'til tonight do us part

i sing the blues and swallow them too

[ssimless]

😭

[vro0ms-evil-twin]

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

[7frogsspeaks]

In case anyone needs more clarification:

What RFK is saying: "Autistic people can't work, so it's our duty as a society to erase autism" -> This is eugenics

Harmful response: "Many autistic people do work!" -> Validates the belief that that someone being unable to work is shameful and makes them a lesser person, and implies that autistic people should not need support

Correct response: "Yes, many autistic people can't work, so it's our duty as a society to make sure they are supported, you fascist asshole" -> Accepts the realities of disability and values the lives of disabled people, names the actual problem here

[titaniumvulpes]

How quickly people forget why Hans Asperger, known Nazi, created the diagnosis "Asperger's" (it's because he was a Nazi trying to keep his favourite patients while sending the rest off to die) and why we stopped using things like the term Aspergers and functioning labels (because they're based in Nazi ideology).

[simswoon]

previous // next // beginning

Lillian: You can't keep coming and going, Lennon. I love you. I know you're trying. But if you want to be part of their lives, you need help. Real help. Therapy.

Lennon (whispers): Okay. I… I’ll do whatever...

[spellysims]

watched the trailer and honestly, tattoos and pottery could have been stuff packs and the rest should have been a free GTW update

… also it’s not a hobby if it’s your job lmao

[ssimless]

niamh and senior pollination technician #3 have had a baby together -- meet ada hartnell!

[ssimless]

it's happening! it's finally happening!

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spooky day couldn't come soon enough! every trick or treater to stop by niamh's apartment gets a nasty trick before their treat

[ssimless]

niamh admits to not knowing if she's pregnant via knox or... an alien encounter. for some reason, knox (and the game) counts this as infidelity.

[ssimless]

since this problem isn't going away, it's time to have a chat about it.

[ssimless]

niamh's mysterious weight gain shows no sign of stopping.

[ssimless]

harvestfest gets better when niamh heads down to the romance festival with knox -- they've made their relationship official!

[ssimless]

not much she can do about the weight gain this moment since it's harvestfest. niamh spends the day cooking up a delicious turkey dinner with her mum... at least she tried.

[ssimless]

one alien abduction later... seems like niamh is putting on some weight. it's probably nothing, right?

[ssimless]

that certainly is one of the places to have woohoo of all time...

[ssimless]

what did i tell you? menace.

[ssimless]

it's time for niamh to move out on her own.

[ssimless]

she's a little bit of a menace around the lab.