JustAlongForTheRide

@JustAlongForTheRide

unlearningtrans #transphobia

If a therapist is willing to affirm someone’s delusion they’re trans, how is such a profession to be trusted?

If you are unwilling to acknowledge someone’s innate sense of their own gender, how are you to be trusted? If you don’t trust that somebody knows themelves or can at least tell when something is wrong and needs addressing, where does that end?

About ‘creating’ reasons to see clients: psychotherapy doesn’t work that way. For a start, there’s a lot of work out there even if I were to turn down all trans clients. It’s a seller’s market, and getting in front of a therapist can be a tough ask. My books remain full even if I focus on short term work that gives my clients quick return. So no, keeping clients around doesn’t benefit me. If I did that, I’d just be holding up the queue. Aside from that, if I was only interested in money, I wouldn’t have picked psychotherapy. There are far better jobs out there to get rich in. Quite aside from all that, you don’t just tell somebody they have a psychological issue they don’t have. If you try and do that, your client will suss you out. I can tell you this without even trying it - people can tell when something’s off, and a therapist telling them they have a pathology they don’t would certainly set off alarm bells.

winterdragongod and wjones215 #homophobia #fundie

Have you considered, Winterdragongod, that they don’t like the labels you give them?

Allie Beth Stuckey #transphobia #wingnut

You’re comparing food items - something that has no consciousness and exists to be consumed - with human beings, which do, and don’t. This is a retelling of the “let’s compare women to cars / a stamp / a rose / whatever else is the object of the week” in a slightly different form. By doing that, you’re telling on yourself. Transfolk get objectified enough, so let’s not add to that particular burden, shall we? I would say stay in your lane, but it sounds like it’s more appropriate to say stay in your bathroom stall. You’ll be fine.

Although I will say this, @Zinnia - I do actually use cauliflower rice as a rice substitute! My partner keeps to a keto diet and I eat low carb. It’s pretty good actually; it holds a lot of oil (so good for keto) and I’ve figured out how to make it taste similar to fries.

Elgeyo Marakwet mob #sexist #psycho

I read this article, hoping to see something be included from at least one of the girls. They are the most deserving of a voice in this situation.

Jill Colton #racist

Well… sure, you can reject other people because they can’t claim that their ancestors come from the same country as you (and that’s assuming your ancestors actually did come from Canada), but people can reject you for arbitrary reasons too, and I don’t suppose you’ll be so content with that.

Or, you know, you could develop a sense of empathy. Because right now, what you’re doing is the same as too many other people do: telling people they don’t belong to the place they consider home. You don’t have any idea what it’s like to be told that, to be told it so many times it stops sounding like insane rantings (which, frankly, it is) and starts sounding like an ongoing, unwelcoming echo. And lady, I hope you never have to experience that.

Perhaps settle down, enjoy the privilege that comes from living in a developed country, and leave other people to enjoy Canada, which is their home too. You’re neighbours; you’re not going to put all this effort into making yourself and them miserable, are you?

Andrew Anglin #sexist #crackpot #racist #conspiracy

Andy really is grabbing at any and all bigotries he knows of and meshing them all together into one carpet of conspiracy theory for him to wipe his feet on. It’s desperately sad to watch.

The age of consent? It’s needed. It’s not often easy to enforce, but it’s there to protect youngsters, including girls. Legal protection is part of the protective framework that girls and women need, but I think the really big one is opportunity. If we can choose careers, the single life, the polygamous life, lioness living, a life of travel, an academic life, or any other alternative to marriage vs. prostitution, then I guarantee you that many of us would choose one of those alternatives. Prostitution is a horrifying path to tread, and I wish every girl, every woman out there had safer and more profitable choices than that.

Then there’s marriage and civil partnership. As you describe it, Andy, marriage is barely any better of a choice. Choice-starved girls and women will choose it more often, because they must. How is that supposed to be a happy case of affairs for anyone? Do you really think that a man who ‘owns’ or ‘has mastery over’ a woman is genuinely happy? No - he’s stuck a plaster on a broken leg, and then he’ll be unhappy because he’s married to someone who’s scared of him, who resents him, who maybe - maybe - has found some way to get the upper hand in a neverending power struggle she wouldn’t have chosen if she didn’t have to.

Release the pressure on girls and women so they can thrive. Include them so they can pick a life path that works for them, and the ones who choose to make a commitment to you will do so because they want to, because they love you and respect you.

But then again, in order for them to choose you, you’ll have to work on becoming someone we want to be with. And that’s the part that scares you so much, isn’t it? So FFS, go get some therapy, take a weekly reflective walk among the trees, educate and free yourself of the habits of toxic masculinity, and leave the Jews out of your silly little persecution fantasy.

Jill Colton #racist

<@KeithInc.> #181766

Well hey, so this quote’s Blue-Eyed White Jesus-adjacent? If anyone has done something admirable, they simply must be white, right? /s

Tragedy strikes again at Bastethotep’s family #announcement

I can’t even imagine what you must be feeling right now, Bast. Please be kind to yourself, and my DMs are open if you ever need to talk.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #moonbat

DasFeuerDerWahrheit #conspiracy #wingnut #crackpot #dunning-kruger

And the vehicles among Humanity which have the most influence, ten-thousand fold more than simple CARS, are vast transportation & container ships which no average Joe has influence over anyway.

You might want to check your figures. Shipping is the most efficient way to move goods long-distance. Comparing it to individuals in cars is nonsensical - you’re comparing apples with oranges. What’s your point?

Colonel-Knight-Rider #moonbat

This? This is the most hateful bigotry you’ve ever seen? I know that’s not true given who you’re friends with, and to feign offence at these things when you give a free pass to some pretty odious people is ludicrous. Different nations will rib each other from time to time. So long as it does them no economic harm and isn’t clearly punching downwards, where’s the harm? I’m British. I boil and salt my food, I’m a bit reserved, I love a roast dinner, I’m happy to queue, and I’ll apologise to a lamp-post if I walk into it. Rib me for it, it’s all fine because it does me no harm.

DasFeuerDerWahrheit #racist #conspiracy #wingnut #dunning-kruger #pratt

Well, I mean, the vast majority of people are racist from time to time. But that’s because most of us are raised in a white-centric society and, even if we make the best effort we can to stop being racist, we’ll continue to have blind spots where we’re unintentionally racist. And sexist. And ableist. And homophobic/transphobic. And yeah, that doesn’t equal being hateful towards those demographics.

But I don’t agree that most people don’t care. As a global community we care more about bigotry than we ever have. That’s an encouraging development for our growth as a civilisation, and I’m glad we’re here even if we have more work to do. Certainly it’s not a sign of mental illness.

Do you feel antagonised by that, DFDW? Even if there was some plot to antagonise white people for money, how would that work? Anti-racism costs nothing. Or little, if you’re building anti-racism measures into business practice, and it’s absolutely worth doing.

PsalmSevenBooks #homophobia #transphobia

Are you saying “yes” to virtue by not being sexually active, though? And discipline is good and all, but there’s a time and a place for it. A person who is nothing but disciplined can easily become miserable because their life is absolutely gridlocked by rules about what they’re allowed and what they’re not. Same for delayed gratification - sure, it has its place, but why make that your stock answer to everything? Sometimes letting yourself have a bit of what you fancy is good for the soul.

And you think that intimacy can only be done “God’s way”? Many, many people will disagree with you, and they’ll be right because that’s what works for them. If a relationship with another devout Christian works for you, then well, good for you. It’s not your place to decide what’s right for other people.

As for “boys becoming girls” - some people never felt as if they were the right gender and they want to present differently, whatever that means to them. Who are you to say that’s going against your god’s will? And that assumes your god is worth following in the first place. Let them be.

As for me, I’ve had crap parents, and seen many people with crap parents. Apparently that’s what your god intended, and we prefer not to comply. It’s miserable to. I’d have much preferred to have had two dads or two mums who actually thought about what they wanted before they had me. There’s nothing wrong with wanting children, nor wanting to have been wanted. Heterosexual parents don’t necessarily equal loving parents, nor self-aware parents. Why do you think it does? Heterosexuals are more at risk of unwanted pregnancies, after all. How do you think that works out for a lot of us, hmm?

In short, stuff your moralistic bullshit.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #wingnut #conspiracy #senpai_noticed_us

@HS #131241

CKR has no concept of “ignore them and they’ll go away”. Well, he sort of gets it - I don’t think he checks out this site any more, but he can never quite resist mentioning us from time to time either. I assume he knows we still quote him from time to time and he just won’t let himself look.

PsalmSeven #homophobia #fundie

Someone asked in the comments of this post whether the “rainbow cult” they’re referring to is the LGBT community. I cannot stand when somebody does this “I can’t stand the evilness of these other people” when they’re being vile like this. Psalm, what impact has anyone in the LGBT community ever done for you, hmm?

Colonel-Knight-Rider #conspiracy #racist

@Creativerealms #113300

This. I am wary however, not to put myself in a vulnerable position with such people, so there’s a balance to be struck. Second chances are important, as is personal safety.

BeardedLuckDragon and Colonel-Knight-Rider #elitist #ableist #crackpot #dunning-kruger #sexist #wingnut

@Citizen_Justin #107186

CKR, who probably doesn’t even swear.

He called me a bitch in a DM once.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #fundie #god-complex #psycho

@SpukiKitty02 #104321

This!

As frustrating, as downright dangerous, as vigilantes are (and as damaging to justice as they are), threatening them like that won’t do. It’ll just generate more of the same. People will feel more in danger because they’ll be in more danger, and the whole thing gets even more entrenched.

In b4 Bobby emails me or makes some sort of public announcement about me being two-faced because I ‘fought fire with fire’ and posted his homophobic rant to FSTDT where he could be publicly humiliated the way he publicly humiliates others. Shaming people online is not the same as shooting them dead, Bobby, and you know it. You don’t want to be publicly humiliated? Don’t say shit to open yourself up to it. Simple as.

And then Bobby wonders why he has a whole string of people in his wake saying he’s an arsehole.

Masonicon #conspiracy #crackpot #wingnut #dunning-kruger #elitist

Political Correctness(divides people by it's Skincolor

I’m pretty sure it’s political incorrectness that divides people.

Colonel-Knight-Rider and Friends #fundie #elitist #racist #wingnut

Colonel-Knight-Rider #fundie #conspiracy #psycho

I find it sincerely ironic that Bobby is so invested in the idea that atheists are mindless robots when he also refuses to think differently from his mother.

Colonel-Knight-Rider and jenelly_bean #fundie #wingnut #conspiracy

Personally, I don't watch Adventure Time either, rather just listen the songs from it, which I find catchy. We have to be careful with our entertainment as it subtly and subjectively puts in our minds that some things are okay because they are positively reinforced in given media, even tho, morally it isn't so right.

So you don’t want to be inadvertently taught anything immoral/amoral by Adventure Time, so you don’t watch it, but you still listen to the songs. What if the songs contain material you don’t want to be fed? Oh no, that’s okay, because you like the songs and find them catchy!

Your cognitive dissonance is showing, Nells.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #psycho #conspiracy #fundie #pratt

@Bastethotep #94881

You know that there are romance scams that have resulted not only in monetary loss, but even murder?

We’re talking about the guy who saw someone being creepy about teenage girls’ feet and making fun of Scotland. CKR was more upset about the making fun of Scotland. He pretends to want to protect children but he throws that out the window the moment he feels even vaguely insulted, as an adult.

He did the same over the COPPA updates. Wanted to ‘protect’ kids from seeing homosexual content way back when Realshow was doing his thing, but didn’t like the idea of COPPA - who protect children online from harmful content - put rules in place that he would have to follow.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #crackpot #elitist #dunning-kruger #wingnut

@rustyloot #94056

Hey there backatcha! He found my work email address; thankfully he doesn’t have my personal one, only interviewers and family members and other people like that, get that.

So Bobby, whatever happened to “I’m tired of fighting”? You’ve sent me an awful lot of emails over the last two years and normally the theme’s “leave me alone!” (along with enough verbal abuse that I’m obviously not going to just shut up and take it, and you know that full well, so I call bullshit on your request to be left alone every time.) But here you are, picking a fight with Rebecca. What’s changed? You bored, or what? Looking for someone who’s less likely to answer back, maybe?

Stack of repetitive, ranty emails in my inbox in 3… 2… 1… (Oh, and about that. Have you considered writing everything in a Notepad file, checking it all through, editing as needed, and then sending it so you’re not repeating yourself over and over? Your rants are amusing but I’m kinda short on time lately so if you could avoid the word salad and only - only, mind you - do some concise paragraphs or bulletpoints or something, that’d be grand.)

Gideon Boakye #fundie #psycho

”…in adhering to these instructions, he lost control and…”
No, he did not lose control. He had control the whole time.

Who made the decision to keep visiting a pastor after he started saying this kind of thing? Him.
Who weighed up his pastor’s malevolent talk about his 9 year old child and decided it was believable? Him.
Who carried out the beating? Him.

Him, him, him.

I do not accept anything that says that a person like this lost control. It’s called personal responsibility.

tockthewatchdog #sexist #psycho

Peacemonger’s right: male suicide rates are a problem and they deserve a thorough look to see what all of us can do to improve or adjust quality of life to reduce it. Whatever benefits men get in our culture for being men, they also have their own, often unique, weights to bear, and a culture of enforced emotional solitude, plus that strange cultural barrier to men seeking medical help, are among them. The solution is a combination of personal responsibility by any individual man and the community he lives in. We all have a responsibility to improve our awareness of these issues.

This anger? I don’t know exactly where it comes from for tockthewatchdog personally, but it needs a more constructive outlet than this. And good lord, they need to work out what’s actually at the root of it and work out how best to make peace with it. We’ll all move on better and quicker once we develop a healthy attitude to our own anger. Then we can actually solve the problems with clear heads. Easier said than done, but that’s the shape of it.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #ufo #senpai_noticed_us #wingnut

@arp #59366

Well, his Goldengate knight character rides a flying car, which could conceivably be a UFO. It is if anyone looks at it and says, “What the fuck is that?”, anyway.

Chuck Lowe #wingnut

Endless lockdowns, closed businesses, mask mandates, and other restrictions are simply running and hiding from the inevitable. The virus will run through a population, leaving a path of destruction, and eventually burning itself out as evidenced by previous viral outbreaks.
Some of these strategies work best when only a tiny portion of the population has the disease. Coronavirus has a lifespan, and if it can’t reproduce within that lifespan, it becomes extinct, at least in that country. So no, it’s far from inevitable. Humans just aren’t that great at responding to the threat of illness.

Many countries have tried locking the door after the proverbial horse has bolted, by restricting everyone’s movement when there were tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of confirmed cases already (and that’s just the ones that are tested for, confirmed, and recorded). To me, a good leader anticipates such things and locks everything down before a disease like Coronavirus takes hold. It would be inconvenient and annoying, but it’s how you keep people alive and healthy, and put a stop to all of this long before businesses start dying.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #wingnut #ableist #fundie #crackpot #psycho

The reason those children died is that they forgot one of the core tenants of Christian Science
‘Forgot’? I suspect those poor children weren’t allowed to forget it, and that they were ‘reminded’ repeatedly, probably by being shouted at and loomed over. If I were to guess, best case scenario would be that they were condescended to over and over, about how they just need to read their Bible or pray more. We’ve already seen how that worked out.

we DO go to doctors only when we haven't yet demonstrated the ability to heal by spiritual thinking.
Who gets to decide when spiritual thinking has failed to heal them? Who holds that responsibility? How often do they fail to take a child for medical treatment before their illness does permanent damage? How often are long-term effects of illness used as ‘proof’ that a child / adult is ‘bad’?

Colonel-Knight-Rider #racist #dunning-kruger

The way I see it, if we could simply teach kids to love and accept everyone regardless of skin color from an early age, we could prevent racism in future generations, ending the problems we have today instead of continuing them and negating the need for videos like "Arthur on Racism."
I’m pretty sure that’s already what’s going on with the new Arthur cartoons, but did you mean that parents should be teaching their own kids to not be racist rather than content creators? What’s the problem if content creators do put anti-racism messages out, as Marc Brown clearly has, here?

Also, if a child’s parents are the only people who teach them moral messages, they never get to learn what 'the other' is like. A set of parents represents a maximum of two people. There's a lot to be said for learning other ways of being from prodigal aunts and uncles, teachers, mum's coffee-morning friend, your older sibling's mum or dad, etc.

The child gets to see that there are other ways of seeing things. That in turn encourages them to compare and contrast different approaches to the same issue and to think for themselves. And I know how much you like to encourage thinking for oneself, Robert ;)

Colonel-Knight-Rider #dunning-kruger #conspiracy #elitist #fundie #pratt

@Spacewyrm #57903

Never forget how this started.
I don’t think Robert ever interpreted it this way, but this all started with me (I run a business and want it to succeed) seeing someone (CKR) I’d worked with on a previous project saying things that could easily put off future collaborators. Publicly calling people out for anything, let alone for wanting gay characters in a story that partly belonged to them and for publicly showing off the overall work on their own account (CKR called this ‘theft’), struck me as aggressive and confrontational. I knew instantly that I didn’t want my own business to be associated with anyone who spoke like that, and I strongly suspect that the companies who could, somewhere down the line, be powerful collaborators for CKR, would likely feel the same way. Nobody wants to work with an abusive loose cannon, and that’s precisely what CKR showed himself to be in the message I saw, which you can see here.

When I sent my initial message to him that kicked off this whole year-and-a-bit of strife, I specified the exact reasons I’d found his original journal post to be a deal-breaker. It wouldn’t have been nice to read, of course - who wants to be told they’re anything negative? - but I wrote it under the expectation that he’d think, “Oh, someone thinks I’m homophobic and has told me so. I wonder how many opportunities I’ve missed out because people who would otherwise have collaborated with/hired me also thought I’m homophobic and didn’t bother telling me what stopped them? I don’t like being told I’ve written something that sounds homophobc but now that I know, I’m going to fix my online image to make sure that doesn’t happen again.” Or even, “I don’t like anything LGBT-based but my outspoken approach to that has clearly cost me a connection that might have helped me further down the road, and might cost me more in future. I wonder how I can mitigate that happening again while staying true to my values?”

But no, instead he decided to discredit me, and the rest is history. At this point I’m no longer concerned with helping Robert out as a fellow content-creator. If he wants to damage his own reputation he can do that as much as he likes. It was never my problem, I just thought he might like to know how his words were interpreted, because personally, I find feedback, even negative feedback, to be worth its weight in gold. Since then he’s tried to discredit me further by saying that I’m not actually attacking him, but lashing out at my parents (mum and dad both showed some appalling attitudes towards gay people, and I made the mistake of mentioning this in the hope that he’d recognise why calling out bigotry is important to me), but too many other people have interpreted his written expression of his attitudes the same way: as homophobic, for me to be an outlier. Of course, CKR doesn’t care about the fact that he now has social proof that his words do indeed look homophobic, he just wants everyone who challenges his views to disappear - into a police cell, mental health asylum, hospital, or morgue, if necessary.

anon1822 #sexist

Most of us are raised in such a way that some emotions are deemed unacceptable. Overall, girls are given more leeway than boys. I’ll echo Volcheka1 here about anger being far from universally accepted in girls and sorrow in boys. Sometimes it seems that boys are kept on such a tight emotional leash that nothing but anger or stoicism is accepted. But to say that girls are given completely free rein is untrue.

May I suggest, anon, that you look in more emotionally accepting spaces for rein to talk about your feelings? The spaces are that are more toxic towards boys are generally more toxic towards girls too.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #psycho #wingnut #fundie

@rustyloot #57724

I don’t know whether I played a part in you getting dragged back into this (if so, I apologise), but it sounds like you’ve really been through the mill with him. It’s rough - I had no idea of how… well, you know, he was when all of this started in June last year. Feel free to drop into the FSTDT Discord if you choose.

@Vgal #57465

Bastethotep is very much correct.
Niam actually, honestly got CKR to believe that.
By the way, CKR’s denials of it and his claims that he “knew the truth all along!” are blatant lies, possibly even to himself.

His claim that he knew all along would only stand up if he publicly showed a time-stamped screenshot where he mentioned his skepticism to someone, but he didn’t provide that, and I suspect he can’t. Because, you know, he didn’t know all along at all. As ever, he’s making his own mind up about how things worked out and expecting his own words to be the ultimate evidence. Entitlement at its finest.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #wingnut #crackpot #racist #conspiracy

The problem is that he knows what to say but not how to say it.
And time and time again, a section of the public who want to read into his words that they have carte blanche to attack minorities do so. When you’re the President of… well, not just the US but anywhere, it’s your responsibility be articulate, to say what you mean, and to be as sure as possible that your meaning is not misinterpreted. That’s not that great of an ask. Even if he ‘misspoke’ rather than actively incited violence (which is what he very much appears to have done, again and again), it’s happening so often and he’s not taking the time and effort to improve how he’s delivering these messages, that he has no place being in the position of power he’s in.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #psycho #wingnut #fundie

your new mission, should you choose to accept it, is to unmask Niam2020 WITHOUT publicizing info you find about him
Why?

then destroy Fundies Say The Darndest Things
How?

And that includes destruction of FSTDT's Discord, Reddit, forums, and everywhere else it exists on the Internet.
How?

Colonel-Knight-Rider #sexist #fundie

@Titania #54171

He’s going to need women voters soon, to get a second term. Without us, he won’t get it. It’s a cynical move.

…err, no. Trump can apologise for his own misdeeds against women, not other peoples’. I won’t believe he’s not sexist until I see him genuinely apologise for his “grab them by the pussy” comment. There’s more, so much more, that he needs to repair than that, but that would be the faintest glimmer of a start. ‘Pardoning’ somebody who wanted something perfectly reasonable is a distraction from that, and is a form of fauxpology: a way of being seen to be sensitive to equality issues by the Democrats while at the same time pandering to the Republican crowd by being magnanimous and ‘forgiving’ her.

It’s a worthless gesture. It happened so long ago he couldn’t possibly have influenced it happening or not happening. That means he cannot personally be held responsible for it, and that’s why he’s pardoned it - as a distraction from his own dispicable behaviour.

Are you really that easily distracted from his actual sexist behaviours, Bobby? I thought you once said that you had such a high IQ that even Mensa couldn’t measure it. Surely you have the smarts to see this deceitful behaviour for what it is? Don’t you, Bobby?

Gerald Polley #fundie #homophobia

Total Imbecile #sexist #psycho

Want to bet that I couldn’t blind you before you did any damage at all to me? I’m almost as big as you, sweetie, so try me.

Neggr #crackpot #psycho #dunning-kruger

@TBTabby #52222

Exactly the point I was going to make. If this is how transmission of characteristics worked most people would look like a combination of cows, pigs, and chickens. With a bit of fish thrown in.

forever13 #psycho

Male sexuality is a tool for making him horny and guiding him into making the right mating choice. All while warning him to avoid used up women unable to conceive healthy babies with paternal certainty.
It’s misfiring in your case. You’re lusting after someone who may die or be permanently maimed if she were to have a baby at this time in her life - and would lack the emotional maturity and experience to competently raise a child. She needs the chance to finish being a child first, herself, and then to have the choice over who she has a baby with, if anyone. Do not presume to make the decision for her.

Representative-Way39 #sexist #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Dude, if you think vaginas are repulsive despite never having been in contact with one, I don’t think unkempt vaginas are your problem.

Colonel-Knight-Rider #sexist #pratt #wingnut #homophobia #transphobia #racist #senpai_noticed_us

@Greer #50676

Careful. Once, I admitted that I had a history of being abused by people - my parents, in fact - who also happened to be sexist, racist, and homophobic, and that that’s why I use this web site: to make my awareness of sexism, racism, and homophobia as keen as possible so that I can unlearn those parts of my own system of values and beliefs. Sexism, racism, and homophobia were such an integral part of the environment that I grew up in that I am concerned that I still harbour some of those attitudes, but I don’t want to. There’s no reason anyone else should suffer because of my internalised bigotry. My aim on this web site is to filter out those bigotted beliefs in myself. Part of that involves calling out sexism, racism, and homophobia whenever I see it in other people, whether blatant, subtle, conscious, subconscious, directly aggressive, or passive-aggressive. Being able to notice it in other people helps me to become aware of my own blind spots around these issues.

CKR once read a piece of text where I mentioned my history with my parents, and decided that that meant that I had mummy and daddy issues and that whenever I quoted and commented on anything he said here on FSTDT, I wasn’t actually talking about him at all but about mummy-and-daddy-dearest. He made it very clear that as far as he was concerned, I had ‘admitted’ that my comments about his quotes were unfounded and that he was utterly absolved of any sexism, racism, or homophobia.

Needless to say, that isn’t the case at all. My parents were sexist, racist, and homophobic, and so is CKR.

That wouldn’t be the first time he’s misrepresented somebody else’s words and it won’t be the last, so I urge you to be careful about what you reveal about yourself here. Even if it’s something relatively vague, if he can use it to absolve himself then he will, and if he can use it to discredit you then as far as he’s concerned, all the better. It’s something he’s prone to, and with the way he does it, I’m genuinely unsure whether he’s doing it as a passive-aggressive way to attack others, or whether he’s really that dense.

As a lovely little bonus to all of this, since then he’s mentioned a few times that he thinks my parents aren’t as bad as I say they are and that they’re some kind of poor. unfortunate victims of mine. So yeah: add victim-blamer to the list of things I’m prepared to call him. He deserves it.

EDIT: Also, come join us in the Discord server! It’s always cool to see a new member join the community!

SunnyJohansen #racist #pratt

You do not have the vaguest sliver of an idea of what the black community has gone through, and continues to go through to this day. The riots are happening because an anger that has existed over grave injustice for decades has finally boiled over, and no wonder. I’m surprised the black community tolerated so much for so long, and it’s literally my job to know why people bottle up abuse rather than express it. The tolerance for being alienated, treated unfairly as criminals, scapegoated, and outright murdered has been superhuman, and finally we’re seeing a human response.

Of course we are - black people are people, Sunny.

If this was about looting and taking the chance to commit crimes we’d be seeing people of all colours, genders, and ages doing it. You wouldn’t be trying to imply anything about POC, would you Sunny? Because that would reflect horribly on you.

EDIT: Also, Bobby/Colonel-Knight-Rider/Colonel Knight Rider? Absolute shame on you for defending this bullshit!

Colonel-Knight-Rider #racist

If peaceful protests worked, why was George murdered in the first place? By your logic there should no longer be a need for protest because the peaceful protests of the past should have worked, but clearly they didn’t.

It’s hardly fair to bring George’s brother into all of this. He and the rest of George's family are grieving. All of this must be horribly unpleasant for the family and I’ll guess that all they really want to do right now is grieve in peace and quiet. These riots are hardly conducive to that. But George’s murder has hit a nerve with the overall POC population, and it’s a nerve that has been hit way too many times for them to reasonably be expected to ignore. No wonder riots have broken out - I’d be horrified, furious, and indignant too if the police force’s promise to “serve and protect” didn’t extend to me, if instead I became their, and society's whipping-girl. Even then, I don’t imagine that I can truly grasp how wearying, how isolating, and how downright sickening it must be to feel that afraid, that alienated, every day.

Also, as far as that teacher goes, I have my doubts that things went down as you describe them. You went on a months-long tirade about me over something I didn't say. You got me kicked off of Deviantart for doing nothing other than trying to work things out with you while you were mid-tantrum and I had to work hard to get my account - part of my livelihood, no less - back. You have behaved in an unbelievably entitled way and you still don't see it. I don't believe you can't, I believe that you have failed to learn humility and proper conflict-management skills, and you think that attack, attack, attack, threaten to sue, scream publicly about it, attack, attack, and attack again is the way to handle conflict.

Do you see now why I - and a few here - have raised concerns about when you marry and have kids? You're going to do the exact same thing to them. The moment your wife doesn't do what you want - and she will; life isn’t one of your little stories that you can write entirely to your liking - you'll turn around and attack, attack, play the victim, scream to everyone who'll listen, and attack again, tell everyone she's crazy, and then you'll wonder why your life is in ruins.

Learn some fucking humility Bobby.

EDIT: Also, is this shit your idea of “CKR understands your pain” - ‘One of your own got murdered? Well, I got given a low score on a test once!’? You really are the pits, aren’t you?

Colonel-Knight-Rider #fundie #psycho

@Volcheka1 #38616

The saddest thing is, he may already have passed the window for healing from this. People in therapy tend to acknowledge their problems to different degrees:

- The problem doesn’t exist
- The problem exists but it’s not important
- The problem exists and it’s important but the problem is unsolvable
- The problem exists, it’s important, and the problem is solvable but I’m powerless to solve or escape it

He sometimes mentions his own reactions to situations he doesn’t want to be happening (his parents’ oppressive, abusive behaviour, the ever-lengthening trail of people who he starts working on projects with and who end up disliking him, being quoted here) and says he knows better, but doesn’t apply the knowledge, and that walking away is a non-viable option (so in terms of the above list, he’s not fully exploring his options for solving or escaping his problems). And he doesn’t mention his ADD all that often but he uses that as a limiter for his options or the viability of his options when all else fails, which is a shame because there are treatments and techniques out there to manage ADHD symptoms.

And then he’s got that line of, “I must not think, feel, or act the same way as those other people” - his mum’s quote of “if you saw other people jumping off the GG Bridge, would you do the same?” (ignoring the fact that often, what the majority are doing is beneficial, not detrimental), his assertion that other people don’t think and that he can discount them on that basis (“Beep-boop, Knight man bad” from his recent quotes; “orange man bad” from his Ego Trap story; his implications that I’ve somehow ‘seduced’ people into thinking the same way as me). It’s as if ‘otherness’ is so overwhelmingly important to him that he daren’t join the rest of humanity.

A prognosis for CKR is extremely poor given his maintenance of the above problems. He’s holding himself in place very securely in such a way that he’s unlikely to change, no matter what the stimulus. Ultimately he has the right to refuse to seek help for himself, but the problem is that he imposes upon other people: he makes homophobic and racist remarks, spreads harmful propaganda (such as his comments about coronavirus being less harmful than broadcast), and describes wanting a family of his own, who he does not seem interested in breaking the cycle of abuse for.

I will continue to be aware of his presence and his posts. In theory, with CS making use of matchmakers, he could have a child within a year. I want to know that that child will be safe and not at risk of being beaten and violated the way CKR was. CKR tells me to leave him alone, and I no longer talk to him and will not do so again unless his approach to his life problems significantly change, but it wuold be ethically dubious of me to ignore a situation where a baby might be brought into the world who will be subject to the risk of abuse.