✿ transgendered eco-stalinist ✿

Bee, she/her, ML

[meatthawsmoth]

a lot of people’s idea of supporting an oppressed community actually amounts to supporting that “community”’s petit-bourgeoisie (& sometimes even just full-blown bourgeoisie), & that’s gained a surprising amount of traction even among communists.

[carmilla-dilaurentis]

Like, supporting only petty-bourgeois members of LGBT+ or POC communities? Do you have any example? thanks :)

[meatthawsmoth]

The biggest example is “shop at [insert group here] owned businesses” constantly given as a way to support an oppressed community.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[conceptadecency]

Just a reminder that Frederick Banting, discoverer of the process to synthesise insulin, sold the patent for $1 because it was so important to him that it be widely available and easily mass produced. Yes, you should be angry.

[lost-carcosa]

[guerrillatech]

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[howboutthatbreadtho]

Some fun details about Gloria Steinem.

She also loved to inform on trans people, who she openly attacked.

It's wild that she's seen as some "pioneering feminist" and not actively hampering feminism via working with the US state and breaking solidarity with a large portion of marginalized women in favor of being a White Feminist who promotes detrimental books through the right-wing funded Ms. magazine she runs.

[shardsofglassheart]

I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

[discoursedrome]

tbh I feel like most of society’s rhetoric around “protecting children” comes from the same place as deep-patriarchy rhetoric on “protecting women”, where the idea is that they’re sacred and valuable but also treated essentially as property, and the the desire to protect them is largely experienced as a desire to ensure that those property rights are sacrosanct

[shitidoinmysparetime]

Yep, people talk about it in terms of “protection,” but when you really break it down…no, they’re acting as if their child is properly. Think about it: How many times have you heard “No one can tell me what to do with MY child!”? That’s…not concern for your kid. That’s a tantrum over a threat to your ownership.

It gets even more obvious when you talk about corporal punishment. Concerned bystanders tell you not to hit your kid, and your reaction is “I’ll discipline MY CHILD however I want!” Okay, but you do know that you sound like the kind of person who’d hit your car with a hammer because it’s YOURS, right? Because you do.

I’ll never forget being told by my state’s CPS that it didn’t matter that my students were telling me that mom or dad hit them: If I didn’t see marks, then it didn’t count. In my state, you literally had the right to smack your kid up and until you left a bruise. What possible justification for that is there other than, “I own this, and I’m allowed to do what I want with it as long as I’m not leaving visible damage”? It’s honestly reminiscent of those laws that governed exactly how much you could beat your wife, or under what circumstances it was acceptable to outright murder a person you’d enslaved.

The hardest part about working with children in America is that we don’t treat them as people. They’re just appendages to their parents, who then have the right to do as much or as little for them as they feel like. It’s despicable and heartbreaking. And it will never stop until we actually acknowledge that children deserve independent human rights.

[anarchotolkienist]

Hungary is now openly a Fascist dictatorship btw, just thought you should know that. Get our comrades out if you can.

[jooferslannister-deactivated202]

If anyone has comrades in Hungary, seriously, get them out of there. 

[blackarachnya]

these comments really say everything you need to know about the biden defense squad 

[blackarachnya]

“there were no kids in cages pre-trump”

*shown proof there was*

“well yeah but they were probably nicer” 

[goawfma]

how is this shit even legal ?!!

[dr-archeville]

[text: “Someone years ago said that cop cars in the UK are very visible and clearly marked so citizens can identify them when they need help. US cops do whatever they can to hide the fact that they’re a cop car because their purpose is to write tickets and generate revenue.”]

[thecrystalfems]

It’s crazy how the police force constantly does things like this designed to hide themselves and rule citizens with fear and then they cry about how everyone hates cops

[01]

please stop calling latinx people words like ‘mami’ and ‘papi’ its creepy as fuck and racist

[01]

and on that note, stop fetishizing us all together. thanks

[01]

you guys rb literally everything besides people pointing out racist shit all of you do so maybe stop doing that and rb this

[news-queue]

[sexhaver]

this is from 2003

[oceanman]

LMAO sanders and biden are dramatically quote retweeting each other

[oceanman]

[justsomeantifas]

You know, the thing that really aggravates me about Joe Biden’s shitty stance on universal health care is the fact that when one of his sons, who died from brain cancer, was sick and undergoing treatment, and it was starting to look like he might not be able to work as a result and would therefore have had no income to support himself and his family or proper health insurance to cover the costs of his treatment, Joe Biden planned to sell his second home to help his son’s family pay for the treatment and keep them afloat. It was the Obamas who convinced him not to do it and told him that they’d help him to cover whatever the costs were if it ever came down to it. 

Joe Biden was the goddamned Vice President of the United States of America. He literally owns more than one home. His son was working as the attorney general in Delaware. And even they came to a point where they were struggling to figure out how they would be able to pay for all this without bankrupting themselves in the process. His son couldn’t even quit his job even though he had fucking brain cancer because his family needed the money, even though his illness was starting to affect his ability to work in the first place.

And Joe Biden is the same stupid fucker who thinks universal health care is a pie in the sky fever dream that most Americans don’t deserve because protecting the assets of health insurance companies is far more important for him and the Democratic establishment than anything else.

[justsomeantifas]

If the state of the American healthcare system is such that even a person with a reasonably well-paying job, with better health insurance than most other people are privy to, can’t afford to quit their job, even though their illness makes it increasingly difficult for them to work, because they wouldn’t be able to afford their treatment without having to get their parents to take out a second mortgage on their second house, what does this say about the state of things for literally everyone else in the country??? 

[mioxenoblade]

People will accept eugenics so long as it proves them valid in some way. Like "if scientists prove there's a gay/trans gene or something we'll finally be recognized as legitimate by all" like nah dude that's fucking eugenics bud that'd be used to get rid of us

Or mom's being like "I can't wait till one day when we can find the autism gene and stop autism once and for all" like bitch that's eugenics is your kid having a sensitivity to touch and not wanting to be hugged such a big deal to you that you want to get rid of all autistic people? That's so incredibly selfish and terrible.

Eugenics isn't a morally gray area. It's all bad. All of it. "We can stop families from suffering :(" suffering what? A unique individual? Fuck off.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[girlsgiggle]

in college a teacher explained that criticizing gentrification wasn’t about shaming or blaming the white people that were most likely living in the only apartments they could afford - it was about asking why their living there was inherently valuable. it’s not really about who - it’s about why. why white lives are literally valued more. why is the presence of white people a gentrifying force? what is it about whiteness that elicits immediate value? 

[charismat1c-megafauna]

And if you look up the stages of gentrification, it usually goes like “artists and teachers and etc move into this neighborhood because its what they can afford” and THEN “developers notice these people and try to capitalize on them.”

[punkjabi]

#but who tf is out there calling the cops on and refusing to participate in the brown parts of that community w the super cheap rent hmm?#who is running out family businesses the ppl depend on for sustenance and laundry and income#to be replaced by an artisinal jams shop thats only open 6hrs a wk#this is dumb#if you actively benefit from the wholesale destruction of culture & community#the least i mean the very least you can do is take responsibility for your role in that destruction via @kidviscious

[800-dick-pics]

Also like a lot of gentrification is also coming from corporations that are fueling displacement at far higher rates than indiviual people moving into black and brown low income neighborhoods

grocery stores are now ulta’s, parking lots for mass transit riders are bulldozed for luxury high rise apts, rent able scooters and bikes send money that could be going into public transportation for all (not just 1 person on a bike) right into corporations hands

corporations also aid gentrification by making it easier for more middle class + majority white to ignore and exclude themselves from the local community

Why care about others access to food when you live blocks away from a grocery store and youve never been food insecure? Why pay to ride the bus and possibly run into drunk homeless people and school children when you can just pay to zone out alone on your lime scooter? Why care about the laundry mat turning into an cupcake bakery when I can do laundry at home? Why care about the those homeless people in tent cities when you “work hard” for your money and a place to live.

gentrification from corporations and indivuals both drive each other to gentrify in different ways

[ghostmage-deactivated20200411]

the subtle manipulation with making fictional cops black or openly gay. we all know what you’re trying to do

[closet-keys]

AI fears you have: Sentient and autonomous robots waging war against humans

AI fears you should have: We are literally automating systems of oppression which is amplifying systemic racism and making it more efficient. Using algorithms that target marginalized people for longer sentencing in prison, perpetuate invisible redlining, and neglect to identify people of color and disabled people as human in facial recognition software, allows people to avoid even the most basic ethical consideration or self interrogation about their role because they can allow themselves to believe programs and algorithms are “objective.”

[frottinq]

[postirony]