I'm going to tell you a story.

when I was in college...we got put in this auditorium for our psychology of human sexuality class.

all psych classes had to go in the school & we listened to a couple trans people talk about getting beat up, marginalized & discriminated against.

it was a pretty sad what we heard & some of the speakers transitioned both from male to female & female to male.

they talked for a while & most people were creeped out even though they didn't deserve the treatment they got from people: as if they came out of a horror movie.

so throughout their presentation a bunch of people left the room. & you could see the trans people being impacted by people walking up & leaving during their speech. by the time it was over, half the room was gone.

not many people really gave a fuck or listened.

after all of it was over, a few others & I (not together) walked up on the stage.

we hugged those people & we told them it's okay to be who you are. I respect you & I am sorry for how people have treated you in the past. i wish you the best & thank you for sharing & being brave.

a lot of people on the internet...don't inspire that kind of behavior.

a lot of people on the internet are making trans people look like fucking idiots & if that person on the stage had the same type of attitude, I would've spit in their face instead.

so what's the difference?

the person on the stage wasn't comparing their experience to war nor assigning themselves some competitive bullshit with Marines.

they weren't looking for pity or special treatment, they were just telling their stories without incessant bullshit & identity politics.

they kept it at that...

instead of trying to bastardize others or drag some political bullshit in with it.

& I felt for them.

they got humiliated & beat up & treated like trash for nothing by their families even into adulthood.

shunned.

it was sad to see the pain.

so I was one of those people who walked up on that stage & hugged that person.

& i know the arrogant droves of dense people here might think that means nothing..

but those people cried on account of us.

we made their day by accepting them & treating them like human beings.

& what I saw today...

some of the shit I've been seeing over time on here.

by a lot of people from different parties & generations & sexuality... etc...

makes me regret a lot of the good things I've done & people I've defended.

certainly doesn't make me want to do so again.

you;re going to fuck it up for other people.

so keep it up.

if I had been exposed to how stupid people are on here...

prior to that experience..

I might have walked out too.

so what that means is...

perhaps...take an inventory how your approach might push away people who would otherwise be more than willing to defend you.

& you know what...

I'll tell another story about a job I had at the mall.

there was a guy married with four children who saw himself as an expert with stocking items.

he was a control freak & tried to tell everyone how to do their job & brown nosing HR over stupid shit.

he wasn't even the boss, wasn't even in a higher position than anyone else but tried to boss everyone around.

well, he was a total fucking creeper

he would text 17 year old girls whilst on the job, asking them when he could get his kiss & other weird shit.

dude was in his 40s.

he'd assume protector & walk them to their car without them even asking & stand around asking to be kissed.

it freaked the girls out.

all of them.

every one.

which they were scared to complain. they were worried about what he'd do & if they did so: if he didn't get fired...

so guess what...

they come to me. the girls come to me & say...

hey dude, please help us. this guy is fucking creeping hard... he is married & he is stalking us during & after work.

we feel violated & uncomfortable.

he gets too close & orders us around.

please do something.

so I watched him around them for the next couple days & I started to realize this dude...isn't all there.

they showed me the texts & shit he was saying. & we started to hear from more & more girls he was hitting on all of them like that.

ALL OF THEM WERE SCARED TO STEP FORWARD.

what did I do?

i helped solve the problem.

& I didn't do it for praise.

I got his ass fired & watched it happen to make sure he left them alone.

stood by our female boss who was scared of him- as she asked me to.

due to me stepping forward, the girls followed my lead.

after they showed me what he was doing...the texts & requests & just seeing their discomfort.

I didn't like him anymore.

couldn't fucking stand him.

he'd come by & try to tell me how to do something & I'd just think..you are pathetic & dumb. please shut the fuck up. yeah yeah.

he'd walk around with his box cutters out too...

his wife & kids came into work as well...

like, bro...you have kids. what the fuck is your issue?

get a hold of yourself.

why the fuck are you texting underage girls & being a fucking a creeper?

why was he calling HR?

he was calling HR to get our boss fired because he wanted to be boss.

lmfao.

which I realized once she was scheduled to leave the shop in two weeks on account of him.

so the girls were like...DUDE...he is going to be the boss & he is doing all of this shit. please help us.

our boss ended up staying on account of him & the company realized where all the complaints had been coming from.

the same guy who was hitting on his underage coworkers & stalking them after work.

hitting on all the girls: married & with kids.

kids & wife he brought into work.

dude was a fucking sleazeball.

& you know what, once again...

if those girls acted like some of the people I've seen online..

I'd say...

you handle it your fucking selves.

you fend for yourselves.

fuck your sexist disrespectful dehumanizing instigating full of shit ass.

I'm not about to fucking step in & help people like you.

so you can check your fucking behavior & attitude before you ask for anything.

i'm not about to help shitty people & step in only to get disrespected & dehumanized...

fuck you & that entire idea.

not my problem.

& if that is that type of attitude you want to instill or incite in people who would otherwise...

be that person.

GO RIGHT THE FUCK ON AHEAD.

people fail to see how this is counter productive to what they claim to care about.

you go around demonizing people who have done shit you know nothing about...

& you can reap the rewards because a lot of us aren't going to take your bullshit.

just like we won't take theirs.

what is the point?

it's not my responsibility or my problem...

i helped because I was asked & they needed it.

if they acted like entitled dehumanizing sexist cunts with a superiority complex...

i left the job shortly after too despite being treated like a God there.

your disrespect might carry over to restraint where people would otherwise step in.

careful there.

even kind people have their limits.

all you're doing is just inspiring the opposite behavior...which is apathy & indifference.

i'll turn a blind eye just like you.

if I was like you.

some people would've been shit out of luck.

future people might be shit out of luck on account of your stupid ass behavior & veiled characterizations.

so please, behave in a manner which shows appreciation for people who defend & step up for people like YOU.

it's not my job.

not my responsibility.

I don't have to help.

I don't have to step in.

I'm not going to take being treated like something else.

certainly am not going to step in for people who are ungrateful & don't even care about anything but themselves in the first place.

yep.

even though i will most likely continue the tradition of being that person.

some people incite reluctance & on some level I question if it's even worth it.

if this is the future of what I'm defending.

this type of entitled attitude & bullshit sexist demonizing.

umm...no

you can get your shitty wish.

the agenda & bullshit I saw today with trans people bashing Marines...

makes me think back to that moment when I made a trans woman & man cry for hugging them.

for shaking their hand & looking them in the eye & saying I respect you & I'm sorry for how people have treated you.

just the same...sometimes the shit I see people do on here & other places...

makes me think back to times when I've helped people out of fucked up situations...

that I've seen really destroy or mentally warp others.

the amount of bullshit i get in return creates reluctance.

because it's like what the fuck is the point?

there are too many idiots & I'm not trying to help people who are that fucking dense.

because it won't do much.

with those types of people, it's just going to enable their bullshit & i'll get martyred in the process.

fuck that.

be careful what you wish for works in many different ways.

sometimes it's what you're wishing someone else to be.

yep...don't have anything against trans, gays, lesbians, bi or hetero...based on the classification itself.

i don't have anything against women or men...based on the classification itself.

the devil is in the details & shitty behavior FROM ANY that incites the worst in people.

no fixed negative preconception that encapsulates all.

the only time I would use one is when I know it will piss someone else off because they're the ones to appeal to it in the first place.

being an asshole to those who take my kindness for granted & it goes over their head.

people want you to step up for them & defend them..

but do they ever think about anyone but themselves?

are they really worthy of it?

do they honor & respect you at all?

or your efforts?

if it means nothing, why even do it in the first place?

the right thing means nothing?

& that is the point.

reap what you sow there but not by divine prophecy, by being a fucking ungrateful dickhead.

if the right thing means nothing & it doesn't really matter.

then why the fuck should people do it?

especially for entitled people who will be like...

"AND....?"

met lots of people who are sorrowful about no one stepping in to help them at helpless times in their life.

they meet people who are the exact opposite & from jump street try to project all that shit onto them like it's their fault.

why would I want to help people like that?

they're so deluded & inflated & selfish & arrogant...& jaded.

a poor judge of character & of the human condition.

why would I want to defend you?

you demonize me for standing up for myself & implicitly devalue consistently.

hoping you're justified & oh so holier than thou.

how many metaphors of irony can one come up with?

the good thing is, the people I've stepped in to help are nothing like the people online

& if they were..

i'd certainly have pause & think twice.

FOR FUCKING SURE.

nah...maybe I'll just let nature take it's course here.

maybe I'll give them what they think they want.

people like you demonize the emotional intensity until it gets you out of a situation where it is absolutely fucking necessary.

& since you were someone who laid down.

& took shit.

& shut off.

from then on lived in a state of modesty & self shaming internalized devaluation for feeling negative emotion or dissent on account of authoritarian people who never got help for their shit & projected it on you.

emotional intensity would be uncomfortable to you.

yet that same emotional intensity is what drives people to feel deeply.

to care.

to give a fuck.

to step up & help someone in need regardless.

to be kind or courteous or receptive or compassionate.

or assertive & aggressive

& aggression is exactly what was needed to get people out of situations that completely fucking marred them.

someone stepping in & keeping a close eye.

so fuck you.
fuck you. fuck you.

my temperament is the way it is for a reason, one which you clearly don't understand at all.

better to have it & not need it than need it & not have it.

that entire...

"I don't want to deal with how heavy you are..."

guess what..

people who violate others get that same type of fucking feeling.

so the parts that you hate in me serve a bigger purpose that you're not fully aware of.

just like with others.

that vicious, tenacious & relentless discerning paranoid fixation on actively assessing for threats...

comes in handy 1% of the time & when it does, it's worth it.

because that type of situational awareness & vigilance protects people from a life of feeling robbed of innocence.

or also...

willing to look past or question general consensus.

the status quo.

do you not see how important that is for people to do?

is it my fucking job?

no.

yet presently & historically, people get steamrolled & marginalized & completely fucked by it unnecessarily...

so.

are we just going to close our eyes & pretend like horrible shit isn't happening or what?

is that the solution?

is that really being positive? not addressing serious deep seated sociological issues & being emotionally complacent? pretending like shit is okay when it isn't?

it's ridiculous.

& it's ironic that people who point this shit out are looked at as crazy.

you're getting gas lighted by your own government & news stations & commercials & advertisement & corporations 24/7...

literally.

gas lighted & manipulated for divisive & monetary ends.

it's just normalized.

values & moral imperatives & philosophical precedents & democracy all gets lost in the storm of social fascism.

people are biased & only concerned with being right about the most shortsighted of preconceptions regarding life & the human condition.

it gets handed down from people who are so far gone with corruption that all the money & war & death & vanity & chaos & blame & hate & greed & selfishness will never be enough.

ever.

people don't realize they're conditioned to be idiots as they have been for thousands of years.

because they're much easier to control that way.

so people literally narrate reality to them & they follow it.

they're guided by people they're not even aware of.

with the advent of the internet...brainwashing comes much more easy, as does propaganda.

because you can just put it in people's face...

& they'll run with it & use it on each other.

totally oblivious to where it's coming from.

even if it's lies or stretched truths.

won't matter.

it'll be 'half way around the world before the truth gets it's shoes on'...

which also helps serve this shit because people won't know what to believe.

thus, won't be able to come to a logical conclusion on what is what without empirical evidence.

since people are facetious & manipulate facts & perspectives & are dogmatic...it's a fucking sideshow.

people have a hard time accepting that people higher up are manipulating the shit out of them & they can do next to nothing about it.

so they displace it on each other.

because they cannot displace upwards.

so shit rolls downhill.

& their attitude is fuck it forward

take it.

& derive joy when you shove it in someone else's face.

& if someone doesn't want to follow unspoken mores & graciously accept this civilized heirloom.

they can be socially fixed with a dazzling array of not so subtle dehumanization

which is why a lot of people begin to give up hope in this species very quickly & resort to a life of self interest.

which feels at this point is conditioned into people...

because it's much easier to keep them all in line when they're scared of death & punishment & ostracism & being judged...

because people who have no conscience can just steamroll them from a distance & buy them all out.

making enemies is for amateurs.

if people don't hold strong to fighting the good fight..

if they don't hold strong to values.

if they don't hold strong to emotion & moral imperatives & virtue & everything that keeps this civilization from eating itself alive..

people will be unquestionably fucked & extinct.

yes a tangent.

from people I don't want to defend & people I have defended.

& what compels such & where it's useful.

to the entire state of the world & civilization.

how it seems people & society are conditioned to be this way more than it is innate or divine intervention.

how the internet makes it easier for people to brainwash & how people not being able to think for themselves leads them following dominant consensus even if dominant consensus is idiotic or immoral & becomes normalized.

how the manipulative exploitative shit rolls downhill.

in the makeshift shell of a caricature we call civilization.

this ENTIRE ship is being carried right now...

by the only decent people left in this world.

better fucking protect them.

moral & ethical imperatives is the only salvation.

let the hardened ones cut out the rest of it.

decent people are the only hope here despite what anyone says.

technology will get out of hand.

won't soften the world but you can make people think & feel & question themselves.

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if an alien asked me, "Hey dude, define humans..."

I'd say...

they're kind of like withering souls that are in denial about how much they hate everything. you're going to see a lot of that but it's going to be in a compensatory competitive social 'this isn't happening' format.

i think an alien would enjoy my company honestly...

not because they're miserable it's just because they could probably relate to me not being able to relate.

that's if they weren't totally jaded & wanted to probe the shit out of me.

they'd have to sedagive the honey badger.

yeah dude...not to go on another tangent or anything...

but if aliens tried to abduct me...the drowsy post abduction me waking up on an operating table would be grouchy & a bit on the cranky WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING side.

luckily their advanced morphine would mull it all over

i imagine humans act a lot like rabid wild animals when accidentally waking up mid alien abduction.

you'd be on some weird ship.

you'd be disoriented & surrounded by lifeforms that either manifest themselves as human or look nothing like humans.

it'd be beyond culture shock.

shoving otherworldly instruments all up in you & doing weird tests on you.

yeah...I'm pretty sure people would freak the fuck out.

like you don't know why they're doing that.

you didn't give permission....you know on occasion, someone would wake up & run around the ship...

having to get wrangled to the ground by the aliens...

imagine waking up restrained on an alien ship, with tubes shoved down your throat where you can't breathe & shit like that...

& them telepathically telling you to relax.

putting their alien hand over your face.

I'd definitely be that guy that wakes up & freaks the fuck out.

such a fun & scary subject to talk about.

despite people thinking you're a total quack if you even suggest the possibility.

like bringing up aliens people, make assumptions...instantly.

#1. mental illness.

#2. temporary delusion, insanity or stupidity.

#3. full of shit.

maybe #4. not possible.

yet...aside from people who act out shit in a manner that is either detrimental to themselves or others...who are legitimately suffering distressing delusions...as opposed to entertaining ideas.

it seems entirely plausible to me that they would exist.

i wouldn't be surprised at all.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were already here, stay close by or have been here.

we broadcast everything. humans are open books.

& it's nearly impossible to predict what level of intelligence they'd have or what that evolution would look like

you know, do they come from other planets in this solar system?

another galaxy?

another universe?

a black hole?

can they cut through the fabric of space & time & shift through dimensions?

are they so far in the future that they developed time travel & play with reality?

the possibilities are endless really.

one can only imagine what that evolution of life would look like in a personified form over the span of billions & billions of years.

the evolution of good & evil by that time if such a construct or dichotomy would still be relevant...

like a civilization being around for billions of years.

can you imagine?

how out of hand the technology would get....

people would feel like primitive apes upon approaching some otherworldly or futuristic advanced technological craft.

everything people were raised to believe as reality would be in question.

like indigenous people looking at a helicopter.

wide eyed, petrified & dumbfounded

so be decent people or the aliens will probably eat you or something like that.

i don't know...

you want a selling point, i don't have one.

this thread stopped making sense a while ago when it took it's tangential turn towards advanced civilizations & things of that nature.

i don't think aliens would share human bias though...

so i imagine them seeing humans as like cells like everything else in the entire web of life & ecosystem that is Earth.

a different manifestation.

& they'd see those cells as disruptive & cancerous for the most part.