Alia Arcangel

My family is scared. i hang out with my cousins, we were gonna go out to eat, and someone asked us to get delivery instead cause a friend had been kidnapped and disappeared by ICE while he was at at Wendys. I feel so powerless.

congratulations!!!!!

wanting to feel like the worlds strongest person, too.

I feel like Trump is jealous of Obama for taking out Bin Laden. He wants his own heavily publicized victory against a monstrous enemy of the people who killed huge numbers of U.S. citizens.

More than oil or anything else he wants the optics of quickly and (for us) painlessly taking out an "enemy".

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.

cause i was songwriting and found this little riff i really like, played it a few times and suddenly became sure i’ve heard it before, but dont know where,,,, but yea i like it

i like how you cant write new music, we can forever search for the secret chord but everything is a conversation with whats been written before uwu

getting harder to argue that the establishment democrats actually care about winning and accomplishing things, isn't it. in the sense of defeating the republicans and enacting the policies they run on, anyway

i love thinking “wow its the most beautiful girl in the world!” then seeing another girl and thinking “wow its the most beautiful girl in the world!” then seeing another-

half hour call w friend fixes the soul

No! You absolutely cannot [any meaningful resistance to fascism] because we can't give them an excuse to [thing the fascists plan to do and will absolutely do regardless]

Thread of comical/worrying dog crossbreeds:

ok jokes but also: isnt it great sometimes pick names cause they remind us of someone we admire? and apparently we admire each other?

any time someone picks a new one, we simply assimilate it into the repertoire and the hive mind grows

trans ppl choose the same names cause we all have impecable taste and a groovy style

ty!! it’s apparently controversial!

if im being transparent, im unsure if im right to bring empathy up at all, i dont think its the thing being discussed here really

you don’t need to empathize with the person being killed to be shocked by the image of a murder, no? empathy may be irrelevant

im not saying we should all have that reaction, but i don’t think its fascistic to be shocked by a snuff film

imagine crying any time a fascist says something fascistic…wouldn’t that be pathetic?

on kid: i (and neuroscience) see ppl as cognitively full grown at 25, i think of ppl younger as kids

i feel you’re talking past what im saying-

im saying: doesn’t it suck we live in a world where we cant practice the reformative justice we believe in?

i agree with you on the world is a better place now a person with the power to hurt us is gone, im not contradicting that. im saying: shitty world!

right, and doesn’t it suck that we genuinely feel theres people so fucked up that it would be better if they died? isnt that an undesirable reality? that we are so backed into a corner we can feel that way?

you dont have to have empathy for fascists! i sure as hell didnt feel sad a fash was taken down. im not saying “we should all be mourning”

where do you feel he washed charlies history? i only saw a vid of him explaining why he specifically had that reaction, maybe i missed a longer one

if anything im genuinely saddened that there is so much violence happening at all times that we’ve been desensitized to murder.

id like to imagine that even if it ever became a necessity (think, war) the murder of “enemies” would still sadden me. its a waste, and unfortunate it comes down to that

isn’t empathy a major value within leftism? why are we bullying a kid with too much of it?

id feel differently if he had filmed himself crying and then uploaded it, the video would have another agenda, but *sees murder on a stream and cries* feels like a normal human reaction

am i gonna cry over it? hell nah

but am i glad theres people on the (lib, sure, but) left with enough empathy to be shocked by the violent death of enemies? ofc.

we all want to live in peace, don’t we? we all wish this wasnt the current state of reality, dont we?

anyways wild to make this post but im seeing people getting cancelled for saying the same thing and i wanna say: yea thats….thats weird!

he’s a kid! watching a murder! let him cry!!! thats human!!!

he’s not reacting with anger, he’s not using it as an excuse to push right-wing extremism, and the left is supposed to be about caring about everyones access to a self-determined life.

i’ll take a kid w too much empathy over one that doesn’t give a shit about others any day