This is My Declaration of War on the Left
I identify as a Social Democrat on the center-right(ish) on some issues and center-left on others. So you have a better grasp of my political and personal views, I will divulge a smattering of opinions on a range of subjects below. This will hopefully provide you with some context that will help you to understand my worldview and give you a reference point to ground my conclusions.
However, if you can't make it past the first fucking paragraph without wanting to chop my head off before arriving at the core argument I'm making, then you're part of the problem and need to sit the fuck down and pull yourself together. Sadly, the people who become overly and irrationally emotional at the slightest differing of opinion from their own are the very people who should read this essay and won't.
So, if you can behave like an adult, then by all means, please read on. If you can't, then please fuck off, never vote in a major election again, and get the hell off the internet because you're too childish to have such privileges.
We Gucci?
Fabulous.
Let's do this…
I support the 1st amendment and believe strongly in the separation of religion and government. As an atheist, I do not want anyone's religious dogma forced into our schools, legislation, scientific endeavors, or on my body. I believe that Christian Nationalism is a plague on society that will jettison this country back into the dark ages.
I support the 2nd amendment because I support people's right to have things, but I believe there should be limits to those things so people don't die unnecessarily. I do not see any reason why anyone needs an "assault weapon" if they aren't in an active military situation. But I am not delusional and think an "assault weapon" ban would be impossible to implement.
I strongly believe that high-capacity magazines need to be banned, that restrictions need to be made on what caliber of bullets can be sold to civilians, that the "gun show loophole" needs closing, and that mentally ill people shouldn't be able to legally buy a gun (meaning I want more thorough background checks and a fourteen day mandatory wait time on all gun sales).
I personally can't own a gun, don't want to own a gun, and find people's obsession with an ugly, loud hunk of metal that puts holes in things that were once alive to be bizarre, sadistic, and is potentially compensating for a person's very small... mind.
I consider myself a patriot and have seen the American Dream manifest in my family. I am the granddaughter of two World War II veterans from opposing sides. My German grandparents were able to immigrate to the U.S. to escape the financial decimation brought about by the Nazi Regime, start a business, invest in the stock market, accumulate wealth, and find a community where they and their children could thrive.
My American grandparents took advantage of the G.I. Bill to get a college education and affordable housing, then went to work for the Ford Motor Company (who employed a dozen members of my family), which pulled them out of generational poverty and set them up with a comfortable retirement.
I understand that this country has not been great to everyone and that even for myself, the American Dream died long ago. Still, I cannot deny that it has been great for my family, and I am oddly protective of it.
As for the war in Gaza, it is my humble opinion that both sides suck ass. Hamas knew what they were doing when they butchered 1300 people and took 253 hostages, raped college girls at a music festival, decapitated innocent husbands and fathers, shot teenage girls in front of their siblings, disemboweled infants, and then took those hostages back to Gaza where a crowd of giddy Palestinians spit in their terrified faces—all of which they recorded for the world to see. Hamas knew there would be consequences for antagonizing one of the most powerful military forces in the world. If they gave a shit about the women and children under their governance, they wouldn't be hiding in the homes of (often willing) civilians who they knowingly put in danger.
But I fully acknowledge that Benjamin Netanyahu is a wannabe dictator, and I do not agree with most of his policies. This war could have ended months ago if Netanyahu had given his “fuck around and find out" show-of-force to Hamas and their leadership, done the hostage/prisoner exchanges, given back a few acres of dry scrubby real estate, and been satisfied with those victories. Instead, he's engaged in a scorched earth tirade of death and destruction that has exceeded the magnitude of the initial attack, which has caused the entire world to give him the side-eye.
Hamas wounded Netanyahu's pride, and he needs to put his ego in check and stop murdering people unnecessarily. Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen need to stop having a dick-measuring contest with Israel, stop trying to sneak Hamas gun-shaped cookies so aid can safely be delivered, and learn to use their words instead of their loud, expensive, big boom-boom toys. Everyone needs to stop squabbling over this shitty patch of desert, share their holy sites like fucking grownups, and quit blowing themselves up for stupid ideological reasons in a vain attempt to please their fictional bloodthirsty deity. It is WILD to me how unhinged people get when discussing this utterly asinine conflict.
I think insurance companies are a scam and believe in universal healthcare. I would rather my tax dollars go to treating someone's cancer than Elon Musk's government contracts. I want all drugs legalized, standardized, taxed, and openly available to anyone of legal age (over 21). If we can legally put alcohol, weed, ADHD medication (aka medical methamphetamine), morphine (aka medical heroin), caffeine, nicotine, and acetaminophen into our systems, I don't see why psilocybin, meth, heroin, cocaine, or MDMA can't. I should be able to do what I want with my body, and the government should ensure that I can do that with relative safety (like they do with prescription medications) and tax the shit out of it to bring in revenue. People aren't going to stop being human. The government needs to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs and move on.
I support a woman's right to choose and think the government should have no place inside a doctor's office when determining whether that woman wants to continue with her pregnancy for any reason. I believe abortions should be legal, safe, and rare. Late-term abortions, as Republican propaganda defines them, are a myth and patently absurd. The draconian restrictions Republicans have put on abortion are not backed by science, impose their twisted religious morality on people who do not share their views and are killing women, rendering them barron, causing them irreparable emotional harm, and all of these outcomes are monstrous.
I consider myself a second-wave feminist and support everyone's right to be who they are and express themselves in whatever way they feel most confident and comfortable. However, as a misanthropic, asexual, aromantic, cis-gendered, hetero-attracted, reasonably attractive, fem-presenting girlie-girl with overtly masculine personality traits who feels more comfortable around men (I feel obnoxious having listed all that shit and would never do that under normal social situations), I find (somewhat ironically considering the list I just vomited) the obsession with labeling yourself based upon who you fuck and whether your outie bits match your outfit to be off-putting and weird. People that make being gay or trans, black or white, trad wife or giggachad, etcetera etcetera, their entire personality bore me to tears. To me, being trans or gay is the least interesting thing about a person.
What I do find interesting is how that label shapes your view of the world and the people in it. I love being a woman and wouldn't want to deny that joy to anyone. But just saying "trans women are women" is dismissing the fact that many trans women were raised as men or boys, and this fundamentally changes how you interact with people and see yourself within society. We are equal, both deserving of love and respect (assuming we've earned it), but we are not the same.
Transgenderism is a mental illness, one that needs to be treated with gender-affirming care, hormone therapy (if desired), surgery (if necessary), therapy, empathy, and social acceptance. Denying reality is hurting trans people, erasing cis women's lived experience, and putting both in dangerous situations. Screaming about pronouns and accusing everyone who doesn't perform as a perfect “ally" of being a bigoted transphobe isn't helpful and the reason I felt it necessary to write this essay.
Having finally arrived at the point of this post, if I haven't already angered you after reading the above contextual introduction of my personal beliefs, I'm really going to test you now. I realize my position on this matter is going to piss a lot of people off, and I fully anticipate that publishing this essay will incite many on "my side" of the political spectrum into a fervor of blind rage. All I have to say to that is... bring it on, fuckers.
So here it is:
SJWs (Social Justice Warriors: advocates on the far political left with a robust online presence who champion identity politics and social issues that see the political right as an adversary whose worldview is inherently harmful to society) ARE THE REASON DEMOCRATS LOST THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND TRUMP WAS RE-ELECTED.
While I let that fact simmer in your brain for a hot second, I'll go ahead and address the extremely close second reason Democrats lost.
This election was about feefees, not facts, and the average voter felt like the economy was terrible despite all the facts to the contrary. The left severely underestimated the power of vibes and feelings held by an uninformed or willfully ignorant electorate. They didn't aggressively address the fact that Republican propaganda made a paradigm shift to become, "my feelings don't care about your facts," which the average voter gobbled up in droves, pushing them to vote for Trump.
This reason seems fairly obvious to me and doesn't require an entire essay to explain. Still, I feel it's necessary to point out this phenomenon as it was an integral component of Trump's win and will pop up again later in the essay.
So now that I've set my audience's hair on fire, allow me to pour some water on your head and state how I arrived at this conclusion.
The election in 2016 was exceedingly traumatic for me. I was separated from my now ex-husband, and my boss lost his mind, so I lost my job when he closed the practice without warning. I was turning 30, and I had recently found out my husband was cheating on me. He had locked me out of my own home, so I was homeless while that ugly titless cunt was sleeping pretty in my dream home. I had to take my dogs to my parent's house, so I didn't even have them to snuggle with, and my friends abandoned me for my ex-husband. And on and on it went. I was a broken human whose life was falling apart... then Trump became president. The back-to-back suicide attempts I made landed me in the psych ward for two weeks.
Fast forward to the 2024 election, and I saw history repeating itself. Another female candidate I really didn't care for and didn't choose was running against the same buffoon. The economy had been repaired (yet again) by the previous Democratic President, but people were still bitching about the price of eggs and gasoline. The same talking heads were telling us we were fighting to keep our democracy and that this was the most important election of our lifetimes.
The difference? This time, I knew Trump would win. But where my reaction was overwhelming sadness in 2016, my reaction in 2024 was rage. Pure, seething, unyielding rage. Not with Republicans or Trump or his sycophants or the media or the supporters they manipulated. I was angry with the left.
I used to watch a lot of atheist content on YouTube, but I was seeing huge problems within this community since late July of 2024. Side plot story time incoming...
During a live stream on my then-friend Joe's channel (The Kentucky Atheist), a fight occurred that would change my view of the atheist SJW YouTube community forever.
The use of the term "alphabet community" came up in discussion. I have used the term for 20 years after learning about it from my gay friend Jay. I thought it was adorable, inclusive, friendly, and as someone with a speech impediment (I have a stutter), it was a term I could say instead of the bumbling LGBTQIA+ that I can't spit out without embarrassing myself. I offered the term to my friend, who also struggled with the acronym. But Joe was leery about its use and told me he wanted to discuss it with LGBTQIA+ people within the community. I was told he had their blessing, so I moved on with life.
The topic comes up again in Joe's live chat, and another YouTuber, Maya Adkisson, storms in and declares that the term “alphabet community” is derogatory because some right-wing asshat used it as a pejorative. Therefore, it's harmful and shouldn't be used, period. I don't like Maya. I tried, but it became clear that she's a mean girl who feels perpetually persecuted and likes to make others feel small. Basically, she's a bitch.
Well, wait a damn minute, I thought. I'm instantly annoyed with this bad argument and the insinuation that my friend or myself is harming people by using the term. Since when do we let the right tell us what words we can use? No one here now is offended. No one on stream or in the chat negatively used the term with ill intent. There are a multitude of online communities that embrace the term. The LGBT-Q-IA+ community has reappropriated the term queer. How is this any different? Why are you, Maya, making the term ugly when, frankly, nobody asked you, and you aren't any of the letters?
Nope, nope, nope. Maya says it's harmful, therefore it's true, and only her opinion seems to matter. A moderator by the name of Pragmatic Crystal, who I considered a good friend, had also butted in to attack me and flood the chat with links to articles (her claim to fame) that state "alphabet community" is harmful. I fire back ones that say it's fine. Both of these women repeatedly suggest that I'm a bigot and harming people on purpose by using the term, ignoring the obvious solution that I can use different terms with different people. I told Pragmatic Crystal her links could fuck off (which I apologized for later, unsuccessfully), and I left the chat.
The lack of critical thinking, the instigation of a fight without a victim to fight for, the insufferable moral grandstanding, and the attack on my character were more than I was prepared to handle. I have NEVER addressed ANYONE in a way they did not want me to. I personally insulted no one by offering an alternative moniker to the normalized acronym in good faith with benevolent intentions. I didn't instigate a fight with anyone and had no intention of causing one. The only person I harmed by suggesting the term “alphabet community” was myself after these fuckwits ripped me apart and bullied me off the stream. And I was really, really hurt.
I wanted to crawl back into my cave and pretend none of this ever happened. But I couldn't. Because then it got worse. So, so much worse.
I started to get treated differently within the community. I found myself shadowbanned on several channels because a mod named Titan Uranus was slithering behind the scenes, making ultimatums that unless they booted me, he would see to it that the community would boycott their channels.
I was being gaslit, told I was unhinged, and that defending myself from bullies was "starting fights with people for no reason." A few channel owners blocked me on Discord. I was demoted as a mod on a channel. I came into a live stream only to hear my name being discussed because they were talking shit about me.
I received a screenshot from a friend where Maya—out of the blue (I was not lurking in the chat, and no one had even mentioned my name) was calling me weird and saying that I'm "just jealous of her channel's success." I don't watch her content because it's boring; she turns every dialogue into an accusation of racism, and listening to her bumble through every conversation with words she can't remember and concepts she's only vaguely familiar with makes my ass twitch. I didn't even know how many subs she had (it turns out it's less than 1k), which essentially makes her a nobody who thinks she's very important because… reasons.
Maya and another mod, Tsumami (who is a hateful twit and constantly instigates fights with people—especially cis white men), ganged up on me in a live chat because I was having a silly discussion with a stranger they decided needed to end.
My invitation to be a guest on a livestream was revoked because an alcoholic trans woman named Stephanie Helms (who didn't own or run the channel that was hosting the livestream) demanded I be banned, calling me a transphobe and a slew of other insults.
My business partner on my own YouTube channel eventually wanted a divorce, locked me out, gave it a face-lift (with the most idiotic channel name ever), and stole the subscribers I had worked hard to amass.
I would go on other channels to stream with friends, and within minutes, a flood of haters would be in the live chat calling me a liar, a bigot, and a transphobe.
I was a pariah. I was being canceled by the SJW woke leftist mob. It was a targeted conspiracy against me, all because I had a different opinion and crossed paths with the high and mighty toxic big fish in my small YouTube pond. I was heartbroken. I felt like I was going insane. I was traumatized. And I felt so profoundly alone.
Eventually, I dusted myself off and got back on my feet. Slowly, I could show myself in public again, but I was still highly cognizant of my ostracization. I knew I now needed to find a new community. In that quest, I discovered that I was not the only one these same people had demonized and voted off the island. We shared war stories, and I found solidarity and made new friends. I felt safe again, which gave me the mental space I needed to evaluate why this happened to me.
The answer is simple: I did not agree, and that was absolutely unacceptable. They saw me as competition, and therefore, I needed to be silenced and my reputation destroyed.
And here lies the problem. Yes, they hurt me, but this is worse than that.
Had I been of weaker ideological conviction, had I been more susceptible to the propaganda on the right, had I been less educated in certain things, had I been more vulnerable in my concept of identity, had I been younger with less life experience, or literally a million other things... I could have simply run into the warm embrace of the Republican party who would pity me, validate my experience, and open a spot at their table because the mean, crazy leftist had hurt my feefees and cast me out. I could have easily become radicalized to the right. And the SJWs would have been the direct cause.
After coming to this realization, I started seeing it everywhere. A call-in show on the YouTube channel The Line focused on political topics as the election drew closer. Call after call, people who were considering voting for Trump or were strong Trump supporters would dial in and the hosts would pummel their arguments into the ground, making sure they knew just how dumb and wrong their opinions were. The quick, clever insults were fun to watch, but my schadenfreude was being placated, not my reasonable rational mind.
I saw the hosts get meaner and meaner every week. And I saw the contradicting narratives and their hypocrisy with crystal clarity.
They would go off about how horrible Israel was for their "genocide" in Gaza against the Palestinians on one call, then would rant about how vile and harmful Islam is as a religion on another.
They would spout illogical, misinformed, emotionally charged arguments regarding trans people, minorities, children, and women and accuse the caller of being bigoted/misogynistic/racist/ignorant or worse. Then, they would say we must treat everyone humanely and respect their autonomy. The saccharine, phony, two-facedness of their demeanor made my teeth squeak.
The hosts would become indignant at the idea of "compromising another's humanity" and "not making concessions with people's basic human rights" because the caller didn't understand why people obsess about pronouns. A topic that could have quickly been addressed with a grammar lesson turned into a lecture on why the caller was an inhuman transphobe monster that ate babies for dinner and hated rainbows. I'm being a tad hyperbolic, but the escalation occurred at lightning speed, and honestly looked unhinged.
I heard young men call in using Jordan Peterson-style philosophical argumentation. The hosts would dismiss him outright for his word salad and stupidity at having any respect for Jordan Peterson and his work. Never once did they ask why the caller was initially interested in Peterson's philosophy.
Peterson appeals to young men in desperate need of personal guidance. Instead of inquiring about the caller's life experience that brought him to the conclusions to which he's arrived, they mock him and perpetuate the stereotype of the angry atheist SJWs who believe they are intellectually and morally superior to literally everyone on the political right (or in the case of Jimmy Snow and Matt Dillahunty, the planet).
After weeks and weeks, I finally snapped. ENOUGH! I couldn't take anymore. I am so over their fucking bullshit. I could see the damage they were doing, but I had lost my platform, and no one could hear me over the din.
The night of the election, YouTube was filled with live streams as the polls closed. I watched none of them. Our fate was sealed, and I didn't see the point in watching a bunch of leftists lacking any self-awareness get slapped in the face with the consequences of their actions.
Then the "What the fuck happened?" streams began. I actually put one together myself (it's on the YouTube channel BridgeTheDivide if you're interested), as I thought some logic-focused venting would do a lot of people good. At the time, I felt a little lost and figured I couldn't be the only one. What happens now? I'm a girl that wants to fix things, and I couldn't fix this. I had a million thoughts, but an actionable plan escaped me.
But then it was the excuses. The pathetic, uninspired, juvenile finger-pointing that always happens when "the unexpected" becomes a reality. All of it was nonsense. They couldn't see how they, THEY were the reason a thrice-married adulterer convicted felon who is a predator of women, a pathological liar, shockingly stupid, openly bigoted, misogynistic, isolationist, an unpatriotic draft-dodger, a failed businessman, a con man, and the most unqualified human who has ever run for president has just been elected by millions of people to the highest office in the land.
The more they bitched and whinged, the angrier I became. It swelled inside me and burned hot in my hands. The blind stupidity of the left was breathtaking. I couldn't speak. But I sure as hell can write.
So here's my rage. Take it. Because I can't hold it anymore...
Fuck these people. I'm done being nice. I no longer want to be associated with the leftist SJW atheist community, which I tried to support, but their hateful actions turned me into their fucking nightmare. They wanted to shut me up and make me feel small. I'm showing them all now that with me, they failed.
However, they did this with thousands of people who they treated like garbage, then acted stunned when those same people voted against them and they lost the election. The leftist SJW fuckwits belittled, alienated, insulted, and rejected a huge demographic of the voting populace (specifically younger cis hetero men) due to their hubris, word policing, toxic inclusivity, virtue signaling, whiney perpetually persecuted victimized rhetoric, tribalism, elitism, spinelessness, and the unapologetic silencing and violent condemnation of anyone outside of their fucked up little bubble.
Their lack of empathy radicalized the political center and pushed them over to the Republican Party. They nearly did this to me. I've seen it in action. They must be stopped, and this essay is my call to action. They think they're going to battle with Republicans for four years, but they're going to have to deal with me first, dammit.
Thank you. I feel better.
But I'm not the kind of girl to pop off and then sit and stew in the uncomfortable fuckery I've found myself in. I'm a fixer. So how do we fix this clusterfuck?
First, we need to accept our fate. Donald Trump will dismantle the U.S. government as we know it. You need to come to terms with this. This is not speculation. They literally wrote the blueprint for his first 100 days in the Project 2025 manifesto. The American Experiment is over. We are truly and thoroughly fucked up the ass with no lube. Scream into a pillow, have a Hallmark movie cry in your shower, drink a bottle of wine with your besties, hug your pets, do what you have to do to mourn its loss. Go do that now...
Done? You good? Shake it off. Moving on.
Second, we stop giving these people oxygen to burn our house to the ground. I don't give a flying fuck about your pronouns when Donald Trump is establishing a cabinet full of Fox News pundits, pro-wrestling billionaire wives, sleazy television doctors who push pseudoscientific scams, Disney villain sexual predators, and an anti-vax quack who murders bears and mutilates whale carcasses. I. DON'T. GIVE. A. FUCK. Grow up. Put on your big girl/boy/non-binary panties and get over yourself. Your triggers are not my problem. Stop giving Republicans the fuel they need to turn your neuroses into the next culture war phenomenon. Stop being weird.
Third, we need to make facts mean something again in public discourse, but we have to disclose those facts in a way Republicans will accept. I'm done playing fair. It's time to play dirty. Republicans have won the propaganda game for a century. The Democrats need to use the same tactics that Republicans did to win over swing voters if we want to take back the House and the Senate in two years. Namely, they listened to voters' concerns, they found a talking point to exploit that concern, then they repeated it ad nauseum until election day.
I want everyone to turn into a little Goebbels and make FACTUAL propaganda that addresses real issues in a way that tugs on people's heartstrings. Make memes. Send tweets. Instagram stories. TikToks. Whatever. Think like a Republican. But meet people where they're at. Stop yelling your opinions at every ninny on Facebook. Be nice. Kill them with kindness. Murder their lies with facts. Be violent, just with data, posts, and e-hugs.
Fourth, humble yourself. The left is not immune from bad arguments and shitty ideas. SJWs proved this to be true in this election. People fall for misinformation because it soothes their triggers, then confirmation bias and the algorithm does the rest. Misinformation is always the "other side's" problem. I'm smart. They're dumb. Case closed. Fuck you. NO! People believe in ideas due to their motivations and feelings. Reach down and discover people's motivations before you write them off as the enemy.
Fifth, if you are an SJW, hang out in those circles, or have those leanings, here's a little secret. CIS HETEROSEXUAL WHITE MEN ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY. They are not "colonizers." The bear will likely maul you. They aren't all sexual predators. They are humans. With feelings. And they're going through some shit right now. The classic toxic masculinity mantra of "big boys don't cry" has them dying by suicide at shocking rates. The lie they were sold about getting a good job, buying a house, having a family, and retiring with a pension and a gold watch doesn't exist anymore. They are not the cause of all your problems. They can't help that they're white any more than you can help that you're gay, or neurodivergent, or black, or an insufferable twatwaffle with vocal fry that makes me want to put spoons in my ears. This election proved that nobody likes the shit you're selling. Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. We did it your way. It didn't work—my turn.
Now I hear y'all out there huffing and puffing, telling me, "Who does this bitch think she is? She's just some weirdo on the internet. Why does she think she has all the answers?"
I don't have all the answers. I don't have a crystal ball to see into the future. But I know that when one strategy fails miserably, you do a little reflection and try something different. So I'm offering this as a possible solution. And honestly, I'm usually right. But I'm so glad you asked because I already ran an experiment.
I'm a twisted bitch that likes to hop into the "Politics" Discord server and roll in the mud with Republicans. I haven't had the emotional bandwidth to debate since the election. Really, I was just too salty and butthurt. But last night, I decided to give it a try with my newfound insight and see if my ideas would make any difference. I was confident in my knowledge but highly doubtful I'd actually be able to change anyone's mind.
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I utterly wiped the floor with the four guys I engaged with and got them to agree with my arguments. My strategy? I met them where they're at. I reflected their energy back at them. I did not insult their intelligence or their masculinity. I showed them that a woman can empathize with their feelings while spitting facts. I attached those facts to the concerns they raised. And I didn't act like a selfish, woke cunt (mostly).
Nothing I'm saying is revolutionary. But the leftist SJW atheist community has completely forgotten how to have an argument with someone they disagree with without turning into a disgusting, dismissive, disrespectful, disparaging dumbfuck who screams assertions in your face then tells you to fuck off as they gaslight you, insult your intelligence, and assault your character when you don't lap up their narrative. They actually believe themselves to be morally superior as they're treating you like inhuman inferior monster scum. The hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness honestly make my brain short-circuit.
I do realize that not everyone is as confrontational, masochistic, and brazen as I am. But if you do engage in political discourse, we need to change our approach with the people we consider our ideological opponents. The SJWs successfully pushed people away from the left and still haven't noticed that they are the reason their side lost. The side that claims to be the side of science, facts, logic, reason, and humanism lost the plot somewhere around that left turn at Albuquerque and is so self-absorbed that they can't see that they are the problem. They are the bullies, the mean girls, the intolerant, the woke mob, the alphabet mafia, and the vulnerable narcissists all suffering from main character syndrome. Their ideology, just like the far right, needs to die so the rest of us in the center can make America great. We have the power. We just need to get loud and stop playing checkers while the Republicans are playing chess.
Honestly, this game sucks. So I'm changing the rules. And I'm starting now. Wanna play?
Edit to add:
The response to this essay has been eye-opening and… unexpected. I was fully prepared for backlash, but I’ve had several friends—who are typically calm, kind, and thoughtful people—thoroughly prove my point with a lot of undeserved insults and without one iota of introspection or absorption of a fucking word I said in this post. They behaved badly and hurt my feefees, and I learned that autism blesses the beholder with blind spots that I needed to address (who knew, eh?).
So what you just read is actually a revision of a revision since people couldn't make it past the first damn paragraph without wanting to tear me to shreds. It was distracting from the message I was trying to convey, so I felt it necessary to move some paragraphs around and clarify a few points. My views have not changed, but I was shown some information I was unaware of, forcing me to amend some statements. Hopefully, I am expressing myself better with this version.
Their reaction and my inability to understand why they're so angry with me will be the topic of another post. This one is long enough, and honestly, I'm going to need a few days to mull this over and repair a relationship or two. I'll be ok. I'm used to pissing people off. And I can handle the heat. 🫠
