[ID: Tweet via Lydia Kiesling: Housed people have the privilege of having their worst moments in private; unhoused people don’t. This gives some people the profoundly mistaken impression that the person they see acting belligerent on the street is and will be that person every single moment of their life. /end ID]
swear to god some of you are so reactionary you’ll see a post that says “one dude doing a bad thing is no reason to create a monstrous system of social punishment and psychological abuse that largely targets vulnerable social groups” and just start going “BUT THE BAD THING!!! THE BAD THING!!!!! YOU SUPPORT BAD THING????”
the post i’ve been describing literally advocates for bullying as an intrinsic moral good. its indefensible from any points of view except a reactionary one
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something’s going on I’m not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term “Pet Play” is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I’m not mad about using the term “pet play”. That’s a perfectly fine term. I’m mad because they didn’t use that term: they used “pet p!ay”, a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the “Torture is bad” principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor’s visit. If you’re worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.
[Image descriptions in order: a Reddit post on r/TooAfraidToAsk by u/OK__LIBTARD, titled “Why do poor people exist?” The post says “I’m tripping on lsd right now and I can’t figure out why people don’t try to help the poor and why are there homeless people out there that is so sad I don’t want anyone to be homeless I love everyone”.]
[A 4chan post which says “so about an hour ago i popped 180 mg of adderal and now for some reason im realy pissed off at rich people and im going strait communist why does this happen everytime”.]
[A tweet by @hilaryagro “Hilary Agro🍄” which says “During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I’ve ever heard”.]
[A Reddit post on r/inthenews by u/WholsJolyonWest titled “A white supremacist took MDMA for a study, and it snapped him out of his beliefs: ‘Why am I doing this?’”. Attached is a link to an insider news article, with a photo of a white supremacy parade.]
person on the political right + a psychedelic or empathogen/entactogen drug ➡️ person on the political left is a myth, one that Brian Pace and Neşe Devenot fight:
Pace and Devenot argue that psychedelic drugs are, quoting “Right-Wing Psychedelia”, “‘politically pluripotent,’ non-specific amplifiers of the political set and setting”.
that is to say: people who use psychedelic drugs or empathogen/entactogen drugs commonly experience profundity during their trips or in their takeaways about their trips, but that profundity can take different forms. a white-supremacist who uses a psychedelic drug or an empathogen/entactogen drug may instead take away about their trip that they should recommit to white-supremacy.
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from “A white supremacist took MDMA for a study, and it snapped him out of his beliefs: ’Why am I doing this?’”:
Immediately they were concerned as to what “sorting out an issue” might refer to, but when they tracked him down, Brendan revealed that what he needed to do was simply love, as opposed to something more sinister.
“There are moments when I have racist or antisemitic thoughts, definitely,” he said. “But now I can recognize that those kinds of thought patterns are harming me more than anyone else.”
the psychoactive drugs associated with this myth are politically pluripotent; so is love.
there is nothing inconsistent between Brendan’s white-supremacy and his love toward himself as a white man, where he places more concern about the harmfulness of white-supremacy in his own wellbeing and self-care than in the wellbeing of and his care for “anyone else”, e.g. people of color and Jewish people. as Sara Ahmed discusses in her book The Cultural Politics of Emotion, some white nationalist organizations frame their values and activism in terms of love.
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But in the case of Brendan, he had recently been exposed as a white supremacist and lost his job when he was enrolled in the study. He was full of regret about getting caught out.
“A white supremacist took MDMA for a study, and it snapped him out of his beliefs” is not a story about a white-supremacist “snapp[ing …] out of his beliefs”, thru MDMA or otherwise. it’s a story about a white-supremacist saving face.
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person with undesired mentality/behaviors + psychoactive drug ➡️ person with desired values/behaviors is a psychiatric goal and method. it is founded on the same bad logics here as it is in cases of other mentalities/behaviors and other psychoactive drugs (or the same ones—LSD was a psychiatric drug before it became associated with counterculture!). pretending that a psychoactive drug could end a system of oppression by changing individual hearts and minds means ignoring what systems of oppression are and how they work (what do they do? how are they maintained?).
“biblical angels” you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?
and I’m not saying don’t have fun with weird angels. I’m saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.
