that socialist chick

Call me Mira. She/they. 24 y/o Jewish WOC. Let’s get that gluten free bread.

[byjove]

Sometimes I see people from countries with public healthcare systems post videos that are like “This is the reality of socialized medicine. I had to wait in the ER with my sick baby for 4 hours.” “I had to wait 8 months to see a specialist. That’s egregious.” or “They didn’t have a bed for my loved one in mental health treatment.” and it’s like. Come to America babygirl. You can experience all of this and have your insurance deny it and pay thousands and thousands of dollars for it. Like I know healthcare systems in countries with public health can be bad but when I see someone imply they’re bad because the healthcare is universal, I want to jump through the screen and put my elbow on their throat. “The NHS is deeply flawed, therefore we should abolish it and go back to private healthcare. That will definitely make healthcare in this country better!” I am going to Kill You.

[sadhoc]

as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

[sadhoc]

unions do so much more than just strike. unions bargain. unions sit in at meetings with upper management. unions help people navigate benefits. unions coordinate aid drives for disabled members. my union ran a donations campaign for me for the interim between the end of my allotted paid leave and my disability claim

[sadhoc]

"unionize your workplace" means so much more than "talk to your coworkers about striking." you gotta actively know what a union is and what a union isn't before you can form one. calls to unionize should lead to more people learning their rights and learning how unions work, and coordinating with orgs like seiu and the teamsters and the aft (and if you don't know what those are, look them up).

[electricpentacle]

My union found me a legal expert to help me check over my last redundancy settlement for free, provided private medical cover whilst I was unemployed, and negotiated a good deal on cheap insurance for their members. It is so much more than strikes.

[bonearenaofmyskull]

Forming a Union at a Non-Union Workplace - Worker.gov

Forming a union at a non-union workplace You have the right to join with coworkers to address conditions at work. The National Labor Relatio

Form a Union | AFL-CIO

[asterrisms]

as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

[stringcage]

Years of personal growth can be unraveled in 2 days at your parents house

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

it could help

[henstomper]

dude it's just politics, it doesn't matter. all it does is shape every single aspect of the society you live in from the second you are born until forever

[jingerpi]

my recommendation if you see people arguing over something specific is to build the instinct not to read this argument and see who sounds more rational or to just ignore it but to go actually figure out what they're talking about. seeing people argue about intersectionality? go read crenshaw's demarginalizing and/or mapping the margins. imperialism? go read lenin's imperialism. the problem with people arguing on the internet is some people are not very good at it and it will probably not give you a good understanding of the source work

[whatbigotspost]

2021:

Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher's review of nearly 70 studies finds

Researchers focused on whether kids that are spanked are more likely to share or, conversely, more likely to have anxiety, years down the li

2021:

The Effect of Spanking on the Brain

Spanking found to impact children's brain response, leading to lasting consequences.

2018:

Science Again Says Spanking Hurts Kids Long Term

The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increa

2016:

Spanking Harms Kids, Doesn't Work And Leads To Long-Term Problems

Kids who are spanked tend to act out more and have more problems later on.

2012:

A study reviewed more than two decades of research on the effects of spanking and found nothing positive to report, only that physical punis

2010:

The Long-Term Effects of Spanking

A multiyear study shows spanking kids makes them more aggressive later on

I haven’t pissed people off lately by reminding them that ALL types of physical punishment of kids has been proven beyond ANY reasonable doubt to have only negative long term outcomes.

So let me scream it from the hilltops:

Stop hitting kids. End of sentence.

If you think, “but I was hit and I turned out just fine” let me pre-reply: NO YOU DID NOT. You think hitting a child is ok, how the fuck does that qualify as “fine”?????? From one abuse survivor to another: please start healing yourself.

[whatbigotspost]

This post needs a "it's been 5 years" update, so here we go:

2022:

Spanking and children's social competence: Evidence from a US kindergarten cohort study

Spanking is a risk factor for children's social competency. However, establishing causality is a challenge, given selection bias in samples

The effects of spanking on psychosocial outcomes: revisiting genetic and environmental covariation - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Background There is a vast literature on the negative associations between spanking in childhood and various psychosocial developmental outc

2023:

Corporal Punishment in Schools - PubMed

The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical method for management of behavior concerns and causes harm to stude

Spanking and executive functioning in US children: A longitudinal analysis on a matched sample

Spanking has been linked to multiple maladaptive child outcomes. However, previous research linking spanking with children's executive funct

2024:

Corporal punishment is believed to precede various forms of violent behavior, yet prior research has yielded inconsistent findings, partly d

2025:

Corporal punishment of children: the public health impact

This technical report describes the prevalence, risk factors for, and consequences of child corporal punishment, which it defines as “any pu

Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries

Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes -- including poor health, lower

[whatbigotspost]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME TUMBLR

So annoying. So GD annoying.

[karinyosa]

people will be like how come everything always comes back to race/gender/class/capitalism/imperialism with you well that is called living in a system

[segamascott]

[bi-astolfo]

Yes, investigation claimed at least 1,200 detainees 'dropped off the grid' from 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The claim is not new — the Miami Herald published its findings in summer 2025.

[standwithdaanes]

source for the congresswoman thing as well, because i hadn't heard about that:

Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Jail Inspection

The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to restrict or thwart congressmembers’ access to ICE jails.

[danielwaldorf]

men are never going to just spontaneously begin caring about women and treating them as equal human beings women Have to care about and fight for their own liberation. and So Many otherwise progressive young women these days are wearing "i'm literally just a girl 🥺" t-shirts and driving around with bumper stickers that say "hot girls hit curbs 🤪" and talking about "girl math" and defending waxing and makeup as personal expression and accusing any woman who critiques these things of "not being a girls' girl."

so many women now seem to have Fully bought into the batshit phyllis schlafly idea that women actually hold a privileged position in society and we aren't Meant to have jobs we aren't Meant to handle our own finances it's actually a privilege to be protected and provided for by men 🥺 and it's like oh my GODDDD i do not support all women some of you bitches are dumb!! read a fucking book!!! stop acting like a helpless little girl!!!

the buzzfeed girlboss era of feminism caught a lot of flack for many justifiable reasons but it's truly insane just how far we've regressed since then. like maybe manspreading discourse was silly but at least the mainstream popular view for a while was that feminism is good. now if somebody says that women should be wary about fully relying on a husband for financial support they're told they're being a misogynist and that CHOOSING to be a stay-at-home mom is totally empowering because it's a CHOICE. if you say "hey it's kinda concerning how basically every popular romance novel treats abusive men treating women terribly as something sexy and romantic" you're accused of kinkshaming and puritanism and misogyny.

idk i am just so scared for women and girls right now like it seems so bleak. we need to be mean feminists we need to learn our history and we have GOT to remember the real meaning of the word misogyny. because it is all a-fucking-round us right now and it'll never end if we don't fight it.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[depsidase]

[segamascott]

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[animperfectangelsblog]

[grumpypedant]

I think a lot of people have trouble understanding transgender issues because they try to see themselves as trans, but come at it from the wrong direction. e. g. a cis woman tries to understand transness by going, “what if I felt like/wanted to be a man” when she should be approaching it as “what if I, a woman, was so easily mistaken for a man that I had to pretend to be one”,

And I think this is something to keep in mind and to explain away when trying to get these matters across to people who’re new to the idea.

[deviantpolitics]

This is what Donald Trump said about Alex Pretti.

“I don't like that he had a gun. I don't like that he had two fully loaded magazines. That's a lot of bad stuff. And despite that, I'd say that's... very unfortunate.”

“You know, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't.”

~ Donald J. Trump

Don’t miss any opportunity to remind the maga people in your life that Trump threw the 2nd amendment under the bus the minute he felt a little heat from the good people in Minnesota.

[beesandwasps]

It won’t make a bit of difference. The NRA was in favor of gun control when it was the Black Panthers who were advocating for open carry, and so was Ronald Reagan (along with all the then-extremist right wing). It was never about absolutism on gun rights, it was about making a threat against Those People (including everyone on the left). You’re once again expecting a bunch of people who have been liars and hypocrites for decades to suddenly sit up and say “goodness, I must obey the logical consequences of my beliefs, rather than use claims about my beliefs as a way to advocate for my own prejudices and convenience as I have done for my entire life!” It’s not going to happen.