LurksLikeABoss

If you live in Detroit, it is strongly recommended that you don't breathe.

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Bitch neither I work for Wayne Industries, they got better offers than work these clowns:

obviously there are scenarios where specific clothing is required (like PPE at a job site)

"you're required to wear a face shield, an apron/coat, and closed toed shoes in this lab environment for your safety" awesome perfect, i love safety, and i can wear whatever i want under it.

“You can’t wear long, flowy clothing because it will get caught in machinery/yanked by children or animals/cause a tripping hazard” Understandable! I will avoid those hazards.

when the one mutual you indirectly posted for interacts

The capitalist nation state is using various instruments and methods to create the profile of a citizen that has never existed before in history, explains Öcalan: “This citizen’s real aim in life is to have a car, a family (to find a husband or a wife, to have one or two children), and to own a house; in other words, to become a daily standard consumer. The meaning of sociality can be easily brushed aside for menial selfish ambitions. The citizen’s memory is wiped out and consequently it is detached from history as well. History is thought to be nothing but all about chauvinistic national clichés. The citizen has no philosophy and does not believe in the existence of any other philosophy of happiness than narrow pragmatism. In appearance, the citizen looks modern. However, at issue is the individual of the “herd of citizens,” “mass society,” or, indeed, lack of individuality that has been created and prepared to work for the most obscure aspirations (such as fascism) which are hollow and devoid of substance.” According to Öcalan, this type of citizen played a central role on the road to fascism and is the subject of many famous novels. One example in this context is the novel “The Conformist” by Alberto Moravia, which tells the story of a man who becomes a compliant civil servant under the new fascist government in Italy. Öcalan considers nation states and societies that produce this type of citizen to be among the greatest obstacles to democratic modernity. Therefore, a central task of democratisation and anti-fascist practice is “to analyze the nation-state and the society that produces such a lack of individuality (where the individual is considered non-existent) and to raise egalitarian, free, and democratic individuals (free citizens) who can construct the democratic civilization.” In his remarks, Öcalan also rejects the dominant understanding that the middle class is the basis of a republican and democratic regime. Rather, this depiction is a “narrative of liberal propaganda”. The “middle class has played the key role in the negation of the republic and democracy.” For Öcalan, the middle class is the reservoir from which fascism, not democracy, draws: “Just as the relationship between fascism and the nation-state is structural, the relationship between fascism and middle class is also structural.” In this context, liberal democracy essentially relied on the middle class, and he describes the nation state as the “modern god of the middle class”: “It lives in its own mentality and passion with the dream of reuniting (through attainment of task and benefit) with this God. A position within its bureaucracy or monopolies means salvation.” Capitalism uses the liberal bourgeoisie and the middle class in its fight against democratisation and social justice by making concessions and creating illusions, pointing to the lower strata of society and keeping the middle class in constant fear.

#important context for anyone new to öcalan's work is that he uses a different definition of democracy than what you might be used to#i like his work i should see if i can find an audiobook sometime

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

A lot of cis people are treating her like an actress who pushes diet culture or a singer who is too sex forward for their tastes. Like she's an inconvenience to their moral comfort instead of the existential threat she is.

One thing I hear a lot about is that trans women and transfems who support the ideas of transunity do not have a space to discuss transmisogyny, since the main transmisogyny tag is overtaken by users who engage in lateral transphobia and are often hostile to these trans women and transfems.

Personally, I think using the term anti-transfemininity could be useful for the same reason as anti-transmasculinity. It emphasizes what is being targeted (perceived transmasculinity or transfemininity) while leaving room for transunity's basic idea that all forms of transphobia involve misogyny, misandrogyny, and misandry.

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

Every time I land into a string of the worst fucking luck I've ever had in my entire life, I think of a scene in my favorite movie, "NOPE", which sums up my feelings on it;

First was Ansel's disappearance after his suicide note. Then my roommate turned out to be a fucking sexual predator who had been lying and hiding this whole time (my roommate, who's been one of my best friends since I was 14). Then my aunt died suddenly from a heart attack. Then my great aunt died (thankfully surrounded by her loved ones except for my father, whose aunt is his, because he got a new fucking job and couldn't make it and cried for two hours without letting anyone but my mom know, who snitched on my sister and I because we love him and are worried that he didn't cry). Then the new job I was like, 90% sure I was about to get (within the game industry) vanished due to a change in management. Then my other great aunt died (leaving my great uncle alone and so sad that he's currently hospitalized). Then my roommates and I had a fight so hard that I'm wondering if everything I've ever built and worked for is even worth it. It's gotten so fucking bad that I just. I think I need to fucking move. And finally, once more, my prescription for testosterone didn't get renewed bc doctors are fucking idiots. So now I'm late on my shot and I'm a fucking mess.

Every time I land into a string of the worst fucking luck I've ever had in my entire life, I think of a scene in my favorite movie, "NOPE", which sums up my feelings on it;

First was Ansel's disappearance after his suicide note. Then my roommate turned out to be a fucking sexual predator who had been lying and hiding this whole time (my roommate, who's been one of my best friends since I was 14). Then my aunt died suddenly from a heart attack. Then my great aunt died (thankfully surrounded by her loved ones except for my father, whose aunt is his, because he got a new fucking job and couldn't make it and cried for two hours without letting anyone but my mom know, who snitched on my sister and I because we love him and are worried that he didn't cry). Then the new job I was like, 90% sure I was about to get (within the game industry) vanished due to a change in management. Then my other great aunt died (leaving my great uncle alone and so sad that he's currently hospitalized). Then my roommates and I had a fight so hard that I'm wondering if everything I've ever built and worked for is even worth it. It's gotten so fucking bad that I just. I think I need to fucking move. And finally, once more, my prescription for testosterone didn't get renewed bc doctors are fucking idiots. So now I'm late on my shot and I'm a fucking mess.