Never Accepting Defeat

The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

The only women I’ve ever seen targeted with criticism about this is mothers, and yeah, parents do need to do better. Who do you think helps reinforce the idea that feminine = bad for boys? Who do you think could provide a different basis instead?

Women are guilty of being misogynist just like men are, and women are guilty of raising sons to be assholes just as often as men are. Pretty sure that’s feminism 101, or are we arguing against that now too?

Look, I’m not trying to be a jerk, but seriously. The reason I am calling this post conservative logic is because it is looking at a societal problem and saying society has no responsibility for it. Instead the people who don’t know how to socialize just need to socialize better, and other than that, people need to stop talking about it. How is that different than “the people who are poor just need to make money better, what, is it my responsibility to pay for them with my hard earned taxes?”.

There is a plethora of reasons why “male loneliness” is not equivalent to systematic classism (😭) but the most obvious of which is that “friends” or “treating people well” is not a resource that the ruling class controls and can withhold from men as a class. There’s an argument to be made about how capitalism snuffs out peoples ability to engage in their community, but that’s not exclusive to men (most things cited as causes of the “male loneliness epidemic” are not) and that’s not what you’re talking about now.

“Men need to choose to be better.” Correct. Nothing in my response said otherwise, jfc. You are so angry you are shadowboxing me into the ground without even understanding what the hell I’m saying, lmao.

People cannot always fix themselves. People without skills need others to help teach them, be that parents, teachers, friends, therapists. I don’t really care. Individually, yeah, you don’t have to help every random man around you. The fact that you think anyone would reasonably expect that is ridiculous, and because I have the ability to see nuance I can disregard those suggestions because they are nonsense. It doesn’t make the whole conversation worthless.

I came on a reductive post that absolutely reeks of terfy, gender essentialist bs to voice the correction that the so called “loneliness epidemic” is poorly named and is instead a problem of boys often being set up for failure socially. Is this always the case? No. Is it enough of a trend to be worth talking about? Probably.

If you don’t want the opinions of others, don’t post on here. If I see something I feel is incorrect, sorry, I’m going to correct it. I think you are oversimplifying, I think your oversimplification plays into a narrative that has really irritated me over the past year, and so I’m weighing in.

The only women I’ve ever seen targeted with criticism about this is mothers, and yeah, parents do need to do better. Who do you think helps reinforce the idea that feminine = bad for boys? Who do you think could provide a different basis instead?

Women are guilty of being misogynist just like men are, and women are guilty of raising sons to be assholes just as often as men are. Pretty sure that’s feminism 101, or are we arguing against that now too?

Look, I’m not trying to be a jerk, but seriously. The reason I am calling this post conservative logic is because it is looking at a societal problem and saying society has no responsibility for it. Instead the people who don’t know how to socialize just need to socialize better, and other than that, people need to stop talking about it. How is that different than “the people who are poor just need to make money better, what, is it my responsibility to pay for them with my hard earned taxes?”.

The only women I’ve ever seen targeted with criticism about this is mothers, and yeah, parents do need to do better. Who do you think helps reinforce the idea that feminine = bad for boys? Who do you think could provide a different basis instead?

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

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This site is dedicated to the freedom that is our spiritual and material birthright as beings born onto a planet created to sustain each and every form of life.

A planet created by the Great Spirit as part of the gift of life itself - not to be taken as the private property of any species, nor any sect within a species, however rich and powerful they may become.

Land is more than somewhere to live - it is life itself. Without exception, everything around you, EVERY SINGLE THING you use and consume in the process of leading your life are products of the land These are the simple facts: If you have no land to live from, you are dependent on money to purchase the products of the land; if you have no money to live from, you depend on employment to gain the money; if you have no employment, then dependent on the State; if the State refuses you, you beg for the charity of the rich; no charity, you steal or you die.

Such is the chain which binds us to each other, and to the land.BEarthright transforms that chain into a lifeline.

Whose Planet are we living on?

To live is to use Land - To own Land is to own Life itself

Every inch of our planet is now owned by some person or organisation The majority population (60% to 90%) in EVERY inhabited country are landless - own no part of the planet whatsoever, not even their own homes The richest 5% in every nation, rich and poor, North and South, East and West, now own between 70% and 95% of their own countries

If you do not own enough of this planet to support yourself And you cannot support yourself without this planet Who is it who supports you? And do they support you….. or through their owning the land that supports you do they now own you, own your work, your space, your freedom to live as you choose?

If you own no land to support yourself, you must rent, hire or buy it from those that do, so that you may both live and make a living If you cannot use the planet to feed, clothe and provide for yourself then to stay alive, you must choose to either work for those who own your planet, to become a thief or a beggar, or to die. This servitude has taken on many forms throughout history: slavery, serfdom, day-labour, employment. The only variation being the share of the wealth produced left to the planet borrowers by the planet owners This simple reality underlies much of today’s poverty, inequality, lack of freedom, unemployment and powerlessness, experienced as the sheer struggle to get by that looms so large in so many peoples’ lives These latter day pharaohs, the planet owners, the richest 5% - allow the rest of us to pay day after day for the right to live on their planet. And as we make them richer, they buy yet more of the planet for themselves, and use their wealth and power to fight amongst themselves over what each posesses ~ though of course it’s actually us who have to fight and die in their wars

Land is not property ~ land is life. Land is not created by people ~ it creates people. We need land ~ but land doesn’t need us.

These are the Powers in the Gift of the Land:

the Land Owner owns life: (food, living space, materials ~ for tools, building homes, cities, technology)

the power to create or destroy people: (famine & war, plenty & opportunity)

and to cut people off when no longer needed:(unemployment, homelessness, poverty, starvation).

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Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things: