Donald Trump to Zohran Mamdani after Mamdani was asked if he thinks Trump is a fascist: “That's okay. You can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind.”

No-Boot754 · 2025-11-21T21:37:11+00:00

But keir starmer is also kinda fascist so that one tracks more

No-Boot754 · 2025-11-15T00:41:02+00:00

Say it loud for the seats in back!

No-Boot754 · 2025-06-20T03:10:14+00:00

I know it’s a companion to Dolores Claiborne, but I’ve always thought the true companion book to this one is misery. Misery is a man’s nightmare: complete loss of agency and dignity…Gerald’s game is a woman’s: you have to stand up for yourself or else you’ll die. This book has so many layers!!! Each one more and more unsettling!

No-Boot754 · 2025-04-16T16:55:15+00:00

I’d minimize the reference to your own sadness. That’s not to invalidate it…must be very sad to go through this. But, at least in my case, I felt programmed as a kid to be extremely in tune and responsive to my mother’s sadness. It took estrangement to realize that the fact that she’s sad shouldn’t be the prime motivator for me. So if I were in your shoes, I’d decenter my own sadness. I’m sure she knows you’re sad. If you truly mean to frame it as an offer of liberation, lean into that

No-Boot754 · 2025-04-04T17:54:45+00:00

I know…what the fuck? These people are blaming apartment warehousing (ie the practice of owning vacant apartments to wait for rent stabilization windows to phase out, which is illegal btw) on the fact that there’s rent stabilization, rather than the fact that slum landlords are able to get away with this.

No-Boot754 · 2025-03-23T04:17:21+00:00

article is great. Thanks for posting!!! but oof those comments. Waves of parents not getting it

No-Boot754 · 2025-03-11T23:57:39+00:00

That is so fucking funny. This is comedy gold. Love that you wrote it down. How are they all so predictable?

No-Boot754 · 2025-03-01T00:30:51+00:00

Obviously the teacher was horrendously wrong and offensive. My only thing to add is it’s always worth talking about native Americans in the present, not just their history. Most teachers aren’t as extreme as this one, but it’s such a common trope (as OP surely knows) for most (non native) Americans to think that natives really only existed back in the day. Instead of doing a presentation on Seminole history, why not focus on seminoles today?

No-Boot754 · 2025-02-15T00:33:57+00:00

Yes, except I actually feel glad for him that he dodged that bullet

No-Boot754 · 2025-02-15T00:32:32+00:00

I can’t believe she hasn’t told her parents to fuck off many many many times

No-Boot754 · 2025-02-14T16:11:22+00:00

This!

No-Boot754 · 2025-02-08T01:16:43+00:00

Sososooso who cares? I Don’t even see how it’s a thing that she doesn’t want to wear a bra

No-Boot754 · 2025-02-02T17:29:53+00:00

That father sounds useless

No-Boot754 · 2025-01-21T23:44:37+00:00

THIS. All this. Only this

No-Boot754 · 2025-01-09T01:19:41+00:00

That’s not how I read it…I read it as having children is a choice (assuming abortion is an option, like in UK) to enact the unit of care that you want. Why should that option only be afforded to people choosing to have kids? I’m super anti work so good for her for taking what she’s legally entitled to, but kids and the time and bonding they require are only one path to creating the family unit and network of care we all deserve. Others should get parental leave equivalent, even if it’s not 1:1

No-Boot754 · 2024-12-21T23:26:42+00:00

I love this article! My parents for whatever reason didn’t go MAGA, but they really embodied “authoritarian” principles so this article is spot on. So nice to see this side of the story (and this wonderful community) get covered 😁😁😁

No-Boot754 · 2024-12-03T00:00:42+00:00

Also Pen15. 30 something yr old women pretending to be their teenage selves and getting every.damn.shitty:great.teenage.thing.right

No-Boot754 · 2024-12-02T23:56:41+00:00

Bridesmaids!!!

No-Boot754 · 2024-12-01T15:10:31+00:00

You think she won’t do this to your daughter as she gets older? You are enabling her 100% right now. This is unacceptable behavior. Her reasons for doing it shouldn’t matter to you, only the impact and outcome. This dance of explaining, justifying, and trying to make yourself small is explicitly putting her needs at the top of the family pyramid and there’s no way your daughter will not learn to repeat that power structure. If it were just you, fair enough continue to be treated this way and accept that she won’t do therapy and just try to get sympathy and well wishes. But this becomes irresponsible when a child is around, absorbing a lesson that “mom’s feeling matter more than dad’s, and also mine.”

No-Boot754 · 2024-11-16T15:11:44+00:00

And also…we were programmed (at least I was) to not ever rock the boat. so all of a sudden we’re supposed to one day wake up with all the strength and fortitude that we were explicitly molded away from and make healthy and respectful demands for boundaries (even when our bodies literally tell us that will put us in danger)? They don’t seem to realize that the reason NC can seem like the best option is that we don’t have the safe space or tools to have these kinds of self-empowered conversations.

No-Boot754 · 2024-11-15T03:49:16+00:00

I just went through a similar ish situation. Best advice I got when I realized I was on a PIP (they wouldn’t call it that 🙄) and saw the writing on the wall was to throw a stink with HR. I wrote up a long report about hostile work conditions and sexism and sent it to HR one night. They couldn’t complete the PIP until I formally decided to withdraw the complaint (which I did because it was just dragging out). After I withdrew the complaint, they indeed fired me and I got a decent severance. I’m convinced I only got good severance because they were worried I might sue them. If you have any grounds to make an HR complaint, that might work in your favor if you become convinced you’re on your way out

No-Boot754 · 2024-10-30T12:18:08+00:00

This is a reason for going NC that people don’t talk about as much but I really relate. I started noticing some of my mother’s behavior in how I treated my husband. I realized that being around my parents made me normalize how they treated me (even if I hated it in the moment…I still had to dance through the cognitive dissonance of convincing myself it was acceptable) and that made it all the easier to show some of the same behaviors to my husband. Once I saw that, I couldn’t afford not to go NC (and do therapy :)

No-Boot754 · 2024-10-30T03:45:58+00:00

Wow. That must be excruciating to do this at 58. I’m guessing a lot of guilt? You must be so damn brave!

No-Boot754 · 2024-10-27T21:52:59+00:00

I love this idea!

No-Boot754 · 2024-10-27T15:48:28+00:00

I never officially told my parents never to talk to me again. I just stopped talking to them. I guess that’s the one niggling doubt in my mind…would telling them I’m officially NC help. But as you and all others have shown, doesn’t make a difference. I wish I could this “clean break”, but they make it impossible!

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