Anyway absolutely every single disabled and/or ND person has the right to be anti-recovery in their own life and actions, and to resist the message from both abled and disabled people alike that their value, personhood, and access to support structures is contingent on their ongoing efforts to “better themselves.”
This attitude that anyone not running themselves into the ground in pursuit of the highest standard of health they can achieve is nothing more than a recycling of the ableist attitude that health is indicative of value and while I expect that shit from abled NTs, we can sure as shit do better than to keep pushing it on each other.
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly unproblematic, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to see in any kind of discourse or drama, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.
Wolfenstein, for those who don’t know, is a videogame series with soon to be eleven entries in the series, all of them entirely centred around killing Nazis ever since the very first game in 1981.
‘way to make it political’ buddy do you know what series this is
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The game’s setting is a Nazi-controlled America where the campaign is liberating the United States from nazis. In which the phrase “make America nazi-free again” is absolutely on the nose.
It’s like these people see any sort of buzzword and jump on it before actually knowing what the deal is. That’s how dedicated they are to defend nazis.
Reminds of that CoD:WWII tweet that mentioned female soldiers, and showed an actual picture of women snipers from the Soviet Union, and dudes were saying shit like “there were no females fighting in the 40’s, it’s revisionist! etc.”. Disregarding the very real picture with the post and female resistance fighters. Their thinking is so bizarre.
I keep seeing people asking ‘is solarpunk really punk?’ because it’s too happy and optimistic and stuff
and I’m picturing a perfect moment in a solarpunk community — the neighbourhood mayor standing with a shit-eating grin on her face when the cops come and cut them off from city power, and nothing turns off
This is my absolute favorite example of how solarpunk is punk. Also, Detroit (and a lot of other places) could probably use something similar for water. Especially in places where it’s illegal to harvest rainwater. I dunno, maybe water tanks cleverly designed as yard art?
Like… yeah it’s happy and optimistic, but my view of solarpunk at least is in complete defiance of many capitalist ideals so if that’s not punk … ‘Punk’ isn’t edgy, dark and gritty. Not to me. Building a society completely based on renewable resources, accessibility for all, and constant sharing is a big fuck you to the current system if you ask me.
Exactly. Near future solarpunk especially requires rebelling against the
current system. Punk is about defiance (at least that’s what it’s come to mean colloquially). Defiance doesn’t have to be
destruction and violence and grit, it can look like stubborn creation and
community building and rejecting many of the dominant system’s values.
Wait. Why would harvesting rainwater be illegal?
There’s an interpretation of the concept of property that says if something has value, then someone should be getting paid for it. Despite being flatly absurd and riddled with obvious logical flaws, this has been one of the major philosophies of property in the US, in some contexts (including water) for over a hundred years. This Washington Post article gets into it in detail.
According to this logic, if there are water suppliers in a region, then they’re entitled to money when people get water. Collecting rainwater for yourself gets around that, so, in this concept of property, it’s a form of theft.
There have also been legal battles over people growing food in their lawns, generating their own electricity, etc. If you’re looking to extricate yourself from the systems wherein you have to serve the interests of specific wealthy people to survive, many parts of the western world are ready to use the force of government intervention to stop you.
I feel like a big chunk of the ‘dark, gritty’ aesthetic punk is associated with came as a reaction to the bright, glamorous ‘American Dream’ imagery and patronizing ad campaigns of the 50s.
But now that we’re being sold “The future is bleak and dirty and there’s nothing you can do about it,” being optimistic and cheerful is the most punk and rebellious thing you can do
I’m sick to death of seeing right wing “free speech” justifications for dangerous bigoted notions. The Guardian today has another transmisogynist clutching her pearls at the exclusion of a TERF from an event on private grounds. A large part of the column is dedicated to pretending that TERFs are being excluded because some of them are lesbians.
I’m done with this alright? I’m making a commitment to find alternative news sources and it won’t be easy but there’s stuff out there if you look hard enough.
Political culture has messed us up and made us incapable of seeing bigotry when it’s staring us in the face. People need to realise there is no difference between long articulate columns that articulate transmisogyny and outright hate speech. Whilst left wingers, trans women, people of colour and many other marginalised people are being policed on their behaviour (how dare you not make friends with Tories???), people are publishing hate speech in the mainstream press under the guise of “sensible conversation.”
It’s not about freedom of speech it’s about the accountability that should come with having a huge platform. If you’re not going to use it responsibly I’m gonna block you out.
The extraordinary thing about that column is that the author quoted the Beard Society – “I’m sorry but we’ve decided not to host you. I too believe in freedom of expression, however Peterhouse is as much a home as it is a college. The welfare of our students in this instance has to come first.” – and then went on simply flatly to deny that statement. She didn’t engage with it, just blithely waved it away with the assertion that someone wielding the birth assignment of a vulnerable group against them was “not exactly a preacher of hate”. That’s not how you persuade an audience, that’s how you talk when you believe your position to be so obvious as to not be worth explaining.
Absolutely pathetic. Not just bigoted, but garbage writing. The Guardian’s standards have never been so low.
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