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This same pattern is true for a lot of types of oppression, of course, though the timelines will be different. I used queer people as an example because it's what I'm most familiar with, but you'll see the same patterns in disability activism, racial equality, et cetera -- a survivalist's appeal to similarity, making the privileged class more comfortable in their assumption as being the default and how generous and open-minded they are for magnanimously fighting for the oppressed class' rights and safety and ability to strive to be more like them despite clearly having been born deficient in [insert topic of bigotry here], and then when the social zeitgeist is in favour of granting such rights, a second wave of "we're fine as we are and we deserve rights and safety anyway, similarity or difference to you is not relevant because we don't measure our worth by how much like you we are".

(I should also clarify that I am talking about book Murderbot. I have no idea how tv show Murderbot presents these issues, I haven't seen it.)

are you his beautiful wife? you are not his beatiful wife? sad snooting

That’s right, let the snake investigate you. With tongue…

I’ve never seen the second photo before.

see my problem is i’ve wanted to live at sea since i was a child, i’ve got the type of adhd that makes people become paramedics and firefighters but without the public facing interpersonal skills to make that a good career choice, i thrive in basically any reasonably humane living situation where i see lots of people regularly and don’t have to procure or prepare my own food, and ‘extenuating’ is my all time favorite type of circumstance so basically even thinking about stratt’s vat makes me so jealous i want to throw up

We are entering a new era of enlightened & responsible weed smoking.

I really want to find some nice star shaped spoke beads but everything either has shipping that is 3x the price of the beads themselves OR it's temu shein or amazon. amd I am not stooping to that level for some fun bike accessories

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

if the leaked text of the Iran deal is real, it’s a hysterical end to this whole saga. bomb a country for a few months, fail regime change, then agree to all of their terms because they successfully checkmated the entire world economy

like 6 months ago it was unfathomable that a potential outcome of a war with Iran is “cease hostilities, drop all sanctions, send Iran $300 billion in cash, and muzzle Israel” barely a few months in. there’s no other conclusion I can draw from this other than that there is an global existential threat the severity of which we may not know the full scope of

...I think the severe oil shortage is the global existential threat