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The amount of suicide glorification on this website is fucking atrocious. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
I'm fully uninstalling Tumblr until I'm in a mentally well enough place to go through and mass unfollow people. I'll be around when I'm around again.
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Former Anon current cryptid here to say: Oh my god thank you so much for reblogging somewhat negatively about bushnell's impact on suicidal folks I was like "where is the caution??? where are people saying that this might get people to put themselves in danger??" like. thank you for giving me examples of people saying "hey we should be careful" (especially with the depressed leftist thought trap I'm like. always in the bear trap teeth of!!! it's important to remember that it's not the solution!!)
Of course. It's something I feel extremely strongly about because of my situation with my dad, so my feelings about Bushnell are very muddled with my own grief and anger, but the underlying feeling is something I've always felt even before my dad took his life.
I do also think I'm in a very unique position to criticize Bushnell's actions as an anarchist who was raised by an anarchist who killed himself because of that grief and anger too though, yk?
Because realistically? The biggest crater caused by Bushnell's death will not be in the government. It will not be in the public. It will be in the lives of his widow and his children. I know. I've been there with my own family.
I simply don't think there is anything rhetorically positive to be gained from the death of a man who has left behind a young, widowed, single mother of two babies to take care of under the age of 3 for the sake of a political cause that will not be impacted by his death in the slightest.
Not to mention, the social contagion of suicide is very real and - this is just a personal feeling as someone who has dealt with suicidality/the direct impact of suicide - but I truly think that the people who don't think about that haven't fully unpacked their own suicidality. I think that it just feeds suicidal fantasy in indirect ways. If you die for the cause it's not suicide, it's martyrdom. And that sucks.
I'm very of the mind that people who treat suicide as valid political action are dangerous, especially in leftist movements where you are dealing with vulnerable populations who are already at higher risks of suicidality. Praising suicide as a positive, viable, or powerful political action is actively dangerous. It's literally what leads to people like my dad.
It destroys people and families and we should be doing better as anarchists and leftists to combat the idea that suicide can be a powerful statement when it is absolutely not.
#putting this on main#if you post about aaron bushnell without suicide warnings you are an unsafe person for suicidal people and people who have been impacted by#suicide to be around#suicide /
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Stop glorifying suicide as a means of political action.
Killing yourself for a political cause that you can't impact anymore beyond a finite point isn't going to get the military to lay down their arms. How naïve can you be?
What it will do and has done more realistically is impact the infant and toddler and widow he decided weren't worth fighting for for the sake of turning himself into a half-baked message for the rest of their lives.
The crater in their lives is larger than any crater that will be made within the US military.
I'm literally speaking on this as an anarchist whose anarchist father killed himself - in part for political reasons. Stop glorifying political suicide as something positively impactful you unempathic assholes.
The reason the establishment is so terrified of Aaron Bushnell's protest, is because they understand a point many of you seem to have missed
Aaron wasn't sending a message to the government (we know they don't care)
No, I think Aaron's message was meant for other service people like him. Because if the military refuses to participate in the genocide, it's over
And if you thought YOU were moved by Aaron's actions...
imagine how Aaron's unit is feeling right now
Mutinies have started for less
The exact moment every protest turns into a revolution, is when the army refuses to defend the establishment any longer.
And THAT was the message Aaron was sending out. How many units now are ready to reject orders? How low does their morale have to sink before they say 'enough!' How long until they stop pointing guns at the protestors outside, and run over and join them instead?
This is dangerous territory for a government that is hellbent on ignoring every crisis it creates
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DMV: FUCKED
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karol l. jensen, from lesbian epiphanies: women coming out in later life, 1999
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Customer: NIER AUTOMATA. VIDEO GAME
DMV: 2 BLUNTS 9 SLUTS
Verdict: DENIED
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I think the funniest possible thing to do in a low stakes situation when someone subtly insults you is to ask them to elaborate.
In Seattle I was explaining environmental DNA and a woman said it “tickled” her to hear someone with my accent (rural Appalachia) “talk about science.”
So I said, “oh! 🙂 What an interesting perspective. Can you tell me more about what you mean?”
As you can imagine it went badly for her very quickly.
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I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you
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This is so much funnier now that we know that Hank has recorded an entire season of Dimension 20 with Brennan
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I'd noticed these spaces melt into each other recently and had my friend @seshrat help cook this up :)
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hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)
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