Go to your local library. They will know what resources exist in your area and can help connect you with social services. (A lot of times there’s help available you never even heard of. I’ve been there.)

I imagine she still never will.

I think it’s not, especially in the cases you describe.

Someone tormented you for fun. It’s not wrong to hate that person, it’s just to do so.

Your country is doing wrong; you’re supposed to oppose that. It should make you angry.

People who conflate those feelings of righteous indignation with hate speech don’t have a very firm grasp on what either of those things means. You’re talking about hating cruelty and injustice; you’re supposed to do that.

Whereas hate speech supports the oppression of or violence towards already marginalized people. It’s about hating categories of people for who or what they are, almost universally for things outside their control. Hating bullies, hating people who perpetuate injustice, isn’t about hating a person for their immutable nature, it’s about being seriously pissed off about their callous, selfish, or otherwise cruel actions.

Am I using it right? I think it means “you telling them what actually happened” after you do the thing, whereas the “briefing” was “them telling you what’s supposed to happen” before you do the thing.

Meanwhile my Daughter of Cacophony ass over here like “I can’t tell if this tastes snobby or purple.”

Gazebo? :3

… what?

I haven’t been able to log in for like two days, till just now.