🙄 Former Donald Trump lawyer John #Eastman pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in #Arizona.
I find myself reminded of many years ago when I still used Facebook, of no longer mentioning my dog's bad behavior (when he was still a puppy) because EVERY time I did, I was flooded with unsolicited advice (almost always by cis men!) and this was a group of people I at least somewhat knew, not total strangers.
Like, I get the desire to connect with someone by replying to their story with one of your own. But this is more than the often-autistic thing of "I'm attempting to show you empathy by describing a similar situation I experienced." It's jumping to "THIS is how you SHOULD handle this situation," almost entirely at people who DIDN'T ASK FOR YOUR ADVICE.
Consider the massive difference:
"I'm looking for alternatives to (name of tech thing, service, whatever)" vs "I'm having issues with (tech thing)"
One is a direct solicitation of advice. The other is a gripe.
You CAN, by my own standards of internet etiquette (others may vary), reply with something like "I had that issue too, that's why I started using (alternative tech thing)." that is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT from "you SHOULD use (alternative tech thing) because (tech thing you're currently using) is trash."
I mean, the difference is obvious to me, but judging by the posts by so many others dealing with #replyGuys, it apparently isn't? And yes, I do think #whitePrivilege and #malePrivilege do play a role, because it's simply the reality that our culture places the utmost value on the words spoken by people who are white, male, or both. You don't have to choose privilege to benefit from it.
Anyway this post, itself, is a gripe/rant, and is not, in fact, a solicitation of advice for how to deal with reply guys. Feel free to reply with your own experiences with them, but for the love of Apollo, please DON'T reply with anything that can be boiled down into "you should..."
Or you're just further exemplifying the very issue I'm right now griping about 🙃
I was taught from an early age to hold any object I was buying away from my body while shopping, lest I be accused of stealing. No under the arm holding of things, arms totally in front or to the side. I keep the receipt in my hand until I’m well out of the store. Any store. There are many different “talks” we have with our kids, not just the police talk.
Yes, they do not only feel that they are threatened, their livelihood really is under attack. So ult-right pundits' venonomous seed of hatred falls on fertile ground or as @willbunch puts it:
"...👉a pyramid of paranoia that starts with penny-seeking bottom feeders on social media and ends with the bloviation of national...
“Fed judge declared mistrial after jury deadlocked on civil rights charges against former Louisville police officer who fired stray bullets in the deadly raid that left #BreonnaTaylor dead.
..Hankison fired 10 shots into Taylor’s window and a glass door after officers came under fire during the flawed drug warrant search on March 13, 2020. Some of his shots flew into a neighboring apartment, but none of them struck anyone.
calling out #whiteprivilege within the #lgbtqia+ #community isn’t in-fighting. it’s fighting for the #people who are the most in need of someone in their corner. :antifa_100:
https://madison365.com/third-party-vote-height-white-privilege/
Article is from 2016 and was prescient.
White Privilege is throwing away your vote instead of helping others with it. When you have extra food, you give it to the poor or feed your neighbors. You don't throw it into the trashcan in front of starving people. #whiteprivilege#vote
@georgetakei I hope they would’ve treated a minority suspect similarly. And maybe they would’ve since few felons are dumb enough to go into a police station where they isolate themselves in an empty lobby, meaning there’s not a sense of immediacy short of the Perp pulling a bomb out and burning the place down. But I can’t imagine a male minority being allowed to bang on the wall or glass with a gun, and that many minutes would have elapsed. #whiteprivilege#crime#Justice
Waaahh, we don't want to share any more.
Just fuck off into the sea mate.
Times: "Gregory Doran, who led the RSC from 2012 until last year, said that giving more opportunities to previously under-represented groups meant those who had traditionally dominated theatre were now “finding themselves with very little work”."
I interact with folks here, daily. If you're following me & choose to never interact - ever - I'm going to remove you. I'm not into collecting a bunch of passive followers & have zero desires to be an influencer - unless I'm inspiring you to stop feeding craptalism shit ppl & learning to rage hard against those asshats.
Example of how not to be an adult when posting this shit before blocking me when I'm only saying don't fucking just follow & stalk me & never engage. Way to showcase #ignorant#whiteness crap.
Canadians, Australians, and Americans are some of the most #CarbonPrivileged in the world. All our news reporting is about how magical hurricanes and fires are. Nothing about #ClimateChange or burning #FossilFuels for the most part. #ClimateNews revolves around incrementals like electric vehicles, banning straws, solar panels.
Never do we actually talk about taking away the privilege of intense energy use. We don't talk about building denser, smaller homes. We don't talk about NOT taking that vacation. We don't talk about NOT buying things. At most we sub in one form of consumption for another.
We, the largest energy users in the world can't just talk about alternative energy. We need real energy reduction and yes, that means the "economy" will hurt, that means fewer vacations, that means smaller homes. (Don't @ me with some facts about small apartments, I'm talking about averages here).
We will never get anywhere until we accept using less. For starters, no homes in the greenbelt where we need cars to drive between McMansions.