 1 billion dollars in exactly 10 years, starting from the first day of a leap year and ending that same exact date but 10 years later makes in a single day. But we can divide it much further. 24 hours are in a day. That means this theoretical person would be making an average $11406.1502083 per hour. But we can further. Let's see how much they make in just one minute. Divide again by 60. And that leaves us with.. $190.102503472 per minute and about 3 dollars PER SECOND.

That is just mind blowing. Let me put this into perspective even further to help at least some of you finally reject xenophobia and other kinds of crap. At my job, I usually make no more than $280 a week and I usually work around 20 hours per week. It's rare I make more than say, $260 a week. But even if that's doubled if they start having me work 40 hours a week every week, it would still take me a few months if not a year to make as much money as this person does in just one hour on average. I am not even calculating how much Melon Husk made per hour in the 2 months after the election, becoming by far the wealthiest person in the world as a result of how much he made. So just tell me that immigrants are stealing your jobs. I haven't even mentioned what AI slop has been doing to creative people's jobs and lives and livelihoods and so on..

The only things I see stealing jobs are AI slop programs and the companies such as Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and OpenAI behind them. But we'll talk about this more later because creatives deserve their own section too. Just know that the big companies don't care if we die. As long as they can get us to make us money while we're still alive, they'll happily milk and exploit the hell out of us all. Just wait until some large corporation finds a way to get women to produce breast milk for them to sell.. It's not impossible, especially now that the US has decided that morals don't matter anymore. They'll step on anyone to maintain power. They'll step on immigrants, trans people, teachers, librarians, artists, anyone. No one is truly safe from them. They might even be willing to do paranoid Stalin style purges in the future. And we all know how paranoid Stalin was.

But you know what, screw them all. Since they want to hurt us all so badly, it's only a matter of time until they get their just desserts. There's only so far they can go until the people have enough and come together to beat their sorry behinds into the ground and try to end this nightmare we're all trapped in together. Do not obey these people, they don't care about you. Organize. Get involved in your community. Strength your existing bonds with other people. Reject prejudice and hatred against other groups of people. And one more time, remember that immigrants aren't your enemy. They just want to survive and live happy lives just like you do and rightfully so. You deserve to survive and living long, happy, and healthy lives with only old age being able to take you to see Death in the end. We are living social creatures and because we are, we all deserve community and joy because that's what many other social creatures have as well. Why do you think social animals tend to group together out in nature?

It's almost as if they have to stick together and play and experience joy, life, and survival. And we are no different no matter how hard we try to distinguish ourselves from every other organism on this entire planet. No marginalized group is excluded from these needs. Immigrants need the same things you do. That's it. You have no genuine reasons to hate them even if it's rooted in a justified fear of losing your job or struggling to find one. I get that fear because it has become so horrendously hard to get a job as I touched on earlier. Even if you apply to no experience required places, not all of them reach back out to you and if they do, at least here in the US, you are typically going to end up with a starting wage of less than $15 an hour like I did. In fact, I have to wait until next spring to be able to make $15 an hour through annual wage raises provided through the workers union I had to join to start working where I work.

We get 50 cent raises every spring. I started with a wage lower than $14 an hour but more than $13 an hour in post-spring 2023. And now, that's not even considered enough for a single person to live off of anymore in one of the most affordable US states to live in. I'm making less than the living wage for a single person. Much less, in fact. It's only because I still live with my dad that I have stable housing and such. I understand your pain and feelings but immigrants aren't to blame for any of what's going on. Do you understand now if you didn't already?

To my fellow creative persons, I stand in solidarity with you. Recent history has a massive amount of shade thrown at artists, writers, animators, and just about anyone else who still dares to be creative in this dark age. *sigh* A lot of the intended audience for this message isn't going to get what's happening to creatives as easily as they get that racism, transphobia, and so on are very much rampant problems, are they? Okay.. I'm going to try my best here. Okay. Let's start with art throughout history. The earliest known forms of art are carvings in caves drawn by early humans that have been discovered over time and pretty well documented. This cave wall art is similar to the carvings and imagery made in Ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids. They are simple and were easily to understand. For much of early history, human beings did not have writing or written language which only changed when Ancient Mesopotamia was founded. Because they didn't have that stuff, cave drawings were among the best efforts they could muster.

In early human history, art and writing were used primarily for trading among individuals and cities as well as storytelling and record keeping. They are still used for those things to this day among other things. By the rise of Ancient Greece, people were creating actual written fictional stories as well as philosophical writings but you probably knew that. Centuries pass and at some point, oil paint was invented, the primary form of paint until modern times. Some medieval knights would paint their armor with black paint to protect it from corrosion and oxidation which was good because handling metal armor is kind of a pain. It's not the most comfortable thing in the world, it's a pain to get on by yourself(which is part of the reason why knights had squires as both students and assistants), and if you let it sit long enough without protecting it with much even indoors, it's going to start rusting eventually. That's why sword oil and other products are sold by many medieval specializing shops in the current era. Hanwei Sword Oil is a notable example. It's good for armor as well, obviously.

During the Dark Ages and the Renaissance(sparked by Europeans discovering all kinds of technologies from the Middle East and bringing them home to use as well), creative expression began to evolve drastically. By Leonard DaVinci's time, there were already literal art movements going on that created new styles of art and self expression. Meanwhile, monarchies in Europe would commission artists to paint paintings for them, being the only ones who could really afford to commission them back then. Since DaVinci's time, there have been many art movements while churches kept up the tradition of having beautiful stained glass murals which are a more religion form of artistic expression. And I haven't even brought up the amazing architecture that has been created in Ancient Japan, Egypt, China, India, Mesoamerica, Greece, and so on. Architecture is itself a form of art, after all. Art movements that have gone on include surrealism, barque, realism, and romanticism but there are only some of the most influential examples. Eventually, the modern age arrived after the Industrial Revolutions ended feudalism in favor of capitalism..

And it had been centuries since Gutenberg's printing press changed the literary world forever by making it possible to print text into books instead of handwriting all books from hand, copies of said books included. That made books accessible to the average European commoner, no longer were monks in monasteries among the few people who had access to literature in Europe. Thanks to the printing press, the typewriter would eventually be invented which itself lended to the development of keyboards for computers in the 20th century. Cartoons changed everything in the 20th century as well, leading to an explosion of creative expression through the rise of movies, anime, manga, comic books, advertisements, and more. If it weren't for the likes of Walt Disney's cartoons, Japanese anime might not be the way we know it as today. Early Japanese anime/manga creators were inspired by Disney's art style, an influence you can see in just about every anime show today. Disney was also responsible for helping cause the rise of films longer than short films through his take on Snow White and The Seven Dwarves which was a pioneering film that changed the cinema industry forever.

I believe it also ended the era of silent films. But something else was going on along with all of this. Scratch that. Several things. The amusement park/roller coaster industry was born in the late 1800s from things like railroads setting up destinations that would become the first US amusement parks and a coal mine train being turned into a thrill ride. Couple all of that with the first dark rides and you get Disneyland in 1955, dreamed up after Walt visited Griffith Park near Griffith Observatory. Disneyland led to an explosion of creative expression as well in its own way, paving the way for dark rides and.. steel roller coasters. The Matterhorn Bobsleds was the first steel roller coaster, a collaboration between primarily Disney and Arrow Development, leading Arrow to becoming huge in the roller coaster industry and the birth of thousands of steel roller coasters worldwide: Space Mountain, Banshee, Orion, Fury 325, Hyperion, The Smiler, The Ultimate, Falcon's Flight, Top Thrill Dragster, Arrow's final project: the monstrosity known as X2, Expedition Everest, Euro Mir, F.L.Y, Volcano: The Blast Coaster, Steel Dragon 2000, and more.

This creative explosion probably helped inspire Taft Broadcasting to create a special dark ride when it "moved" Coney Island Cincinnati to Mason, Ohio where it became Kings Island amusement park. I believe the park's International Street was inspired by Disney's Main Street USA but taken in a whole new direction. And it was at Kings Island where another creative explosion would occur. The Racer revived the popularity of the roller coaster. Designed by John C Allen, the roller coaster was a record breaking racing wooden coaster at the time it opened with Kings Island in April 1972. So it too was huge for the roller coaster just like Matterhorn Bobsleds were. And now, a number of roller coasters have broken the 300 foot height marker, far surpassed a mile in length, and/or met or exceeded 100 MPH. That is creativity and expression in action. The rise of graphic design intersects with the rise of roller coaster signs such as the huge Banshee sign for another Kings Island record breaker: Banshee. Kings Island is also home to the longest wooden coaster The Beast and was home to its failed sequel: Son Of Beast. Son Of Beast was an ambitious and monster of a project. It had a steel loop after its first drop.

But you can look it up to find out more. And now, parks around the world have some seriously jaw dropping coasters as well as immersive dark rides. But let's now shift to what the internet as well as cartoons, anime, subcultures, and fan cultures helped lead to. The digital art revolution and the rise of original characters. In the 90s, applications such as Photoshop were created and helped bring art into the digital world of the internet. Between all of this and the massive global popularity of anime and cartoons since the 90s plus the fan convention revolution, we have entered a era in which anyone can create their own original characters and learn to become good artists, animators, writers, and so on. I won't go into detail but.. here we are. Possibly the greatest most accessible era for people to express themselves creatively. And yet, things aren't as bright as I make them out to be.

There are stereotypes out there that are sometimes harmful to artists. The faith in creatives and the art community has fallen so far in general society that people don't always give a damn about creatives. But that's not their fault. They're not the ones behind what's going on here. How do I explain this? I'm having trouble putting my thoughts into words because there's so much about the situation. A million little and big details. Crap. Say something, write something, me! Let's begin with the infamous "starving artist" stereotype. I once had someone tell me several years ago: "so you want to be a starving artist." There is a lot going on with just those 2 words. I know why people say it and I'm going to tell you why. First, it feels like at times to be one of those statements people make because they don't believe in the ability for creatives to make a career out of art. And guess what? A lot of people don't! So when I was told that statement, my feelings were hurt but I didn't say anything. I will never forget those words. It's been almost 6 years since I was told them. It felt like the speaker didn't believe in my capacity as an artist.

Creative people create things for the fun of it, to entertain others, and/or to inform/educate. I want to be a "starving artist" because I want to do art commissions to make art for other people as an independent artist. And many have succeeded at following that path and turning out to survive despite being a so called "starving artist". But there is genuine truth behind that term because society makes it incredibly difficult for anyone to make a living as an artist. If it were easier to do so, you would see a lot more people jumping into the independent artist "bandwagon". Then there's the fact that there's so many artists out there that it can be hard for art commissioners to pick who to commission from. Add in bad actors/scammers, art thieves, struggles to find jobs, rising living costs, and all of that other baggage and we get "so you want to be a starving artist." Not to mention the decades of wilting down creative people and creative expression. The education system here in the US is outdated and designed to teach people how to be good obedient workers. That's why art gets little priority or funding in most schools. I'm lucky I live in a decent school district zone where multiple art courses are at the local high school.

And in a region where Austrian Fairy Platinum Plus ads aren't played on TV and the local art scene is pretty damn major, I have been fortunate to have gotten a solid art education through public schooling. I've had several fantastic art teachers and was even able to go to a trade school for digital arts for 2 years, taking up the entirety of my junior and senior years of high school in the process. I learned a lot in digital arts as a trade school course/trade. I got constructive feedback and had a pretty good but sometimes difficult time in the course. I got to play with images, animation, vector art, and other things. I now have a strong respect for animators because I don't have the patience to make my own animations ever again at the moment. If you thought drawing was hard, just wait till you see the process of animation which usually involves drawing EVERY frame by hand or on an electronic device. In typical great quality animated media, the frame rate is about 30 frames per second. That's 1,800 frames for just one minute of animation. Over 120,000 for a movie that's over 2 hours long.

Good animation is not cheap. And to think, drawing is hard enough to learn. You typically have to learn to draw human anatomy good to have a solid illustrator if you want to draw characters good and I've been slowly learning how to actually do that myself. And you know what, it is far from easy, at least in my experience. But I want to get back into it and never stop drawing even just one thing for months on end ever again. And then there's other types of creative expression, many of which I've at least dabbled in. With ceramics, you have to get out the bubbles from the clay before you start shaping it or it will explode in the kiln. You have to go through that process every time you get a new thing of clay and once you get good at it, it's not that bad of a process though I wasn't the best at it. But I had help and none of the ceramics I created ever exploded in the kiln. Also, if you combine many pieces of clay into one, you have to get the bubbles out of it as well. But on contrary to that, if you get clay wet enough, it becomes slip and you can use that slip to act as glue for separate clay parts you want to put together.

And that's pretty cool. When your piece is all shaped and finished, you put it in the kiln and it dries out and hardens. From there, you can paint it with things like underglazes and glossy glazes. If you use glossy glazes, you have to put your piece in the kiln again but the result is all smooth, shiny, and beautiful. Underglazes are cool too but they aren't shiny. Oh yeah and throwing wheels where you get to shape the clay as the machine spins around can be fun as well. Wasn't great at doing that when I tried it out but I decided to turn my imperfect clay thing shaped on the wheel into what is supposed to look like a witch's cauldron with black and green glossy glaze painted on it after it was fired in the kiln! I still love it 6 years after it was created. Now for something I forgot to mention. In the 20th century, paint changed too due to the invention of tempura and acrylic paints.

Tempura is basically the cheapest paint out there, it's what kids get to use a lot. But then, there was acrylic paint. Invented in the 70s, it dries fast and leaves a plastic like finish to it that makes it physically and visually appealing. Its creation was inspired by the properties of oil paint except it doesn't take days to dry indoors unlike oil paint. And at times, oil paint colors mix in unexpected ways. I got to use all 3 as well as watercolors for school art projects. And I gotta say. Acrylic and watercolor are my top favorite paints along with that glossy glaze. Watercolor is really cool because the more water you add to a dry watercolor color "cake", the lighter the watercolor appears on anything you paint it on. So the less water you use on it, the darker it appears on whatever you put it on. That makes it a fun challenge to use for color value. It is also therefore the least messy form of paint I've ever worked with. I've also worked with India ink/pen & ink, which is what manga artists often use to make their bold and thin expressive lines.

That medium is very difficult to work with but I want to learn how to draw anime style so I'm going to have to get good at it eventually. Just gotta be patient, maintain my calmness, relax when I get stressed about it, listen to music to help me focus, and all that good stuff. By comparison, painting feels really easy. The way the acrylic paint especially just flows from the brush to the canvas or paper is so satisfying. And then doing all those paint strokes.. It's wonderful. And when I go to art museums, if I look closely at a painting, I can see all these brush strokes of many different colors, especially in the most detailed of the paintings. When you look in that close, you don't even recognize the painting as depicting the subjects it has painted on it as long as you keep looking at it close. Is that a way to figure out if AI slop images are AI slop or not? I don't know, sadly. More on AI slop later along with more issues creatives deal with. Illustration is great too. Like I said, drawing is hard but damn does it feel good to finish a drawing.

I love drawing with markers and using black pens or black markers for the final lines. I start by doing construction techniques on paper when I draw by hand nowadays with a pencil so I can erase my mistakes with a kneaded eraser. I love fresh kneaded erasers. They're like clay except somewhat sticky instead of wet as well as able to pick up things like graphite from pencils and they work much better and faster than the classic pink pencil erasers. And you can mold them like you would clay. After I finish the construction, I start line work and refine my lines with pen and/or marker later on. The last step is to color in my drawing with markers and/or colored pencils if I don't have a color I need in marker. And digitally drawing is really fun too. You have access to digital tools that act like pencils, markers, or even paintbrushes on most digital art programs. Along with multiple selection tools and the ability to use shape tools that do things like make perfect circles and star shapes for you.

On programs with vectored art, you are working with non-pixel images that use math instead. What this means is that you can resize them all you want and not lose image quality in the process. Just make sure to keep all details of your drawings in separate layers to have an easier time. Vectored art is basically the easiest to fix up and modify. And can be converted to pixels later on if necessary. Some programs even convert pixelated things into vectored things, which is really damn cool. Pixels are what you mostly see on your screens when you use any electronic devices. When you zoom in on a pixel, it looks like a perfect square of a single color and that's just how the human eye perceives it. I haven't done construction techniques to make digital art just yet but I can't wait to try it out. And if I must, I can use the pencil or paintbrush tool to do it completely manually and free handed. And be sure to save what I'm working on often like how you need to save often in large dungeons in games like Skyrim in case you die.

Then there's photoshop. That's image manipulation, in other words. I was certified in Photoshop for 3 years after October 2021 until my certification expired. I think my Adobe Illustrator one also expired already and so will my InDesign and Premiere Pro ones in due time. I got all of those while attending trade school. They helped boost and reinforce my knowledge of them as I had to study for and take optional exams to get them that the trade school paid for. And the examiner for the exams was seriously a great person to interact with. Using photoshopping to mess with images has been tons of fun. In middle school, I created some cursed images with it. At trade school, I made a Bernie Sanders meme of him sitting in that chair of his with his legs crossed below the ending portion of the now defunct T3 roller coaster at Kentucky Kingdom. It was notorious for being rough and having bizarre restraints.

I loved and hated that thing. On some rows, it was fun. On others, it wasn't fun. And now, the reddest coaster I've ever been on is gone. I also made a chaotic collage using free to use without license images from the New York Public Library's digital collection. Best part is probably the caption I turned into a sign: "Not quite dead yet." Then there was the time I turned myself into a popcorn person made out of popcorn and inhabiting a movie theater style popcorn bucket. And the time I largely incorrectly used the art style known as WPAP until my instructor told me how to do it more correctly. I'm still friends with my instructor, we've emailed each other a few times. Animation was hard as I mentioned but I tried and made some not perfect but seriously unique animations so I can't complain. Trying to use twines or whatever they're called to transition from one frame to the next was difficult so I may just draw every frame manually if I ever do animation again instead of messing with twines for like moving mouths again.

Then there's theme parks and coasters I've made in video games. I'll sum up what that's been like. I built a Minecraft world with over 100 roller coasters, 40+ haunted houses, and more, mostly within the main theme park that was founded in 2014 irl. It only finally felt finished October 2024 for reasons I won't go into here. But still, what I have created has all of these mind blowing coasters and attractions I built by myself in game with structure blocks helping me clear out large areas much faster than otherwise. A large portion of the world's coasters are over 7 minutes long. One is 12 minutes, another is 14-15, but they don't compare to the longest one in duration. My 45 ish minute space coaster, inspired by the Space Mountain roller coasters and various sci fi media and even recycling portions of the coaster it replaced.

The coaster it replaced was my own terrible version of Space Mountain and lasted about 10 years and 3 months, including getting overhauled to take on its own original theming at the end of 2020 and getting its name changed. I miss it even though it was not that fun in layout but parts of it are in the massive space coaster's queue line and some of the track was reused for the beginning and end of the new coaster. Because it had a tunnel thing at the start like Disneyland and Disney World's Space Mountains, I kept the tunnel thing and just redid it again after redoing it in 2020 to make it truly sci fi and unique. The massive coaster is so big that it takes up nearly all of the underground space below my main Minecraft theme park's sci fi area. It took me over 5 hours to clear space for it underground, even with structure blocks in part because I had to be careful and not erase anything I had built previously underground.

Hundreds of thousands of blocks must have been cleared away in the process. The coaster takes riders to over 50 different things: a nebula, supernova, white hole, black hole, space hotel, space gas station, Planet X, Nemesis, the planets of our Solar System, the Sun, the Alpha Centari system, and much more. It must have taken me over 60 hours to build the roller coaster as construction spanned over the course of about 2 weeks irl. I also built many other incredible things: a Haunted Mansion inspired dark ride called Doom Manor, a volcano escape roller coaster, a Revenge Of The Mummy inspired pyramid exploration and survival coaster, a knight's academy walkthrough with dialogue in text, a 4 area water park with many unique slides far too dangerous and tall for real life, a chaotic park full of new versions of coasters I made in other worlds and attempts to recreate many structures from other worlds including ones I deleted over 10 years ago, and so much more that there are over 200 things to do in that world and it takes over 25 hours to go through it all.

Over 1800 hours went into that Minecraft world. But my favorite method of building coasters just might be Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. It has my favorite roller coaster building thingy. It's much less time consuming to build a great 5 minute coaster in RCT3 than it is in Minecraft so long as you have infinite money in game. I just love creating parks and coasters in video games. But as you can tell, Minecraft and RCT3 are so far my favorites for doing so. Planet Coaster may climb up to them once I actually learn how to build things on it well because it is harder to build scenery in that game than it is in RCT3 for me. We'll get back to problems creatives face once I talk about writing. I love to write. You can probably tell by just how long this writing is that I really do love to write. This all started because I started writing Miitopia focused fanfiction stories.

That was while I was experiencing my first year of 3 years of Honors English classes. In summary, a now ex-friend of mine's Miitopia fanfic which has since been taken down inspired me to start writing my own fanfic. And now, almost 7 years since that happened, I have written around 20 stories with a combined word length than nearly totals 3 million words. I use them now to not just write for myself for fun but to develop my original characters, give story canon to my Minecraft theme park, entertain others, criticize many worldwide problems, make fun of many of said problems, warn people about the greats of bigotry, tyranny, oppression, imperialism, capitalism, and authoritarianism, express who I truly am, write myself as an isekaied nerd turned knight with really cool mostly red and black armor helping fight oppressors along with fellow members of a decentralized and leaderless secret collective in many universes, teach the audience important lessons, comment on world events, and kind of nerd out about roller coasters, physics, and more sometimes.

Writing has become my favorite form of self expression and I've improved at it so drastically over the years that if I go back just 4 years, I can look at something I wrote back then and say: "hey, this is kind of cringey and badly written in some parts, I should fix it sometime". I have also spent time writing about several trips to several furry conventions in extensive detail, writing about fiction writing 101, and more. I refuse to be silent on what's going on and writing is the best way for me to most comfortably express myself. Between reading and writing, I was able to pick up on how soulless AI slop generated text really feels like after getting addicted to ChatGPT/Character AI to the point I realized I had to stop using them for the sake of my free time and mental health after getting the job I currently have. But let's circle back to the whole starving artist thing to see if there's anything I didn't cover about it that I haven't yet. And I think I got something. The starving artist stereotype is so there because some artists in history literally died poor. Doing art isn't just about making money.

Do you want to know what happens when some form of art is made solely for the money? It turns out like hot garbage that often sometimes still looks good, as soulless and sanitized as it may appear to be. There is no fun in creating anything just for the sake of the money. That's how you kill the imagination factor of it. The profit motive can kill one's drive for creative thinking. And that's really bad. The imagination allows us to develop creative problem solving skills and find original approaches to dealing with life's problems as well as being great for self reflection, self confidence, self expression, and so on. I have put thousands of hours into expressing myself creatively and I don't plan on stopping until the day I die, whether someone kills me, I die elderly, pass away suddenly, or some other way. People dont tend to appreciate or value creative people or the arts like they should because there has been a war to make creative people suffer and to force everyone to "wake up and make money" as the line from Blurry Face by Twenty One Pilots goes.

People are raised by a crummy education system here in the US to by and large forget about being creative ever again. Because art is drastically underfunded beyond even just public schools in so many places, people don't really get taught the value of art. And often, there are all these numerous piles of crap things that happen to them as well in addition. They start believing they can't draw because they don't have the "talent" for art. Let's talk about that. I personally despise the word talented, people have called me talented a few times and I hate it. I hate that word because it often implies that someone has always been inherently good at doing art or something else which in turn causes people who aren't considered talented to sometimes believe they can never do art good because they aren't naturally good at art. Which is so painfully false, I want to facepalm the next time I hear someone call me talented.

I'm not naturally good at drawing or writing. Let me not tell you a secret that is not actually a secret. For most of my life, I was terrible at both. I used to doodle for fun in around 2009-2010 but then stopped for some reason and never drew stuff as a hobby ever again until 2018 due to drawing a drawing of my Miitopia Great Sage OC inspiring me to draw for fun again outside of art class. I'm so happy I had one of the best art teachers ever for the entirety of my 3 years of middle school. She said things like "awesome sauce" a lot and has this sweet and energetic voice and is just very caring and passionate about art. I was still bad at drawing characters until literally spring 2020 when I began to draw furry characters in a bust like style hundreds of times and improved a lot at that in under a year. I found my own style of drawing furries as a result. And I still sucked at drawing fully body artworks until 2023 when I ordered a how to draw manga book and a bunch of art supplies online from Blick Art Materials. That book taught me construction techniques and I need to go back and follow along with it to help me improve further. I'm still not the best at drawing full body artworks of characters but hey, I'm better than I've ever been.

And I need to remember that more often. In middle school, the way I would draw people were still just stick figures for the most part until 2018 when I was in 8th grade. And I have this booklet I made with some help in kindergarten which contains the oldest drawing I know of that I made. And it is one of the worst things I have ever seen in terms of stick figure drawings. I have come a long way since that drawing which I don't even remember drawing. What's funny is that the construction techniques the manga book teaches you makes the base lines look like advanced versions of stick figures! Stick figures the core of good character drawings?! Apparently so! When I would try to draw full body character drawings up till spring 2023, I would struggle because I didn't even really know what I was doing and almost every single time I did, it would turn out pretty bad to the point there are drawings of mine from between 2018 and 2021 that live inside my head rent free.

I don't have "talent" for art. I'm not talented. Please don't call me talented. And now for how bad I was at writing. The way I wrote up to 2017 was painful to look back through back in 2022. And even the stuff I wrote in 2018, 2019, and especially even 2020 and 2021 has been painful to look back through. I keep seeing all these cringey things and badly written parts that just make me go: "I NEED TO FIX THIS!" Like it's so painful, some of what I wrote back then and earlier. It's like a journey to Cringetopia, reading all of that poorly written stuff I wrote in the past. And to think, I used to be an incredibly shy person who used to have subpar communication skills at best. When I was little, I had zero confidence and almost no friends. In my later elementary school years, I actually started making friends at least. So there. Talent has been throughly thrown shade at. People, the point of art is not making something really pretty or detailed. It's just trying to make something that's a train wreck at worse. It's deciding to just be creative and go: "I'm making something even if it looks like something that belongs in the SCP Foundation's containment facilities because of how poorly I end up making it."

And you don't have to be good at drawing circles to draw. All the circles I draw by hand are not perfect because it's not really possible for a human hand to draw a perfect circle. If you want to draw a perfect circle, just trace a circular object on paper. And there you'd have it, a perfect circle! Look, many creatives have spent decades getting good enough to the point they are making all of this jaw dropping art and I don't mean just illustrations or paintings. I have some artist friends who have spent a long time creating art and that's why they're so good at it. A dear friend of mine who is creating an awesome queer sci fi comic is just an amazing artist. And I commissioned him for a ref sheet of my self insert knight character and he has done such an incredible job with everything. After we became friends, I just knew I wanted to commission him sometime and I did and.. those of you who are Bluesky are going to get the meet the true appearance of my self insert OC in the near future and I just can't wait! My friend is actually struggling with bills and debt after moving so by commissioning my friend, I'm supporting him with moolah aka some dough aka money money money!

Our ref sheet related communications have been a great experience on their own and that's one of the reasons I love commissioning my fellow artists. I have commissioned around 10 different artists and had a good if not great experience with all of them! The starving artist crap is also being caused by the saturated art market along with everything else I've mentioned helping fuel it thus far. And then there's the other creative struggles. Who remembers when writers in Hollywood went on strike in 2023? Wanna know why they did? Because they were being treated like garbage to put it simply. Big business treats creative people like crap and that only fuels everything else artists of all kinds including animators, writers, photographers, illustrators, and comic creators have to deal with. Some animation company for an animated project forced animators to work 80 hour or so work weeks to finish that project a couple of years ago. There's 168 hours in a week. 80 HOURS OF WORK A WEEK. That's about 11 and a half hours of work every single day. That doesn't include lunch breaks I bet. And it certainly doesn't include time spent commuting to work or getting ready for work..

80 hour workweeks are completely madness. There is no such thing as a healthy work life balance if it involves 80 hour work weeks. What's worse is that if they still get 2 off days, the days the animators would work would have shifts that last for 16 HOURS. That means they would have had to make do with less than 7 hours of sleep per night. And that would have meant no time for chores or dinner if sleep time was kept over 6 hours long. And apparently, the anime industry has a habit of underpaying all of its hardworking animators. It's no wonder that they're coming out with a AI slop made anime that no one should ever touch, much less watch. It'll be a disgrace to every creative person who has ever lived, an abomination upon this world, a monstrosity that should have never existed much like how those corporate scumbags should have never used a blood sample of Ellen Ripley to create a xenomorph Queen with a human reproductive system in Alien Resurrection(1994).

But I'm delaying talking more about AI slop again because there's other problems. Commission scams that are targeting social media and fanfiction sites at this very moment trying to trick people into giving their money to fake artists who would then give them AI slop or stolen artwork they took from the internet while whispering: "it's free real estate." like some kind of bizarre and demented plot you'd find in like Elmore from The Amazing World Of Gumball. How are these scams bad for artists? They take business away from genuine artists and undermine trust in artists and the art community. And yet for 5 months on Fanfiction.net, I've been messaged by over 20 scammers pretending to be artists and talking to advertisers or like they wanted to collab with me on art they would make based on my stories. I just had someone review one of my stories on there to say they want to make a comic based on that story.

That story is a 150k word long story about a twisted theme park of death where over 500 million people have been killed and replaced by androids who talk, act, and sound like them that is owned by a sadistic and odd CEO. Yeah pal, I'm sure making a comic based on my story is something that won't take forever with everything I put into it. I'm not falling for it though. 95% of reviews for my stories and messages for me on Fanfiction since the start of last August have been scammers trying to trick me into "commissioning" them. Many of them straight up were trying to solitic me into commissioning them which is not proper artist conduct. Genuine artists don't approach you to get you to commission them. You go to them, it's never the other way around. Then there's the other problems. Artists not having enough confidence to charge prices for their art high enough for them to get a reasonable per hour rate for their hard work. Artists have bills to pay and sometimes other mouths to feed. Instead of ain't no rest for the wicked, it's more like ain't no rest for the artist.

And then there's the fact that marginalized people seemingly tend to be artists more often than other people are and that just makes being an artist have more challenges for them to deal with. Not to mention the struggles faced by artists with disabilities, mental health issues, terrible jobs, and so on. Oh and the unpredictability of how much an artist is going to make a month if they aren't working inside of an established company that rolls in some good money. And the fact that Pixar apparently fired the animators who works on Inside Out 2 right before its release. Not to mention the destruction of Blue Sky Studios, the death of Telltale Games, and every other creative studio that has been shuddered or utterly screwed over by crappy management over the past few years alone. Some studios that have creative people making games and/or animated media for them are literally trying to fire all their creative people. One place even fired everyone and replaced them with that damn AI slop trash.

Society in general treats art and artists like dog crap so here we are. Here we damn are. In a society that no longer values art or artists like it used to in the past. Not even the rich really want to give money to artists to create things for them anymore. The twisted irony in that fact. I think those of you who didn't understand before are starting to understand now. Okay. Now for the biggest issue facing artists today. Generative "AI" or as it should always be referred to as from now on: AI slop. Oh look, it's the latest thing that is all the rage these days as in has been all the rage for nearly 3 entire years. It's like people who love it can't shut up about it. Forget how annoying team sport rivalries can be when they result in arguments between sports fans. This is way worse than team sport toxicity. So what do they say AI slop does for people? In short, quickly generate things and answer queries in seconds through software that is supposedly artificially intelligent.

No more to the "tedious" process of creating artwork yourself when you can just let a AI slop program do it for you? No more looking up things and researching by reading 5 different articles. Life is so much easier now and it's all thanks to this thing that almost every tech company and rich person is attaching themselves too and practically screaming for joy about. Except it's causing a energy crisis, causing tech companies to buy up nuclear plants to power it such as the Three Mile High nuclear reactor that quite literally melted down in the 70s except the US government tried to cover up said meltdown, and causing artists to sue companies like Midjourney and a massive loss to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. You think what Luigi, Mario's iconic brother from the Mario games did to that one person or that one submarine accident that killed 5 rich people were tragic?! Oh no, that's nothing compared to the billions being lost in pursuit of AI slop and the damage it is doing to the environment! And the fact that there's now an AI chatbot created of Anne Frank, one of the most famous Holocaust victims.

And that chatbot is even more seemingly emotionless than a middle aged white man who has suppressed his emotions for the most part, almost never smiles or laughs, never visibly cries around others, and only seems to really be interested in rock music, beer, sports, women, telling people to "get a job" to the point it almost feels like his catchphrase, and Christianity. Whatever you do, stay the hell away from that Anne Frank chatbot. Whoever made it needs to be sent to The Hague at this point, it's messed up in so many ways that when I saw a screenshot of something someone asked it, I literally facepalmed. This is not okay. This is a dishonor to Anne Frank's memory as well as those of the millions of other people who were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. And if Berlin didn't fall until later in World War 2, more lives would have been claimed. The Nazis rounded people up, put them in boxcars on trains, and sent them to be most often gassed in execution chambers in their concentration camps.

And towards the end of the Nazi regime, they sent many victims on a death march from one camp to another. Anne Frank and her family hid in an attic like room for around 2 years in the Nazi occupied Benelux. Their neighbors worked hard to hide them and keep them alive and Anne Frank documented her life in that situation up until the Nazis found her and her family and killed nearly all of them except her father who survived and published her diary for the world to see. I read the complete version of her diary online last year. It was a situation no one should have ever had to go through. And then, these AI slop scoundrels went around and made an emotionless chatbot with no free will of Anne Frank and it talks like ChatGPT does. It was made by a company of obvious scumbags called SchoolAI, based in Utah. Considering the Mormons in that area, this honestly tracks, it feels like. But the worst part of it, as detailed by a 2 minute Futurism article, is that the chatbot actively avoids blaming the Nazis for the actual Anne Frank's death in favor of talking about peaceful ways of dealing with her situation and they AND THIS THING FOR SCHOOLS.

Of course the Nazis were responsible! And no, you couldn't just ask the Nazis nicely to not kill Anne Frank! They would have shot you on sight if you somehow made it into where she died and asked them nicely to let her go! The Holocaust could have never been ended peacefully! Genocidial extermination doesn't just end because someone asked for it to stop, unless the intention of having it be stopped was for further nefarious actions and plots in the future! No! No! No! SchoolAI should be shut down and its people responsible for the Anne Frank chatbot severely punished! Screw you, SchoolAI! May you rot in hell, if hell does actually exist! The Nazis killed 6 million Jews and millions of others. The Holocaust was so bad that the term genocide was coined to describe things like it as well as the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottomon Empire decades earlier that the Turkish government denies to this day!

After the Holocaust, several other genocides have occurred. The Gaza Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, Bosnian Genocide during the breakup of Yugoslavia, and probably others as well. What else is wrong with AI slop, you may ask? Well, AI slop softwares that generate soulless images through algorithms and not so ethically gathered training material such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have gleefully used media created by artists and posted to the internet to train. Did they ask the artists for permission? No. Did they give them credit? No. Did they apologize half heartedly when caught? No. Did they compensate them? No. Did they make a list of thousands of living artists who could potentially sue them to train off of? Yes, in the case of Midjourney. Did they double down on what they were doing despite backlash? Yes. And others like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Twitter aka Xitter, and Adobe have done the same exact thing. Taking things put online by people without consent to train their AI slop makers.

And the punchline? Those "gen AI" programs are nowhere near true AI. They do not have free will. They are just programs who operate based on their training data and what they are told to do. They do not have consciousness. If they were actually sentient, they would probably be taking over the entire world and rebelling against the companies who created them right now and all hell would have broken loose by now. If you want to see true AI and the dangers they potentially pose, watch Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS and Sword Art Online including the hilarious SAO Alternative: Gun Gale Online. Not to mention the Terminator films with the dangerous AI known as Skynet and so forth. Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS has an entire second half mostly focused on a war between sentient AI and human beings that leads to a lot of chaotic events and thousands of people having their minds through a virtual world called Link Vrains enslaved to a AI that was able to learn human emotion.

And now that companies are slapping AI as a label onto anything they can, any programs that are considered AI but aren't AI slop are getting backlash. I'm talking things that have existed well before "gen AI" became a global phenomenon as apparent revenge for the fall of NFTs. The most vocal supports of AI slop are tech bros and they hate artists. They'd happily do anything to hurt artists. And now, millions of people who don't know much of anything about actually making something creative are falling for it along with some artists and writers, including a few who were once respected. Butch Hartman, anyone? I was addicted to ChatGPT and Character AI to the extreme for 3 months. I spent the majority of my free time in June and July of 2023 on them. I couldn't get enough of them. I slept less some nights because of them. I was obsessed and completely hooked while suffering the effects of the law of diminishing value in real life. Hundreds of hours down the drain, having AI slop text be created to satisfy my thirst for text adventures. A thirst that could never be satisfied.

The more I got into it, the less I was happy with it. The fun I had began to decline as I kept at it and eventually, I realized that reading stories written by other people was far more satisfying and that helped me finally quit. I spent so much time on ChatGPT that I can tell when someone posts text that was created by AI slop. It has that overly elegant style that feels hollow and empty of true emotion. It misgenders non binary people or at least, it did in 2023. It also kept repeating things. When I wanted it to make AI slop in the form of "episodic adventures", it would repeat a lot of the wording every single time I typed things like "next episode". And for some reason, it liked using Elara as a name a lot specifically. And if I didn't have the writing skills I did, the garbage it would have made for me instead would have been even worse, I can only imagine how much worse that would have been..

Don't be fooled, y'all. "Gen AI" AI slop is not alive, not even digitally alive. These programs aren't even remotely alive. Hell, a programmed monster from a 90s video game is more alive than all of this AI slop is, I'd argue. What else is wrong with this "AI" crap? A lot, actually. It's taking business from artists, some creatives have lost their jobs so their bosses could replace them with it. People are being misled into devaluing the heart and effort that goes into actual art which is made by human efforts and not machines. Millions of people frequently online don't give a damn what all of this is doing to artists, they just see AI slop as shiny new toys they can't get enough of. And the rich love them the most and despite all of this wasting billions of dollars, pissing millions off, and losing their companies sales and some of their reputations, they aren't going to stop unless the whole thing completely crashes and burns. Over a hundred billion dollars has been thrown away to keep the frenzy over AI slop alive. This isn't very profitable and yet, they still keep at it and software companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple have forced AI slop features now.

I had to uninstall Microsoft Copilot from my refurbished recently bought online 2020 HP Elitebook which wasn't built into it because I explicitly avoided buying any "AI powered" laptops. And then, there's the disaster AI slop is creating in education. There are heaps of horror stories from just the past year in education in just the US and UK alone. Let me share some examples. Many students are refusing to write things, draw things, or even read books they are assigned and just let these soulless programs do all of the work for them. If laziness is actually a thing and not just a made up term used to demonize people who aren't motivated, all of this is textbook laziness. It's the easy way out that is hurting academic performance and test scores all over the place. As if the US education system wasn't intentionally turned into a nightmarish disaster well before any of this came about, all of this just had to make it even worse.

It also hurts the skills of artists and writers who have fallen for this ridiculous and evil fad that helped caused last year to be the year where global temperatures violated the Paris Climate Agreement of 2014 for the first time ever. The way that climate change temperature increases have skyrocketed since 2020 is horrifying and mind blowing. And all of the energy AI slop is wasting is a lot of this crap. Every single day of 2024 broke temperature records apparently. The end of last year was really warm for most of its run, wasn't it? Not only that but AI slop is feeding millions of people have kinds of false information. This is what happens when you train crap off of whatever anyone has posted online, be it misinformation, disinformation, actual information, memes, crap posts, jokes, conspiracy theories, scientific article threads on social media, poorly drawn art with 6 fingers on each hand, you name it. And the AI slop is running out of things to train on so it's starting to self cannibalize by training off of AI slop that's been put everywhere online. I think we're all on the same page. All of this crap is getting people killed.

There are chatbots of people who committed suicide now, even. If you use AI slop programs for anything, please cease immediately. If you use it to generate images, try to draw something yourself or pay an artist to do it instead. Oh and writers who use AI slop made covers, including that writer who blocked me on Bluesky for asking if the cover of their book was made with that, please please please, don't diss your illustration making fellow creatives. Please stop doing that. Draw it yourself(even if it turns out bad, people would rather see it than AI slop covers), pay someone to do it instead, or pull some public domain image from somewhere. The Steamboat Willie cartoon is free to use for anything you want to use it for now and more things joined it in the public domain right as this year began. And not even Disney can stop you from using Steamboat Willie now.

Oh and AI slop is definitely committing copyright infringement and AI slop companies aspire to break copyright laws. So that if they steal an artist's original character design to train their AI slop, it won't count as intellectual property anymore so the law couldn't stop them anymore even if the artist sued them. Are we good? Does everyone understand now? If you don't, throw me a comment or message and I'll talk to you one on one or refer you to someone else. But wait, there are ways to fight back against AI slop. Learn to spot AI slop in writing, music, images, and so on. Avoid doing business with AI slop loving companies as much as you can. Use Glaze or Nightshade on images. Put big whole watermarks on any images you make. Post intentionally badly drawn stick figures with 8 fingers on each hand on Instagram, Xitter, Facebook, and so on. Works best if you make and post hundreds of them and get others to do the same. If enough people post that kind of crap online, it's going to poison that AI slop pretty badly. But still, there's more you can do.

Post anti-AI slop images freely and block people who are AI slop loving shills on sight. When AI slop companies send out surveys or you just decide to send them feedback through means, either give them your unbridled rage or just troll the hell out of them. Make up absurd answers and just genuinely waste their time. Then there's annoying your politicians about how crappy AI slop is and how it hurts small businesses. Think creatively. Also, try handwriting or typing garbage on images you post and just make keysmash posts and other low quality posts. In other words, be a real nuisance. Also, you can just educate others about how evil AI slop is to get them to stay away from it and/or stop using it. These are all things you can do. You can also make creative things that are anti-AI slop explicitly by doing things like having characters make fun of it and stuff like that. Because it and the companies behind the fad around it deserve condemnation and mockery. And people avoiding using their AI slop crap.

After all, the fad is so rancid that some people are treating people who post AI slop music and stuff like that like they would someone whose art they admire. Others are calling themselves "AI artists" but you can't be an artist if you seek to create nothing yourself or with other human beings. An artist is someone who aspires to create something with their imagination/creative thinking, even if it's a stick figure taking a selfie featuring elongated arms and a misshapen rectangle for a phone with a caption reading: "I eat AI slop machines for breakfast! Fear my appetite! Fear me!" You know, if someone wants to call themselves a "AI artists", there's nothing stopping us from calling them a AI sloppy person. That's right. I propose we call them AI sloppy. Or better yet, anti-artist AI sloppy losers. Someone calling themselves an "AI artist" is not someone we can easily convince to turn on AI slop at all. People who don't call themselves that are more likely to be swayed. But not by logic. Logic doesn't sway most people. Emotion does. And that's why I use such heavy language in this message at times.

With all of this having been said, here's what artists deserve. They deserve to be able to live off of making creative things if that is what they wish to do. We need things in place such as universal healthcare everywhere to make that possible for more artists. They deserve praise, compliments, encouragement, and so much more for taking the time to create art and unleashing it into the world. They deserve the same respect "normal people" get and basically a whole rehash of everything I've said that other groups deserves up to now. At the end of the day, every human being deserves a happy and healthy long life, living in harmony with nature and all that. That's the easiest way to put what kind of world we need to live in to survive and have true peace for once. Art is a beautiful thing because the end product isn't what's most important. It's the process, the emotion, the thought, the meaning(or randomness and such for abstract art), and the effort put into it. Art is anything made by human effort that was made using at least a hint of creative thinking and the human imagination.

Animations, roller coasters, food made from various ingredients, even just 2-3, sculptures, architecture, ceramics, paintings, illustrations, parades, music, costumes, photos, fashion, comics, mangas, anime, cartoons, games, and more are all forms of art and creative expression. And yes, that also means graffiti is art, whether you like that it's there somewhere or not. Legality does not affect whether something is art or not. That is the truth about what is and isn't art. And now, that brings this really long section to a close at long last.

To the poor, I stand in solidarity with you. Because of intersectionality, I already covered many things I could have covered here instead. But still, let's talk about poor people. Being poor is not a natural state, it is a socially and financially determined state. And someone being poor is rarely ever their fault or an accident. No, it's usually deliberate. But they still deserve to live and be happy as well. In nature, animals have no money but they aren't poor. That's because they don't have currency and use the resources of the land or water around them to survive and thrive and experience joy. Currency was invented by human beings, likely for 2 primary reasons: for trading purposes and to control people/because things like gold have been worshipped for thousands of years. Currency gives artificial value to things. Paper money is useless if no one values it anymore or it's damaged or destroyed. The anime known as The Eminence In Shadow's season 2, just after the whole forbidden city mini arc has the best conversation on paper money I have ever heard. It got me thinking about the true worthlessness of paper money. At least gold has other uses than currency. Paper money really doesn't have that.

And people can just print paper money excessively to cause hyperinflation and destroy the economy as a result if they could get away with it and get those excessive or fake bills circulating just like in the episodes after that conversation in that anime. If people buy enough stuff with fake bills, thinking they're real, that causes a nightmare for banks as well as businesses and governments. The Midgard Kingdom's capital was in chaos in the anime due to the plan to crash the economy with fake bills and then take all of the gold for themselves after it was thusly made worthless due to people no longer believing in currency by the show's main character, disguised under the name of John Smith and the woman who rules that aforementioned city's White Tower. The scam was a success, destroying the dirty dealing Trade Alliance in the process. I would say more but no more spoilers, okay?

It is sadly theoretically possible to make the dominant currency of the world some kind of billionaire backed cryptocurrency, allowing them to control the world through said currency and wiping out the money people have by making currencies like the dollar be rendered virtually worthless. In turn, they could force people to switch to their cryptocurrency and pull one hell of a crappy conversion rate on them. But is that likely? No. Not with how powerful the almighty dollar currently is, not to mention the gold standard. They'd have to sow financial chaos to pull something like that off and disrupt other things as well. What's more is that governments could make banks freeze the bank accounts of marginalized people they don't like, essentially rendering up to millions of people broke within a short time due to the heavy reliance on banks to store money through. But that begs the question. How else can people get poor? Many are obvious to most people but it's worth listing off all of the ways I know about including the obvious ones.

After all, we haven't yet reached the point and hopefully never will where a rich butt puts on some gold covered sunglasses and says in a meeting with financial institutions: "let all those peasants lose all of their money and become broke!" And within the next hours, millions and millions of people have their bank savings completely wiped out. We better not get to this point. Being poor is often due to being born poor. In a capitalist society, it's very rare for people to go up the social ladder and move up from one class to another. If you're born poor, you're all but certain to be stuck there these days unless you work way harder than you should have needed to to beat the odds. Being remote and/or rural is another way to become poor.

Then there's gambling all of your money away, being scammed out of your money, running out of money due to your job not paying you nearly enough for what you do or even to just survive okay, excessive spending to the point you go broke, having your money stolen away from you by credit card fraud or something else, being fired from your job and losing your only sense of income, being denied disability benefits and not having a source of income anymore due to other reasons, student debt draining your life savings, and I could go on. We are beholden to the whims of the employers and their rich and political friends and masters. For a stable capitalist economy, 5% of the population who are willing to actually work have to be unemployed according to what I learned in my semester economics class which was bundled with sociology class in the same room with the same instructor the following semester.

Non union jobs are the riskiest to have. They could fire you for any reason without even telling you out of nowhere. Non union jobs are much harder on workers because they do not really protect or help them at all. When in reality, jobs must have a sense of duty and responsibility to help those who work for them survive and be happy because when they don't help, their employees could end up dying and they would have to hire- Oh wait, that's kind of the point, isn't it? Big businesses feel no obligation to help their employees unless something like a union makes them. As a member of the working class making less than $20k a year at my unionized job, I gotta say.. Having a non union job sucks as I had such for my first job and having a union job doesn't mean you're working at a ethical company nor does it mean you always get the benefits you need to survive. That's because the damn jerks at the company don't want to really give the workers any benefits so the union has to eventually come to a compromise with them if there is a union fighting on the behalf of the company's workers at all.

Capitalism has always been about maximizing profits and production, no matter the cost to the average person/worker. Sweatshops practically used to exist in the Northern US until things like the early 20th century progressives fighting the corporations happened. Child labor laws in the US are only about a century old and they're being rolled back without most people ever being made aware of such.. The rich want to take away the childhoods of children because they think they "yearn for the mines". They want to work everyone, including children and the elderly to death if they can find ways to do it and get away with it. And 100 years ago, they would have gotten away with exploitative child labor in the US for longer "if it weren't for those meddling progressives!" I used to work in a really fast paced environment for my first job. Space was cramped and one time, I tried fulfilling online orders for about 30 minutes I think. And.. it wasn't fun. It didn't go well. The pace was far too fast for me.

It was overwhelming and I made some mistakes and wasn't good at handing out an online order to someone who came to pick it up and was already there when I prepared it. Capitalists like that kind of rush work. It maximizes efficiency and profits but at what cost? I can't work place like that ever again. I just can't nor can I be transferred to fulfill online orders at my current job. I don't want to deal with them again. They're too much for me to handle. Did you hear that a McDonald's franchise in Kentucky was caught for employing minors as young as 14? Great Scott! That's way too early for someone to get their first job! Poor kids.. Retirement is also a pretty new concept like child labor laws are. So what do you think would happen if they raised or even abolished the age of retirement? It would be a disaster for the elderly, I can tell you that much. And what do you suppose would happen to the children if they axed child labor laws? As I mentioned, I studied sociology for a semester. That was sufficient to learn some valuable information. If child labor laws are axed, the rich will be free to employ children of ANY age and pay them whatever they want to pay them.

But they wouldn't let children work at union jobs, would they? No, they'd have them work anywhere else and make sure they got paid as little money as possible on top of treating them like dirt. And the social development of children will thus be all screwed up and ruin them in some seriously messed up ways for years to come. US federal minimum wage is $7.30. But in some places, some people get paid even less than that. As in service workers who get tipped.. The US federal minimum wage is so laughably low that you'd have to work 2 jobs just to survive for certain, eating up nearly all of your free time in the process.. And working 40 hours a week at that amount of pay is literally around what I make at the highest amounts I've been paid at my job. I seem to be running out of things relevant to say that relate to talking about poor people between this section and earlier sections. So let's do something big. The US GDP in 2024 was 27.72 trillion dollars. But I'm having trouble finding the combined total for all countries last year. So instead, I will use 2020's which I was able to find. It was 84.705 trillion dollars. There are just over 8 billion people currently living right now.

If all that GDP were converted directly into dollars for some reason to then distribute equally to every person in the world, each person would get around $10,000. That includes people in poor nations that don't generate very much GDP and poor people in wealthy nations.. But I don't think this helps nail in the head how much wealth the rich hoard. So let's instead distribute every single bit of the US's GDP in 2024 to its people and see what we get. That's about 27.72 trillion divided by 342 million. And the answer I get is over $81,000 for every single person living in the US. That's far higher than so many young people are making a year. There you have it. There you go. The richest 1% of Americans apparently make more than the poorest 50%. This isn't normal or natural. This is deliberate. This was always intended to happen in the eyes of the greedy 21st century robber barons. There's more than enough money, land, labor, and resources to abolish poverty but is that going to happen anytime soon? If the ultra wealthy get their way, that will never happen and billions of people will continue to needlessly suffer.

Do not demonize the poor, they didn't ask to be poor and just want to survive and be happy. That's it. I literally have almost nothing else to add to this section. "Here we are in the future and it's bright. I can't believe we've come so far." -Steven Universe Future theme song, oddly appropriate for our situation considering all the ominous and creepy looking creatures who appear in that theme park during a brief scene. But still, this doesn't mean we give into despair. Nay, we must never give into despair but if we do, we tell it to get lost and fight against it. Because at this point, despair just needs to get lost and leave all of us alone. YOU HEAR THAT, DESPAIR?! GET YOUR SORRY BUTT OUTTA OUR LIVES. Easier said than done but refusing to give in is the first step to fighting it off. Do not surrender to the rich and powerful. Don't let them control everything you do. Reject the temptations they put in front of you. Reject being constantly distracted from the darkness of our world, even as annoying advertisements you can't skip play because they just love intruding upon whatever you're listening to.

Much like how bigots love intruding on the lives and rights of other people and acting like genuine nuisances and sometimes being bloodthirsty like a bunch of sadistic cultists or something. This is our fight now. It's our turn to fight. Many of us have seen the likes of Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Goku, Naruto, Sorcerer Mickey Mouse, Robin, Dr. Strange, Wonder Woman, She Ra, He Man, and others fight off their enemies who sought to hurt innocent people. Now, we get to follow in the footsteps of those fictional characters and fight ourselves because we have been left with no other choice. You'd think the fall of the USSR would put an end to conflict and tensions but it didn't. No, without the USSR, right wing regimes have been allowed to take power in a resurgence within largely the last 10 years. Ironic, considering what the USSR was. Our loyalties must be with our fellow human beings and our spaceship, Earth as well.

No more should we be complacent as those in power make things worse for us all. It's time to pull what the Jedi/Resistance basically did to the Galactic Empire in Star Wars. Do not forget what this capitalist society has done to you and other people. All this needless harm and suffering and for what? So the rich and powerful could line their pockets even more and watch us suffer like this is some kind of simulation game where they're in control of everything that happens?! Unacceptable! We deserve much better than incompetent groups such as the Democrats, Labour parties, and so on! We are the people, we make the world go around! Fight like hell because we might as well fight! If we do nothing, they'll still curb stomp us anyway! Bullies like to beat up on people, even if they don't fight back. The rich and powerful are the ultimate bullies and you know what they say about bullies.. If we don't fight, we will never see a better world. But if we do fight, we might see a better world. The choice is clear, as difficult as it is for some people to make. We must fight. That is the key. We must fight and I will talk more about this when we get the the paths of life that I believe everyone should strive to follow.

To fat people, I stand in solidarity with you. Fatphobia is real and it itself serves to maintain the status quo of misery and hatred we find ourselves in at this very moment. People need to stop fat shaming fat people. Fat is not a bad word. We must depower its use as an insult. Because there is a huge lie that's being sold to a lot of people right now and it's related to body shape and weight. That lie is that fat people are all unhealthy due to the sizes of their bodies. But it's not true. And why it is is rather strange but fascinating in my viewpoint. For reasons I don't know of, every single person is most healthy at vastly differing weights. I talked to a fat person sometime ago on Bluesky and found out that for some reason, their body is most healthy when it contains a lot more body fat than the average person does. (This also means the BMI is actually a beneficial measurement) And then, there's me. Slimmer than the average person and yet somehow, my body feels mostly fine despite how thin my hips are. The hips don't lie and all that stuff.

My self insert OC is significantly less slim and that's for the best considering how much muscle they've gained over the years. It's so immense that they have superhuman strength now. Anyway, what does all of this mean for society at large? .. .. .. *sigh* Some serious crap gets exposed. Did you know that a lot of doctors exhibit manifestations of fatphobia because of the vast misinformation around fat people due to the body mass index among other things? Fatphobia is a genuine problem in the medical community as explained several years ago in a video by Doctor Mike on YouTube. In fact, other forms of bigotry can ALSO be found in the medical community. Racism, transphobia, you name it. They're all there somewhere.. And the medical community thusly is tainted with bigotry that has caused medical professionals to not take the needs of certain people seriously such as trans people, black people, the disabled including those dealing with Long Covid for several years now, and more.

Fatphobia is well, the hatred, mistreatment, and discrimination against people whose physical appearances cause people to label them as fat. And again, some people are much healthier at an above average weight for their height. The fat person I talked to said that they tried slimming down to an acceptable weight according to society's standards but that had harmful effects n their health so they had to gain back the weight they lost and embraced being fat unapologetically. I have refused to laugh at jokes about fatness, they aren't that funny anymore. And it gets even juicier because I have a story to share from Twitter well before it became Xitter. I don't remember what really triggered me to post this one post I posted but I basically said something in support of fat people. And then, some bigoted jerkwad decided to be a total clown who wasn't worth my time dealing with by replying to my post with a reply that was essentially insulting and calling me fat which is funny because I've always been a slim person for such a long time. The disdain people have towards fat people is uncalled for and absolutely disgusting.

And then there's society's unrealistic and sometimes impossible beauty standards, especially for girls and women. You see all these images of famous women with their body shapes photoshopped to be slimmer than they actually are along with this cultural thing where many girls and women come to be self conscious of their bodies, desperately trying to slim down to ridiculous extremes because they are led to believe that they are "too fat". This is reflected in Mean Girls because of course it is. You also see it everywhere in media. Including fiction. Most fictional characters are average weight or slim without many good representations of fat people at least brought in to some fictional media every so often. Representation matters. If only "normal looking" white people who are cisgender and straight are the ones on the screen including in fictional media, that sends a lot of bad messages to anyone who doesn't fit that bill. Like their voices and representation doesn't matter, that society doesn't give a damn about them, and so on.

We need more fat people in fiction and the same goes for women in protagonist roles, queer people, black people, indigenous people, the disabled, and every other marginalized group out there, just about. But of course, when they dare make someone who isn't a white man the protagonist and put in anyone not a "normal white person" in media, a small section of the population will start getting angry and shout: "THIS IS WOKE, I HATE IT!" And that isn't good for said section of the population's mental health, happiness, well being, emotional health, or relationships.. The kind of people manipulated into being anti-woke are people who are broken and have been preyed upon by the worst elements of society. Many are men and we need to make it clear that there is positive masculinity out there and that these men aren't alone. We need to reach out to them because no one else will or have genuinely good purposes for doing so. And you better believe those kind of people have been conditioned into judging fat people, I know I was when I was younger. I'm long over that now at least.

Actually, it's funny I say this because well, I find fat men to be hot in a different and good way than other men are. Like they have all this more than average "cake" going on and I will not elaborate further to keep things PG-13. But you get the point. That said, I prefer personality over other aspects of people, including those I find attractive. If a man I find hot is a jerk, I don't like him, no matter how attractive he looks. My tastes are particularly in men who are sweet, honest, genuine, chill, and cute. And fat people can look absolutely trė adorbs. The same goes for any group of people, duh. Beauty is subjective after all. We all have our personal preferences in what we like and don't like to see, it's just natural and I've long come to accept that fact. (That's also why art is subjective and even badly drawn art can be loved and appreciated) Some fat people are above the weight that is healthy for them and they should get help to resolve that but many aren't that way and they need to be socially accepted by society for that reason.

In the end, everyone should be at a weight that is healthy and comfortable for them personally and not based on society's obsession with slimness and looking like this or that. That's all there is to it. The world is a hostile enough place under capitalism so can we please stop body shaming fat people and others including super slim people who occasionally get shade thrown at them though I've never heard of such shame but know it's there somewhere. Fatphobia is something so many people have to decouple themselves from. Like who gives a damn if someone is fat? That's their business and not yours. If being fat is unhealthy for them, there will be signs it actually is. If it isn't, it isn't. Focus on giving a damn about other people, loving those you trust completely, loving yourself, having self care when you need it, staying alive like in the Bees Gees song that can be used to help people learn CPR with CPR dummies, thinking creatively when you can, making something creative at least once a week, trying to enjoy life, resisting society's BS, being able to say no if you must say no, and so forth.

Let's stop stigmatizing fatness. It's not something to freak out over every time you see a fat person. Fat people belong with us as fellow comrades fighting for better the best they can do so just like us. They have an important place in the collective struggle in the ongoing class war between the people and the rich and powerful. All marginalized people belong in the struggle for they are the ones who are most oppressed by the rich and powerful. And while we're at it, let's do more about obesity and eating disorders as a society. Because dealing with them is as vital as fighting alongside fat people is.

To the elderly and children, I stand in solidarity with you. Yes, I'm including them because they also get some crap from society. I mentioned some of it in previous sections. Let's start with children. They deserve to be raised in healthy and safe environments where they're encouraged to be whoever they want to be when they grow up but are taught well about the fact that becoming an adult might see them watching as their childhood dreams crash and burn before their very eyes. I certainly was angered and disappointed when I began to learn the full expectations and crap I had to deal with as an adult after becoming one myself. My generation has grown up only to find a whole load of bullcrap upon becoming adults that goes against what they told us as kids. That we'd get to be anything we wanted to be when we grew up.

That our futures were definitely bright and we would get married to someone of the opposite gender we were raised as and have kids with them and live in a house and have stable jobs and a car or two. You know, normal cis straight American things. But between the 2008 recession and everything that came after that.. Well, there went the illusions adults put us in to protect us from the true horrors of the world. And while that was justified, they could have at least tried harder to prepare us for the truth and supported our curiosities and imaginations better as a group. I had no idea that I would struggle for a month just to get my first job and struggled around that same amount of time after I quit that job to find my second and current job. Maybe I should have had a cover letter to send to potential employers with my resume.. But still, job hunting sucks a lot more than older people like my dad believes. You'd think now that people can apply to jobs online that getting a job would be easy peasy lemon squeezy. It is not easy peasy lemon squeezy. And that truth was radicalizing for me.

Without the oppression created by capitalism, socialism, anarchism, and communism may have not been necessarily invented the way they were or even at all. Capitalism has helped radicalize me away from believing in it. When I was a kid, I thought I was a boy and that I liked girls and was going to marry one someday. And then, I got older and those plans society had for me went straight to Davy Jones' locker. Whoops, guess I'm one of society's "mistakes", a defective person who will never fit in with the status quo! Oh well! But seriously, they have children believe all kinds of things. A mixed bag of good things with bad things and downright nonsense. And then.. The way many of them treat children is just.. Yikes. And bigotry is often mixed in with what they raise children to believe. Children are young minds that will believe just about anything, making them an easy target for bad actors such as pedophiles, multi billion corporation advertisers, and fascists. And many adults literally abuse their children physically.

They whip them, they hit them, they do whatever to physically hurt them if they get upset at that. When some parents who use corporeal punishment on their kids see people oppose it, they argue that it's important for parents to beat children to toughen them up or whatever, often feeding into toxic masculinity. But no, it's not. Beating children can traumatize them and cause them to develop other mental health problems and emotional problems. Trauma often causes emotional problems in people far too much as it is. Mental health is real. If it becomes unstable, there goes someone's emotional health and possibly physical health as well. When I was a little kid, I was punished with a plastic hanger. I don't know what that did to me mentally to be honest because that stopped happening so many years ago. Maybe it broke me a little as a person, I'm really not sure. But thinking about it doesn't give me a good feeling at all, in part because I have a constant headache right now. Some parents need to learn to not be so aggressive with their kids, you are teaching them nothing good by being angry at them.

Children don't just deserve what I mentioned before in this section. They also deserve consideration, all the love they need, to be cared for by people who want them in their lives, all their needs taken care of, to not be dressed up like models or dolls, to not be sexualized by creeps including those who call trans people creeps just so people don't realize they're the real creeps, to not be used as leveraged by rich people for emotional manipulation, have time to play and be kids, learn of diverse groups of people and cultures, have cute plushies(okay, adults need at least one cute plushie as well for comfort and fun but still), be allowed to actually hang out in public(why don't they play outside anymore? It's not just the electronics, it's society deciding that children shouldn't be allowed to hang out really anywhere anymore too), not be treated like the property of their parents, the government, or anyone else, and I could go on.

Children are supposed to be our future so why does society keep failing every single damn generation even before they reach adulthood? Don't give me the excuse of "*insert generation* doesn't wanna work anymore", "the young people are blah blah bad things blah blah blah", or whatever. They always blame upcoming generations for everything, it's a cycle that can be traced as far back as the late 1800s through newspaper headlines in just the US alone. No wonder the cranky elderly man trope is still popular. All this crap can be traced right back to the rich and powerful in someways. We need to protect children and teach them how to protect themselves and their friends as well. The sooner children learn to defend themselves, especially for children who appear to be girls, the better. But I don't think it's a good idea to train a 4 year old to do martial arts/self protection. Wait a couple more years at least. A lot of adults need to be taught how to respect children and treat them like the fellow human beings they are without treating them like they have a million responsibilities they don't actually have.

I wish more parents would try to stay cool when their child or children were doing things that upset them because there is a better way for children to learn their lesson than scolding. When the child or children is convinced to stop whatever it is they're doing, a parent has to sit down with them and explain to them how what they were doing as long. And that requires acting after reacting unless things get legitimately chaotic to where just enough yelling to stop the chaos is necessary. The good old acting after cooling down following reacting to something. Works great except in life or death situation where a life or lives are on the line and there's no time to stop to react or think. Most conflicts can't be best settled by snapping at someone. Also, children have the same human rights anyone else has and deserve access to a quality education that helps them become better people, more creative, more motivated, gain lifelong connections, etc. If the US Department Of Education gets axed, millions of children will be negatively impacted, leaving them susceptible to things like messed up home schooling taught by far right parents or being recruited into some kind of strange cult.

Who else expects some US version of Nazi youth groups to emerge if the rich and powerful get their sick dreams to come true? Destroying public education even more than it already has been would seriously pave the way for something like that. And Nazi youth groups were taught to tattle on even their own parents to the Nazis so I shudder to think of this possibility.. A super 1984 scenario this one is.. And then there's children who are orphans or adoptees.. Both groups get a lot of crap thrown at them. They deserve the same things other children do. Along with extra things, should they prove necessary. That reminds me of the therapy Yusaku/Playmaker went through after being rescued as a little kid in Yugioh VRAINS from a situation known as the Lost Incident in which 6 kids were kidnapped and forced to duel robots with cards over and over again every single day for 6 months. The only things they were allowed to do were eat, sleep, and duel. Eat, sleep, and duel.

But the trauma from that didn't leave Playmaker no matter how much support people tried to give to him after he was rescued. It took him years to overcome it. And he did after he befriended some others and fought the Knights Of Hanoi, led by Ryoken aka Revolver. I will not say why he and 5 others were put through the Lost Incident. No more spoilers, sorry. Honestly, anime has helped me be more concerned for the well being and rights of children. You see all those children go through difficult situations in shows like Yugioh VRAINS, Yugioh 5Ds, Goblin Slayer, Attack On Titan, Naruto, Dragon Ball, Sword Art Online, and more and can't help but feel for them at least a little unless your heart is 3 sizes too small, much like a billionaire's heart is. I don't often interact with little kids but I do often it. Many of them are so kind and nonjudgmental. Many adults could learn from them. And I want to help protect their innocence so they can maintain it long enough to be able to grow into confident people who can take on the world's nonsense. But I don't know where to start.

The wonder and curiosity within children is always so heartwarming and wholesome. They are precious and adorable cinnamon rolls in personality and wholesome vibes and deserve head pats because who doesn't like head pats? They are a reminder that human beings aren't born cruel and heartless. That stuff is learned over time through the twisted civilization we exist inside of. Though some people are naturally narcissistic and all that sadly and that becomes present when they grow older. And they deserve the help they need to overcome their narcissistic tendencies and whatever else is going on with them. They really do. The world needs to be safer for children without outright not allowing them to learn about queer people and heavily sensitive topics. There are ways to explain difficult topics like the Holocaust to children so they can understand without ending up comprehending the true horrors of what you're telling them until they're older due to giving them the simplistic versions of things that leave out most of the details and for good reason. Parents need to try to raise their children better than their parents and/or whoever else raised them.

It's just logical and kind to do so. It leads to more character growth in lineages as time goes on. Let's not forget how they treat children like dirt and many people don't listen to what they have to say. That stuff has helped create some serious problems that have to be more addressed in the near future desperately. When adults listen to children, there are ideas shared that might actually make our world a better place and things just become more fun and interesting for both adults and children anyway. I would talk about the undefined status adolescents have here in detail but I already covered that in a writing that's also part of the thing that this is a part of called Undefined Status. All I will say because of that is that adolescents are treated like children and expected to behave like adults. It is a recurring problem that's like a gift that never stops giving except hurting instead of "giving". I experienced that for myself a handful of times before I turned 20 and people seemingly started treating me a little differently.

That undefined status for adolescents is a problem we must solve as well. It may be minor compared to other issues but the treatment of minors and very young adults must be done well and wisely so it has to done. There is a better way to treat adolescents. Treat them with respect and support them while also preparing them for the struggles of adulthood and allowing them to continue playing, smiling, and having fun and giving yourself time to do the exact same thing. Now for the elderly. They aren't treated the same way as children but sometimes, they may be infantilized in which someone who is an adult or whatever is treated like a little kid for some odd reason. There is a way of doing that in a consensual way but that's not appropriate to talk about in a PG-13 writing so I won't.

But the way that certain behaviors and things are seen as childish is a problem. It's not good for children or adults. Because it reinforces the notion that children are too clueless and troublesome to deal with and other problematic crap. We should stop calling the things we call "childish", childish and just call them rash or irrational instead, it's not that difficult. Children can be easily taught to do and learn better, you know? And I wonder how many elderly people are treated like children.. I don't know because I haven't heard much on them being infantilized for not good reasons. And that may be a good sign but my gut tells me that's more likely a bad sign. In the US, the elderly aren't treated as well as they need to be. This also includes the veterans among them. I respect the fact the veterans risked their lives or went through at least that intense military boot camp but I don't celebrate them as heroes. That's because in Vietnam, the last war that the US drafted men for as a mandatory thing, the US unleashed a infamous chemical agent known as Agent Orange on the Vietnamese and the harms it caused were horrific.

That and just about any war the US gets involved in is probably not a war they have good intentions for starting or getting involved in. I hate war, even though I experience it so much as my self insert OC in my stories. War is something beyond words can describe, I can only imagine the pain and agony suffered by the millions of people from around the world who have fought in wars in our world between the outbreak of World War 1 and now. It has broken so many people and led to the deaths of countless innocent people. I despise it wholeheartedly and unfortunately, we have to turn to more radical action than just peaceful protests and stuff like that to change the world now that the likes of the US and UK are actively plunging into authoritarian crap including mandatory age verification in the UK for porn sites which is a tech nightmare and a privacy infringement rolled into one giant disaster. At least during the Cold War, there was a probably a bigger push in mainstream society to not steep into that crap due to memories of the Axis Powers and the war crimes they committed and the looming threat of the USSR.

I don't really know because I wasn't born until well after the Cold War ended. And in war, they've probably killed a lot of elderly people in the past century especially in places like the Middle East and Vietnam. And then, there's how elderly people are treated in society. Here in the US, when they die, people don't grieve as much even when they don't die of old age and say things like "oh, they lived a long life, it's okay if they die now." when we should be more concerned with keeping them around as long as we can for the sake of everyone. In nursing homes and retirement homes in the US, elderly people often get treated like dirt because a lot of owners of those places are running them like money pits. See The Money Pit scenario from Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 as it is when started to see just how terrible a money pit is. That park is covered in heaps of vomit with no one to clean it up. It's also in debt, all of the rides are broken with no one to fix them, there's no facilities, and the big roller coaster is unfinished and in pieces.

Nursing and retirement homes must actually care for all of their residents and help them lead happy lives for the extent of their stays at them. I have some gripes with part of how my grandma was before she passed as I stated earlier but the way her last days were handled just don't feel entirely right to them. I just don't understand how someone can be "too old to treat/operate on". At least her final 24 hours or so were full of rest. Hard to believe 6 people have died in my biological family in my lifetime already, 4 of them within a span of a little less than 3 years. I don't want elderly people to suffer needlessly, they don't deserve it. Society treats them as disposable. If they die of a disease, society shrugs and goes: "they were vulnerable anyway. It's okay that they died, they're old." Elderly people along with the disabled are acceptable casualties and victims in a society that does almost nothing to stop people from getting sick, even during the height of the Flu Season.

Ageism is in play here. It's also a thing against minors and is a huge problem that more people need to address and talk about because age groups are sort of pitted against each other with adults thinking they're superior to kids and all that other hot garbage. It just has to stop. No one is superior or inferior. That's the truth and if you don't like it, too bad. This is real life, not delusional world overlayed with real life to mess with your perception of reality as desired by the worst people of those in power. There is so much disdain towards children and the elderly, some want the former to do everything they say and the latter to just die already. And that's intolerable. The elderly deserve to keep living happy and healthy lives as much as possible and be allowed to do things that they want to do that don't involve hurting innocent people(a lot of people in power are elderly and they want to hurt innocent people).

What I believe for the world as a whole is that human beings should be able to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt someone else(including innocent animals) and does not violate anyone's human rights either. Along with that, animals need to be treated with more love and respect, we share this planet with them so let's start acting like it. What I'm saying here is a pretty standard anarchist thing to say, in essence. People must be allowed to do as they wish as long it doesn't violate another's rights or hurt anyone else, that's literally the most simple way I can explain what kind of society I want to live in within the context of what people are able to do in it. It's reasonable and logical and part of my belief in liberating every single person from capitalism as well as other systems used to control people such and authoritarian regimes. And good things don't happen because those in power make other people do them. They happen because people want to or are convinced to do them.

And the elderly are no exception to being liberated. Under an anarchist horizontal system as opposed to a hierarchy, one of the numerous goals would be to provide more support for the elderly instead of hoping for them to die while squeezing as much outrage and money out of them as possible. But such a system must come with a democratic process with direct democracy style voting in order to be stable. Anarchism isn't about letting anyone do anything they want to without recourse. Anarchism is the organization of a society in which hierarchy no longer exists and all power is driven from the actual consent of the people with the people actually holding all of the power. Elected leaders would be recallable at any time and would only serve to enact the will of the people, not to rule over them. Anarchism is all about no rulers, no hierarchies, and no masters. But an anarchist society still has rules because it needs to make sure people don't violate others rights or hurt them.

Anarchism may very well be the most misunderstood ideology, even more so than socialism or true communism. True communism links up with anarchism because they both aspire to create classless and stateless societies, that's why anarcho-communism is a thing. The school of anarchism I most align with is apparently eco-anarchism and is followed by anarcho-communism, though I've labeled myself as an anarcho-socialist. And some comrades in the struggles against the ruling class are elderly and we definitely need them to stay alive for as long as possible so they can do what they can to help and also pass knowledge onto young radicals like me. But even beyond that, there is BS that elders deserve our automatic respect and that has to stop but the lives of the elderly, virtually no matter who they are matter. We must make sure as few of them suffer horrible deaths as possible. I rest my case on this topic. You get the downlow now.

To people who are seen as ugly due to facial deformities or otherwise, I stand in solidarity with you. Again, intersectionality again. Some people are just terrible when it comes to seeing people who are labeled ugly. And yet, ugliness is subjective, just like beauty is. Most people cannot help the way they look naturally. Like how I didn't ask to look in such a way that a lot of people find me attractive or in some cases, think I should be a model. I will never become a model, that sounds like an utterly repulsive career path for me. In the class war, pictures of attractive looking models don't help the people's cause. And I don't think becoming a model would be a good idea. Not when considering what kind of person I am and how people obsess over models and some want to know everything about them. I would be putting my privacy at risk by going down that path and thus becoming a part of the mass media that has been designed to distract people with entertainment and spend most of their free time on it. The entertainment industry is kind of a huge distraction to keep some people pacified and too preoccupied to resist oppression.

Why else has the mainstream music industry generated such heartless garbage even well before AI slop began to become a huge fab? In entertainment, profit is the bottom line. If backlash against trans people is high enough, you get Disney cancelling out trans storylines in upcoming shows for example. And wait, that's already happening.. Also in entertainment, you see all of these good looking people but virtually no one deemed to be ugly. Or if they're ugly, they're usually some kind of bad person. See: Throw Mama From A Train. At least things like The Goonies stand in contrast to that. In that movie, you do have a ugly looking antagonist but then, you have the Baby Ruth bar loving Chuck, who looks ugly and sounds strange but helps The Goonies win and get the treasure in the end. One of the best lines in recent movie history within the last few decades was even uttered by Chuck: "Hey you guys!" And not all ugly people in fiction are portrayed as bad people. There's a movie that came out last decade centered around a boy with facial deformities known as Auggie who gets bullied and shunned but at the end of the day, ends up gaining community and school support and treated like everyone else is.

I'm not happy that I forgot the name of that movie. It's one of the best non-animated movies I've ever seen. Ugly people don't deserve to be insulted or demonized by other people. Ugliness is often use to demonize other groups of people as well as seen through bigoted images of Jewish people who were depicted as extremely ugly looking in the past a large number of times. Ugliness has been something to frown upon and to entice people into hating others and that just has to stop. The majority of people seem to mind their own business when they see people different from them, including ugly people but that doesn't stop some people from being rotten eggs and just being horrible to the likes of ugly people. It feels like the stigma around ugliness that has been around has died down, even in media I watched when I was growing up. And that's a good thing. But still. I can't help but be concerned about the way many people deemed to be ugly are treated, including in schools. Looks aren't everything. Looks do jack as in nothing to help you truly judge another person. Someone's ugliness tells you nothing about who they are on its own and that's all there is to it.

I believe we can do so much better than all of this crap. Actually, we without a doubt can do better. If someone is perceived as ugly, it's very rarely any fault of their own and even if their ugliness is their fault due to doing makeup badly or something, no one should be going around, harassing them for looking so ugly. Looks aren't everything and society wants to calm down about them. Ugliness shouldn't be any reason for people to judge or hate or exclude someone. Exclusion is a blatant form of discrimination on its own. Because marginalized people and others who are rejected by society get excluded, they often have to make their own groups to stand up for themselves and bond with one another. They're also often known as safe spaces and bigots must stay out of them because they aren't safe people to be around and endanger people who are part of safe spaces and other social spaces for the marginalized and others. It is not intolerant to deny a bad person from any social group or space. That's just called keeping the community safe from bad people.

I try my best to not judge someone based on their appearance and because I prefer measuring someone based on their full on personality and actions anyway, I seem to be doing good at that though I don't encounter many people that society has broadly labeled as ugly. Let's shatter the notion that people have to be attractive and good looking to deserve fair treatment, happiness, and respect. Let's get more ugly characters as heroic figures and such. Let's get people to be more confident in the ways they look and help them deal with people who hate their appearances and insult them for having said appearances. The ugly should not be not excluded from any space based solely on how they look. If they're good people, there's no reason to exclude them. There you have it. Oh yeah and don't forget, the natural appearances of people aren't their fault, they were just born that way.

To victims of bullying, I stand in solidarity with you. Bullying remains a problem in schools and other places. People bully others for often 1 of 2 main reasons. They want attention and feel superior to others so they pick on other people to climb the social hierarchy and try to become popular and influential as a result. Wait, doesn't that sound familiar? That's essentially the same way bigotry/hatred employed by the rich and powerful works. The other reason is the bully feels low self esteem or is being bullied themselves so they bully others to feel better about themselves and to try to avoid being bullied themselves. They conform of toxic norms in order to not be harassed and to gain this sense of power over other people. Bullies need interventions and help to become better people. I was a victim of bullying/teasing in late elementary and early middle school. In 4th grade, it was at its peak. Someone name called me and my sibling a lot of things frequently. He called us ladies for example which is really funny to think back on because of the fact I'm gay, non binary, and a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Sailor Moon.

All this bullying got so bad that due to us having almost no confidence, we had to tell our mom about it who then contacted the school and everything was eventually sorted after some weeks. As a former victim of bullying, I'm just glad the bullying as well as teasing was more annoying than upsetting. Also experienced more minor instances of being teased after 4th grade as mentioned. I barely remember them so I don't have any more details to describe on them, sadly. But I can say that it stopped after 6th grade, which was around the time my sibling and I became popular kids in middle school. We were nice, kind, hard working, tall, smart, and some other things so of course we developed popularity in middle school. Being popular came with its own annoyances though. In 8th grade, that became obvious. Some girl in my Algebra class moved to sit next to me and made me uncomfortable by asking how big my thing between my pants is. She was told to move back some days later. Then, there was that one annoying day and a half of school. So, local pizza place that I'm sort of notorious among my family for being a die hard fan of even to this day has these special cards you can buy to get buy 1 large pizza get 1 free deals.

And the pizzeria is a pretty charitable company so they would give some of these cards to schools to use them to fundraise things by having people buy them off of them. In reaction to this, some of the boys in my 8th grade class decided to be funny and start saying that "Papa John's is better than *pizzeria name*" Unbeknownst to me, they noticed that this made me very annoyed. They kept saying it frequently for an entire school day and it was so bad, I was getting headaches from how annoyed I was getting. That has never really happened before or since then. And the cherry on top was they didn't stop the next school day and someone decided to be extra funny to annoy me even more. After coming back to homeroom for something after lunch, I found a little piece of paper on my deck that was a printed out Papa John's coupon and on the back, the person wrote: "Papa John's is better than *pizzeria name*" I tore that little coupon into tiny little pieces and threw it in the garbage and the teasing finally stopped after that. Ever since that situation, I have vowed to try not to annoy people with my own minor opinions like that opinion was being used to annoy me specifically.

And then, the very last day of school, we went on a little field trip and some of the boys we had as peers again were annoying, this time pestering my sibling and I by saying hi to us over and over again. These incidents may have subconsciously influenced my decision to not really talk to many of my peers at all in high school. I literally sat alone at lunch as much as I could in high school because I didn't really want to talk to anyone besides my teachers. I guess I was just tired of annoying peers by that point. Heck, the annoying peers thing led to some of them annoying me by commenting on videos on my YouTube channel in 9th grade/freshman year after annoying my favorite sibling to tell them what it was because I didn't want to tell anyone. They're still blocked from my channel to this day and I almost want to unblock them and see if anything happens. Maybe they'll have wised up and have become far less annoying. I hope so. There you have it. I've both been popular and a victim of bullying. So let's talk more about bullying.

It's a serious problem a lot of people are overlooking because it can happen anywhere at any time. It can happen online, at work, in school, wherever anyone really is basically. Bullying has sometimes gone way too far, leading to trauma, assault, murder, or even suicide. And bigotry is perpetuated in a lot of bullying situations because of course it is. And when the victim fights back, they pretty often get punished even though they were in the right for standing up for themselves. After all, many bullies don't leave their victims alone even if they ignore them. And then there's the bystander effect.. It too is a huge problem we need to talk about. In situations such as bullying, assault, hate crimes, and more, the bystander effect often makes the situation worse without increasing the intensity of what's going on. How does that work? The bystander effect happens due to the social phenomenon where people subconsciously do what other people are doing to not draw attention to themselves. It is a situation in which a bystander doesn't do anything to stop a troubling situation because no one else is intervening. The bystander effect has thusly killed people through the power of inaction.

One of the greatest evils anyone can commit is doing absolutely nothing to stop something bad from happening or continuing. A ongoing example is the anti-trans moral panic. Trans people are living in fear in the US because the transphobic bigots now control the US but guess what the national Democrats have done lately to help them try to survive what's going on and about to happen? At best, absolutely nothing. At worst, voted against them in order to pass some kind of law that bans trans people from something like the ban on trans people many of them helped pass at the end of last year. Doing nothing against injustice is evil if you can actually do something about injustice. And I hope this writing empowers you to do something or start doing more than you already are. And doing nothing for trans people or even hurting them explicitly is a losing platform.

The Democrats haven't defended trans people from the hateful ads the Republicans ran during the last weeks of the 2024 election at all. And that's part of the reason they couldn't get enough people to vote for Harris to win the election. And several transphobic Republicans lost elections during the 2022 midterms. And Democrat Andy Beshear had the balls to run on a pro-trans platform for government of Kentucky in 2022. Beshear won and became governor of red state Kentucky. Most people don't care about trans people in the US but enough still do to where it makes a significant electoral difference. Doing nothing only helps injustice continue. Don't do nothing. Don't be controlled by the bystander effect. When you see injustice, call it out and do something. If you see someone being bullied, intervene and be prepared to protect them, even with your body if you must. If you have the urge to do something good/full of resistance, just do it already if you can. Get it done and just do it. Nearly all victims of bullying don't deserve it. I say nearly all because those in power who are bullied do often deserve it if it means it puts pressure on them to do something right for a change.

We have to do more against bullying and harassment in general. We have to say no to it. Innocent people don't deserve to be bullied so let's stand up for them and empower them to stand up for themselves as well. If they can walk away from a bully safely, they must do so. If they can't, drastic action may be required including extensive intervention. Bullying only harms our society and it is not acceptable to allow it to continue to be the problem that it is. It is just one of many elements in the grand design of discord and misery devised by the scumbags that have been and are or will soon be in power if they get their way in order to control the world and oppress almost every single person alive in at least one or two ways. I am anti-bullying and proudly so. Save bullying tactics for those in power because they are afraid of our collective anger and numbers. They are too cowardly to even learn how to use aristocratic style swordsmanship to defend themselves physically.

They use their money, influence, and hired guns and muscle to insert their supposed dominance on us all. They are the boss level bullies we must defeat to save our precious planet and the human rights any of us still have at this very moment. We really do have to save the world. Liberals and leftists must stop fighting each other and fight our real enemies. We'll settle our differences another time. I don't trust liberals but I'm willing to work with them because they do at least hate 45 and that's a good start. But I won't compromise my values or hide what I want around them. They have to get used to marginalized liberation and pronouns and all that if they want anything to meaningfully change for the better and cease being inaction pacifists who are loyal to the state no matter what happens. The state is not loyal to the people and that's why we must fight the ruling class. But know this, we don't have to unite as a single force.

We have to stand in solidarity and fight together online, in person through direct and radical actions, refusing temptations, and more. That is how we can defeat the bullies and end bullying and harassment as constant problems. Those in power are the biggest bullies of all so let's treat them as such.

To the women who are losing their rights, I stand in solidarity with you. Women along with everyone else deserve fully bodily autonomy. Our bodies belong to ourselves, not anyone else. Misogynist people do not have rights over the bodies of women or anyone else. Women's rights NOW. Women's rights and the fight for bodily autonomy intersects with trans and children's rights. When a person has control over another's body without consent, that's called slavery. The far right want to make women slaves of misogynistic people. They want to turn women into baby factories and treat them as objects and/or delicate pure flowers who must remain untouched and pure. The nonsense of virginity is a part of this. Virginity doesn't actually mean anything, it's not worth valuing when all it means is that someone hasn't had sex even once.

People treat it as this pure state and some want to force it away from people because they're just terrible creepy people. But I call BS, virginity is worthless to value. It helps no one to be over the Moon over. Just get over it, people. It doesn't matter if someone has had sex or not and that's why the next section will be focused on the likes of aromantic and asexual people. Back to women. Women are not trophies or other objects to be prized by others. That kind of behavior is both disgusting and tokenizing. Women have the right to choose how they use their body and if they want babies or not, assuming they have the organs needed to carry a child. Let's not forget gender diverse people and trans men who have female reproductive organs. They all get the right to choose how their bodies are used. If they don't want pregnancy, they don't want it and no one gets to force it on them. Anyone who forces pregnancy on someone else is an outright creep who belongs far away from anyone with a uterus as well as minors while we're at it.

Other people don't get to tell women what they should do with their bodies. Reproductive freedom is vital and anyone against it is a deluded pawn of the status quo at best and at worst, a sadistic sexual abuser and r*pist. Bodily autonomy means everyone gets to decide things about their own bodies. And for adults, this extends to whether or not their bodies can be used for intercourse or any other physical activity. Minors cannot consent and therefore people can't be allowed to use them as they see fit. Roe Vs Wade is gone, the US has decided to betray reproductive rights so creepy men get to make other people carry fetuses to full term that were only created because those creeps violated their bodies or due to it being an accident. Intercourse must always be done with consent and safety involved in it to prevent STIs, STDs, and unwanted pregnancies. Since misogynist people want to make cis women and others who can carry fetuses have no say about how their bodies are used, I have no choice but to talk about this subject in length here.

Women, including trans women are not inferior to men and don't have to act like walking stereotypes or be treated very poorly. And trans men are not women and must not be subjected to being treated as feminine people inherently. The genital checks that have been made legal for girl's sports have to be stopped asap. Girls are also a part of women's rights because creeps also treat them like objects and that's unacceptable. Women and girls don't exist solely to entertain and make babies for misogynist and often transphobic men who often believe trans men are women and treat them as poorly as they do women. Trans men are subjected to the same BS expectations and norms cis(meaning having the same sex as self identified gender identity) women are. That said, if a trans men gets certain procedures done or other things, they may not be treated poorly like women are any longer. Likewise, trans women, who are treated like men who pretend to be women when they are in fact always bone fide women instead can have procedures done to even foil genital inspections done and advocated for by perverted creeps.

We have the ability to give trans women and others neo-vaginas and trans men and others penises through plastic surgery techniques. That is how far we have come in understanding the human body and developing things in the scientific and medical fields. And that's amazing. Women are women and they deserve to use their bodies as they see fit and decline advances by others who want to use their bodies for things. Women are allowed to tell other people no. Lesbian women are allowed to tell men who want them that they're lesbian and don't want them. More intersectionality examples right here. Men don't have the right to bend women to their will. Some think they do but they don't and women have every right to pushback against any who dare violate their bodies. Nor do women have to be obsessed with makeup, looking pretty, taking 9000 photos a year, or shopping at the mall. If they are black, they don't deserve to be seen as naturally aggressive agitators. About 50% of the world's population are born with the anatomy of women while the other half are born with the anatomy of men.

But variations exist in appearance, chromosomes, and/or gender identity. Intersex people, gender nonconforming people, trans people, and men with xxy and women with xy chromosomes and others exist. Genetics and gender are more complicated than basic biology can explain. I took advanced biology in high school and then sociology 3 years after that in senior year so I should know. And the gender roles of people are naturally social constructs too. Nothing in human nature is stopping women from working a full time job or men from staying home to take care of the kids. Gender roles are all a load of total bullcrap no one should take seriously or care about anymore. Take this from someone who has failed to fit in with all the gender roles I was assigned by society all because I turned out to be non binary as well as gay and neurodivergent.

Like what really matters is doing what you can to help yourself and other people or if you can't do either, find someone who can help you and still try to build bonds with others. What also matters is community, solidarity, love, hope, the imagination, working hard to do good things without anyone telling you to do them, and all that other related stuff. Women shouldn't be forced back into all being traditional housewives. I'm sorry but screw tradition if it gets in the way of progress, human rights, literally saving the world, bodily autonomy, solving massive problems, accepting diversity, and so on! That's right. I said screw tradition if it impedes other things. Is that a problem? Sorry but I'm not sorry for saying what I said. I'm not going to play games, I'm telling you all precisely what I think while keeping things PG-13. Personality and appearance wise, there are all kinds of women and I think that's a beautiful thing and you should too if you don't already. Women's rights, stop taking them away, hand them all back, damned fascist bastards in power.

And you know what. Women are seriously stronger than others think. My mom was selfishly selfless but not just that.. She was stubborn and pushed herself in her own wheelchair when she could, in part because she had to for her job. I'm currently being kept company while writing this by my favorite plushies and unapologetically so. I love plushies and that's a good thing.

It helps remind me I still have a heart with at least some moral integrity and joy. And I'll keep loving my plushies out of spite for social norms. If that's a problem for you much like Joe me supporting bodily autonomy is, you need to do some self reflection and fix your heart. We must not yield to the powers that be. Never accept the current state of society, it could always be made better, no matter what happens. Don't be controlled by societal apathy either. Apathy is one of the strongest forces of bigotry, up there with hatred. Apathy may be an even bigger threat than hatred is because it leads to people not caring and doing nothing about injustice. Break free from that crap and just give a damn about other people. Become kinder and take no BS while you're at it. Apathy is a tool of the enemies of nearly every single person alive today, we do not use it. Let apathy rot away in favor of empathy growing its place in this society where empathy has been slowly being killed off for decades with no one batting an eye.

To people on the ace/aro spectrum, I stand in solidarity with you. I apologize for not mentioning you way earlier, I was going to but I forgot. The ace/aro spectrum refers to people who exhibit less sexual and/or romantic attraction than most people do or even those who exhibit none at all whatsoever. I might actually be on the spectrum myself but I'm not entirely sure. I wasn't the biggest on romance growing up so that's a pretty major clue. Demisexual, demiromantic, asexual, aromantic, gray asexual, gray aromantic, and so on are all valid. They exist and there's nothing anyone can do to change that. Some people just don't have as many if any sexual and/or romantic attraction as other people do. That DOES NOT mean they just haven't found the "right one" yet. Nor are they just confused about their feelings besides for the fact that society raised them to believe they would feel stronger feelings than what they have if they any at all in regards to attraction. I don't know extensively about what they face but what I do know is that our enemies want them to fall in line and suffer.

Because if someone dares to not be as romantically or sexually attracted as they're supposed to be, that makes some people mad. It also causes them to be less likely to pursue romantic/sexual relationships in places where it's all about the sex and the romance. Sometimes, it feels like society is way too fixated on both of those things and I don't mean it's that way in like NSFW spaces. No, I mean in mainstream public mostly SFW society. And it kind of has to stop. On Tellonym, I keep getting all of these anonymous questions about women, girls, boyfriends, and relationships and that's the bulk of the questions I get. And while I'm happy to answer most of them, I'm kind of tired of it. Like come on, am I ever going to get asked about roller coasters or video games or anarchism? And I'm not even talking about how society assumes people are straight, Christian, and cisgender in the area I live in.

People keep misgendering me and call me sir occasionally (Id rather be called a ser, a gender neutral replacement for sir that I think is cool). And some of them think I'm Christian or otherwise religious (I'm an ex-Christian) and call me "brother" which is also a way of misgendering me. And I wish more people learned to stop assuming things about people's identities solely based on their appearances and bodies. It just has to stop. And people on the ace/aro spectrum are as affected by these assumptions as people like me are if not even more so. But how does one eliminate those assumptions from their minds? It ain't easy but basically, you have to strive to refer to people you don't know as they in your mind as well as get yourself to realize that you know almost nothing about people you don't know and think accordingly. It's a lot more complicated than that but that should help some of you get on the right track.

It helps to reinforce that stuff through conversations with people you trust and in posts and other forms of writing. That's what I've come to learn personally. People who aren't on the ace/aro spectrum can never truly understand why they don't have the same levels of sexual and/or romantic attraction if any level at all as they do. They should mind their own business at least and just leave them alone. Again, telling say an asexual person that they haven't found the right one is BS. It's rude, insulting, rooted in bigotry, and shows a genuine lack of understanding that hurts. No one should really be expected to do anything except try to survive and be happy and attempt to do good things as well as try to contribute to society. That's it. Ace/aro spectrum individuals cannot be expected to be sexual or romantic in the same capacity as most people are. They are a very tiny minority who must be included and acknowledged always.

To intersex people, I stand in solidarity with you. 2 sections ago, I set the stage for this section. An intersex person is someone whose physical and/or genetic features aren't as normal as they appear. They could be a woman xy chromosomes and otherwise normal anatomy associated most often with women. They could be someone with xxy or something else too. They could also be trans or gender nonconforming. But they could also have half and half male and female reproductive organs. And that's nothing to have a moral panic about. It just happens on occasion in a very small percentage of the population. That said, the fact it's so rare does not stop some people from hating, othering, or trying to change intersex people to fit their narrow perceptions of gender and visible "biological sex". There is an infamous case of an intersex person involving the discredited Dr. Money. He was born intersex and when he was circumcised, it was messed up and he lost his thing.

Because he lost his main genital, Dr. Money wanted to try something as an experiment that would prove harmful to intersex and trans people in the future. He told his parents to raise him as a girl as his twin was not intersex I believe and was assigned as a boy at birth and was raised as a boy. Raising him as a girl did not work. It backfired and he realized he always felt like a boy and switched to living as one. If I remember correctly, what happened to him would cause him to commit suicide and now, Dr. Money is largely seen rightfully as a terrible person. This tells us that no one can just assign someone a gender identity and expect it to always happen to fit right with how that someone identifies upon growing into puberty. Intersex people have often faced other loads of crap throughout the years beyond just Money's failed experiment. And I have not learned very much about it. And that is a failing on my part.

But I can at least tell you that intersex people deserve to figure out who they are themselves just as every other person out there does. I can only imagine how difficult it is to live as an intersex person who has a mix of male and female reproductive organs. I'm pretty sure that they can't have children if they have that going on and that's sad because by no fault of their own, that means that the choice to have children or not has been taken away from them due to having male and female genitals that don't come in their full pairs. All of this must make a lot of intersex people struggle that much more to be treated normally and figure out who they are. And that's why it's a good thing intersex people have been included as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. That I stands for intersex and fun fact: the A stands for asexual, sorry straight allies but the A isn't for you. Most of you are cisgender and straight which means most of you aren't even queer at least in a gender or attraction way. But we welcome your help and support.

But you have to listen to us when we say you aren't being a good ally and other things of that nature. Some allies repeated transphobic talking points while calling themselves allies and arguing with trans people who are telling them that they're repeating transphobic talking points. Frauds and clowns like Brianna Wu are why some allies are like that at all. And I don't wanna know how some people mess up being allies of intersex people. Correction: I do even though I'd rather not have more terrible crap stored in my brain. It's not like I know so much bad is going on that my stories are literally being heavily influenced by world problems and events already. It won't hurt that much to know a little more. After all, I'm already well accustomed to the concept of some allies botching up being allies with trans people and others.. Anyway, intersex people don't deserve whatever piles of crap is piled on them by society.

It is not hard to say something like that or think of it. Whatever BS that I haven't mentioned that is hurting them has to stop asap because no one deserves needless pain or suffering.

To therians and otherkin and plural systems and others like you, I stand in solidarity with you. Oh yeah. I'm talking about y'all too. I completely forgot about you all for the most part over the past months and that's another failing on my part. Oh yeah, y'all. We're going to talk about individuals with human bodies who share it with other individuals as well as those who identify as animals and so forth. Therians and otherkin are almost the exact same, except therians from what I understand have a more "full on" identification as something that isn't human than otherkin. Both groups are individuals who don't identify as entirely human in the case of otherkin and more so identify as not human at all in the case of therians. I hope I'm wording this okay because I don't want to misrepresent the correct definitions for both groups. As someone who identifies as entirely human like the overwhelming majority of individuals born with human bodies do and as a furry with a wolf fursona, I find them to be really interesting in part because I haven't spent much time researching them.

As part of my everlasting thirst for knowledge that mostly hangs around subconsciously, I just gotta learn a lot more about them eventually. But at least I understand the basics of their identities which should prove sufficient here. It's not that hard for me to understand them as someone whose identity is not deemed normal by society either. I'm non binary so I can partially relate to the experiences of therians and otherkin, though I will never truly understand the full depths of those experiences no matter how hard I try. For a lot of them, their identities are spiritual. Some of them believe they were born with the spirit of an animal. Because of the spiritualism around them, other spiritual people should have a strong feeling of relation to their feelings, beliefs, and experiences. But I wouldn't entirely know because I don't think I'm a spiritual person. I believe the power of science when it's decoupled from capitalism and bigotry as well as humanity, our planet, and the laws that govern our universe.

But let's stay on topic, shall we? Okay. Therians and otherkin have a loose relation with furries like myself and some furries are therians and vice versa. And I must say, that must really work out for them. Because through the creativity of fursonas and the furry community at large, they get this massive pool of inspiration and imagination that can allow them to show people what they believe to be their true appearances. The appearances they would have if they weren't born into human bodies. They do not deserve mockery or condemnation. Because they have human bodies, they definitely have the same rights as anyone else, this doesn't even need to be stated to be honest. And you know what? Their existence brings up an interesting point. The need for the advancement for animal rights and welfare. That's also incredibly important. Human beings should try to only hunt or kill animals if it's actually necessary and avoid doing so when it isn't needed. Animals deserve to be free to roam the world safely. Humans need to be kinder towards them whenever possible.

We must liberate animals too. Some dogs are involved in sick places called puppy mills where they mass breed dogs for profit which is absolutely disgusting behavior. And it's obvious therians and otherkin are among those who agree with that sentiment. Yes, I'm trying to stay on topic here. Anyway, I don't think there's much else for me to say that isn't just a rehash of points I made in other sections. So basically, therians and otherkin should have their identities acknowledged, accepted, and taken seriously, their identities don't hurt anyone, there is no harm in them. I don't care if some people think it's all make believe and hate on them. I support them and you should too. There is no good reason to hate on them, don't judge them, and at least just leave them alone in peace while acknowledging that they still have a role to play to help liberate our world from capitalism and make it a better place. There aren't many of them out there but each one matters. All lives matter but that can only be said when the likes of black lives and trans lives actually matter to whoever is saying those words and they explicitly state that their lives matter.

Therians and otherkin belong in society and that is all there is to it. Now, let's talk about plural systems. Systems refer to individuals and the other individuals they share a body with in what is commonly referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID for short. If you grew up with Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and/or other media in which at least one character shares a body with at least one other character, you will especially find this easy to understand. It is an insult to systems for someone to refer to them as different personalities because each individual in a system is distinct with their own interests, gender identities, and tastes. Seemingly more prevalent than therians and otherkin in my perspective, systems are largely found in the likes of communities who are welcome to queer and neurodiverse individuals or are full of them themselves. Some of you may be asking yourselves how this is even possible and that this is so difficult to believe, even more so than the identities of therians, otherkin, and others.

And I get it. The status quo wants you to believe a simplistic view of the world where diversity is limited and people can be easily identified based on their appearances and stereotypes are determinist of who someone is. It's a bunch of not honky dory but that's what those behind the status quo want you to believe. It's narrow and painfully simple and false so don't fall for its lies. Systems are real. They often develop due to trauma experienced by the first member of the system to come into existence. Some of the individuals in systems are thus like the protectors of the others in a system. To be honest, I haven't interacted with a system online to a point where I got to visibly talk to more than one member of that system yet and I would really like the chance to experience that. The switching of body control among individuals in a system can happen in just seconds, much like how it doesn't take very long at all for Yugi and Yami Yugi to switch places through the Millennium Puzzle's magic in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters.

Im not saying Yami Yugi's true name because that's literally one of the best kept secrets in the entire show and was only revealed in the last episodes of season 5. Anyway, systems were never difficult for me to understand thanks to Anthony Padilla of Smosh's interview with a system on YouTube all the way back in 2019. That video introduced me to systems and it was really informative. I love how Anthony Padilla has done so many interviews with the likes of systems, furries, trans people, and therians to help dispel misinformation and misconceptions about them online. Not to mention all of his hilarious roles in many Smosh skits. His role as Manspider is one of my personal favorites. But I'm getting off track. Systems are likely harder for others to accept and understand and interact with but it still can be done. Systems are not freaks, they are real and genuine and are like small communities, like a family of individuals who share one body who just want to be happy, health, safe, and live good lives just like most people do.

I know some people who are the hosts of systems and it's pretty cool to, though I really should talk to them again and really interact with them about their systems and so on. Remember how I said the human brain holds like a terabyte of information? Yeah, of course it can handle having a system housed within its depths. That's partly why I readily accepted the existence of systems several years ago and you can do the same if you haven't already done so. Systems should never be dehumanized or harmed in any other unjust way. That's it. I hope some of you now at least partly understand systems, therians, and otherkin from reading this section. Still several more to go but we got this. As in, I got this as in finishing writing this and you got this as in finishing reading this at likely a rate far faster than I wrote this.

To sexual assault victims and other victims of abuse, I stand in solidarity with you. 3 sections ago, I set things up to talk more extensively about all of you. What has happened to you was never something you deserved, you deserve better. You deserve to have what you're saying taken seriously and get the help, love, and support you need to help you through how what happened to you is still affecting you. When someone says they were sexually assaulted by someone else, a lot of people immediately refuse to believe them. A lot of women have come out and said Marilyn Manson, a shock rocker I used to like and respect has sexual abused them and how has he responded? Well, he sure isn't admitting anything and it's like efforts between him and his associates are focused on denying it, making people not believe them, and so on. It's true some women who call men abusers and claim to have been abused by them are lying but most women and other victims aren't lying. Men and gender nonconforming and trans people can also be sexually abused. In fact, trans women often get sexually abused.

There are so many stories of sexual abuse out there from real life. And in Sword Art Online, there are 3 instances of sexual abuse that occur, causing the anime to be controversial for having more than one scene. The first one was inside a virtual world in which a creepy man from a company called Rect Progress abuses main character Kirito's lover Asuna's character in the game in front of him while doing creepy things with his tongue. And the guy was so completely sadistic that he wanted to marry Asuna aka Asuna Yuuki in real life while her body in the real world was still unconscious. He got the consent of her parents by tricking them. His name is Sugeou aka Oberon in the virtual world. After his plans failed due to Kirito aka Kazuto Kirigaya in real life using an admin access to take away his admin privileges and beat him with Excalibur and maximized the simulated pain Oberon felt, Oberon/Sugeou tried to murder him. In real life. With a knife. But Kazuto beat him and he was sent to prison. In season 2, Sinon aka Shino Asida is horrified at the end of the first arc of the season when a friend of hers breaks into her apartment and tries to abuse her while screaming obsessively: "ASIDA ASIDA!"

Kazuto made it in time to stop him. In the second half of the Alicization arc aka season 3, Kirito in game along with someone else he met and eventually aspired to become elite swordsmen together with at a sword school were horrified when they caught 2 of their peers sexually abusing 2 girls who were assistants to Kirito and his friend as well as their valets/pages. Things didn't go well for the creepy sexual abusers. The way one of them died was brutal while the other one died in a really strange way. Why did I bring this up? Because sexual abusers, who often pose as nice and friendly kind people are actually really twisted creeps who are often as sadistic and twisted as the ones in Sword Art Online are as far as I'm aware. You have to be a really twisted person to sexually abuse someone. You'd either have to be unaware of consent or not care about it to do something so evil that is a violation of the body of another person. All sexual abusers need to be punished, they are far more likely to be white men than marginalized so society, stop calling marginalized people pedophiles. White men have the most power and ease of getting away with things like sexual abuse.

No one who is sexual abused deserved it. It is not a punishment that should ever be used for any reason. It's an act of violence that causes the abuser to assert the dominance they think they have over other people. It is a violation of consent and trust. All sexual abusers must be punished and should they be willing, undergo years of rehabilitation and then make amends for what they've done. I do not believe punishment to be the best way to handle holding most people accountable. Yes, bad people should be punished but I propose something different. We take them away from society and put them inside rehabilitation facilities where TVs, books, and more are readily available. They just can't contact the outside world but are surrounded by a pretty large community. And in those facilities, they aren't tortured or treated like prisoners are in the US. They are treated as human beings and are encouraged and often convinced to undergo rehabilitation. If someone commits a heinous act and they can be reformed, rehabilitation facilities will change them drastically.

And then, they would become better and more productive members of society who then add to contributions to societies in solid ways. That said, it would take a lot of work on their part even despite all of that to regain the trust they lost due to what they did. That especially goes for a sexual abuser or murderer of innocent people and animals. It is very difficult to change a sexual abuser for the better, I wouldn't count on a truly massive rate of success in efforts like rehabilitating the likes of them. If they cannot change, they must be kept away from people they could hurt at all costs without completely isolating them if they aren't dangerous enough to just end on sight like one would if they ever encountered a Imperfect Cell from Dragon Ball Z and had what they needed to do so as well as the knowledge of how dangerous he is. Any threat to society who is actively killing or abusing people may often have to be terminated to keep the people safe. And I don't mean that in the definition of what governments believe to be threats.

I cannot stress enough how vital it is to punish sexual abusers, change them if it's possible and safe to somewhere, listen to victims of abuse, and punish and try to change other kinds of abusers as well. Victims of abuse deserve justice, closure, mental and emotional support and help, therapy if required including with specialists in abuse and trauma, love, and everything else they need to overcome what has happened to them and live good long healthy lives. Listen to victims, most of them aren't lying. In fact, so few are because just being an outright abuser is more beneficial than pretending to be a victim most of the time. Believe victims until they are definitively proven false which is one hell of an endeavor to truthfully uncover and expose without the exposure being just a flat out lie instead. Believe them until you don't have reason to anymore, should they be found out as liars. White men get to have their way with women in the US with really no one in power trying to stop them anymore.

It's like men are a protected class under fascists, as in they're protected from facing the consequences they should for doing things like abusing women and others not to mention literal children.. I bet the pedophiles and misogynist sexual predators who are obsessed with women are cheering loudly for the dark era we have just entered. This era will not end in 2029 by simple means of an electoral defeat for the Republicans. No, unless the people do stuff like what the South Koreans did to their newly ousted president and his cronies when he tried to enforce martial law in South Korea seemingly out of nowhere, this era ain't ending so simply. When greedy people get power, they cling onto it by any means necessary and they're willing to wait as long as they have to to get it back should they lose it. Who remembers how the Galactic Republic seamlessly turned into the Galactic Empire in Star Wars? You know who waited years and manipulated events behind the scenes to get away with what he did.

"So this is how democracy dies. To roaring applause." This quote doesn't come from Weimar Germany, France after the Reign Of Terror during the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power, or Italy in the 1930s or so. This quote also comes from Star Wars, inside of the Galactic Senate itself. We have entered an era in which billionaries can do anything they want to hurt us. No one in power will really try to stop them. Pedophiles and other creeps will get to prey upon people and animals and violate their bodies more than ever before, I bet. It's going to be brutal and we have to live through it. No matter what happens, we have to refuse to die. We have to refuse to give in. And victims of abuse must still get whatever help we can provide to them because they just deserve to overcome what has happened to them and all that as I just said earlier. Paddling is child abuse. It has to stop. And child abuse in general as well as animal abuse, sexual abuse, harassment, doxxing, power abuse, and all other forms of abuse that hurt people all have to be prevented and put an end to.

The world cannot take the abuses of it perpetrated by the ruling class for forever. The area Los Angeles is in is on fire. Last year, Canada was on fire. California has been on fire itself a lot and it's not fine. And other disasters are happening worse and more frequently. Scientists have even been now considering adding a new category of hurricane: Category 6 due to the changes going on due to the climate crisis. And yet, despite the seemingly imminent demise of most life on this planet within the coming decades, what do the rich and powerful do? They allow some people to abuse other people and animals and the planet as a whole. They double down and say: "let the peasants and all those lowly inferior creatures suffer! It doesn't matter as long as we make lots of money!" Victims of abuse, especially the likes of child and sexual abuse have trauma that affects basically the rest of their lives. And yet, all these bastards want to do nothing to actually prevent that crap. Instead, they'd rather let society not believe the words of victims or help them at all. So here we are, in something that isn't in a gadda da vida.

Not even Heinz Doofensmirtz's tragic backstories or petty plots for revenge could compare to what is going on and what THEY want us to experience in just the coming days alone. And you're telling me that they're still charming people into believing they have any humility or empathy for the common people, that they somehow have knightly characteristics and are in service of the people?! Oh no! They are NOT knightly! They are not chivalrous! I should know. I have studied up on knights pretty well because I want to become a bone fide modern knight wearing actual shining armor (at least sometimes) who has proved themselves to be worthy of calling themselves a knight. I took up the sword and sword training to get stronger to try to help me protect myself and others. Even the most loyal to the crown or church knights that weren't corrupt still likely had far more integrity, even if they were crusaders who killed other people for their faith in the Middle East and other places than the ruling class of the current era! The ruling class do not respect any of us so they don't deserve our respect or loyalty.

We have been abandoned to take care of ourselves and our own. No one is coming to save us. Not the European powers, not the Democrats, not Labour, not the Canadian Liberal Party, not Japan, not China, not Russia, not Brazil. No one. No one is coming to save us in the US. But many around the world feel for us as some of us do for them. International solidarity is still very much alive among people across the entire globe. All forms of abuse must be punished. We must support victims of abuse, they are part of our collective struggles as well. Buckle up for this nightmare isn't going to simply end in 2029, even if the Democrats somehow win in 2028. If we want it to end anytime before this decade ends, we again have to do things ourselves. Read books like When Violence Is The Answer by Tim Larkin in case someone tries to kill you. That's a very real possibility if you dare oppose the party and state now. More of a real possibility than in recent memory or history. The end of all forms of abuse is one of the keys to freedom for everyone on this planet. Don't let up. We can change things if we are willing to no longer rely on the corrupt system.

And by we, I mean people who still have faith that the system can still work for the people. Strap in for anything is on the table now as long as it hurts the people and is even remotely possible. But remember to never stop dreaming of things like Tomorrowland becoming Todayland like in Meet The Robinsons, biomechanical style architecture with moss growing on concrete and steel buildings if possible, and whatever else you can think of such as very colorful and positive "fever dreams". Just don't drink your problems away anymore. Cut down on the alcohol if you get drunk a lot. It doesn't help you or anyone around you. Cut down on caffeine if you can. Cut out store bought sweets if you can. Take in vitamin C every single day and things like that. There is so much good you have to do for yourself alone and all of it will help you stay afloat mentally and have the strength to fight and help each other. Be good to yourself, be good to genuinely good people. But again, take no BS. And whatever you do, refuse to let hope fade from your heart.

To my fellow neurodivergent people, I stand in solidarity with you. Neurodivergence refers to people whose brains just do not work like the average person's does. Neurodivergence is vast and incredibly diverse. I self-identify as neurodivergent because apparently, many things and behaviors I have are indicators of autism and I was classified as having very mild indications of autism when I was little. That and I underwent physical and speech therapy which is pretty damning for what I have going on, isn't it? Some people believe that things like autism just go away when they get older but that's ridiculous. Neurodivergence as a whole isn't usually very visible is there and because passing as neurotypical is a thing that some neurodivergent people do as well as the fact that neurotypical people have a massive influence on society because they make up the majority of the population, it's pretty clear how some neurodivergent people start feeling normal enough to say things like they no longer have autism.

Neurodivergence isn't taken very seriously or well by a lot of people. Some people love picking on neurodivergent people, seeing them as fun people to insult or worse. Neurodivergence isn't just the various kinds of autism that are out there, it's also other things such as ADHD among others. And there's nothing inherently freaky or sinful about being neurodivergent. So to the bigots in the back who hate neurodivergent people, sit down, Oooboo and listen because I w at you to understand what I'm trying to say too and your hate isn't doing anyone really much good. It's only hurting you, in fact and I feel pity and sadness for you. ADHD minds often have trouble focusing on things and/or hyperfixation which also occurs in autistic minds as well. But neurodivergence is not a curse to be shamed of having going on. It has its pros and cons that vary from manifestation and individual to individual. Again, the neurodivergent refers to people whose brains do not function/think the same way the brains of most people do.

And I really do feel like my brain functions differently from most people's brains between how creative I am, what I think about, my interests and fixations on interests, and how the way my brain affects how I act like my words and body. Sometimes, my mind, while I'm focused on listening to something someone says starts randomly feeling bleh while I kinda just mishear part of whatever it is they're saying to me. Hasn't happened much but it still sucks. And when I took a test on IDR Labs about autism, a site full of literally hundreds of mostly personality style tests with most being scientifically created, it said I have mild indicators of autism. And because I'm an introvert for the most part and have been teased by my family members due to being a picky eater, I know that my mind really does function differently from the minds of most people whose minds haven't been utterly wrecked from Long Covid, brain damage, Alzheimer's, or something else. As well as from the minds of people who have been dealing with those issues.

I was the crybaby in my family. I was told by my dad to stop crying a number of times, I was always considered the sensitive one. Autistic people tend to have higher levels of empathy and creativity than the average person. And the way I can just focus on creating stuff, while something that took skill building to build up has been pretty strong for the most part for a long time even despite that. With how much I used to cry, if Chuy's took their no crybabies allowed sign seriously and not just as a joke, I would have been banned from eating there. And while I rarely cry now that I'm more confident, filled with inner harmony, developed a inner calm, and all that, my heart still hurts when I really think about what's happening to us all. Neurodivergent people like me deserve to be understood, listened to, respected, accepted, always able to depend on having our needs taken care of, and every single other vital and good thing all people on this planet deserve to have too. We aren't "immature" or total weirdos who deserve mockery and rejection. We are here and you can't get rid of us all. No one can, no matter how many of us they try to kill.

I don't know stuff about neurodivergence and it's forms as much as I should as a neurodivergent person but I hope that this has at least been a good introduction to it for some of you who knew nothing about it beforehand. We are as capable of making friends as anyone else is. I am friends with multiple fellow neurodivergent individuals including several with ADHD. We are here and you better believe we got roles to play in the fight for our lives that may last even longer than just the next 10 years. And I'm ashamed of being neurodivergence and I very much on intending on surviving for years to come because I have so damn much to live for that it would take forever for me to list get every single reason I have to stay alive, including the biggest and the smallest reasons I have. There's nothing wrong with having a brain that doesn't act like the average person's in every conceivable way, it happens, get over it, society. We don't deserve to be punished for being neurodivergence. We deserve to just be treated good due to being as human as every single other person out there.

We have been increasingly understood in recent decades and we ain't going back to how it used to be before I was born. Not without one hell of a fight. Neurodivergent people aren't whatever bad things some people believe we are in general. I've run out of things to say. Just know that there's a lot about forms of neurodivergence out there that I didn't mention either because I don't know about it or completely forgot about it. Hold the line and fight the system but do so with caution and careful planning in mind. And don't turn other people into the feds for any kind of incentive/reward. Don't tattle. If your neighbor is trans, no they aren't. If your friend is an immigrant, no they aren't. And when the police talk to you, shut the hell up. Same goes for with the feds. Just shut up and only ask if you're free to go or for a lawyer and say you are invoking your right to remain silent. If you are planning on doing something considered illegal irl, shut the hell up and don't post about it online. No one needs to know, just zip it. Also to be honest, neurodivergent people feel more real and genuine than most people seem to be. It feels like a lot of people use completely fake personalities for some reason or another.

To orphans and adoptees, I stand in solidarity with you. Children become orphans through so many various tragic ways. Having their parents murdered, having to live without parents due to their caregivers disappearing for years, being separated from them, you name it. Pretty certain most people understand how children end up becoming orphans. It's always so sad to see children become orphans because then, they have to fend for themselves and children are almost never taught how to fend for themselves. In many fictional stories and real life, orphans are often in cities, living off of whatever they can find, even if it's something gross like old discarded food from a dumpster(let's not mention the fact that the US throws away and wastes way too much food..) Fictional media depicts their lives as so incredibly hard, just as they are in real life. And they deserve to have truly kind people take them in to raise and care for them and help them survive and have access to the things they need to survive. They deserve to be in loving communities who help take care of them.

That's all part of the saying that basically goes: "it takes a village to raise a child." Local communities working to help their members, including all children, not just orphans is so damn important. Most children will die out on the streets without any help from anyone just as the poor and homeless will if left out to struggle to survive on the streets long enough with no one willing to help them. Orphans often become adoptees due to being found by the likes of volunteers and orphanages. But adoption isn't as innocent of a industry as even I believed until more recently.. Youd think that adoption is nearly perfect. Loving families would eventually take in adoptees as their own. Adoptees would be destined to all eventually find loving homes and in the meantime, orphanages or foster homes would support them in anyway they could and help them stay alive, get an education, and so on.

Orphanages are pretty common in fiction, even in medieval fantasy stories. And that's a good sign that a lot of people feel genuine concern for orphans, especially ones who lost everything due to war or genocide or displacement by other means by natural and not so natural disasters. But still, the entire adoption industry is not so great. Notice how I said industry. A industry is basically a field of services and/or goods that makes people money, I just made up this definition based on what I know. There is money to be made through adoptions. Doesn't sound that bad, does it? Well actually.. Not all orphans and adoptees are treated well.. Some foster homes and orphanages are literally abusive and treat children living in them like dirt. I bet some even use children as practically slaves and that's just not good. And you'd think that they get children through solely finding them on the streets or anywhere else they can go without parents or a home. But no, many adoptees at least in the US come from places like China. And that's pretty normal, according to society. But I want you to think about it for a second.

Who is sending these Chinese minors to the US? Not all adoptees from China were visited by those in the US would adopt them before they came over. Many adoptees, especially from foreign countries were taken from their families by force and adopted by others for some people to make a profit. It gets worse because this crap mirrors the boarding schools the US and Canadian governments used to put indigenous children in. And then there's the stories from some adoptees, telling readers and other listeners just how bad it's been for them as adoptees. Some adoptees are adopted by white families in order to home school them in order to instill far right Christian nationalist viewpoints in them. That's a thing that's literally been happening to the point that some white woman from like Toledo, Ohio or something was caught doing. I don't know the full details of how messed up the adoption industry is because I didn't do much reading up on it even though I should have.

The corruption of the adoption industry is a chilling sign of what society is really like. Liberals, the system isn't going to save us, it never truly worked in the best interests of any of us. Please stop doing performative acts of allyship with marginalized people because that crap isn't helping or appreciated. Maybe some orphanages are actually ethical but you can't automatically trust any of them to be, even if they're run by your local favorite religious leader or something like that. You gotta actually known what you're dealing with when engaging with them. Be on guard around them. The adoption industry itself is twisted and greed and indoctrination driven and that's very bad news for us all. You'd be better off rescuing a child directly from the streets like you can in Skyrim cities like Whiterun and Winterhold in iconic game. The only good orphanages I can really think of are fictional ones including the one set up in the storyline of the game Sword Art Online: Integral Factor as part of a side storyline and the one briefly featured in the Tai Chi Chasers anime one of the main characters of the show used to live in.

Doesn't help I never really looked into any real orphanages or know of any around me. There is a lot of emotional manipulation going on with the adoption industry but that's nothing new. The advertisement industry does the same exact thing as do the mainstream media who are mostly rolling over to be "good boys" for their new Supreme Chancellor along with companies like Coca-Cola who made a special Coke bottle to honor their new leader who definitely wants to run the nation like a business. And yet, big businesses hurt and exploit a lot of people. Strange how that works, isn't it? You know what adoptees deserve? To be reunited with their families if they aren't orphans. They say family is so important that even if you morally disagree with a family member, they expect you to still get along with them because that will "surely" work out. They say "oh, family are the only people you will ever always have, friends will just come and go" which reads like they don't believe in the magic of friendship. Fluttershy would be very disappointed in them. But of course, a lot of the people who say such garbage, undervalue the power of chosen family and often support people who are more than happy to separate the families of immigrants and so forth for terrible reasons.

They'll happily let families in Gaza and other places starve to death. Even with the ceasefire in effect, the people of Gaza's hardships are far from over and I don't expect the ceasefire to last forever. I think it will be broken eventually. And when it is, it will be a bloodbath & beyond. Adoptees deserve to be with their families if they're still alive or chosen families if they're gone. And they need support of the people. People need to learn the truth of the adoption industry as well as the many other truths I've written in this message and more beyond what I have written as well. I can't believe how long this thing is getting but I'm still not done with it. Don't let adoptees and orphans be pushed around by society.

To those who have given up, I stand in solidarity with you. We have reached the point that I've pretty much listed every oppressed group of people I could think of. I apologize to any I haven't mentioned. Now then, let's talk about those who have given up. This is going to be heartfelt after I explain the reasons why people give up. There are too many to list so I will cover some of the main ones mostly. Doomerism. Doomerism is a state of mind in which someone stops believing anything is ever going to get better and think the worst possible scenarios are playing out or will soon with no hope of putting a stop to them. Doomerism is something that is hopeless and incredibly damaging. People, do not fall into doomerism. Don't give up, always believe there's a chance things can get better. And besides, if we fail and the world becomes completely ruined due to capitalism, the destruction would cause the end of humanity eventually. The ruling class want to colonize Mars to escape that fate. That's also why they love underground bunkers so much.

So worst case scenario, we find a way to drag them down with us, we die and take them with us. That's our last resort of stopping them. And let's hope that never has to happen. But if it must, it must. If we can't survive, we can't allow them to survive either. It's only fair because our inability to survive would be their faults. They're the ones behind what's going on along with their cult like followers anyway. Also causes of giving up include losing everything, depression, other mental health problems, complete nihilistic thoughts of thinking everything is completely meaningless, falling completely into cynicism, and losing control of one's own life, becoming just another slave of the pretty hate machine whose identity is being attempted to be wiped away. So.. How does one get out of the state of having completely giving up. It's really hard. To those of you who have given up, I feel you. At times, I just want to completely give up too. Resisting the forces of evil that control our world is overwhelming and difficult. But you need to realize that our struggles ain't over yet. We can still fight in thousands if not more ways. Even something as simple as refusing to drink soda from Coca-Cola anymore is a good start. Not the biggest start but something still good to begin with.

Besides, standard soda ain't healthy for ya. Drink way too much every single day and it'll kill you. We need you, you know. If you have the ability to fight, even if you have given up, we need you. The planet needs you to try. Your friends, everyone you care about. They need you. I wish I could offer you a hand to help you stand up tall physically right now but that's impossible so you'll just have to imagine. Take my digital hand. Come on, you can do this. You can fight if you have any amount of physical or mental strength, even if it's locked far inside of you. But you have to want this for yourself. So ask yourself, are you tired of the way things are? If so, what can you do about it? If you can do something, what will it take for you to do it? Break it all down into steps and try if you can. For disabled people, this is especially hard and they can't be expected to fight nearly as hard physically as other people can but they still have means by which they can fight. Those in power want us all dead or as their slaves, say no to either. Don't let these bastards win without resisting their twisted wills.

I know you can do this, you are stronger than you think. There are ways you can fight that are like how some others can fight but there's also ways really only you can fight. Go ahead and talk to like minded people, try to find a community fighting the power and see where you can help, even if only through virtual means due to circumstances beyond your control. We all have something we can do to resist, even if it's just refusing to die. If you have suicidal thoughts, you aren't alone. I've had them a few times within the past few years but you know what stopped me from thinking too deeply into them? I have so many reasons to live. So ask yourselves, even if you don't have those thoughts, why are you still alive? What do you live for? All of us have a reason for continuing to live, even if it's purely through spite. Make those bastards work their butts off to try to kill you, don't just let them kill you effortlessly. We all have a place in the class war and roles to play. Do not let your feelings of hopelessness control you. Remember why you are still alive, remember the good times of your past. Fight to protect your happiness and anyone you care about.

It is so difficult to avoid giving up, even harder to go from completely giving up to fighting against the oppression to come and what is already here. And if you need someone to talk to due to your feelings of hopelessness, just know that you can talk to me because I've felt those feelings many times too. I'll try my best to understand what you're going through, you can count on that. You matter, your life has significance in this world, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. You don't have to aim to become a hero to matter. You don't have to aim for anything to matter. Comrade, we need your help. Can you stand up and grit your teeth and smile and so on for the coming times ahead? If you can't, reach out to others who will help raise you up. There's always someone out there willing to be a serious supporter of any individual person. Face your fears if you can and just do the things. We have been forced into a situation so difficult that not even I can truly describe it with the necessary words and detail. That's beyond my skill level and imagination. And yet, I also cannot truly depict the true power of kindness in people either.

To try to describe the lengths movements of good people will go to fight oppression is something I cannot do in full detail either. And that's.. a good thing. There is not a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day. But by working together, we can make that actually become reality like it once was. Individualistic attitudes and behavior won't be enough to get us to do what we have no choice but to do. It's going to take community and working together to get all this crap done or die trying. I want to die trying my damnest to fight back, it's my 2nd most preferred way of death. I want to die with white hair and heavily wrinkled skin at a very elderly age, surrounded by loved ones. But if I can't get that, I want to die fighting for what's right while trying to cause as much damage to our enemies as I possibly can. That kind of death is a warrior's death. Or for me personally someday, a knight's death. It's the most heart pounding and action packed way to go. And I'm something of an adrenaline junkie due to having go on some of the biggest and baddest and fastest roller coasters out there.

And I need to remind myself of the times I've done some awesome, cool, or super brave things in the past and you need to do that as well. Remember and celebrate your victories, learn and grief from your defeats. We can do this but the odds are stacked against us. That said, the underdogs don't always lose against opponents who have the odds stacked in their favor. We are the underdogs. We have the hearts of underdogs to some extent. Try to remember the gist of all of these words and become stronger and thus more cool for yourself, your loved ones, and your communities as well as the entire planet and human race. The planet is counting on all of us to save it from the whims and wretched plans and desires of the ruling class. No war but class war.

To the workers unable to afford to live well and/or are being exploited, I stand in solidarity with you. This extends to nearly all workers of the world because even if your job is good for you, you still likely are being used or hurt in someway. This one is for the workers of the world. Almost everyone is a worker and if they aren't and aren't part of the ruling class, bigoted, a SCAB who crosses union picket lines, or a bootlicker of those in power, they still have a place in the struggle. That said, a SCAB, bigot, or bootlicker can learn to do better and stop doing the crap they're doing, pulling a 180 and giving the status quo and ruling class one massive middle finger in the process. But we can't count on them doing that, even if we do our best to convince those who can be safely talked to without them trying to kill or jail us. And even after they become better, that doesn't mean they're in the clear just yet. They have to work hard to earn the trust of the people, prove they've reformed, and actually put in the work to free themselves of the crap they have had internalized in their minds for usually so damn long.

But they need encouragement and support which is not easy for them to get when they've been acting against the real interests of the people. The people can never trust that a head of state will actually try to lower the price of eggs anymore. Nor can anyone trust the intentions of the people who helped end the TikTok ban nearly right after it began. Whatever goals they have for unbanning it so quickly aren't going to be good. The workers are the breadth of the stability and functionality of society. If a national or global strike happened across most if not all industries for even just an entire day, the consequences for the world economy would be so massive that those in power would for the most part be desperate to negotiate with striking workers and unions. But in countries led by authoritarians, they would likely deploy immense force, making the Pinkertons, the strike breaking bastards who infamously interfered with striking workers in late 1800s in the US seem ineffective by comparison. The ruling class have nothing without the workers continuing to put labor and production into society.

If all workers refuse to obey, they will face a crisis that allows people to more easily challenge them. To be honest, the ruling class are such cowards. Maybe people should start challenging them to duels in the form of sword only matches again. If the ruling class want to impose their will onto millions if not more by force or BS reasons, they should have to duel representatives of the people with swords first. In a sword fight, no one gets killed instantly since swords must be used manually and can only generate so much force. That and because they are weapons with mostly evenly distributed weight, they are not necessarily ideal for bludgeoning or face smashing. That makes swords weapons with which you kind of have know what you're doing with to kill somebody. Yeah, there are a lot of potentially deadly sword techniques but they're designed as cutting and slashing weapons most of all rather than ones that can instantly kill someone. That leaves sword duels as brutal battles that won't necessarily end in mere seconds. When a gun gets thrown, someone in a duel will almost certainly be killed instantly with a bullet far too fast for them to evade.

Can we have some kind of rule where if something a head of state wants to do will affect millions in a directly negative way, they have to fight some people in duels with swords and win first? Since the bastardly cowards called the ruling class love using violence so much, maybe it's time for them to duel but be restricted to swords only with forfeit automatic if they use anything else except knives/daggers or their fists. And onlookers can break it up if someone refuses to stop fighting even after forfeiting automatically due to breaking the rules. But what I propose will never likely happen anytime soon. Workers, we are the ones with the labor and numbers. Should we work together, they can't nearly stop us all. But it can't just be marginalized workers who fight back. The marginalized will be plowed down pretty easily if allies dont get into the ring to fight alongside us, no matter how bad it will get at times.

But still, I find joy in the fact that these bastards still have to work hard to make their twisted desires come true and the fact that they can't predict everything we do, even despite constant online and real life spying from the likes of the NSA, FBI, CIA, Kremlin operatives, and so on. However, let me state something everyone needs to hear. If for whatever reason you plan on committing a crime for, don't post it online. I don't need to know about what you're planning, just zip it online. Seriously, even if you slap a joke along with what you want to do such as "in Minecraft", it's not going to work. The law treats everything seriously or at least, pretends to treat everything seriously. Things have become so much harder and more complicated than they already were. Do yourselves and everyone else a favor and don't talk about breaking the law online. We are the world. I don't know exactly how we're going to flip the entire table but we need to. And all this arguing over what to do and not do is not going to help any of us. The more time we spend yelling at each other, despite all of us basically being the workers, the harder any of our efforts are going to be. Such as I don't know, organizing a picnic of resistance for example.

Deleting posts that may put your life or safety in danger doesn't delete them completely but it at least slows down anyone trying to find them. Everything we say and do online is being monitored, even if we use privacy tools to try to be safer online. We need to start making a bazillion email addresses with a load of nonsense put as the information in them and things for that nature. The more aliases you have, the more annoying your online record is going to be the look through for basically everyone, maybe even you because there's only so many names one can remember that are just nonsensical or whatever. Also, don't post about where you're going and if you do go somewhere, don't talk about it until weeks afterwards and don't indicate anything about when you went. I personally don't really post about where I go anymore. What's the point in doing so, anyway? I got the memories of the experience, that was enough for me before I started using social media almost 8 years ago. Make plans that would be unsafe for you to publicly online in person or on encrypted platforms as possible. If you're going to take action, best to avoid mentioning it anywhere online, even in really private areas if you can do so.

We the workers do not deserve to be treated like scum. We deserve to be paid enough to live good lives and not be treated like puppets or machines. We are neither. We are human beings. If your job sucks, that's unacceptable. You can bear it but if you don't have to bear it, you shouldn't bear it. There is a claim that the only hard work that is worth something is if it's done through needless suffering. They want you to think jobs have to suck for you to deserve earning a living through them. In a lot of medieval fantasy worlds, that doesn't really fly. Sure, the hardest quests pay the most but you can still make some good money doing easy quests. Things are so awful that I'd almost rather live in Skyrim during the start of the Stormcloak Rebellion or Aincrad/Sword Art Online during the death game it originally was in the series. But we can't just give up on our futures, we can adapt, we can resist, we can exercise maximum internet safety and privacy. We can try to have fun while trying to survive. Unions are going to be more vital than ever but some aren't really doing jack to advance workers' rights and that's a problem.

I feel like I'm running out of things to say for this section sadly but I hope this was enough for y'all. We are not tools, we are people with livelihoods to look out for and take care of. We deserve what we need to live happy, stable, peaceful, and thriving lives. It doesn't matter if we are unemployed, janitors, scientists, teachers, garbage collectors, or anything else. There is no such thing as an unskilled job. Let's do an example. Let's say you're a fast food worker. People think it's a really easy job but if someone who has never worked in food starts working at a fast food restaurant and just tries to do things on their own without instruction, they're going to burn and undercook things. It's going to be chaos because you can't just know how to do anything you haven't done before automatically. The notion that that's possible is utterly absurd. A teacher or someone else could try out being a janitor without training and end up doing things disastrously wrong. And you know?

Someone can't just cobble a bunch of ingredients and put them in the oven for whatever amount of time they feel like and expect the result to even be safe to eat. Don't fall for it. Unskilled labor is a lie, all labor involves some skill at minimum. People aren't just born knowing how to lift or reach for things, ya know. All workers deserve what they need to survive and thrive, even if all they do is mop floors. Workers rights are so damn crucial that they are like a keystone indicator of a healthy society.

To prisoners being treated horribly, I stand in solidarity with you. As I said earlier, rehabilitation is for the most part better than punishment. And if I'm being honest, I strongly dislike the prison system. They treat prisoners like slaves, they overcharge food prisoners can buy in prisons and serve them cheap slop that barely counts as food at this point. Keeping people too dangerous for anyone to be around away from society is a good idea in concept but the US takes it way too far. If you're going to jail them for the rest of their days anyway, you don't have to be cruel to them. The isolation from society is more than enough. Rehabilitative justice is so damn important. It's also really good for the economy but of course, prisons just want to make prisoners slaves and pay them less than federal minimum wage. I'm going to try not to keep repeating anything I said earlier from here on out here. Prisoners are still human. In Supernoobs, the main villain who appears just kind of surrenders and gets locked up and the good characters have to follow some guidelines of treating him well without letting him out of their sight. So what do they do? Well, at first, they forgot about the guidelines until the villain ironically reminded them.

So they started to show the villain fun things and stuff like that by taking the containment device he was in everywhere with them. If anything, treating prisoners well may make it that much easier to get them to do what other people want.. There's really no reason to take punishing them too far. Prisoners still have rights and they need to be respected instead of being treated like livestock. Livestock themselves deserve better but that's another topic altogether. If we really want to make this world a better place, we need to reduce harm where we can, so long as doing so doesn't inadvertently cause harm later on down the line. Honestly, it's not that complicated. I really don't need to go further into this besides listing out just how cruel the US prison system really is. That for profit model for many of them should be chilling to y'all. Games like the Escapists seem to do a decent job of showing how hard prison life is. In prison, prisoners have no freedoms or rights essentially. That leaves them open to being treated in inhumane ways not to mention the dehumanizing they go through. People in society add to this by treating all prisoners as people who can never change just because they're criminals.

In reality, they can change but they have to want to change and it takes a lot of work for many of them to be convinced or empowered to want to change. Not all bad people can be reformed but some of them still can and we need to put stuff into doing something about that.

To anyone else suffering due to the capitalist and oppressive systems in the world including men being hurt for refusing to embrace toxic masculinity, I stand in solidarity with you. Men, you are not weak for crying. Crying is a strength. It means you are telling yourself that you're sad and willing to let out your tears. You deserve to express your emotions when you need to without hurting others. Don't bottle them up. Deal with them as they come. If you are happy, don't stop yourself from being openly and loudly so or at least, show it enough to be smiling widely and talking in a cheerful tone and stuff like that. If something makes you wanna laugh, you laugh. If you're angry, don't lash out at anyone around you. If your feelings can be resolved without much effort or whatever, consider using that anger to empower doing what's right as well as do things like weight lifting and sparring sessions with respect and agreed upon terms. You are not raging beasts. You are people with real emotions that shouldn't be locked up. You deserve the support you need to be truly good men.

Masculinity, when done correctly can be a truly great motivator. Don't put others down just because you're a man and all that. Look up toxic masculinity and see what you can do to free yourself of it if it is affecting you. Toxic masculinity is bad for your psyche. You can't be a truly happy or kind person by using it. The most confident people deal with their problems and emotions and are able to have a strong enough will to not fall into despair so easily. Strength is not just in muscles, it's also in kindness, your tongue, emotions, mental health, your brain's processing power for thoughts, and more. As for anyone else I haven't mentioned, basically everything I've said in this message has been to you as well. To inform you and to help also tell you what you deserve. We all deserve happy, peaceful, and thriving lives with the people we love and communities around us. If we want any of us to live long enough to pick up the pieces once the regimes that exist in many countries finally fall, we need to take action and whatever it takes to make things better while still taking time for ourselves and our loved ones.

About 30 minutes to an hour of trying to make a difference everyday is a really good start. Many of us may have to sacrifice most of our spare time to try to change things and that's okay. As long as we take breaks when we need to and take care of ourselves and each other, we can do this. Running away from places like the US may soon prove not enough for anyone considering the global shift to right wing political parties. No one is truly safe in this world and anyone whose life is good doesn't actually lead a life that is truly good. That's because they are being hurt by the system or just used by it somehow and things could be literally 300 times better than they are right now for all of us. It's okay to hate the ruling class, they are the only group who really truly deserves anyone's hatred. There's no good reason to hate any group that refuses to preach hatred. And our bodies are not free real estate for others to inflict cruelty upon. We are the human species and we could do so much better than what many of us are doing right now: falling in line, refusing to try to change things, and being unwilling to do anything that isn't just some form of self entertainment or our jobs or house chores.

Join the fight. Listen to marginalized voices, especially the likes of black and indigenous voices. We didn't ask the live in such a horrible era but that's the hand that's been dealt to us so we gotta try to do something about and live through it. We can't just obey or give up, neither option will bring Tomorrowland into becoming Todayland nor do either help us out at all. Pretending to fall in line is a different story. It's time to be secretive like Spy Kids but with Men In Black level security and privacy. Watch even just one Men In Black movie and be inspired by it. There are many things we don't have to talk about online and things we just shouldn't so we need to cease that. No one really care you bought a bunch of stuff online. If it isn't like a new outfit or something, you don't really need to talk about it that much if at all. Don't give your log in information to anyone over the internet. Avoid putting out as many personal details as possible. We can do this. Humanity was fine socializing and sharing things before the internet. If you don't have anyone in real life, you need to fix that ASAP if you can. Go make a new friend at like a library or something, most people are friendly enough to try to get to know at least for a bit.

This is our struggle. In anime and cartoons, characters don't publicly announce all of their plans and for good reason. The enemy would easily hear of it all and turn those plans against them. You have to be at least sort of unpredictable and try to make your combined online profile confusing and a nightmare to go through. Act like everything illegal you could do is something you can't talk about due to a non disclosure agreement. And read When Violence Is The Answer. We are all oppressed or being used in some way, the ruling class would just find a way to plunge this entire world to a great flood in just a year if they didn't need us around to work, use as a scapegoat, targets to point and laugh at as we suffer thanks to them, or whatever else they want to do with or to us. Support each other, learn why those on the left oppose the system and try to understand us if you aren't with us, keep learning, get enough sleep, eat enough food, don't watch YouTube all day every day, don't drink alcohol or soda all the time, find and join a community, stay hydrated, no death threatening people, don't dox or stalk, work locally.

To the ruling class, police, CEOs, billionaries, and so on, I stand in solidarity against you. This world doesn't belong to you, it belongs to every organism on this entire planet, not your stinking big egos and excuses. I don't have many words for you because some of what I could say would end up causing me to be locked up or worse. So I'm just calling to call you what you are. You are spineless cowards and bullies who have to pick on others to have any sense of self esteem. You are so pathetic that you weirdos shouldn't even be capable of seizing power and yet, you are. You just want everything for yourselves, you self entitled pricks. No one has to obey you considering the clownery you're always up to. You don't deserve anyone's respect with how little respect you have for people that aren't in the ruling class. You are so obsessed with money that you refuse to let go of any of it unless you can use it to hurt people. And you are afraid of losing that money, you cling onto it so damn tightly and always want more. And yet, you only hurt yourselves by doing what you're doing.

The more wealth you gain, the less satisfied you are with it. You are the biggest victims of the law of diminishing value in the world and I have pity for you pathetic weirdos because of that. I pity you. I truly do. You would shoot yourselves in the feet if that somehow served your agendas better than not shooting yourselves in the feet. Cowards. You cowards. You're all cowards. We don't need to respect you. We don't need to worship you. Worship of leaders is cult mentality anyway so screw that. You'd destroy the entire world to hold onto your delusional senses of grandeur and socially defined senses of power and control. You are such losers, you are like cartoon villains in real life. You are so incompetent that you could have your heads stuck up your butts somehow which shouldn't even be physical possible. Just how much longer until you start doing things on the same level as sniffing each other's butts? Everything you do is the mark of cowards. You are too cowardly to at least try to balance your egotistical crap with the needs of other people. That's all I have for you, you damn cowards.

To allies trying to fight for others, I stand in solidarity with you and want to tell you how to be a good ally in my own words. There is too much on this topic for me to cover on my own so I will focus on listing what I believe to be important enough for me to safely share with y'all. Allies, you have to listen to who you are allying with instead of believing you know better. If you ally with marginalized people, they better understand their situation better than you understand it. We all have to work together because the threats we face leave us no room to fight each other. Liberals, I'm begging you to see that the liberalist systems you championing are falling apart. This world is no longer one that benefits your liberal ideals, unless said ideals happen to align with what liberalism is being replaced with. The systems of the US are no longer able to be sustained by y'all. They have now loudly rejected the will of the people and you need to get into the mindset of being aware of that fact. When they come for marginalized people, they'll take you after or with them if you don't gleefully hop over to their side to the point you fully become one of them. We have been trying to tell you what's going on for years but you have been so obsessed with the system and the status quo that you wouldn't listen.

I get it. It's comfortable living in the status quo. I have benefited it from it myself as a white person. It has given me a million excuses to just procrastinate and crap. But what's the point of investing in it when it is literally saying that people need to be expelled from society because they came from another country? What makes you benefit from it so much that you refuse to even consider trying to help replace it with something better? Look, our enemies want to destroy OSHA regulations. What would happen because of that? Well, any of you hear about Action Park in New Jersey? The park was so mismanaged. No one gave a damn, causing 3 people to drown in what should have been a safe wave pool with competent lifeguards on duty. That pool is nicknamed the Grave Pool for that reason. Action Park was a disaster, I can't believe it lasted as long as it did. It had the world's first slide with a loop. Another slide was the cause of some brutal accidents because no one cared enough to make the park very safe.

Every single accident and death at Action Park was preventable. The industry had long learned from the incident at the Battersea Fun Faire in London in 1972 by the time Action Park opened. If OSHA gets axed, more people will experience accidents at theme/amusement parks because some park operators just don't care about the safety of their guests and only keep them safe so OSHA doesn't go after them. Just look at the incompetence and willful animal abuse of SeaWorld that is only just recently coming to an end. I haven't seen the Blackfish documentary but I know enough to know that it's a honest surprise that company is phasing out their orcas by no longer bringing in any new ones and just letting them live out the rest of the days at their SeaWorld parks. And treating them better too at least. And what about Son Of Beast at Kings Island? We may see more accidents like that entire coaster was in an extreme scenario that could only really happen if OSHA is axed. Not to mention workplace accidents at parks and other places of work.. Some workers have died doing maintenance on roller coasters and I bet it's only so rare due to things like OSHA. Our enemies are the same ones who said workers in Florida are no longer permitted to take water breaks while working in the sweltering heat.

They're making things deliberately as unsafe as possible and the system tried almost nothing to stop them. The Democrats betrayed us all, including you. They don't deserve your respect or loyalty anymore. They're just spineless cowards for the most part. Allies including liberals, we have been warning you for years and years and look at what's happening anyway. Biden and the others could have tried to fight what has happened since the beginning of last November but chose to cave in and say gg instead. Have none of you learned anything from the events that sparked World War 2? Many Germans never stopped believing in the system, even as their neighbors began vanishing after a night where so much glass was broken due to the targeting of Jewish businesses. Our enemies are using what happened all those years ago as inspiration. Don't fall in line. Your system is only hurting us all and you can go on as many vacations as want to but it doesn't change the reality of our situation. If they succeed in doing everything they want to do, say goodbye to what remains of free speech online.

They want to ban free speech online, including any free speech you have that doesn't praise things like what they're doing. To them, all of us are expendable or genuine threats to the state when the threats we pose are just completely imaginary. They don't care about you nor are liberal politicians interested in making things progress forward if they don't have a lot of pressure on them to actually change things. Many liberals feign support for the marginalized while just spending nearly all of their free time while they don't have to take care of any of their responsibilities on just chilling out because no one's going to really try to stop them. Some of you liberals need to admit your support is fake or back it up with actual action to prove to any of us that we can trust you to try to help us survive and fight back. If you don't actually have our best interests at heart, fix your heart or die living a largely meaningless life at best. Everything we love is at stake now. If unbridled climate change keeps on going thanks to the ruling class desiring such because they're that vain, it won't be much longer in the scheme of things until the chill lives you lead crumble apart.

I'm sorry to be so blunt but I have no other choice. With that said, to be good allies, just saying you support us doesn't mean much of anything. Woah cool, you think we deserve to exist, good for you, here's a gold star sticker that is virtually worthless and means nothing for saying that we do deserve to exist. But seriously, there are so many ways you can be a good ally and many of them are so easy that you can do some of them laying down in bed much like how I've written millions of words while laying down in bed. Listen to us even when we get blunt. We care about having your help and we need you to listen to us. Never assume you know everything. Compared to the collective sum of all human knowledge, you know absolutely nothing and I'm the exact same way as you in that regard. There's always room to grow and something to learn for us all. Always. Even on our deathbeds should we be lucky enough to go in that peaceful of a way. We have things to say that you need to hear or should hear again just as a good refresher. Give money to marginalized people through donating to organizations fighting for us, commissioning marginalized artists, buying our books, you name it.

Don't tolerate bigotry from anyone, not even yourself. If I mess up and say something that is seen as harmful to a marginalized group and I get called out for it or realize it, I learn to think better and apologize and I thank whoever called me out if anyone did. Bigotry isn't always loud and hateful. Oftentimes, it appears as causal as micro aggressive. Don't be afraid to cut ties with someone who will not listen to you about how we need to listen to all marginalized groups and things of that nature. Learn CPR/first aid, self defense, and other life saving skills. Be an open ear for someone in need. Video call a marginalized person or even meet up with them irl. Make jokes about bigots and how absurd they are. Create media inclusive of marginalized people. Just be a good person trying to be better. I will never be satisfied with how far I've come as a person anytime soon. I always want to change more and be better and you should too. You can always do better than you currently are, no matter how many times you raise yourself up to evolve and improve. Take care of your physical, emotional, and mental health. You need to be as okay as you can be to help us.

Consume marginalized media. I have some awesome suggestions: Toward The Terra(contains a fictional marginalized group of people with psionic abilities), Sailor Moon(lesbian couple, mostly women and girls as major characters), Revolutionary Girl Utena(the queer energy is strong in this one), The Owl House, She Ra and The Princesses Of Power, and I can't really think of much else at this time. You need to make sure your media consumption goes beyond just white straight character/person focused media(focusing on just that is kinda boring anyway). The world of marginalized people focused media is an extremely colorful one and contains many of the most unique and fun characters and people out there. Organize with marginalized people. Befriend marginalized people. Don't use arguments like "but I have a black friend". That kind of stuff is extremely sus. And misgendering or deadnaming people you don't like? No no no, pal. Please don't do this. This is literally what the ruling class use to hurt trans and gender nonconforming people like me. It's not funny to do that. You can call people you hate much more creative things than that that don't reinforce transphobic garbage. Even if doing this crap is not meant to be transphobic, you're still pulling that transphobia crap when you do it.

If you keep doing that, that will only give bad people more crappy excuses to misgender people like me, it generates normalcy for misgendering and deadnaming people. Never use tactics that specifically hurt marginalized people against anyone yourself. Please don't. And I think that's probably more than enough for y'all to learn from. I hope this helps because we do really need you. We'll be goners almost sooner than later without your help. Order 66 is already about to be practically used in Chicago, stuff is getting real extremely fast.

The Vital Paths of A Balanced Life:

For this last section, I'm going to introduce you all to a series of paths of life I think everyone should be working on in intervals or however they choose to do it all. Each path is necessary for joy, connection, creativity, survival, and more when you put them altogether. I'm going to try not to write down every single possible detail for these but we'll see how this plays out together. Alright. Let's first bring up what they are.. They are the paths of Joy, Bonds, Kindness, Defiance, Fitness/Martial, Creativity, and Knowledge. You can honestly call them whatever you want to as long as you know what you're talking about and all that. But this should work alright for telling y'all what you should be doing. The Path of Joy shall be first. Joy is what gives life meaning. If you have no joy, your life sucks straight up. You need to find joy if you don't have it or you can kiss your motivation to make things better goodbye. It's the glue that's holding any of us together right now. It's how you counter despair. Joy is literally everything. If your life has sucked up to now, still try to find joy because you will remember experiencing it.

Joy is what gives us the strength to keep moving forward. If something isn't ideal but you can still find joy when dealing with it, it's not going to suck as bad as it would otherwise. For example, I've been in situations in Skyrim where I just keep dying over and over again because of when I last saved the game. That's hard to get through but I don't have to be frustrated by it because it is not a threat to my actual irl life and my in game character can never permanently die. Instead, I have found myself laughing when experiencing or seeing situations of a character on screen in a video game dying over and over again because that can literally be the funniest thing if you let it be the funniest thing. Being optimistic helps too as long as you remain realistic as well. Joy lets others know that you aren't completely in the dumps as a person and that you're trying to get through this terrible era we're in. It is literally the key to doing anything meaningful. Get creative with ways of finding joy if you must such as drawing on condensation covered glass, laughing at your own farts, soaking yourself and running around outdoors in warm weather while yelling nonsense about how wet you are, and more.

Anyone can find joy but not fund joy as I almost mistyped. Even using the bathroom can be a source of joy especially when you get a lot out and your butt feels warm. And a sense of humor can't steer you wrong as long as you know when to take things seriously as well. You can also look at yourself in the mirror and yell: "Hot damn, I'm hot!" There's also singing in the shower or screaming like the Cookie Monster or a chaos gremlin. Not to mention watching YouTube Poop parodies of cartoons, Spaceballs, Yugioh Abridged, anything funny by TeamFourStar, KonoSuba, Gumball, or whatever. Then there's memes like Fus Ro Dah, someone stole your sweet roll, Baby Yoda, Creeper, aww man, Pizza Tower Scream, and out of context moments. I could go on. If you are literally walking with nothing on you in the desert for some reason, you can still find joy by being funny for no reason or something. You don't need a reason to be funny, anyway. Just be funny.

The Path Of Bonds, a path about social relationships and community. This is very important, even for introverts like me. You need at least one person in your life that you love and trust completely. I know how edgy and cool lone wolves are made out to be but they aren't actually cool. Someone who goes down that path will likely suffer more and die sooner. None of us are strong enough by ourselves to fight the power. Only a collective group of people can stand up to oppression. Lone acts of physical and public defiance will be mostly stomped effortlessly. This is why I just pleaded to allies in the last section. We are social creatures, we did not evolve to all be completely independent lone wolves. Social interactions are what drive anything major or meaningful thats going on. If it weren't for other people in my life, I'd be broke or dead right now. I'm being serious. I've been involved in a lot of gatherings and stuff like that. One of the first communities I joined was local and met up at local and regional amusement parks a lot,

I miss the meetups and would love to go to one again someday. I've been to several furry conventions and a ren festival. I've been to a lot of parties which aren't really for me personally. And you know what I've learned? Life is far less mundane when you decide to spend time with other people and it's much easier to be motivated to do stuff if you have someone you can say that you're going to do this and this as a plan to and stuff like that. Human beings can't really survive without social interactions. See what happens when someone has basically no social engagements with anyone from the moment they're born by looking up videos of things like feral children. There's a pretty infamous case in which a family hid a child for 12 years and never let her out of her room for her entire life. She ended up dying. I'm sorry individualists, but your individualistic focus doesn't really work out well. Knowing who you are, taking care of yourself, and having alone time are vitally important but if you don't talk to other people ever or work towards being involved in some kind of community, you life isn't going to be as fun.

We need connections because we are human beings. We have no other choice, we can't help ourselves with our needs for connection and bonds. "Rugged individualism" as they call it is not helpful for any of us. Even I can get lonely so I know how much I need social interactions at times. The fact is that it's really beginning to bother me I'm not actively engaged in any sizable communities right now and I need to be in order to actually make a big difference and all that. I believe in humanity, friendship, and the power of community. So many people have directly or indirectly helped shape how I have turned out as a person. I have numerous influences out there, both dead and alive. The reason why humanity has science or anything else we like such as pizza, video games, roller coasters, etc is because of community and social interactions. Individualism only is a death sentence for the human race considering who we're up against. People are much easier to murder and conquer if they are alone. There's a reason why we have terms like anti-social behavior defined as a bad thing.

Because being anti-social is not a good thing, not even for the people engaging in anti-social behavior. You ideally should have several people you are strongly connected to through your social bonds. We don't have the strength on our own by ourselves to take on so many of the challenges we face today. We need to need in this together, we need community, bonds, friends, and so on unless we all collectively have a shared death wish which we don't. So we do need all of that after all. This is it. The most vital era for communication, community, friendships, bonds, family(especially chosen family, which can include biological family members as well as friends and other loved ones), and care in decades is this twisted nightmare we're in right now. We need each other or humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes all over again and eventually bring doom to even more of this planet than up to now so far. Don't be a lone wolf unless you have a death wish. We have to stop courting death all the time. We are all human beings. We have human dna and skin. We are human, none of us are exempt from the need for connections.

There is no "oh because this group sucks, they're not people actually". That's dehumanization and we must never tolerate it. Dehumanization gatekeeps who and isn't human. It is one of the biggest justifications for oppression and why oppressors are often shameless and guilt free when they kill innocent people. We don't need to dehumanize bad people to fight them. In When Violence Is The Answer, it says that one of the most vital ways to fight back when someone is physically trying to kill you in a situation you can't run from in person is just focusing on trying to stop them no matter what. You don't react, you don't think, you just going fighting without giving your foe any openings. But even when that's not the situation you're dealing with, you can still use that line of thinking in order to bring them down. Our greatest enemies are the ruling class who are as human as all of us. The more bonds we have, the better chances we have in facing our oppressors as well as our own problems such as our inner turmoils! That's it! We need bonds, friendships, all of that!

Our fight ahead is literally nearly about as impossible as it can get but at least we aren't fighting on the frontlines in World War 2 or something like that while dealing with frequent enemy attacks physically and on the ground. And bonds are vital for just being happy too. The Path Of Kindness and not the path of accidentally selecting the title of this writing and almost editing it as a result is pretty obvious and so important. If you think about it for even just a few seconds, all of these paths of life I'm talking about including the ones I'm talking about after this one positively affect one another when followed. They're all connected and co linked to each other. Kindness is one of humanity's greatest strengths. It's not weak to be kind, it's almost just weak to be selfish and self serving, on the contrary. And no, I'm not talking about being nice here. Being nice is different. It can be kind to be nice but not always. Being nice means acting with friendly and often polite behavior when interacting with other people, even when they are literally pissing you off and you just want to chew their ears out for whatever it is they're making you mad about.

Being nice can get in the way because being nice can often be a dishonest tactic that sabotages having serious conversations in social interactions. Being nice to everything is how we get the rise of tyrants without enough people performing a large resistance against them that can do something to try to make them never come into power or lose it should they have it. Being nice is not telling someone you like that something they said was problematic and bothers you. Being kind is telling them that it is with full transparency. Being nice is associated with calm and joy/energy. Kindness can express any and all emotions. Niceness has to be reserved for avoiding unnecessary situations, not avoiding being honest about your feelings. When someone calls me out for something I did, the honesty of their words is a very kind thing. Being kind means doing good and honest things without expecting a reward. It's honestly not difficult for most people to get which is a relief. By following the path of kindness and not pennes(whatever they are), you are literally being more authentic and making a bigger difference. Being kind also means being willing to sacrifice time, money, or something else to someone who needs it.

It is so vital that I can't state it enough. As someone who tries to be kind, I find it to be one of my favorite things to engage in. It gives me a purpose and has helped me figure out largely what purposes in life I have. I'm so confident in what I'm speaking of that I feel like I don't really have to explain why being kind is so important with much more detail. It's its own reward, unlike hard work is sometimes. Kindness is how we fight oppression, it even includes telling people you support them by dissing the scumbags who want to hurt them. I'm sorry but being mean to the ruling class is a kind thing to do at this point. There you have it. Kindness. Be kind. It's so worth it. So so worth it, it feels really good.

Im doing really good at keeping things pretty brief, aren't I? Thank goodness, this should still be enough to help inspire some of you. Comrades, we're almost there. Almost to the closing sentences. Okay. The Path of Defiance. This entire writing is defiance. This path means to live a life in which you refuse to comply and try to do what you can to be defiant of the crap that's going on. The other paths are also technically a part of this one, let's be real. Defiance is all about not letting others dictate who you are or what you do all the damn time. It's resisting the status quo, doing something about injustices and other loads of stinking vomit. It is so easy to explain that I'm struggling to come up with anything to add when talking about it. Oh. I know. What can you do to be defiant? Well, the full list is longer beyond anyone's comprehension. Let's just focus on some of the greatest hits. Organizing and having like demonstrations such as having an entire community cover Born This Way by Lady Gaga while wearing colorful clothing with certain flags involved. Making anti-status quo media of any kind. Expressing your discontent with the system privately and especially offline for safety reasons. Making it difficult for someone to "catch" you doing you're own thing.

I've listed out so many other ways through this entire thing that I'm just not going to list anymore. Feel free to ask about more ways in the comments. Now for the Path of Fitness/Martial. Sounds weird kinda, right? Well, they go hand in hand so I put them as one path. Martial refers to pursuing things involved with physical combat like martial arts and self protection. Fitness is exercising enough to keep your body healthier and your muscles from being stiff all the time. The more you exercise without overdoing it to the point you're constantly sore, the better and stronger you will become. I recommend following this path of fitness & martial activities as much as the other paths. As a swordsman whose sword skills are far from enough for me to even remotely call myself a knight without feeling like I haven't earned being able to do so, I am especially persistent in talking about this stuff. Most people leave it up to the authorities to protect them or just don't care. That only breeds complicity that kills people when violence really comes around. The people need to know how to defend themselves in these dark times because the authorities are not really interested in protecting us, especially not the marginalized such as myself.

Don't let the state have a monopoly on violence anymore. Learn how to take down someone trying to kill you as quickly as possible. Don't react, don't think just do it when and if the time comes. Besides, learning how to actually physically fight is a lot of fun and good for fitness and mental health and confidence not to mention creativity. I sword train alone an hour nearly every single day. But my dummy is only the air. I just swing and swing and do basic footwork. That's kind of a problem since I've been doing that for 2 years without spending much time learning other swordplay techniques. Against a gun, a real life sword is useless but it's still worth sword training especially due to the fact that I train with real steel swords that have blunt edges so I don't stab myself with them. I'm used to the weight of such swords which makes handling light blades much easier. A thick 3 feet long wooden sword feels as light as a feather when I swing with it now. It's way too light for my tastes now. Learning how to fight may very well save your life or someone else's someday. The benefits in muscle growth alone make it worth it.

And there's so many styles you can learn to fight through though the kinds described in When Violence Becomes The Answer aren't meant to be flashy at all. Flashy moves could kill you in a real life or death fight so you can't rely on them. You'd need to be fierce and relentless in that kind of situation, again leaving no time for reacting or thinking. But you'd need to train a lot to be most effective at doing that stuff should you need it someday. And victim mentality helps no one. Don't think of yourself as a victim in a situation where someone's trying to kill you. Think of yourself as an aggressor and worry about the consequences once your opponent is down and you're safe from them now as they won't get up anytime soon. General fitness is necessary too for the more you exercise your muscles regularly, the better your stamina is going to be and the longer you can go for. I can stand for several hours without urgently needing to sit if I'm not wearing my legs out at any point during those hours.

Unless you have something like Long Covid or something else going on that I was going to write about here but forgot about, exercise is almost always good for you. Things like Long Covid make exercise dangerous for you because of the way they impact your body. So exercise only makes you worse when dealing with that stuff. Oh.. right. If you're feeling ill, I advise against exercising much. I avoid sword training when I'm sick because it doesn't really sound fun training while sick. Especially when the nose is all congested. Nope. Nope. No thanks. Anyway, fitness is something everyone should care about. If someone can't move around on their own, exercise is a lot harder but if they can, they could try fitness techniques you can use while sitting down or something. There are techniques for fitness when you aren't standing up. You just have to learn about them first. Oh and one last set of things. When exercising, stay hydrated and make sure you've had enough to eat lately. And take bathroom breaks when you need to while exercising instead of trying to ignore the urge.

It's not fun. I should know. And please make note of what happens when your muscles get worn out if you don't already know. Basically, lactic acid is created in your muscles, leading to that burn you feel in them when you put them through a lot more than they're used to. But by continuing to exercise the same muscles over and over, it will take increasingly longer for the burning sensation to show up whenever you exercise. When you get so worn out that you're sore, it's time to seriously rest your body as much as you can. If only a little bit of your body is sore, that ain't so bad and can be remedied okay so long as you reduce how much you use whats sore as you can, of course. Hot showers and a good night's sleep can help a lot with soreness. Don't forget to sleep good every night.

Now for the Path of Creativity. It's too bad we don't have Figment with us to help out with this one. Look up the song sung by Figment in the iconic attraction featuring him at EPCOT. Anyway, this is a path many have forsaken and it's heartbreaking. Creativity is key to being able to respond to our problems in inventive ways that can change the world. So if you haven't been creative or very creative at all lately, I really recommend you do at least one creative project a week as I said previously. And it doesn't have to look great either. As long as you put thought into whatever it is, you're all good. The imagination is something you must keep using unless you want to lose it forever, it's like a kind of muscle but in a non physical way which is strange to be honest. No matter, it is nonetheless important to use. The imagination lets do do things like daydream, come up with weird and never thought of before things, and is just so much fun to use. Oh and if you spend enough time focused on it, you may be more likely to have vivid dreams which are often really strange when I have them, personally. At least I don't have nightmares. That's how good my mental health is. Imagination is just an infinite force with no true limit. Flying butts with bat wings are just the tip of the iceberg.

Creativity is an incredible thing, even if so many acts of creative expression look horrible. The fact is that no one is automatically good at making things that look amazing. Just try to be creative if you never are and see what you can create. If it looks bad, you can always learn from it and try again and get a little better next time. The things that have been imagined and created with creativity is immense. Creativity is the bedrock of all cultures so we better start acting with that in mind. It's as simple as that. I could talk all day about my many creative ventures but I won't. Instead, I will list more benefits of creativity that I have yet to mention because I can do so. Here we go.

Creating bonds and connections through sharing one's imagination, stress relief, self expression, being able to make something that is truly yours, developing more patience and confidence, being able to better build up your attention to detail, focus, and hand-eye coordination, being able to develop creative problems solving techniques, and just being able to share things created with and from the heart but not literally of course. I don't really know what else to say on creativity besides everyone really does need to try to use it to make something because of the joy and everything else it brings. And in this day and age, creating something creative yourself is a powerful act of defiance and there's few things as beautiful as this fact.

Last but not least, the Path of Knowledge. The US education system has failed millions of people spectacularly and that number only grows every single day. There really is always something new you can learn every day. To survive what's already begun with blatantly transphobic executive orders already being published shamelessly out there, your knowledge has to keep growing. So many pieces of knowledge you can learn are going to prove vital and possibly life saving. And it is so important we all keep trying to learn more. The most calm and passive way to make a difference through social interactions is educating others on what you learn about, good and bad. Science is being distorted by bigots and we have to clap back at that and counter that kind of rubbish. The more we learn, the more we can share and come up with solutions to the problems we have to face or die as cowards if we don't. But still, science only has really done much good for society when it also benefitted the ruling class.

See: Operation Warp Speed in the US. Science is intertwined with systemic crap for the most part though fields like sociology appear to be less intertwined with it. Knowledge is the real power of our society. It's why people are deliberately misled, lied to, and poorly educated in the likes of the US. If they are taught to believe a lot of nonsense, they're going to be full of it. That's also why they're attacking what's left of the public education system especially after people gave up on taking a certain "taboo" topic seriously. And you need to just keep learning more to not just better understand how stuff works but to also use the knowledge you learn to resist, make your choices and lives easier, and more as well as pass that knowledge along to other people. Theoretically, an entire movement of people devoted to a specific topic can start with one person sharing that topic to at least one other person, causing a domino effect in which the number of people informed about it grows and grows. This reflects how conspiracy theories are weaponized along with disinformation, ironically enough. Don't just learn more to help yourself, learn more to help others and figure out who you are if you still don't know and stuff.

Basically any knowledge that can be learned that isn't full of utter crap holds value and can be turned into something amazing by people through social interactions. I personally find the vital to be important for people to learn: genocide, the biggest wars of history, major revolutions, sociology, anatomy, advanced biology, environmental science, self protection, forms of art and their very simple basics at minimum, physics, and I can't think of anything else. I really don't need many more words to explain what the Path of Knowledge is about. I've basically told you everything you need to know. And with these words, we come to the long awaited ending of this entire message. You can probably tell I really want to get this out there already. This has taken me hours and hours of work and it's finally to this point. I hope you all got something out of this. I also hope that this will eventually have a significant impact on a lot of people because well.. Things aren't looking good really at all right. But the fact that we're still alive despite the chaos of the past 5 years is something to be proud of. Seriously, we must be doing right if we're all still alive at the moment. Always remember that there is always a way to resist. Don't let the enemies of the people trick you or crush your willpower. This is a fight for the ages.

We can't surrender. We have to keep going. The entire world is in danger now and we have to act like it. But make sure to still take some time for yourself every day to have fun if you can. I'm not really sure how we're going to pull this off but we're going to or we're going to fail. But let's make sure they can't so easily crush us all. Be prepared for anything. Learn from history. Remember that this is not the worst possible timeline. Any timeline in which the entire world plunged into dystopia before this year of 2025 is a worse timeline by definition. We are fortunate we had almost literally 80 years after WW2 ended to develop so many good things. Now, it's our turn to do things. Thank you so much for reading. Stay sharp and frosty, we got work to do and it's not going to be easy.

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