Adjusting your rate of speech can make you more persuasive. Slower speech gives someone who’s bound to disagree with you more time to evaluate your point, add in their own thoughts, and dismiss your reasoning with their own existing bias - but talking fast leaves them less time to form an argument and significantly increases your chances of persuading them.
hey kids, this is why ben shapiro (and people like him) talks so fast. he doesn’t want his opponents to form an argument
grace was put on probation because of charges of assault and theft for “biting her mother’s finger and pulling her hair” and stealing another student’s mobile phone which she later returned. she expressed remorse at her actions multiple times afterwards and participated in therapy sessions and completely stayed out of trouble, her mother and teacher said that she was doing well at school despite the switch to online classes which caused her to become distracted due to her ADHD. she couldn’t keep up with her homework and her caseworker filed a violation of probabtion against her without bothering to learn about her disabilty or academic performance. the judge ellen brennan called her a “threat to the community”. all because she didn’t complete her fucking homework. she’s been in the juvenile detention centre for over a month now.
Everyone, please spread the word about Portland. Especially spread it to foreign countries. The only thing Trump and his ilk care about is bad publicity. Let them have all of it. Because the media is not doing a great job of covering this story in America--unless you’re talking about covering it up.
If you want to help out the Navajo Nation, please consider donating to them at the following:
5/22/2020
Just wanted everyone to know this wasn’t some sick prank, it was a mistake, cuz it was stressing me tf out. Still donate to Native funds though.
So bc tumblr hates links this will be hard to pass around but theres a White House petition to save the USPS
This is significantly more important than a change.org petition bc it HAS to be acknowledged if it gets enough signatures
Please sign it and reblog!
Hey remember what I said about making changes to the OTW and AO3 from the inside? Fuck that shit, I was completely wrong. Stop giving them money, stop wasting time voting in their rigged elections, and start giving them noisy, angry hell on every single fucking platform you can find. Especially white people.
I loathe being stuck between the rock and the hard place of AO3 being the ONLY place I get any kind of engagement on my fic, and how much I hate, in order, the organization and people who run it, their policies, their volunteers, and the people who stan for them.
The urge to take my fics down from their site and just deal with the fact I'll never have readers again gets stronger every day
Also white fans if you're liking this instead of reblogging it, you're part of the problem.
Are you also going to call for an end to twitter/tumblr/facebook for hosting racists and white supremacists along with loads of other bigots, or happily keep using that still but only argue that AO3 needs to die?
You don’t like the platform, do not use it. There are dozens of other fanfiction websites. If you’re still posting stuff there and using it while arguing that the site you use and spends its bandwith on you isn’t worthy of donations because people are free to post shit even if you dislike it- bring your business elsewhere.
what the fuck makes you think op, a black person, isn’t against racism in all forms. what makes you think they’re complicit in racism on other websites. op fucking uses ao3 they don’t just hate the website because they’re an “anti” they hate it because it continuously allows racist content to be posted with no ability to even block users let alone report individual fics. they’re not even calling for the end of the website you insufferable dumbass they’re calling for change.
and you know what? people who look at the systemic suffering of black people and think it’s an opportunity to write about more black suffering and death like our oppression is a fictional trope deserve to be censored. we’re not fucking “puritans” taking advantage of the poor racists who just wanna write about black murder uwuwu you vile fucking cretin. how disgusting do you have to be to paint black people who are sick and fucking tired of our oppression and suffering being turned into fandom content for clicks as “evil antis taking advantage of their power to bully the poor whites and nonblacks who benefit from the racism we face”. what the fuck is wrong with you. you’re disgusting. please perish at your earliest convenience.
So I did something... It’s a little bit outside my comfort zone but I’m stepping out because I could really use some help! Please share, donate, send positive energy my way, whatever your heart desires!
two (almost) haikus
HERE IS WHAT THE LIGHT COUNTS : THE SINGS IN ME LOOKING AND SOMETHING LOOKING AWAY. BIGGER THAN LOVE. I’LL WAIT FOR THE BIRDS YOU THERE. SING IT BACK
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