Author: peasantchick
If that photo doesn’t terrify you then you don’t understand what’s going on
This photo is more threatening than the ones where they were being pulled out of their chairs and zip tied
[Tweet from ADAPT reads, “he had them sent to jail without their wheelchairs clearly senator portman doesn’t care!”
Image is a police officer pulling an empty motorized wheelchair (mobility scooter?) down the street. Another officer and empty chair are in the background.]
Imagine if they’d kept an able-bodied prisoner in a jail cell but kept their legs (and possibly their hands) bound, so they couldn’t stand up, move around in the jail cell, get out of bed or off the floor.
That would be considered inhumane, and torture, right? If that news got out, humanitarian organizations like Amnesty International would be up in arms. You know they would.
That’s what it means when you take away a person’s wheelchair. That’s why it’s terrifying. But because it’s happening to disabled people, no one except the victims is noticing.
Also note: Power mobility aids like those in the photo can cost as much as a brand-new automobile. And if they get damaged because the authorities don’t know what the hell they’re doing (or they do know, and are motivated by spite or malice), then the person will be just as helpless after they get out of jail.
And Medicare will not replace a damaged or broken wheelchair unless it’s at least five years old.
Now imagine being helpless in a jail cell, unable to move, and having that worry in the back of your mind.
And
no one except the victims is noticing.
“It’s bad to have robots and dragonfolk and half-angels as standard playable races in your RPG, because they impose a bunch of specific assumptions on people’s homebrew settings. Unlike Tolkien-style elves, dwaves and hobbits, which are perfectly generic and encode no setting assumptions whatsoever.”
And it’s not just the Tolkien stuff, either. There are people who will argue with a straight face that allowing players even the option of being, like, psychic werewolves or whatever represents an attempt to dictate to GMs how to run their games, but they’re perfectly okay the very same rulebook assuming that every single setting it could possibly be played in must include a subterranean empire of spider-worshiping David Bowie expies with goofy darkness powers because that in particular is a standard player character background. Like, do you not get that the latter is just as weirdly specific as the former?
what does “nb people are almost always binary aligned” even mean?
“oh they wear make up so they’re woman aligned”
“oh they grow their facial hair so they’re man aligned”
like what type of cisnormative gender role bullshit……… in 2017????? bitch…
*abled bodied voice*: omg… honestly its so hard on ME watching disabled people be… disabled, it rly makes ME feel so bad… u know i saw a disabled person on the street yesrerday… and i… didnt even harrass them!!1 where is my medal????? do you know how hard I try….
you’re all like “i love trans women!” but how many of you have actually loved a trans woman. you all want to play at supporting us but how many of you actually want to understand us. do you have any close trans woman friends? like actually close. like important enough to you you’d be willing to lose cis friends defending them. do you hang out with trans women outside of activist spaces? outside of tumblr? in group discussions when you hear a trans woman speak, do you tense up? if a trans woman says something you have to think about for more than 5 seconds do you do that work? or do you immediately reject and ignore it. if a trans woman disagrees with every other person you know does it ever cross your mind that everyone else might be wrong? when a trans woman asks for financial assistance on tumblr and you know you have that money to spare, do you help her? if you’re broke, and she just asks you to reblog her post, do you reblog it? or do you just scroll past and pretend you didn’t see it.
“support trans women” is a lie meant to make you feel good. you cannot support trans women. you can only support A trans woman, and then do that over and over again with every trans woman you meet.
Yeah this tbh
I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t “fit in”, and I don’t wanna fit in. have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? that’s weird.
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Vancouver property owners ‘panic’ to rent as vacancy tax implemented
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Why were they empty?
they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing
the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny
Vancouver property owners ‘panic’ to rent as vacancy tax implemented
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