Cars obessed thought daughter

[redstonedust]

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.

[postal420]

i think the TLC network may have been one of the most evil stations in history, their only shows were like; watch fat and disabled people suffer compounding health issues, vouyeristically observe the habits and lives of the autistic and mentally ill, watch women in poverty be shipped overseas to marry neglectful and abusive american men in order to not die from poverty, and the reactionary evangelical cult family show

[sforzzz]

i agree that kids deserve and need more access to HRT earlier in life should they desire to transition but i really hate that the main argument in favor of it is "we need to have people transition earlier before PERMANENT IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE makes it so they can NEVER EVER look like their desired gender and they'll be FOREVER UGLY AND CLOCKY"

[sforzzz]

like i just want more bodily autonomy for everyone why do we gotta frame it like this

[covid-safer-hotties]

Source

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

We need a sort of "six sigma no-blame" process, except taught to journalists. Report not just the immediate failure, but what sort of systemic causes allowed the failure. "This person fucked up" means the system failed to prevent the error, and that's still on the system - it usually means management is pushing the human component past spec.

Or failing journalists, some meta-organization above them better than "supernatural memes on Tumblr" would still be nice...

[intimate-mirror]

We have a shortage of doctors not because doctors aren't being paid enough but because doctors have successfully lobbied the government to prevent the shortage from being filled, in order to increase their wages.

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

I think that was actually one of the examples I had in mind when I wrote my reply - there are known causes for a lot of this, and it would probably be vastly easier to fix if we could just get journalists to actually dig in a few layers, instead of stopping at the superficial surfaces.

Teachers genuinely seem underpaid and over-administrated (and watching the administration bloat has got to make the underpaid thing hurt more) Air Traffic Controls are under the most absolutely insane obligations and working conditions ever. I cannot fathom why anyone would do it, unless it was funding their coke habit.

Doctors are an artificial shortage by strangling one part of the pipeline, and it would be so incredibly easy to fix that one. People still want to be doctors!

I'd imagine truckers are underpaid and under-appreciated, alongside facing a fairly clear threat of automation at some unspecified point in the future. But they also have a really strong union, and it's doing some solid work fighting against automation. But also it's social isolation for weeks on end, with nothing but music and podcasts to keep you company.

I have no clue what's up with bus drivers, honestly.

And a lot of times corporations are just firing salary-lowering gunshots when they complain: they can get as many workers as they want, they just resent paying a living wage.

[txttletale]

imperial core third worldism is so so embarassing. if you live in the periphery believe what you like but if you're physically present in the imperial core i think so little of you if you adopt an ideology that helpfully takes the overwhelming, gargantuan task of organizing the imperial proletariat and honestly confronting the catastrophic failure of socialism here off your shoulders. "treatlerite" this "JDPON" that how do you not get embarassed sitting around waiting for the imperialized peoples of the global south to come and save you !

[halalchampagnesocialist]

This is definitely ‘a discussion for another day’ type of post but I can’t help think about how much criticism Qatar copped for its hosting of the World Cup (and some of it was very valid) but instead of focusing that criticism of Qatar on its use of migrant slave labour to build those stadiums, a lot of it was the same racist projection of Qatar being homophobic and anti-women due to being an Arab/Muslim country but these same western liberals are silent over the US hosting the World Cup despite also being misogynistic and homophobic! That’s not even including everything happening with ICE etc, its funding and complicity of the genocide in Palestine, bombing Iran etc like…

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[blackheartbiohazards]

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[antifascistelmo-deactivated2022]

No matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that's so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you'll say "Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you're right" and that doesn't mean you were "morally toxic" before, it means you're a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Waah waah but what if I don't like it when my intended-as-apolitical work gets analysed and people start claiming it has reactionary politics" so this can be avoided by developing a better understanding of politics

[quasi-normalcy]

Thinking about how much the revival of mainstream public gutter racism in North America relied on the fact that, even back when "racism is bad" was unassailable Common Sense, there was still an exception made for Muslims. You could be bigoted against them and still be welcome in elite circles.

"Oh but Muslims aren't a race!" Yeah, but you're eliding an entire religion with it's most fundamentalist version.

And then you're eliding all Arabs and Iranians and Pakistanis and such with being "Muslim"

And then you're eliding everyone who looks kind of brown with being "Arab" (remember that this was the line of attack against Obama, and was how Trump became a cult figure on the US right)

And then they just keep bootstrapping this up to fascism and genocide because, for my entire life as a politically aware individual, even when we "all" agreed that racism was bad, there were exceptions.

[quasi-normalcy]

Thinking about how much the revival of mainstream public gutter racism in North America relied on the fact that, even back when "racism is bad" was unassailable Common Sense, there was still an exception made for Muslims. You could be bigoted against them and still be welcome in elite circles.

"Oh but Muslims aren't a race!" Yeah, but you're eliding an entire religion with it's most fundamentalist version.

And then you're eliding all Arabs and Iranians and Pakistanis and such with being "Muslim"

And then you're eliding everyone who looks kind of brown with being "Arab" (remember that this was the line of attack against Obama, and was how Trump became a cult figure on the US right)

And then they just keep bootstrapping this up to fascism and genocide because, for my entire life as a politically aware individual, even when we "all" agreed that racism was bad, there were exceptions.

[quasi-normalcy]

Anyway the lesson here is that if you talk about universal human rights and you make an exception for anyone (say, for example, a captive population in the Middle East who should be expected to endure permanent military occupation because "they're all a bunch of bloodthirsty Jihadists who don't value human life"), you make an exception for everyone, including yourself.

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the way that the media marginalized Palestinians by making out that focusing on their issues is inherently antisemitic also formed the template for how they later marginalized trans people by making out that talking about their issues is inherently misogynistic.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now

[dogpuppy]

[mortalityplays]

here's a secret: whatever you're doing, you have to root for your peers with all your heart because it forces you to root for yourself too. I've seen people in various spheres of my life (workplaces, education, art, activism) fall into the trap of envy and resentment when they see others succeed while they struggle, and it always always goes hand in hand with them pulling back and giving up and stagnating.

when you let yourself get sour grapes about shit, you tacitly give up on yourself. when you sit around hoping other people will flop and fail so you can catch up to them, you stop trying. it's a fantasy of mediocrity, the vain wish that other people would walk so you could take the gold medal at a jog. wouldn't you rather come last place at 27mph?

[miquellakind]

crack the egg of sympathy and make the omelette of compassion