This Present Darkness @thsprsntdrknss@metalhead.club

PSA: I am always open to having someone respectfully disagree with me on anything, even if you just randomly found my profile and want to comment on something in my bio or something old I posted. By respectful disagreement, I mean no trolling or name calling. I am 100% okay with someone going "hey, I think you're wrong about X, here's an article/post/book to check out about why." I am human. I am often wrong about stuff, and I want to learn and grow and do better. Thanks.

Public PSA to anyone it may concern: if I’ve requested to follow you more than once, I promise I’m not being a stalker, I just have the memory of a goldfish with Alzheimer’s. Sorry for bugging you if I’ve done that.

Just announced: Star Wars 10: The Return of the Return of Palpatine and Skywalker with a CGI Hayden Christiansen and another shitty Death Star knockoff.

The Force Awakens is just an uninspired ripoff of A New Hope. Don’t bother changing my mind, we all know it’s true.

I will never understand why “straight” people are so obsessed with other people’s genetalia and sexual proclivities.

@thsprsntdrknss maybe I’m brainwashed by capitalism or blinded by my privilege, but personally I feel patriotic about America in that sense. We are far from perfect and we need A LOT of overhaul, but we also have a lot of potential and we’re also far from the worst. I want to see us do better and succeed. But that starts by admitting we aren’t where we should be. We can and must do better.

@thsprsntdrknss on that note, time for my periodic reminder on my opinions of nationalism vs patriotism. Nationalism is bad. Nationalism says “we are the best, the state is god, and to suggest otherwise is heresy and treason.” Patriotism says “we may not be the best, but I want us to be better and I believe in our potential.”

Fun fact: wearing the American flag is technically illegal. Remember that when you see nationalists wearing it this weekend as clothing.

As a veteran myself I don’t like the military and I would LOVE to see the military vastly defunded and reorganized. Having said that, the vast majority of “the troops” are just kids who got suckered in with lies and good PR. So if while I am all for “fuck the military” and “fuck the military industrial complex” posts, if you’re saying “fuck the troops as people” you’re probably a hypocrite. Just food for thought.

I don't know that I'm necessarily in the "death to America" camp, maybe more the "America needs a severe beating that lands it in a coma for a few days or weeks where upon waking America realizes it's been super shitty and changes its ways." I think that'd be cool.

Remember that time I wrote a song about how greed is bad and valuing profits more than human life is super fucked up? Yeah. Garrett was easily the best part of that song.

https://thsprsntdrknss.bandcamp.com/track/the-spice-must-flow-feat-garrett-russell