#sociopolitical

[catboykatebush]

“I hate slow walkers” is just a socially acceptable way to openly say you hate physically disabled people tbh. I’m not saying all slow walkers are disabled, but a lot of people who walk slow are walking slow for a reason.

[fieryfoxboy]

I’m don’t even particularly consider myself nonbinary but honestly I’m really put off by the amount of people who post about transandrophobia/anti-transmasculinity (specifically issues that can easily apply to nonbinary transmascs as well as binary trans men) using extremely binary language that only refers to trans men specifically and excludes nonbinary transmascs and otherwise transmasculinized people who don’t identify as men from conversations that absolutely apply to them as well.

It just feels like we’re doing the whole “using language that excludes transmasc people from conversations about feminism that definitely apply to them too” thing all over again but anti-transmasculinity edition and I wish more trans men (and whoever else is doing this) would consider that and make an effort to be inclusive of our non-man transmasc siblings who are experiencing the exact same shit that we are

[0th3rw0rldl1n3ss]

The whole concept of having to do personally invasive interviews and even having your family, friends, workplace members and healthcare providers etc interviewed about your life and having to have your medical records and work history and whatever else thoroughly gone through by a case worker and all this other bullshit to “prove you’re disabled enough” for benefits is so absurdly punitive, it genuinely feels like I’m being put on trial for a crime I didn’t commit. But the crime is literally just being born disabled.

“Oh but nondisabled people will lie about being disabled to get benefits” I literally do not give a fuck about if a few genuine liars like that slip through the cracks here and there as long as it means it’s easier for actual disabled people to get insurance and other benefits instead of having to jump through all of these ridiculously invasive and disability unfriendly hoops that inherently require a system built by nondisabled people to determine if we as disabled people “deserve” help or not.

Disabled people deserve to have our needs met without experiencing a massive invasion of privacy.

[doodlingdewdrop]

This one goes out to my housing instability mfs, love you :3

[lostmementomemori]

White demonstrators during the Civil Rights Movement march (Washington, USA, August 1963)

[ethical-incel]

Ok so this could be something that people have already figured out so forgive me for being late to the party. Ok preamble done.

Anyways, you know how capitalism is built on a few principles? First one being the aggregation of capital of course, but also stuff like ownership of property and stuff like that.

Actually, when we look at the cultural and political shift in history that brought upon the emergence of capitalism, the importance of property rising was probably the first defining aspect.

So it is very fucking weird (or not at all depending on how you approach this) that now, at what is seemingly an end point of capitalism, we're seeing private property disappearing/being disincentivized by the system. Of course that is by design. You can't actually have the 1% own 99% of the property and wealth unless you find a way for all the other schmucks to still access the goods without owning them. So in a way, I guess we are seeing what is essentially capitalism's end point coming to fruition.

On the other, I wonder how long people will stand for it. I don't think we'll need to reach 99% of property/wealth being whisked away before people start getting pissy. Hell, the current socio and geopolitical climate is an indication of how unstable everything has gotten

[roachliquid]

One thing to add: In my last post, I made jokes about Hank being a tankie (hankie?) because, if you're reading Fallout's second season as a dialog between different forms of collectivism, he represents the authoritarian side.

The thing is? Collectivism isn't inherently leftist. Actually, let's put this in a more interesting way: the corpos and the state are lying to you.

The U.S. is philosophically an individualist country, but structurally, it is not. The concept of the Free and Empowered Individual is a distraction from the reality that 99% of the population is working under the bootheel of the remainder, forced to set their own interests aside for those assholes' benefit. Structurally, the United States is a vertical collectivist oligarchy powered by capitalism.

So there's your fun political fact of the day.

[mackenziedaartist]

Yk, sometimes young story writers subconsciously vent with their story and characters, take The Matryx for example, its themes are baked with the struggles and feelings of being gender queer as its writers,

Take The Matryx for example, its themes are baked with the struggles and fears of being genderqueer, as it's writers, Lily and Lana Wachowshi, were battling with their genders while making it. They had accidently put their own feelings and own experiences into the story, as that is what art is. its a physical representation or story of your own feelings, it is a form of venting, either you are consciously doing it or not.

This is a theory I have about what happened with Eren and Isayama, he's openly said things like it was inspired by his own feelings, experiences, etc. and by the end of the show he didn't actually feel like that anymore. He matured and his own development had taken place, and that's why he led the ending to how it was. However I think it carries deeper into Eren's character, in some q&as he's spoken about how he was insecure as a teen etc. He doesn't open up much about it so we don't know much, but from what I can tell, Eren wasnt "Born like this." it was more of a thing that happened in his childhood. They both struggled with social norms and expectations in early development. Which would affect their whole lives, I'm thinking it was, along with all erens other traumas, just another piece of frustration he had on the social constructs and unfairness. Which would explain why he was that disappointed to find out there were people outside the walls, he was longing for a world that didn't have that mindset, that didn't put you in boxes, or in his case, cages that define you as something and just that. He wanted freedom, he wanted to be himself without expectations of protecting everyone, saving humanity, etc. and this whole thing was subconscious, as he says he doesn't know why. he just has this hate for it all.