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@anarchristist
i suggest responding in kind
Modern society is built upon hundreds of forgotten genocides and massacres, in addition to the ones history has documented. Living today means inheriting a world shaped by the deeds of previous generations and confronting their consequences, whether we wish to or not. The right thing to do is to confront that legacy rather than pretend it does not exist.
Besides one short drive to town in September i haven't left the house since i came back from the hospital the last time ... dec 2020
I'm scared.
This is one of the artists I knew who died "during the pandemic" (in quotes because covid is still circulating at similar levels worldwide: it's still during the pandemic)
After a fall, his condition got so bad he had to be hospitalized. While staying there, he caught covid, the thing he's scared of leaving his house about, and subsequently died. When people say that not having a spring break in 2020 or being able to go to the movies "broke" them during "lockdown", I think about Ken, a beautiful soul who spread so much kindness and creativity on this site, who was already disabled and living such a meager existence before being forgotten and killed by institutional disinterest in disease prevention. Please look at and spread his art. Please remember Ken. Please keep covid in mind and work to prevent it so stories like Ken's stop happening.
It also infuriates me that I can have feelings like these about someone I never met, who lived hundreds of miles from me, and there are people out there abandoning their friends and parents and siblings for having similar reasonable fears about societal ableism (and in Ken's struggle, native genocide). I miss his updates every day. I miss the joy he felt whenever someone bought him a new pack of markers so he could make new works of art. I miss the pride he felt seeing his art used by folks on the rez trying to make life better for others. You are missed and remembered, Ken.
My boss was like “Do you have any idea how much money we’re losing” like who cares, it’s not like they would give it to me otherwise
Have our investors tried making coffee at home and not eating out so much?
Mass psychosis
white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass
Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem
so the racism, antiblackness, islamophobia, and hatred for immigrants just disappeared huh
"its been a while since we were the problem" someone Black was murdered by police violence in Ireland last month
I will never get over "in the past" and "it's been a while since we were the problem" (white) people.
Geezuz, bruh.
We experience racism, sexism, anti-LGTBQ+, albeism, fashism, elitism, na/zionism, war, slavery, human trafficking and more every single day even and especially in central europe.
And a gigantically huge part of the problem are the "well, I'm not the problem" people.
I know a shit ton of white people who tell themselves "this kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore" only because it doesn't happen DiRECTLY to THEM in that very moment.
It's so exhausting.
It's quite literally what we mean when we talk about privilege.
Also, the entitlement bleeding through... Ugh.
I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...
these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.
“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.
MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.
The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.
BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.
The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.
If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.
Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer
Image source: photograph by op
when i originally posted this photo years ago, there was an presumption that there was some sort of "agenda" to this photo, either provegan or antivegan depending on one's preference. I was asked about whether this was posted with such an agenda, and I think in hindsight I wasn't firm enough in saying this isn't about veganism alone.
It's about humanity in general and our relationship with the rest of the planet. Without exception, we are all being called out with this quote to analyse our interactions with nature and consider our biases, because we all have them. It's a part of human nature to have biases that shape how we see and interact with reality. Those biases can be a real problem if we don't acknowledge their influence and let them take control, especially the really harmful ones that are tied to what I collectively call "the isms" (such as antisemitism, racism, classism, etc) and can hurt others.
I took this picture in a natural history musuem in California. They had the quote on a sign next to a taxidermied California grizzly bear. The California grizzly bear is a symbol of the state of California. It's on the state flag.
The last sighting of a California grizzly bear in the state of California was in 1924. This subspecies of North American brown bear was driven to extinction in a state where they were a symbol by the greed and fear of the very people who revered them enough to use them as a symbol.
Meanwhile, American Black Bears flourished in California, possibly because they didn't have to compete with North American brown bears, and now the state has one of the largest populations in the US. One of the arguments for reintroducing grizzlies into California is that it might help curb that population. Black bears are a menace in parts of California now, getting into dumpsters and eating food not mention for consumption by bears. The theory is that the ecosystems of California evolved with two bear species, so it's out of whack with just one.
The same greed and fear that led to the extinction of the California grizzly bear still exists, and pushes back against the idea of reintroducing grizzlies to California--and to reintroducing predators in other environments as well (see the wolves of Yellowstone).
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One class in the US knows it's in a class war
On International Women’s Day, we honor Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng. Here, she smiles after receiving a 20-year labor camp sentence from the US-backed South Vietnamese government. She told the judge: “20 years? Your government won’t last that long.”
Võ Thị Thắng was released from prison less than 6 years after this picture was taken as part of the Paris Peace accords. The South Vietnamese government fell a couple of years later.
today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.
The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."
Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response
what I mean is, there is a persistent fallacy that the present situation of a thing is always worse than the past, even if there have been fluctuations in badness.
This is not true. There is a great wealth of specific cases where ecosystems/species/a specific anthropogenic impact on the environment is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, better than it has been at any point in the past 100 years
I've been researching the history of conservation in the USA...and I think current doomers would benefit from knowing just how bad things got throughout the 20th century.
The eastern USA's natural environments were fucking razed. We went scorched earth on everything.
In the 1930's, DEER and WILD TURKEYS were almost eliminated from my state. Deer. Wild turkeys. Common animals that you can see all the time.
I've seen animals close to my home that a person in the 1970's would not have been able to see. I saw river otters and a bald eagle a couple months ago! Farmer family friend remembers when a bald eagle sighting here made the news. There is a thriving population of elk (16,000 animals) in the Appalachian Mountains, for the first time since before 1850!
We actively tried to exterminate so many species. Bison. Wolves. Mountain lions. The US GOVERNMENT PAID PEOPLE TO KILL CARNIVORES. They're still here. They're reclaiming their old territories. All is not lost
There was a time most American cities almost never saw a blue sky. Brown and yellow smog was the norm and rivers were garbage sludge that are now teeming with fish. People don't know that government environmental regulation actually did succeed, that the EPA really worked as intended. Now it gets eroded because people think it isn't making a big difference, and they think that because they haven't seen what it's still holding back.
Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental move
Speaking of improvement, there was a time when some rivers in the USA were so polluted that parts of them would catch fire.
it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.
Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.
okay so here's the thing about 50,000 people vs 1 ceo of a utility company
technofascist surveillance state actually the have fun with ai was just them selling it to the public ☺️
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data
NV Energy continues to be trash, I see.
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how arguably children and minors these days are arguably more oppressed than pretty much ever as a specific group. Don't get me wrong: childhood in "ye olden times" sucked probably generally more than childhood today in an industrialized country. But at the time there was less specific oppression of the class "children", because childhood as we know it is a fairly modern invention. Because until fairly recently a lot of some basic freedoms were actually further developed for children. Children did have more freedom of movement, freedom of association, and so on. Many of those legal changes are so new, that I grew up in a time before them. And while I whine a lot about "being old"... I am not that old.
Either way, I am getting distracted. The point was actually: someone dropped into my comments at this going: "Ha! I would argue children were more oppressed when it was legal to beat them!" And mind you. This person was American. And, uhm... Well.
I do not know how I should tell y'all. But you... do understand that it is still legal in all of the US to physically punish children as a parent, right? Like, the US never ratified the rights of children. A lot of places never did that, actually.
This is the map from Wikipedia about where children can legally be beaten by their parents or in some cases even teachers. The key is: in Green countries it is illegal alltogether, in yellow countries it is legal for parents/guardians at home to physically beat children, bright orange allows it for parents/guardians and within private schools, dark orange is generally parents/guardians and people at school, and red countries allow violence against children in pretty much any institution.
And, like, you might say: "Oh, that is actually more green countries than I thought." But... I should remind you that in the end, even in the green countries, the law against violence through parents/guardians tends to not be enforced until it reaches a level where adjacent adults will be uncomfortable.
And pretty much no country protects children and minors from non-physical stuff. Having your privacy stripped? Yeah, tough luck, nobody cares. Your parents or teachers verbally abusing and humiliating you? Yeah, tough luck, fuck you.
And many of the rules that are currently pushed for to "protect" children from evil things like *checks notes* porn and horror movies and serial kidnappers that do not actually exist pushes children into a situation where they have way, way less abilities to escape abusive homes, or abusive schooling situations. Because children and minors in general are right now heavily restricted in their freedom of movement and freedom of education.
This is most noticeable for children who are queer and are raised in queerphobic households. But it affects all children. It is oppression. Nothing else. And worst of all it sounds reasonable.
"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means
Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??
Fuck landlords
"Are you illegally discriminating against disabled people?"
"Yes."