Wir sind ein Zusammenschluss von Menschen aus Köln, die sich ein Leben in Freiheit wünschen. Wir sind gegen alle Formen von Diskriminierung und Ausschluss und streben den Abbau struktureller Hindernisse für Minderheiten an. Schreibt uns gerne, wenn ihr auch aktiv werden wollt!
like YES there are plenty of fat people who ARE healthy and that is a super important thing to say but fat people who are not currently healthy (especially fat women) are treated like dirt by both camps. like i dont know how to explain to you that unhealthy people dont deserve to get treated like garbage
“But what will you do with the lazy man, the man who does not want to work?” inquires your friend.
That is an interesting question, and you will probably be very much surprised when I say that there is really no such thing as laziness. What we call a lazy man is generally a square man in a round hole. That is, the right man in the wrong place, And you will always find that when a fellow is in the wrong place, he will be inefficient or shiftless. For so-called laziness and a good deal of inefficiency are merely unfitness, misplacement. If you are compelled to do the thing you are unfitted for by your inclinations or temperament, you will be inefficient at it; if you are forced to do work you are not interested in, you will be lazy at it.
Look, this is probably going to end up as an unpopular post, because God knows the level of brainrot capitalism and fast consumption caused in people's brains, but I'd rather not get TV shows for a while if it means writers get their rights defended and recognized.
Entertainment can't come at the cost of fair pay, healthy work environment and ethical practices.
i gotta say i agree that exposing children to algorithmic content feeds is going to make them grow up with one billion new kinds of mental illnesses and it's a serious societal problem that urgently needs addressing but it makes me v. v. v. uneasy when i see posts going around that identify this issue and come to the conclusion 'this is why it's important for parents to know what their kid is doing online' and uh girls there are a lot of kids out there who would be dead if their parents knew what they were doing online
"yeah this aspect of capitalism is extremely alienating and traumatizing" and im nodding and smiling and then they add "which is why we must retreat to the safety of the family" and i start abruptly high-pitched screaming like a fire alarm
I will pretty much instantly distrust a fellow leftist if they paint the enemy as being ugly (’all terfs have bad hair’, ‘all far-right bros are fat people with neck beards’, etc). It shows me they haven’t done some of the most basic work of un-linking appearance from character, which leaves them open to a vast array of bigoted tropes, from fatphobia, ableism and classism to homophobia, transphobia antisemitism and racism, because who we see as ‘attractive’ or looking ‘wholesome’ and who we assume to look ‘untrustworthy’ or villainous’ has been coded by all these things.
lots of people in the notes pointing out that this is also true about:
Dismissing people because of their age
Pretending that the people who disagree with you are ‘unintelligent’ and the people who agree with you are ‘smart’
Accusing the people you disagree with of having some mental illness.
Accents and speech patterns
Mocking personal hygiene
Mocking someone not getting laid or mocking genital size or shape
Mocking lack of productivity and independence (’you probably live in your moms basement’ stuff)
And YES. You are all right. These are all bad reasons to claim superiority over someone and every time someone brings up this stuff their ageism/ableism/classism/sexism/etc is showing.
And ya know, 99 out of 100 times, the person(s) that you’re insulting either can’t hear you or doesn’t really care what you have to say. But the fat people, disabled people, mentally ill people, etc. in your own community do hear and feel a little less safe in that community because of you. Do better.
As the price of food and other basics soars, more people are shoplifting. While some see stealing as necessary, for others it’s a form of resistance. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Shoplifters who spoke to Novara Media said the cost of living crisis had pushed them to steal more of life’s essentials. “A couple of times I’ve been on the verge of crying when I go to buy Sainsbury’s Basics apple and blackcurrant squash and realise the price has doubled in the past three months,” said John.
Lara, a culture worker from London, has started shoplifting groceries more frequently; she said it has become more socially acceptable in her circles. “I know that other people do it, and I’ve seen how other people do it, and that really helped,” she said. Previously, she avoided stealing because her upbringing and wider moralism had convinced her it was “a shameful thing” to do.
“Before, I would have described stealing as this really anti-Islamic thing to do,” she said. Shoplifting is also especially frowned-upon by “parents who come from a working-class or lower middle-class background,” she said, because of how classist ‘scrounger’ stereotypes “trickle down to how we surveil and shame each other.”
Nowadays however, Lara sees shoplifting as “one of the few guerrilla tactics we have available to us.”
Alan, a construction worker from London, who, like John and Anna, has been shoplifting around half his groceries in recent months, has “no moral qualms” about stealing from supermarkets. “I just think that the stuff in the world is ours, all of ours,” he said, “and that we’ve invented a really stupid system for the distribution of resources which doesn’t treat them as ours, and treats them as things that can be used for capitalists to make profit.”
He wouldn’t steal things if it meant that “someone’s labour went unrewarded”, he said, but all shoplifting affects is “the profits of shareholders” he said. “[I have] no concerns about that at all.”
[…]
While, for many, shoplifting feels like a form of resistance to untenable living conditions, no one who spoke to Novara Media was sure how to build solidarity between shoplifters. Alan shoplifts food for rough sleepers, but wishes there were more organised approaches to shoplifting – like the mass stealing and redistribution of food that occurred in Greece following the 2008 financial crisis.
Lara believes shoplifting could be “revolutionary” if it could be “more of an organised operation” that involved “getting workers on side”.
“I think it would be really radical if there would be a widespread recognition and acceptance of stealing as a necessary mechanism for resistance,” she says. “If you can’t afford the things that you have to buy, then the logic should be that you just take them.”
PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room.
“Across the U.S., it’s extremely rare for any child welfare agencies to require disabilities training for social workers…Parents with disabilities are often judged by a system that doesn’t understand how to assess their capacity as caregivers,“
Other points that made me fucking pissed, bold added by me:
What they measure matters. A recent analysis by ACLU researchers found that when Allegheny’s algorithm flagged people who accessed county services for mental health and other behavioral health programs, that could add up to three points to a child’s risk score, a significant increase on a scale of 20.
Through tracking their work across the country, however, the AP found their tools can set families up for separation by rating their risk based on personal characteristics they cannot change or control, such as race or disability, rather than just their actions as parents.
Over time, Allegheny’s tool has tracked if members of the family have diagnoses for schizophrenia or mood disorders. It’s also measured if parents or other children in the household have disabilities, by noting whether any family members received Supplemental Security Income, a federal benefit for people with disabilities. The county said that it factors in SSI payments in part because children with disabilities are more likely to be abused or neglected.
The county also said disabilities-aligned data can be “predictive of the outcomes” and it “should come as no surprise that parents with disabilities … may also have a need for additional supports and services.” In an emailed statement, the county added that elsewhere in the country, social workers also draw on data about mental health and other conditions that may affect a parent’s ability to safely care for a child.
People with disabilities are overrepresented in the child welfare system, yet there’s no evidence that they harm their children at higher rates, said Traci LaLiberte, a University of Minnesota expert on child welfare and disabilities.
The Los Angeles tool weighs if any children in the family have ever gotten special education services, have had prior developmental or mental health referrals or used drugs to treat mental health.
I could be charged for a crime in the future for this post, but I don't give a fuck.
Trans people need to start stockpiling HRT
Seriously. Stockpile it. You can buy estrogen and spironolactone and progesterone online. Testosterone is a scheduled drug in the US, but you can buy it online, too. I don't care if it's illegal. I don't care if it's sketchy. I don't care if it makes cis people uncomfortable that we're hoarding hormones and transitioning behind closed doors. Checkout the r/diyhrt subreddit for links, details, risks, support, etc.
We are under attack.
Missouri AG just passed down an emergency rule Requiring conversion therapy for trans people, instituting a mandatory 18 months of therapy before hormones or puberty blockers can be prescribed, Requiring the distribution of misinformation and lies to trans people about the "dangers" of the "experimental treatment," Requiring screen for social media addiction and "social contagion" regarding gender and transness (a theory that has been thoroughly debunked), Requiring that "preexisting mental health conditions" be "fully identified and treated" before transition (including neurodiversity like ADHD, Autism, BPD, etc.) States the support trans people are greatly outnumbered by states that want to see us dead. We are in stage 7 of the ten stages of genocide, and the heavy hand of the State is going to crush us, and liberal "allies" aren't enough.
So, stockpile.
Order online. Order illegally. Stash. Distribute in your community.
Organize.
Gather your friends, neighbors, accomplices. Gather supplies, intel, weapons, tools. Arm yourselves. Seriously, arm yourselves. And if you can't get a firearm, or don't want one for whatever reason, find your niche. Counterintel, propaganda, distro. Cause when they come for you, your HRT, your clothes and care, you don't want to be alone.
Electoralism will not save us. Voting will not save us. Courts will not save us.
To liberals and centrists like @sobearinmind, radical trans organizing is a threat. It's a threat to their dominant liberal power structure, where everyone engages in The Process™️ in good faith, and everyone has lofty goals for the betterment and advancement of mankind. That is why Liberalism will ALWAYS side with the Fascists. Because "if we silence the fascists, we're saying the system isn't good!! Cause they can't participate in the system!" THATS THE FUCKIN POINT, BUDDY. Fascists are Explicitly genocidal, and trans genocide is Real and Happening. Denying it, talking your way around it, trying to find middle ground with the people that want me and my family and my loved ones fucking dead? THAT'S collaboration. You are Literally a fascist collaborator. You are helping Fascists who want me and people like me "eradicated...from public life. Entirely." (direct quote from Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, by the way.)
I'm done with liberals. I'm done with "allies." I only have room for accomplices, accessories, comrades. I only have time for the people who will take up arms and bricks and bottles and blades to defend my community.
Just heard about the mess that YA author Maggie Tokuda-Hall has been dealing with. tl;dr, Her publisher offered her the chance to be part of an initiative that would’ve put her work in a lot more stores and libraries. It’s an initiative specifically aimed at amplifying Asian voices… but only if she removed the word “racism” from her author’s note. On a book about the Japanese internment.
I am very glad she rejected this offer, and I 100% agree with her that this is pure cowardice. I’m appalled at Scholastic – or any other publisher who’s doing this but whose authors can’t take the risk of speaking out. This is the kind of crap that marginalized writers have to deal with all the time – and it is also how fascism takes root: “just business” decisions that perpetuate injustice, systematic erasure of targeted groups from their own damn stories, institutions choosing to do what’s easy over what’s right.
(I have been very fortunate to never have a publisher do this to me. Plenty of disrespectful bs from institutions and individuals within the industry, but never from the people who signed my checks. I’m also somewhat insulated from the book ban bullshit because my work is genre and isn’t aimed at kids – though that’s coming, of course. Fascists don’t stop until they are stopped.)
Anyway. Pop over to Maggie’s blog to read the full story – or better yet hop on a retail site and buy her books. It’s up to readers now to support marginalized authors, since it’s clear nobody else will.
During the, “Week of Action,” a bulldozer-like machine with a subsequent drilling apparatus was completely decommissioned before it could continue to destroy more of the Welaunee forest on the South Black Hall plot.
The proposed huge-ass soundstage adjacent to proposed Cop City will also never be built!
We are advocates of actions that actually STOP WORK, & work gets STOPPED by directly confronting WORK, our enemies, & earth destroying machines.
Let it be remembered that though other gatherings & gardens are also good, these types of activities are only made possible by actions that DISABLE OUR ENEMIES from being able to work & gain territory.
The only good machine is a machine on fire, & we will not let our comrade Tortuguita’s death be in vain, nor will we allow counterrevolutionary discourse & behavior to permeate the movement or exploit Tort’s murder.
Blessed be the barricades & Blessed is the Flame!
Act like the cops and their lackeys are trying to kill us because they are.
You are not immune to ads. Ads are not becoming ineffective due to oversaturation or savvy young people or whatever. Billions of dollars are poured into market research and analytics every year, corporations would know if ads were a waste of money way way before a tiktok comment section and stop spending money on them
By believing yourself to be "too smart" to be affected by advertising you're only making yourself far less mindful of and more susceptible to it. The ads you're exposed to poison your mind - be aware of that so you can combat it, and try to be exposed to as few as possible
No, see, this is exactly what I'm talking about. If advertising made people less likely to buy a product then marketing firms would 100% know about it long before you. Ads work on a subconscious level, and you're not so much smarter than the average rube that they actually backfire on you and only you
While you're walking around confident in your knowledge that ads don't affect you, you're missing all the ways that they are affecting you constantly underneath your conscious notice
You're not immune to propaganda. You're not immune to propaganda. You're not immune to propaganda
When I was twenty I was almost shot by a police officer because of my mental illness. I was peeling bark off a tree on public property to calm my anxiety.
Two officers pulled up very quietly in a squad car while I had my back turned. They did not announce their arrival. When I noticed them approaching me by the sound of their footsteps, I was frightened and reached for my phone to record them. They thought I was going for a weapon and one reached for his pistol. I put my hands up.
They illegally detained me and took my ID to run a background check. The one who had started to draw his gun on me asked me if I’d had any thoughts of hurting myself or others.
My background check came up clean. They released me and told me I wasn’t doing anything illegal. I went to my car and bawled my eyes out, thinking about how I’d almost died for the crime of “weird behavior.”
Don’t give these pigs a registry of the mentally ill. They’re already trying to kill us for no good reason.
A year and a half ago, a catastrophic fire destroyed our mailorder space. Some goods survived this fire, however, including several boxes of books and journals that had been returned by stores and distributors or that were too damaged to be sold as brand new. Ironically, the damage that they had sustained protected them, as we didn’t bother to keep them on hand for mailorder.
To clear space for more books, posters, stickers, and zines, we’re offering these less-than-perfect books and (long out of print) journals at fire sale prices, without the scent of flames attached.
This zine is for anyone facing the threat of prison time as a result of participating in the struggle for a socially and ecologically sustainable future, and for anyone who might face that threat at some point in the future.
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