I feel like it’s worse to bully someone in your community until they’re homeless and financially destitute than it is to report on people doing that

the reason this lesbian bar story went so viral is that basically every left wing person in America has personally experienced some version of this story in their life over the course of the last decade and is really goddam sick of it

I've been in one more radlib-coded very covid conscious organizing space and it was a horizontalist mutual aid distro in 2020, pre-vaccine, that delivered groceries to mostly old and disabled people. it worked great and was very organized. because we were actually doing something

It is mindblowing to imagine how fast the left will grow if we simply push people with these punitive, manipulative behaviors out of our spaces. So many people I know have silently stepped away from movement spaces because they felt like they were constantly walking on eggshells.

It’s nice to see people admitting that there’s a narcissism problem in left-wing spaces, but it’s worth noting it only gets solved by kicking them out when there is more consensus on them being an asshole than there is dissensus on whatever they can use as a shield from critique.

Tarantino can write himself into his own movies saying racial slurs and licking feet but suddenly it's an issue when trans filmmakers want to create art communicating their lived experiences