Sooner or later leftists will have to deal with the issue that capitalism has made many people used to wanton excess and sooner or later we'll have to legit tell everyone we can't have plastic treats and luxury produce or cruises instantly available year round and it's gonna make so many people mad and call you a big meanie worse than stalin over it. It will not be popular at all but someone's gotta hold a firm no or the planet will never stop collapsing. We can't save the planet by living exactly how we do now just with a communist banner over it we have to take a loss sorry, shein product cycles shouldn't have been normalized to begin with.
Marjorie Taylor Greene just used all her experience as a user of guns to carefully line up her weapon with her own foot and pull the trigger.
"If we stopped electing child predators, Democrats would have a supermajority" is... not really making the point she wants to be making, but it sure is making a point.
Okay, but also, don't bring your phone with you if you're doing something that could get you in legal trouble. You can get a burner phone (such a tracfone) and prepay for minutes using cash if you need to. But if you don't want to be tracked, the most foolproof plan is to not bring a device that can track you. (Don't bring your laptop, either.)
People always say: "Not everyone is gonna like you, and that's ok, nothing to take personally, it doesn't matter" yet it still sucks. It sucks when it's your teacher, it sucks when it's your boss or co-worker or family member. It even sucks when it's a friends friend or someone we barely know. It hurts. And you do not have to gaslight yourself into thinking that it doesn't hurt when it does. You're allowed to be upset when life is hard. You're allowed to feel an emotion, even more when it makes perfect logical sense. We talk to a friend about our feelings, journal, reflect, use coping skills. We find peace after a while, that's a more realistic solution. You got this. It will be ok.
I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.
And if you think that screenshot is an isolated incident, think again!
There are countless radfem and T(W)ERF blogs that I’ve blocked that said ‘secret radfem sideblog’ in the description.
Like, it’s great that we’ve made being a T(W)ERF so unaccepted on this site that they can only be open about the most toxic of their views in secret side blogs rather than on their main, but it’s time to accept that they’re taking advantage of that in a really fucking insidious way.
Just a tip on how to recognize these blogs. If you follow someone and you start getting suggested t*rf blogs that’s a good sign the person has sideblog for that stuff. There was some cowboy blog I followed a while ago and I used to get follow suggestions saying “this blog is similar to cowboy whatever” and it was a ton of t*rf shit and low and behold they ended up outing themselves
This is why we learn about what actual TERF ideology is. Saying “trans women are women” and “TERFS not allowed” and putting “TERF destroyer” or whatever in your bio is not enough. Learn how TERFs actually work, and what they believe, and where it stems from, and how they express diluted versions in order to warm up non-TERFs to their ideas.
Do the fucking work. Unfollow/block people who express TERF ideas even if they don’t label themselves as TERFs, challenge those ideas in your community, and you won’t have to worry about secret TERF blogs anymore.
This is, most likely, my most popular post on this site and as glad as I am it was this one, after coming back from some time away from the site it really does feel like a lot of you read it, nodded, and then stepped straight into the trap anyway.
I really implore y'all to stop letting the need to prove yourself get in the way of just enjoying life and the people you share it with. I'm using the word "implore" so y'all know I'm serious about it, btw
The U.S. Department of Transportation fined American Airlines for mishandling passengers with disabilities and damaging wheelchairs.
"The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined American Airlines $50 million for mishandling passengers with disabilities and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five year period.
A DOT investigation, which covered incidents between 2019 and 2023, revealed that American Airlines not only failed to provide proper wheelchair assistance but also damaged wheelchairs and mobility scooters. The mishandling of wheelchairs—sometimes leading to injuries—led to numerous complaints, including several from the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg emphasized that American Airlines "appeared to be one of the worst offenders," but the problems that investigators found "are not confined to one airline." He said the department is conducting similar investigations into other airlines, but he would not name them.
"The era of tolerating poor treatment of wheelchair users on airplanes is over," Buttigieg told reporters, adding the airline's mistreatment of travelers with disabilities was "not just undignified but unsafe." ...
According to Transportation Department figures, from 2019 through 2023 American Airlines mishandled more than 10,760 wheelchairs and mobility scooters.
However, Southwest Airlines had more incidents at more than 11,100 mishandlings and Spirit Airlines had the highest percentage of errors in several of the years, according to the department.
How American Airlines Is Responding
American Airlines has vowed to make changes, investing more than $175 million this year to improve services for disabled passengers such as infrastructure and training. According to a consent order, the company will receive a $25 million credit for its efforts, including compensations paid to affected passengers.
Still, the penalty remains far higher than previous fines, such as the $2 million levied against United Airlines in 2016, which was reduced to $700,000 after United got credit for compensating passengers and other spending.
DOT officials said the size of the fine against American reflected the large number of incidents, which included damaging wheelchairs or taking too long to return them to passengers after flights.
In addition, the fine coincides with new proposed regulations that aim to strengthen protections for disabled travelers, making it a violation of federal law if airlines do not return wheelchairs quickly and undamaged, and mandate annual training for staff handling disabled passengers."
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