I wouldn’t even use 45; use 34 – the number of felonies.
#6 tho
When I hear someone saying all is lost, for us, for for them, all I hear is someone giving up on every single person in a worse position than them.
It HURTS.
Both in a wider sense, and personally, because I am almost always more vulnerable than these people, and when I am not, I do always have loved ones who are.
I have never advocated for this before, not EVER, but:
Be very careful and extremely selective where and how and with whom you process your strongest difficult feelings. Do find an outlet, you need that, but be selective, and open to the possibility that it may look different than what you are currently doing.
I am not saying this because you should be silent, or to drive you away. I’m saying it because we are heading into a difficult (not impossible) situation that’s very different anything most people from the USA have experienced before, and very different rules about how we talk about things and treat each other are going to apply.
It sucks and I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, I’m struggling with this SO MUCH. But right now you need to try, and to stand beside others, and that means not fueling their hopelessness…or causing them to push you further away because you are hurting them.
If you can’t find anything to say besides something negative or hopeless, try “we are all in this together”. Because it’s true. And you must remember that.
We all must remember that.
you’re right and you should say it. the social rule in a tragedy needs to be:
support inwards, vent outwards. the able bodied should not be looking to the disabled for validation and comfort to process their emotions about the upcoming dangers, they should look to those more stable and resilient for help. the cis should not be demanding consolation from the trans. those in stronger positions have a duty to offer support to more vulnerable and endangered friends, not to add to their burdens.
it’s tempting to seek validation for your fears from people who are even more endangered by the threat than you are because people less endangered could dismiss you. but people actively struggling with a problem that hasn’t reached you yet need your help, not to be managing both The Problem AND Your Feelings.
Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.
and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently
So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:
On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.
After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.
That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.
There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.
Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.
I love how professionally the interpreter communicates the emotions of being both disappointed by and sympathetic with your disappointment at Great Western Railway
genuine question: why have sign language and not just the text? isn’t text easier?
Not for all people!
Signing is more akin spoken language than written text. Which means Hard-of-hearing people who can‘t read (well) due to different reasons (too young, dyslexia, developmental delays, visual issues that make reading hard but allow to see movements, etc…) likely will still be able to understand signing even if they struggle with reading.
In my experience the train station helpdesks are often hard to find, so that would be a great help indeed. Even if its just catching attention that something is up – Important if you can‘t hear the announcements.
oh that makes sense! ty!
This is such a nice interaction good job everybody (except GWR)
I also love how many people got a Paddington jumpscare from this, good job guys (sympathies)
I appreciate this video a lot–people don’t realize how important it is to start slow if you’re trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!
i’m going to let this video speak for itself. bc i don’t even know what to say anymore. i don’t know how we come back from this level of radicalization among young people to the point where holocaust denial has become the norm.
White supremacists would be fucking *delighted*. Hell, *are* delighted.
To add to this:
Not only were two-thirds of European Jews killed, but the ones who remained faced violence and antisemitism even once they returned home from the camps. There were even two massacres of Jews who’d returned to their towns post-Holocaust; I have a friend who’s descended from one of the survivors of the Kielce pogrom, in which the town’s non-Jews forced the town’s Jews into a barn and set it on fire. Most Holocaust survivors didn’t feel they could stay, and left. Those in the Soviet Union who stayed experienced a cultural genocide where their Judaism was outlawed.
What this means is that the entire European Jewish civilization of language, art, folklore, foodways, literature, theater, and traditions was basically destroyed. The legacies of some of these things persist in a fractured manner, but something of great is now gone with no hope of true recovery.
It was also not just the Ashkenazi world. Salonika (now called Thessaloniki) in Greece used to be a Jewish city. In the 16th century it was known as “Sabatopolis,” Shabbat city, because ships passing by on Friday nights noted the city was dark because lights could not be lit on Shabbat. It was a center of Jewish culture and scholarship, with Jews from the Ashkenazi world coming to study there. By the 20th century, it was majority non-Jewish and the centers of Jewish scholarship had moved to places like Lublin and Vilna, but it still had a large Jewish population.
87% of the Jews in Greece were killed. Do you understand? Only 13% of Greek Jews survived the Holocaust. This is what a campaign of extermination means. The goal of the Nazis was to kill every last Jewish man, woman, and child. In the world.
On that note: I want people to realize that before the Holocaust, there were only 16.6 million Jews in the world. Killing six million meant that more than a third of our global population was gone in just four years. In the ensuing decades, many Jews married non-Jews and raised their kids non-Jewish with the goal to intentionally assimilate for safety so their descendants would be unharmed in the event of another Holocaust. Some of these people kept their Jewishness secret from their families and only revealed it on their deathbeds. They figured, better to hide and lose their identities than to die.
We have not yet been able to recover our population. As I mentioned, before the Holocaust, there were 16.6 million Jews in the world, and just a few short years later, there were less than 11 million. Today, there are still only 15.7 million. After 80 years, there are still fewer Jews in the world than there were before the Holocaust.
The other thing I would like people to understand is that the Holocaust was not a one-off; it was an escalation. Jewish life in Eastern and Central Europe was marked by periodic massacres and constant persecution. The middle ages were especially bad, with a number of large massacres. There were also discriminatory laws in many times and places, for example ones disallowing Jews from owning land. In the late 19th century, pogroms (which were violent riots in the Jewish sections of towns) flared up. This is what spurred the wave of immigration to the US around the turn of the 20th century; that and the fact that we could sense that something horrific was on the horizon.
Also, in Yuval’s video, he mentions that the Holocaust was purely based on hatred, and not out of motivation to steal money or land. I don’t actually agree; Jews had to surrender their possessions and bank accounts, and I assume that was used to further the Nazi war effort. Everything was taken from them; even the glasses off their faces and the hair off their heads, the latter turned into socks and mattresses. Their homes were also immediately taken from them by their neighbors; some did not even wait until the Jews were out of sight before beginning to loot the possessions left behind, and then moving in.
On a personal note, my maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. My grandfather had a wife and two children who were killed on arrival at Auschwitz. This was normal; even at work camps, children and their mothers were gassed on arrival. His son, my uncle, Usher Meilich was ten when he was murdered; his son Yehuda Yaakov was nine.
My grandmother was one of seven siblings; only three (herself, her brother, and her sister) survived the Holocaust. Her sister, my great-aunt Rochel, was gassed at Auschwitz along with Rochel’s two-year-old son, Zelig. Her parents, my great-grandparents Henna Taltza and Moishe Yehuda, were murdered as well. When I was a little kid I asked my mother if she had grandparents; she had to explain to me that they’d all died before she was born.
I am telling you this not because you deserve me opening up my heart and scooping out the names of half my family tree gone to serve you on a silver platter, but because some part of me believes that having names to attach will break someone’s hard shell and inspire some compassion. But it feels degrading to need to do this at all, and maybe it won’t even help. I hate having to turn out my pockets like this.
Look. I have no interest in claiming that the Holocaust was “the worst tragedy to happen to humanity,” whatever the hell that means. But I am desperately trying to convince people that it was a real tragedy that happened to real people and that we bear the scars and wounds to this day; from intergenerational trauma (a term coined to describe the effects of Holocaust trauma on the grandchildren of survivors, before it was coopted on social media to describe the negative cycles of every dysfunctional family everywhere), to massive language loss, to loss of art and folklore and theater, to our non-recovered population numbers, to the cemeteries left unprotected against local populations destroying them and turning Jewish gravestones into paving stones to be walked upon, to the trauma that manifests itself in catastrophic violence against Palestinians.
also wanna add–the world population in 1930 was only 2 billion. today, it’s over 8 billion. the world population has quadrupled, and the population of jews worldwide STILL has not recovered. the ENTIRE WORLD has 4x as many people as there used to be, and it still hasn’t recovered. just to give some scale
reblogging this again bc ppl should know that after this creator posted this video, he was bombarded with harassment and accusations of him being a “zionist” despite the fact he’s an outspoken antizionist, accused of being racist because he didn’t say that slavery was worse than the holocaust (in a video where he says he doesn’t rank tragedies), and had his jewishness picked apart by gentiles for weeks. gentiles are deeply uncomfortable with the scope of the horrors of the holocaust, and they take that discomfort out on the jews who try to talk about it, which is why holocaust remembrance day is so important. sit in your discomfort and learn how to deal with it.
Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamer, Bring me all your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world.
i really appreciate you for taking the time to send this. i’ve been meaning to talk about this and have been forgetting. the following is of course not directed at you, anon, it is directed at people who behave like this
you’re not feminist, progressive, cool, pro-queer rights or funny for saying “kill all men”. you are exposing that you are a violent and dangerous person for believing that people should be profiled and literally killed for their gender or PERCEIVED gender.
this doesn’t make people like you more. it outs you as a danger. how do we know you won’t turn that hatred toward women whenever you feel like changing the goalposts? i can’t trust someone like that to not turn that hatred toward other genders, either. YOU are the dangerous person you are profiling men as. you can’t use men as a scapegoat for everything. sometimes YOU are the violent person who needs help.
your boyfriend shouldn’t have to feel like that. like people have never really cared about gay men but people just straight up gave up all pretenses that they do and i hate it. cis men are not inherently evil. cis men can still be queer. cis men can still be good people. your boyfriend shouldn’t have to feel isolated because he’s cis. that’s profiling. he belongs. why do people assume that everyone with a partner who is a man hates them? not everyone is choosing to be in a relationship with someone they hate. i understand that some people will date someone no matter who just to have a partner so they’re not lonely, but not everyone does this. some people genuinely love their boyfriends
i’m sorry you both have dealt with this. i hope things can improve because men don’t deserve to feel like this. this is why toxic masculinity exists in the first place. we have to stop reinforcing that men are evil monsters. they won’t stop believing that if we keep telling them that forever. stay safe. your boyfriend is not a bad person & deserves to have a wonderful life.
An infant lying on his mother’s chest for the first time, hands in little fists, wrinkled and exhausted and in no way ready for the next 70 years of being on this earth, is not someone you should look at and think “we sure are gonna have to murder that guy.”
If you don’t really mean it, don’t say it. If you do mean it, could you please wear a shirt or something so that people can avoid you for being way, way more potentially dangerous than a newborn with a penis?
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