No Such Thing As A Burden On Society

The purpose of having society and government is to get everyone taken care of. Belief that there are people who don't deserve it is what gets nazis punched in viral videos. Sideblog of @paulgadzikowski

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

There is no such thing as a burden on society. Society was invented to provide for everyone so that everyone may not just survive but thrive. Evolution tells us this, anthropology tells us this, biology tells us this, religion tells us this. It's in the sales pitch for every political ideology (except fascism which requires a scapegoat, for fearmongering and misdirection). The Declaration of Independence highlighted this when it started off by stating that our inalienable rights include (but are not limited to!) life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If you believe the powerful when they tell you that the powerless are stealing your power, then you are giving it away. If someone is being called a burden on society

the person speaking is a bigot

the person(s) they're speaking of have been failed by society

This is a sideblog for @paulgadzikowski, FAQ for which here.

Because these blogs were created after the implementation of the 2023 Tumblr text editor which operates in some ways very differently than the text editor I used for ten years at @heroofthreefaces (in the manner described on the FAQ for my main blog), posts and reblogs intended for my main often get posted here accidentally. These when discovered are tagged wrong blog, and are then reblogged to my main where they are also tagged wrong blog; or, if they're very freshly reblogged, they're just deleted and the post is re-reblogged over there.

EDIT From the notes on this post: My "fake felon" tag is an evolution starting from the tag I used 2017-2021 which was "fake president". After that for awhile I used "former fake president". Then when the run-up to the 2024 election started picking up steam, what with the man began making known his intent to seize totalitarian power on reelection and what with Project 2025, I switched to "fake tyrant"; and then with the conviction in New York to "fake felon". Though it is a misnomer because he wouldn't be a fake tyrant at all and is hardly a fake felon. I suppose there may be people who think I mean it that way but I don't think I'll change it

EDIT After the trial in New York and the 2024 GOP convention I changed it to "sleepy don"

EDIT After the debate with Harris I decided using a nickname is kicking a man when he's down and now I'll just use "donald trump" even though I originally started using a nickname tag because I wanted his name on my blogs as little as possible

EDIT After the (second) inauguration I'm switching to "felon president" because, whatever his mental state, I haven't the faintest doubt that he knows damn well everything he's doing is with spite and malice; and "felon president", being nothing but factually accurate, is the least of the epithets he deserves for that

EDIT Switching to "fascist president" because ... you know what, none of these really warranted any explanation in this space

[liberalsarecool]

You mean they actually kept him out of the Mar-a-Loco living room blanket fort?

A downed airman who never existed and has not been mentioned since?

#25Amendment

[kkglinka]

People would understand the seemingly dichotomous u.s. economy better if they could internalize that the 'stock market' is a fancy gambling house quite literally overseen by a private entity. To use a gambling house as a metric is absurd.

[kaijuno]

Honey they’re inventing unions at DoorDash

[kropotkindersurprise]

April 7, 2026 - "All you had to do was pay us enough to live, all you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live"

A worker in Ontario, California, USA, set his company’s warehouse on fire and has a message for the CEO:

“There goes your inventory. You know we may not get paid enough to fucking live, but these bitches (lighters) dirt cheap. All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live.”[article]/[video]

[kropotkindersurprise]

if any Californian finds this out message me and I'll add it to the post.

[runcibility]

[keeshplay]

Reminder that society was built on the concept of the lower class being able to LIVE, not just survive, and in exchange we didn't drag bosses out of their burning homes in the middle of the night and beat them to death on their front lawn in front of their families.

The modern elite seem to have forgotten this.

[nudityandnerdery]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[johnpallo]

"Many people who practiced conversion practices--both historically, and now--believed they were acting in their victims' best interests. They really did believe that. However, their mental model of their victims' best interests did not include freedom. Did not include allowing those patients to make their own decisions. And they believed that because the victims were queer.

"That is queerphobia. That is bigotry. No matter how well-informed or well-intentioned it might have been. And so, I do damn them for that. I don't really care what their intentions were. I still don't. I care about my freedom and the freedom of people like me.

"Let God judge them on their intentions and the contents of their hearts. I judge them on the contents of the coroner's reports."

Abigail Thorn, "Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists | Post Mortem Livestream" 2026

[anexperimentallife]

[liberalsarecool]

Israeli snipers using head shots to kill Palestinian children playing is why the US needs to end the gravy train.

Cut them off. No funding. No aid. No military support. Sanctions. Visas revoked, passports denied, access to SWIFT blocked. Trade ended. Expulsion from the UN, OECD, and OAS. Demilitarization like Germany post WW2. No fly zones established and monitored. Government and IDF officials stand trial in the ICC.

Now.

[porterdavis]

[ladyshinga]

Really wish we'd, on the left, stop laughing and assuming this is ACTUALLY about strippers. I'd be willing to bet this ISN'T about some one with the actual job of stripper being somehow hired and sent to a school, that indeed DOESN'T happen - instead it will be used to target any female teacher who, like, wears a bikini on social media one time. She'll be called a "danger" to children and fired, as a cover for the fact that she's pro-queer or too far left or doesn't support ICE enough on that same social media. The bikini pic will just be the legal tool used to ruin her life

[ladyshinga]

A friend helped me out by looking up the actual bill and YUP, it's to target queer people and sex education. NOT. STRIPPERS. STOP MAKING IT ABOUT THE FUCKING "STRIPPERS".

[theshampyon]

Anyone who thinks ladyshinga might be off track, here's the breakdown.

Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.

Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".

How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"

Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".

Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.

Actual result: Illegal to mention the existence of trans people or admit to being trans in a classroom under threat of being prosecuted as a child sex offender.

[thelaurenshippen]

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

[thelaurenshippen]

um.

[partasah]

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Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

The oligarchs have forgotten that failure to provide for nonviolent means of addressing worker concerns has violent consequences

Or they genuinely think that they look like the victim in such cases (which they do but to other oligarchs and to other oligarchs only) because they willfully refuse to recognize the existence of social violence like systemic exploitation and that such a case is retaliation not initiation

[elierlick]

My new favorite thing is journalism that treats the United States like we do other countries.

[depsidase]

[transmechanicus]

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

[blackjame]

Phoenix police sergeant under investigation for off-duty actions at student ICE protest

The Phoenix Police Department is investigating the involvement of an off-duty sergeant in a late January high school walkout, which escalate

[queer-as-city-folk]

Girl, what the fuck are you doing?

[queer-as-city-folk]

I mean, go ahead, make the oil crisis worse, I don't drive, but let me tell you in advance a lot of people who voted for you, do in fact drive

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

So we're opening the Strait by ... blockading the Strait?

[anexperimentallife]

"But that warehouse will be covered by insurance, so he's not really hurting the company." The warehouse was just a warning, because all previous warnings have been ignored.

I think it showed a lot of restraint that they started with the warehouse before burning down the CEO's house with the CEO inside, because honestly, that's what's coming if they don't heed this warning.

The problem with capitalism is that you can only steal so much from workers before they get fed up. And if you block all legal recourse, well...

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

A healthcare insurance CEO was assassinated last year. They know people are serious.

[anexperimentallife]

One. A year ago. And they stopped paying attention when it didn't become a string.

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

Looks to me like it's a string now