Each month I'm learning that more and more of my friends are queer, or have autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, or bipolar disorder.
I think it's kinda fucked that it's all been labeled a disorder. I don't know what I'm talking about medically speaking, but I feel like if so many of us have a "disorder" then maybe it's just that people come in a lot of different flavors and the bounds of normal need to be expanded. We don't all have to be the same to have the same intrinsic value and be worthy of love & dignity. Just because my brain works differently than "how it should" doesn't mean that me or my friends are not functioning properly. (Being queer is absolutely still getting called a disorder)
I think it means they built a system that exclusively praises people like them while still trying to make neuro-divergent people useful as underpaid labor or queer people the scapegoats for their systems failures to keep them in luxury and power while demonizing us for not being like them.
Of course this is an anti-capitalist post. That's literally my whole deal. They need billions of people to work their warehouses, grocery stores, restaurants, drive their shipping trucks, babysit their kids, clean their homes, cars, and offices, harvest their food, work in their factories, teach their children, balance their budget, repair their car, do their taxes, and the million other underpaid jobs at the bottom of the respect & pay ladder. Without us their system absolutely collapsed. Because we're doing all the work. They just collect the profits.
They exploit you for your labour. They believe you're too stupid to understand that. They make you believe you are powerless to change things because you are alone. You are not stupid and you are not alone. The strikes have just begun. Unions are the first step to fight back. Collective bargaining is how we balance the power scales and set things right.
We are all in one fight together to throw off the oppression of the people who seek only to shame, control, and exploit the 99% of the world. Don't let them divide you.
Happy Labour day, brought to you by the unions.
This post is rated PG-13 because I only said fuck once. Oh shit, fuck I said it again, damnit that's 3 times, fuck. Fuck it whatever.
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