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[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-2-what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been.933294/post-126254472

LOVE having you back.
This thread isn't representative of the rest of the country, yadda yadda yadda... but to see this thread optimistic and energized again is really putting wind in my sails the last few days.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ava-kris-tyson-steps-down-from-all-things-mr-beast-after-old-messages-and-weird-behavior-unveiled.935043/post-126259692

100% bet there's a bunch of transphobes somewhere on a right wing forum or message board, that in a few years come to a realisation they're trans and deconstruct all the shit they said because they felt too afraid to come out and lose the safety of which patriarchal society and their peers offer.

When I was a teenager I was extremely racist, sexist, and homophobic and 100% of my political views were derived from South Park. This was true for basically every young man in my age group and for a lot of the women who didn't interrogate their beliefs in order to date these men. I didn't start to get better until my 20s. I grew up in two blue states.

So it's hard for me to imagine it's worse now than it was then. It just seems pretty normal to me to think most 18-22 year old men in particular are the worst versions of themselves that they'll ever be and still need to get better.

Counterpoint: no, you're stupid.