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I rly need USAmericans to start referring to factories in our own country as sweatshops bc like, what do you mean "oh no this will be animated in a korean sweatshop" like at some point its just factories its just labor conditions like idk I know we were all taught when we were young about all the "good US factory jobs" that used to exist but turns out those jobs are still in the US they just got white trash working in awful factories without unions in Kentucky and undocumented latino immigrants working in similar factories in LA. Labor exploitation is not some shit that just happens in scary foreign countries!

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

i think my main problem is that i do actually subscribe to viewing sf as a genre containing an inherent liberatory impulse and i am a utopian at heart, in the Blochian sense, alas i keeping finding myself stuck between otherwise politically savvy sf male writers with very clearly unexamined misogyny and heterosexism, feminist/queer sf writers whose liberal feminist/queer praxis keeps forgetting about class and oppressive state structures and sometimes other axes entirely, scholars/activists who keep trying to write a politically conscientious sf and end up with the driest manifesto with cardboard characters and lacking in prose, "literary" writers who think themselves superior to sf then unsolicitedly decide to try their hand at it without any familiarity or care for the genre and reinvent the wheel in the most obnoxious and inferior way, and fun and pleasant sf books with ultimately lukewarm politics where the potential is present but not fully realized or purposely abandoned for some universalist goals; and ursula le guin is dead.

The "I put food on the table and a roof over your head what more could you possibly want" type of parents are always so shocked that their kids never come back again once they find anywhere else that they can get food and a roof under better terms and conditions.

the thing abt the troubled teen industry that i never see anyone mention is they keep u in there for as long as they can. if u turn 18 they tell u that ur options are to sign urself in and consent to the continuation of the abuse OR u can sign urself out and they can help u bring all ur stuff to the nearest homeless shelter. these were seriously the only options for me when i turned eighteen.

this is a huge part of “adulthood is a social construct” btw. the fact that i turned eighteen didn’t make it stop being child abuse. i essentially signed away my adulthood so i didn’t end up homeless thousands of miles away from anything or anyone i knew. adulthood is meaningless if it can be denied so easily. children NEED the right to say “no” to ANYONE. youth liberation now and forever.

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

reblog if you are an ad hating commie