"probably intended to undercut American culture"

Country Inn 彩軒

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Right-wing populism a powerful enough ideological tool that you can literally get someone to join a cult of personality around a man even as he empowers someone who directly harmed them, simply by acknowledging the potential for the redirection of raw anger. The Trump administration literally, personally damaged the bomber’s life, but he likely never even knew it, never even knew that the man behind his foreclosure was now working with the man he idolized. Following the foreclosure, he was probably just angry at the prevailing system, but his anger had no structure, no ideology (it seems he wasn’t even politically active before 2016). In absence of a popular leftist systemic critique, the hard right was able to monopolize the response to anger among many white people, redirect it, and mold it in the shape of producerism. Rather than being led to realize the way the construction of power in society actually functions to disadvantage him along the lines of class while keeping him invested in the system with compensatory privileges along lines of race, gender, etc. (see Du Bois’ “wages of whiteness” argument [pg. 700-701 here]), he instead was led to follow the fraudulent right-wing alternative: that corrupt liberal elites were using their power to ruin his life through their promotion of “globalism,” multiculturalism, cronyism, etc. 

Things like this always make me think back to an anecdote from Chip Berlet’s extremely insightful “Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close For Comfort”:

Posse [Commitatus] and [Christian] Identity organizers capitalized on the farm crisis of the 1980s. Rural America faced its worst economic slump in half a century, owing largely to unfair and inequitable policies by the federal government and private banks. While most of society ignored angry and desperate rural families’ legitimate grievances, far-right activists urged resistance and offered ready scapegoats, namely, the Jews who supposedly controlled the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve. In the early 1980’s, Posse activists helped to split the influential American Agricultural Movement, while Identity theology and antisemitic conspiracy theories gained an alarming level of acceptance in rural America. One poll in 1985 found that in the farm belt 27 percent of respondents felt that ‘international Jewish bankers’ were responsible for the farm crisis.

Holocaust deniers are violent antisemites, no exceptions. They are dangerous and do not deserve a platform to speak.

Jewish people cannot be nazis, no matter how much you disagree with them. Ben Shapiro is a piece of transphobic racist shit, but he’s not and will never be a Nazi.

Trump and many people in his cabinet have repeatedly used antisemitic dog whistles, most recently calling himself a nationalist.

We. Are not. All. White. Stop being dicks to Jewish people of color.

And we’re not all ashkenazi!!! Google is your friend if you don’t know what that means.

Don’t do that “Nazi puncher” bullshit if you don’t actively uplift and defend Jewish people. Punching nazis is a great thing but you need to uplift and support jews at the same time.

Stop pinning Israeli war crimes on random Jewish people. And stop demanding we tell you our opinions on Israel before you treat us with basic human decency.

GOY IS NOT A SLUR

Judaism is an ETHNORELIGION. I am both religiously AND ethnically Jewish. It’s not that hard to understand.

Stop tone policing us

A former marketing vice president described to the Journal how she was working over the weekend to promote the second season of Orange Is the New Black in New York City, and received word that her boss wanted to have an early meeting on Monday. When she arrived to the meeting, she was told that she was fired because she wasn’t a “cultural fit.”

Chief Talent Officer Tawni Nazario-Cranz later told the former executive that she should have fired one of the people she supervised faster. She had failed the “Keeper Test.” Nazario-Cranz was subsequently fired last year. Several managers said they feel they have to make sure to fire people or they’ll look soft.

I’ve made many posts about this but rn I’m exhausted and scared so I thought I’d communicate in memes. My donation goal and progress is in my description. Reblogs would be met with my eternal gratitude.

Hey everyone it’s Mod F. As you have all probably heard by now my gf and I were hoping to move into our own apartment on 10/29/18. Since most of the wages from my our primary jobs go to maintaing our current living situation (which includes ridiculously long/expensive commutes that moving would allow us to shorten drastically) we’ve had to save up for this move over the past few months by working extra hours doing odd jobs. However, the last two jobs we had scheduled to cover the costs have both suddenly cancelled on us over the past three days. This leaves us $450 ($300 on the last half of our security deposit and $150 on rent) short with only six days to cover it. We’re both scrambling for other jobs but any help is deeply appreciated.

My gf’s family is struggling and food insecure. Understandably they have no financial help they can give at the moment. Mine are abusive and have at this point basically disowned me for leaving them to live my life as an out lesbian.

I hate to ask for help again but I’m desperate not to lose this opportunity for our own place to live after a lifetime of turmoil involving my controlling abusive family. I’m especially desperate for it due to the heightened problems with them over the past few months after I finally cut them off completely. This is the closest I’ve been in my life to attaining a space that’s both physically comfortable and non-abusive to live in. I’m incredibly grateful to anyone willing to lend a hand.

[Current Living Arrangement: Why we’re moving]

Currently we live in a cramped converted dining room that has a blanket tacked up instead of a real door which opens directly onto the common area of the house and is positioned right next to the front door. This means we have very little privacy and limited sleep when anyone else is coming and going. The house itself is very small and crowded with four other adults and two toddlers spread between two tiny bedrooms. We all share one bathroom, the fridge barley works, and we cook on a hot plate because the stove doesn’t function either.

Tldr: We need to come up with $450 in six days after the sudden cancellation of two odd jobs we were supposed to use to cover the last of our moving expenses.

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if you’re living in the united states and have a formal disability diagnosis—including autism spectrum disorder and maybe even ptsd—you’re likely eligible to open an ABLE Account.

it’s a tax-advantaged savings account that is also exempt from means-testing, meaning that anything you put in there can’t be counted against you for medicaid, SNAP, SSI, or SSDI.

A.)The child’s parent/guardian/caretaker.

what about gay and trans kids with homophobic parents who send their kids to conversion therapy, resulting in lifetimes of higher mental illness and suicide rates for those kids? what about young children of color who are treated as automatically criminally suspicious by racist white adults? what about autistic kids whose parents try to “cure” them with abusive, unscientific bullshit that passes as “therapy”? what about the children of parents who are “anti vaxxers”? what about children in any kind of abusive household? should we all just fucking ignore them because since we’re not those kids’ parents, it’s not our responsibility?

the idea that you are in no way obligated to take care of children that aren’t directly related to you is fucking insane, period. (not to mention the idea that your responsibility only extends as far as the children who literally came out of you, jesus christ.) read anything about basic anthropology or how human beings existed together in societies before modern industrialization happened and you’ll be confronted with hard evidence that is not how human beings naturally behave. you aren’t just arguing for you personally to have the least personal obligation to anyone or anything and damn the consequences, you’re arguing that against nature we should normalize not giving a shit about the most vulnerable human beings there are as much as possible. 

everyone knows if you see a kid in danger, you do what you can to help them. a baby is in a locked car on a hot day, you break the window and get the kid out. you see a kid being groomed by a predator, you step in. that’s not being a hero or an especially good person, that’s being a regular ass, bare minimum human.