Got Caught Up In Trying To Get Taylor’s Attention

Very obvious to me and others:

1. Companies have been bragging about record profits. You don’t get record profits if your costs are going up. You get them if your profit margin is going up.

2. In Seattle, during covid, many workers got a hazard pay bump of $4. Groceries raised prices and blamed increased worker pay. But hazard pay ended nearly a year ago and prices have not come down.

It’s greed and taking advantage of a crisis and the soft collusion of capitalists getting away with whatever they can.

This is one reason why I think the gov’t should offer some basic economic services. E.g. A gov’t run grocery store. It can have the exact same stuff as other stores but there’s zero profit margin. So, firstly, consumers are more likely to get the best deal possible. Secondly, if we have a similar situation where groceries are hiking prices, we can check with the gov’t run store and ask, “why haven’t *they* needed to raise prices?” Or, “why have their prices only increased 10% while yours have increased 80%?”

This one may be more US centric, but many bigotries can be dealt with by talking about freedom and American values of being founded on immigration and equal opportunity. If they're mad about violent protest, tell them freedom is worth fighting for.

I've learned that no actually, people wouldn't care. Katelyn Weinstein (theADHDprincess on Twitter) is a neurodiversity acceptance activist who really put this in perspective for me. She said that it's actually more an issue of longevity than physical vs mental health.

If you're having a bad day people will generally be understanding. But when you're experiencing chronic depression and you have many bad days people lose sympathy.

In the same respect people may be understanding when you've broken a bone that will heal properly or when you have a cold that will go away soon in ways they simply won't understand when you have chronic pain or need to use a wheelchair. They may send chicken soup for a temporary situation, but when you need consistent accomodations it's an entirely different story.

I understand that from our perspective it looks like people care more about physical health than mental health, but it's good to remember that our own perspective is also limiting. Facing ableism doesn't mean you can't be ableist. And I know so many people are not ill-intentioned when they say this. I know I wasn't. But we can't discount the lived experiences of physically disabled people. If we want true equality we need to be united and we need to listen to those with physical disabilities and illnesses. And those with physical disabilities and illnesses (some of which are also invisible) have said that they are not given proper accomodations either.

(found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987)

1. Elon Musk buys Twitter

2. Elon Musk unbans Andrew Tate

3. Andrew Tate picks a fight with Greta Thunberg

4. Greta Thunberg ratios the shit out him

5. He gets mad and posts a video response

6. There's a Romanian pizza box in the video which twigs Romanian police of his location

7. He is raided and arrested for human trafficking