hot take: the idea that access to rights, community, resources, and aid being limited and therefore it’s necessary to force out groups who don’t need them “as much” is something that’s been ingrained in us from living in a capitalist society that hands us rights and resources as though they are privileges to be earned
one of the things you just gotta accept when one of your posts gets big is that people are gonna accuse you of fuckin’ everything once that baby hits 1000+ notes
any time i shit talk Brands or Stores or Capitalism In General there’s always fifty galaxy brains that say “oh you hate brands, huh? did you know retail employees work for brands? guess you hate the working class, op is classist, confirmed, here’s a link to my soundcloud and patreon”
i have two separate posts about how i hate toys r us because they treat their employees like shit and how i hate brands employing “relatable” rudeness in their online advertising in order to trick potential customers in to thinking that “Wendy’s” is a person you can be friends with and on both posts where i criticized the company, people have responded “guess u hate retail workers”
fuckin. de-program yourselves. you aren’t your bosses. when someone says “i hate wal-mart” they aren’t talking about you. they’re talking about the faceless billionaire businessmen that control walmart and carefully plan out ways to trick poor people out of their money. don’t identify yourself by your place of employment. that shitty cultural attitude is the same sort of nonsense that leads to people writing thank-you letters to their bosses when they get laid off. you are not “a member of the Tesla family.” you’re a cog in their machine and they care nothing of you, and you don’t owe them a goddamn thing.
so when someone says “fuck corporate twitters and their shitty clapbacks” online, that’s not a personal attack on you. that’s an attack on hypocritical companies behaving rudely as an advertising tactic when they would fire a retail worker in an instant for acting the same way.
Let me know when this hits a thousand notes, I have some unfounded accusations that OP hates consumers and thinks we shouldn’t buy anything and should literally starve to death.
the time…….. has come
Captainsnoop wants us to eat the workers and enslave the consumer.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers sacrificing their comfort for antagonizing and pervy customers who are “always right”.
Capitalist culture is giving students homework in order to prepare them for their future careers where they’ll inevitably need to “take work home with them” or work extra hours in order to put bread on the table.
Capitalist culture is helping physically/mentally ill people only to the extent that they’re able to generate profitable labor again.
Capitalist culture is destroying food that can’t be sold rather than distributing it to poor people according to need.
Capitalist culture is monetizing knowledge and making it artificially scarce so that owners can profit and laypeople are left in the dark.
i dont think “lightning has a better chance of killing you than a cop” is a point, much less a good one
i havent been told from birth that:
-i should summon lightning if im in trouble
-i can trust lightning and should always tell it truth
-any sort of trouble caused by lightning is just bad lightning, and not at all related to the simple fact of its fucking lightning
-lightning will be there for me, and will never let me down
-lightning kills people, but if that happens they were scum or thugs or they ran because theyre guilty and so who cares lightning killed them stop complaining
theres no videos of eight lightning bolts hitting someone thirteen times each. these are different things and “the cops might summarily execute you” isnt the sort of thing we should analyze as some random chance consequence of existance
16 people died from lightening strikes in the usa in 2017.
1129 people died at the hands of cops in the usa in 2017.
we don’t pay for lightning to exist
And lightening doesn’t strike brown, black and disabled people at several times the national average because it’s fcking lightening
“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks. I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all of that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession. … Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”
— Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (via mortharris)
You have such great inner strength. I know most days it feels almost impossible to keep going after working shifts anywhere from 4 to 16 hours long full of social pitfalls, sensory issues, meltdowns, and ignorant coworkers just to live paycheck to paycheck; but some how you find the strength to keep going and I am so very proud of you. We work everything from dirty jobs with uncomfortable and unbearable physical sensations to punishing customer service jobs where we are constantly played against our strengths and expected to act as neurotypical as possible. I want you to know there is no shame in needing special accommodation, no shame in doing your work the way you feel comfortable doing it, and no shame in not being able to work jobs or perform tasks that neurotypical people don’t struggle with. There is nothing wrong with you, and you deserve far better than you get.
just saw a conservative blogger ‘fear-monger’ with the phrase “a nation without a border ceases to be a nation!”
and im like…you mean that nations are not intrinsic truths, but instead they only manifest themselves through the exclusion of the ‘other’??
you mean that borders are fictions that we are all encouraged to believe in, in order to create a feeling of national pride that is almost entirely based on being ‘not the other’, creating stigma and feelings of superiority?
you mean that citizenship and nationality are features of our cultures that are almost always decided arbitrarily at birth and through nothing else??
you mean that a world without borders would be a very big step in the direction of a world without nationalism and without fear/stigmatisation of the ‘other’?? yeah sounds awful….
“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay
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