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eraserheadadult

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

sackfoo

On the subject of the Tim Hortons part can we also acknowledge how utterly insane it is in the year 2026 that a children's author can so blatantly and directly make clear her intentions to commit genocide, and all these major brands are just okay with still associating with her. Like yeah I think we all knew these companies wanted us dead because our mere existence challenges the status quo that they've been able to use to exploit us for years to keep their own coffers overstuffed, but they at least gotta try to be more subtle about it, trying to influence laws, coming up with excuses for why there can't be a trans person in their TV show. Where it gets insane and frustrating for me is when a famous author is just straight up going full on Nazi in broad daylight, and so many of these companies don't think it would be at all bad PR to collaborate with her. You would think having some of the donuts you sell be confirmed to directly fund a genocide of your very neighbors would at least elicit some kind of discomfort from the PR team, some executive saying "maybe this would result in a boycott" but no, apparently not. And what's even worse is, they seem to be "right" to some degree, the general public cares so little about us that they don't care, and TERFs are evidently SO readily willing to empty their life savings into making trans people miserable that they make up the difference of any lost customers, it seems. It's like if Hitler himself came back from the dead as a fascist zombie warlock overlord of hell, and released board games for children where you have to lead elves with suspiciously big noses into cages to be hit with "silly gas" and pretty much admitted on social media with his blue checkmark account that every last penny of the game would go to committing unspeakable war crimes against trans people, and he PWOMISED WEALLY NICEWY he'd ONLY commit inhumane acts of violence and cruelty on trans people, and because he specified "ONLY" trans people, everyone unanimously just was like "Well maybe he's changed, maybe Hitler is a nice guy now, we should give him a chance" blatantly ignoring all the incredibly obvious evidence that zombie warlock overlord Hitler plans to go after other minorities too as soon as trans people are out of the picture, and also a million brands teamed up with zombies warlock overlord Hitler for brand deals and cross promotions while zombie warlock overlord Hitler goes online to accuse cisgender Jewish women of being trans every time they win a sport or release a scientific paper.

traycakes

JK Rowling is posting phone calls from sexual assault victims looking for help to social media for her fans to laugh at, and LEGO is announcing a new HP themed set.

JK Rowling posted illegal upskirt sexual harassment photos to her social media and Fortnite still sells HP skins.

Every time she gets away with overt bigotry and hatred it just makes her more bold and enables her to go further. How many lines does she have to cross before people realize how shitty she is?

These men hold no malice against their oppressors. In fact, impressing their bullies has become the project of their lives. They don’t consider their enemies to be the jocks who shoved them into a locker. Rather, the geek reactionary considers themselves to share a mutual enemy with the jocks: That is, women.

Working women are considerably more reluctant to embrace AI. As with most major societal discrepancies between the sexes, the favored explanation is that women are feeling too many feelings about the situation. It’s enough to force many businessmen into the ostensibly uncomfortable position of asking whether retaining feeeeemale employees is in the best interests of the company or whether “tough choices” need to be made. This isn’t necessarily against the plan. ... The misogyny that comes part and parcel with AI is demonstrable: According to recent studies, when men are seen working with AI, they are seen as pragmatic and ahead of the curve; when a woman is seen using AI, she is seen as incompetent and in need of a crutch. This is when they are performing the same task and producing the same result. It’s called a “competence penalty,” and it’s a stronger explanation for women’s vastly decreased adoption of this technology than the moral queasiness theory. It becomes a kind of sexist ouroboros—the assumption that women are just bad at their jobs creates the misconception that incompetence drives their use of technology, which is then used as evidence to prove the original assumption. Then, when they compensate for the competence penalty by in fact working harder than their male colleagues, they are punished for their Luddism. This is just an efficient process for achieving what the leaders of this technology want anyway. Many of the tech oligarch class including Peter Thiel are on record suggesting that women shouldn’t have been given the right to vote, let alone work. Thiel’s Palantir co-founder and CEO, Alex Karp, is more explicit about the long-term goals of AI technology—it will decrease the economic and political power of Democrats broadly, and women more specifically.

We need to admit that this is a political project

The three vectors of judgment are: If you’re unemployed, you’re a parasite; if you’re employed at a level beneath CEO you’re likely redundant bloat; in either case, if you’re childless, you’re guilty of not increasing the number of categories A and B, which is also bad somehow. So what the fuck are we supposed to do? Stop taking orders from unelected tech CEOs, for one thing. But more to the point, the contradictions tend to fade when you consider the specifics of their ideal: They don’t want to remove people from society in broad, random swaths. The goal is a reorganization. We can already see how it’s panning out. Of the number of people who lost their jobs in America in the first year of Trump’s second term, the vast majority were women. It’s not exactly that scene from The Handmaid’s Tale where the nervous schlub has to fire every woman in the office because “it’s the law now,” but it’s not too far from that either. Outside of Gilead, it’s not “the law” that women be cast out of employment, but in Trump’s America, what is or is not “the law” tends to be spoken in the language of nudges and winks. Particularly in the federal government, where the president’s word is the law until (maybe) a judge says otherwise, employment demographics have been affected by Trump’s executive orders banning “DEI.” This is of course one of those nudge-and-wink terms—ostensibly, it refers to people who were hired based on their being a woman or a minority rather than credentials or merit. The motte-and-bailey in MAGA world is that, in a society where people were hired only on merit, you wouldn’t see any women or minorities.

#us politics #s peter davis #genai #misogyny

thatstormygeek

Although district court judges have done significant work at maintaining the rule of law in spite of the executive branch’s antipathy to it and the legislative branch’s lack of interest in upholding it, there are cracks. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Emily Marks provided her opinion that the Southern Poverty Law Center had not shown that there is anything untoward about the Trump administration’s treatment of the organization in advance of or since its indictment in April. In rejecting the SPLC’s motion to dismiss the case for vindictive prosecution or, alternatively, ordering discovery on the topic, Marks decided to operate somewhere outside of both our current legal and political environment. “The SPLC has failed to offer some evidence tending to show animus on the part of the prosecutors involved in bringing this case and that such animus resulted in the prosecution, the showing required for discovery. Because it cannot satisfy that standard, it necessarily fails to satisfy the higher standard that would entitle it to dismissal of the indictment,” Marks, a Trump appointee, wrote. How is this so, given aggressive comments about the SPLC from Trump, Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel, who called the organization “a partisan smear machine” before ending the FBI’s longtime cooperation with the group? “Mr. Patel’s statements are not automatically imputed to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama,“ Marks wrote. The unitary executive theory was nowhere to be found on Friday.

Todd Blanche is confirmed as attorney general, Stephen Miller is backing a new birthright citizenship executive order, and Judge Emily Marks

Marks concluded that Trump says all sorts of wild stuff and courts couldn’t actually put that on the lawyers who his former attorney general has stated are “his lawyers.” This, also, is despite the fact that there has been a year and a half of evidence of Trump and Main Justice diving into the operations of U.S. Attorney’s Offices in precisely the ways that Marks pretended to ignore in her decision. “The Court cannot license a fishing expedition based on innuendo or speculation,“ Marks insisted, in an opinion that aggressively ignored the reality of the second Trump administration — and the Justice Department specifically. The entire Bondi tenure as attorney general was a test drive of the unitary executive theory and it’s about to get worse with Blanche’s confirmation, but, for one federal judge in the Middle District of Alabama in one extremely convenient scenario, the unitary executive theory does not apparently exist.

tehamelie

The best defense for the president of the United States is that you can't take anything he says seriously because of his long proven history of being full of shit. Seems like something that could be brought up in an impeachment hearing.

Although district court judges have done significant work at maintaining the rule of law in spite of the executive branch’s antipathy to it and the legislative branch’s lack of interest in upholding it, there are cracks. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Emily Marks provided her opinion that the Southern Poverty Law Center had not shown that there is anything untoward about the Trump administration’s treatment of the organization in advance of or since its indictment in April. In rejecting the SPLC’s motion to dismiss the case for vindictive prosecution or, alternatively, ordering discovery on the topic, Marks decided to operate somewhere outside of both our current legal and political environment. “The SPLC has failed to offer some evidence tending to show animus on the part of the prosecutors involved in bringing this case and that such animus resulted in the prosecution, the showing required for discovery. Because it cannot satisfy that standard, it necessarily fails to satisfy the higher standard that would entitle it to dismissal of the indictment,” Marks, a Trump appointee, wrote. How is this so, given aggressive comments about the SPLC from Trump, Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel, who called the organization “a partisan smear machine” before ending the FBI’s longtime cooperation with the group? “Mr. Patel’s statements are not automatically imputed to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama,“ Marks wrote. The unitary executive theory was nowhere to be found on Friday.

Todd Blanche is confirmed as attorney general, Stephen Miller is backing a new birthright citizenship executive order, and Judge Emily Marks

Marks concluded that Trump says all sorts of wild stuff and courts couldn’t actually put that on the lawyers who his former attorney general has stated are “his lawyers.” This, also, is despite the fact that there has been a year and a half of evidence of Trump and Main Justice diving into the operations of U.S. Attorney’s Offices in precisely the ways that Marks pretended to ignore in her decision. “The Court cannot license a fishing expedition based on innuendo or speculation,“ Marks insisted, in an opinion that aggressively ignored the reality of the second Trump administration — and the Justice Department specifically. The entire Bondi tenure as attorney general was a test drive of the unitary executive theory and it’s about to get worse with Blanche’s confirmation, but, for one federal judge in the Middle District of Alabama in one extremely convenient scenario, the unitary executive theory does not apparently exist.

#us politics #chris geidner

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waterlilyworld

i had an experience around fifteen, where a cis man i lived with told me that feminism was no longer needed because multiple companies his job worked with had women ceos and women dominated staffs, and i had to spend multiple hours trying to convince him that feminism was very much necessary, which had no effect whatsoever until i pulled out my own experience as a girl child dealing with sexual harassment from a young age, which because he was not the worst cis man i’ve ever known, did finally get through to him to some degree. though it did nothing to make him less of a misogynist or patriarch.

it was one of the more degrading moments of my life. to have to hold my own sexual trauma out in front of a cis man who had determined the movement built to give me rights was no longer needed, to have to sully myself with exposing my trauma to someone who felt comfortable enough to explain to me why i was not oppressed. i vowed after that to never do that again. no matter what i would not use my personal experiences to convince someone why the fight for my rights and equality is vitally necessary.

do you see where i am going with this?

i see trans men and transmasculine people daily, ripping out their own traumas and pain and holding them up to people who deny our oppression in an effort to get them to care. and this is my encouragement to all of you to stop. you are debasing yourself for people who do not see you as human like they are. your pain is not registering to them. you are likely hurting yourself in the process. it will not make things better. you do not have to do this. your well being matters more than the off chance of getting through to someone. you matter even in the face of someone who does not believe you do.

if sharing your own pain in the hopes of helping someone understand is of benefit for you then godspeed, but i think many need to be told that they do not have to. if you have never been told this, let me be the first. your experience through life is your own, your pain and trauma are sacred, and you do not owe anyone information about your most private and excruciating experiences. you deserve love and safety and those who would pick apart your life like carrion are not worth your exposed heart.

thesitharts

Once you start noticing the erasure and exclusion of trans mascs in everything from media to academics you can never stop noticing it

burning-gray-mon

Back when I was in university we were asked to do a brief research exercise on a health condition impacting a community. Can't remember what I wanted to look at now, but it was something to do with the trans community.

Whatever it was, to put it this way, if there were 10 studies on the trans community as a whole, there were 3 on trans women and trans fems and 0 on trans men and trans mascs, and 0 on nonbinary people. All of the mixed studies were also pretty much useless for my purposes as well because they were all so lopsided.

I think I swapped to a bunch of different things - addiction rates, smoking, depression, mental health in general - nothing that was even roughly equal in looking at all of us. Trans men, trans mascs and nonbinary people are so under researched as to be nonexistent.

To keep this brief since I've rambled a bunch - this is a major issue health wise since we have not a lot of literature on what testosterone does to certain bodies. This can lead to major health complications, not because of the testosterone itself, but because there might be an interaction thats missed or a complication that's not noticed (which is the same for any medication that's under researched on certain bodies. This is not me scaring people off of hrt, this is me pointing out its a medication like any other.)

genderkoolaid

#the therapist who wrote my permission slip for hrt was a trans man#and during that appointment we talked about the erasure of trans men from basically everything#and i talked about an article i had read a week or so earlier about trans people and hiv#it very in depth about risks prevention treatment etc#except that it exclusively referenced trans women with a single sentence at the end basically saying 'oh trans men are at risk too'#less than a year later i saw that same therapist speaking at an hiv organization fundraising event#he talked about how he had just recently been diagnosed with hiv#and had to sit there while this doctor told him all about how the treatment options had never been tested on trans men#none of them#they knew that the treatment would work#but not how effective it would be in comparison to its effectiveness in other demographics#no idea what kind of side effects he might experience#how it would interact with his body and his hormones#what the long term effects would be#nothing#he had to sit there while his doctor told him he would have to be a guinea pig but its not like he has a choice#the only alternative is dying from aids#that whole thing was kind of a wake up call for me#and i started paying more attention getting tested regularly myself and all that sruff you're supposed to do#and over time i befriended the person who did most of my testing#they were also trans masc and we would talk about this kind of stuff#and i told them i wanted to get on prep but every doctor i asked had a wildly different answer on if i even could take it#which verison i could take etc#and they said that only one form of prep has been approved fot trans men but its never actually been tested on trans men#and that one version isnt good for long term use because it has some pretty serious side effects long term#and they said that they regularly go to conferences and meet with representatives from all these drug companies#and they ask 'wheres the data on trans men' 'when are you doing clinical studies on trans men'#and the answer#every single time is: we have not done any studies on trans men and we have no intention to ever do studies on trans men#this is not some passive result of trans masc invisibility it is an active act of erasure that needs to be recognized as an act of violence

bioluminescently-unfolding

In my experience this stuff is not shouted about anywhere near enough by many of the orgs that supposedly represent the whole LGBTQIA+ community.

When you then look at the yawning gap in research on non binary people specifically, and on trans men and transmasculine people specifically, and on bi+ people specifically, you may conclude that if you're bi transmasc or bi and non binary, then medical science has very little interest in you. So why isn't this a much bigger topic of discussion? Where are the efforts to combat the problem? (Genuinely: I would love to hear that someone out there is working on this.)

It's a major intersectional issue for chronically ill people in these communities. The effects of so many drugs are already under-studied in cis women, which is a scandal in itself, but if you're not cis and you've switched an oestrogen-dominant system to be testosterone-dominant (or you're planning to), how much can you extrapolate about the effects of your meds on your body? Nobody should have to speculate on that stuff; there should be a fucking booklet they hand you telling you what to expect. You deserve to know how well a given intervention is likely to work for you.

There will be so many trans men and non binary people walking into doctors' surgeries for a major diagnosis and being told, "We don't really know what this means for you." This absence of data should create urgency in academia and in the LGBTQIA+ sector. It cannot be acceptable for people to be told they're guinea pigs at one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.

Same deal with the massive yet understudied bisexual (and implicitly: pansexual) health and social inequalities, relative to both straight people and our gay and lesbian peers. These inequalities are many and varied yet largely ignored by the wider LGBTQIA+ sector. It's incredibly grim and alarming to look at the figures on bi rates of substance issues, mental health issues.

Yet it remains rare to find research on bi+ people specifically, or for mixed studies to be weighted to proportionally reflect the prevalence of bi people in the queer community. And by implication, these studies are rarer still for bi+ trans guys, and for bi+ non binary people. What data do we really have? How do we design services that meet people's needs in its absence?

As long as I'm on my soapbox, has anyone here had experience lobbying LGBTQIA+ orgs, or research institutions, to commission more specific research on health and healthcare in under-studied demographics of our community? Are you able to talk about what was effective in persuading institutions to study this stuff?

I assume there must be isolated studies even on the most under-studies populations, but the tendency of academia to paywall a lot of this stuff also means there may be LGBTQIA+ orgs out there unaware of some relevant data...

thesitharts

Once you start noticing the erasure and exclusion of trans mascs in everything from media to academics you can never stop noticing it

burning-gray-mon

Back when I was in university we were asked to do a brief research exercise on a health condition impacting a community. Can't remember what I wanted to look at now, but it was something to do with the trans community.

Whatever it was, to put it this way, if there were 10 studies on the trans community as a whole, there were 3 on trans women and trans fems and 0 on trans men and trans mascs, and 0 on nonbinary people. All of the mixed studies were also pretty much useless for my purposes as well because they were all so lopsided.

I think I swapped to a bunch of different things - addiction rates, smoking, depression, mental health in general - nothing that was even roughly equal in looking at all of us. Trans men, trans mascs and nonbinary people are so under researched as to be nonexistent.

To keep this brief since I've rambled a bunch - this is a major issue health wise since we have not a lot of literature on what testosterone does to certain bodies. This can lead to major health complications, not because of the testosterone itself, but because there might be an interaction thats missed or a complication that's not noticed (which is the same for any medication that's under researched on certain bodies. This is not me scaring people off of hrt, this is me pointing out its a medication like any other.)

genderkoolaid

#the therapist who wrote my permission slip for hrt was a trans man#and during that appointment we talked about the erasure of trans men from basically everything#and i talked about an article i had read a week or so earlier about trans people and hiv#it very in depth about risks prevention treatment etc#except that it exclusively referenced trans women with a single sentence at the end basically saying 'oh trans men are at risk too'#less than a year later i saw that same therapist speaking at an hiv organization fundraising event#he talked about how he had just recently been diagnosed with hiv#and had to sit there while this doctor told him all about how the treatment options had never been tested on trans men#none of them#they knew that the treatment would work#but not how effective it would be in comparison to its effectiveness in other demographics#no idea what kind of side effects he might experience#how it would interact with his body and his hormones#what the long term effects would be#nothing#he had to sit there while his doctor told him he would have to be a guinea pig but its not like he has a choice#the only alternative is dying from aids#that whole thing was kind of a wake up call for me#and i started paying more attention getting tested regularly myself and all that sruff you're supposed to do#and over time i befriended the person who did most of my testing#they were also trans masc and we would talk about this kind of stuff#and i told them i wanted to get on prep but every doctor i asked had a wildly different answer on if i even could take it#which verison i could take etc#and they said that only one form of prep has been approved fot trans men but its never actually been tested on trans men#and that one version isnt good for long term use because it has some pretty serious side effects long term#and they said that they regularly go to conferences and meet with representatives from all these drug companies#and they ask 'wheres the data on trans men' 'when are you doing clinical studies on trans men'#and the answer#every single time is: we have not done any studies on trans men and we have no intention to ever do studies on trans men#this is not some passive result of trans masc invisibility it is an active act of erasure that needs to be recognized as an act of violence

quasi-normalcy

Unpopular opinion: DEI is meritocracy. DEI is a corrective on the natural tendency to nepotism and racial and gender bias, and I don't understand why non-conservatives are so afraid of just saying so

quasi-normalcy

Like why did we ever accept this framing of "affirmative action" as being for redress of historical injustices, rather than as a corrective for present injustices? It is an empirically demonstrable fact that racial bias in hiring exists; why do we have to pretend that this is about compensation for slavery or whatever? Are we just afraid of hurting people's feelings by suggesting that they might be racist?

thelordanubis

Conservatives do not believe in evening the playing field, full stop.

Conservatism is the belief that hierarchies are natural and good, and trying to dismantle hierarchies is counterproductive. They fight DEI because it’s inherently incompatible with their worldview. You can never actually get conservatives to accept DEI, you can only enshrine it in law and policy so deeply that they can’t unroot it.

Missouri voters rejected Amendments 4 and 5 while overwhelmingly approving a sales tax for parks, undercutting claims they’re easily misled.

#us politics #missouri independent

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eraserheadadult

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

sackfoo

On the subject of the Tim Hortons part can we also acknowledge how utterly insane it is in the year 2026 that a children's author can so blatantly and directly make clear her intentions to commit genocide, and all these major brands are just okay with still associating with her. Like yeah I think we all knew these companies wanted us dead because our mere existence challenges the status quo that they've been able to use to exploit us for years to keep their own coffers overstuffed, but they at least gotta try to be more subtle about it, trying to influence laws, coming up with excuses for why there can't be a trans person in their TV show. Where it gets insane and frustrating for me is when a famous author is just straight up going full on Nazi in broad daylight, and so many of these companies don't think it would be at all bad PR to collaborate with her. You would think having some of the donuts you sell be confirmed to directly fund a genocide of your very neighbors would at least elicit some kind of discomfort from the PR team, some executive saying "maybe this would result in a boycott" but no, apparently not. And what's even worse is, they seem to be "right" to some degree, the general public cares so little about us that they don't care, and TERFs are evidently SO readily willing to empty their life savings into making trans people miserable that they make up the difference of any lost customers, it seems. It's like if Hitler himself came back from the dead as a fascist zombie warlock overlord of hell, and released board games for children where you have to lead elves with suspiciously big noses into cages to be hit with "silly gas" and pretty much admitted on social media with his blue checkmark account that every last penny of the game would go to committing unspeakable war crimes against trans people, and he PWOMISED WEALLY NICEWY he'd ONLY commit inhumane acts of violence and cruelty on trans people, and because he specified "ONLY" trans people, everyone unanimously just was like "Well maybe he's changed, maybe Hitler is a nice guy now, we should give him a chance" blatantly ignoring all the incredibly obvious evidence that zombie warlock overlord Hitler plans to go after other minorities too as soon as trans people are out of the picture, and also a million brands teamed up with zombies warlock overlord Hitler for brand deals and cross promotions while zombie warlock overlord Hitler goes online to accuse cisgender Jewish women of being trans every time they win a sport or release a scientific paper.

eraserheadadult

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

sixappleseeds

#sometimes people will do a harry potter comparison to say ppl are morally obligated to join an informal boycott of another author's work #when that author is revealed as sleazy or abusive or bigoted #and i will be real: i just don't think that's true. #go ahead and stop engaging with that other person's work if that's what your conscience dictates #but it's not a very meaningful choice one way or the other #outside of what it means to YOU. #but harry potter is different. you actually do have to eschew that shit. #you can't even 'be a fan' without paying for anything-- you're still feeding into the cultural phenomenon #that allowed and allows this woman to act like a petty tyrant #and pump money into hate groups #it truly is unique. singular. unlike any other situation in literature. (tags via @flameswallower)

lykegenia

Engaging with Harry Potter in 2026 is like watching a dog piss on a pizza - making eye contact with you the entire time - and then saying "oh don't worry I'll eat around the piss, or I'll wash the piss off" MATE it's a piss pizza. Throw it out. Who cares if pizza makes you nostalgic you can get another pizza. People are watching you eat dog piss.

directactionforhope

Rich people are literally just lying about being good at money btw

directactionforhope

Things like overdraft fees, late fees, parking tickets, fines, subscription renewals, legal fees, penalty fees, sales and discounts, lawsuits - these are things that all cease to matter in any material way once you have enough money

directactionforhope

To Jeff Bezos, a parking meter, a plane ticket, and a private jet all effectively cost the same amount of money: none

directactionforhope

#exactly and this is the definition of “rich” that makes sense to use when comma eating the#it's not people who have a savings account it's people who have shell companies#and barely notice when they lose more in a day than you'll make in your life#it's not people with employees they're responsible for; it's people with employees they think of as commodities#people for whom a fine isn't a punishment but something to be worked into the budget#people for whom “acceptable losses” includes how many people can die before it interferes with profits

-via @madseance, get peer reviewed, 100% agree

Money in your savings account is something everyone should have.

The fact that not everyone has money and a savings account is the result of violence, deprivation, and the deliberate decisions made by the less than 100 people who own half of the world's money

Millions in a secret savings account in the Cayman Islands, though? That's a very different story.

knifefightscene

Anyone can be discarded by society

knifefightscene

People get made fun of for being scared of aging but it comes from the very real fear of being discarded by society that’s why i always say the goal is not to never become old or disabled the future comes for us all the goal is better social policy

razziecat

Please note that this ALSO defies the supposed "common knowledge" that ALL old people have tons of money squirreled away. They wouldn't be digging in garbage bins for empty soda and beer cans, or be homeless and sleeping on park benches, if they were all wealthy. There are far more old folks eating at soup kitchens and cutting their pills in half to save money than there are rich old folks with a second house in the Hamptons.

Your beef is not with "old people" or "boomers." It's with capitalism. It's with the mega-wealthy. It's with just-turned-trilliionaire asshole Elon Musk and people like him.

knifefightscene

Anyone can be discarded by society

knifefightscene

People get made fun of for being scared of aging but it comes from the very real fear of being discarded by society that’s why i always say the goal is not to never become old or disabled the future comes for us all the goal is better social policy

whisperingsoup

every single homeless person is a failing grade on a government report card. Your government is supposed to help you. It's supposed to keep people from destitution. That's part of the social contract we all agreed to when we voluntarily pay our taxes and not go to our leaders houses with rocks and torches and pitchforks. If there's a homeless person, that's someone we are supposed to help.

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knifefightscene

Anyone can be discarded by society

knifefightscene

People get made fun of for being scared of aging but it comes from the very real fear of being discarded by society that’s why i always say the goal is not to never become old or disabled the future comes for us all the goal is better social policy

thatstormygeek

The thing about parentifying your child is that when you later come back and try to actually do the parenting you should have been shouldering the entire time, that child is going to look at you like "wtf do you think you're doing?!"

When you try to do it when said "child" is nearing 50? You're likely not going to get the reaction you're wanting.

My father outright forgot my birthday one year when I was a kid. Most other years he'd call or send a card, but it would never be on time. The joke was that he always blamed the post office or the phone company. Well, that was the joke in my mom's house. He sincerely expected us kids to believe that the post office lost his cards to us every year and the phone company mysteriously ate his messages to us. Which would have been truly magical back in the day, because we had an answering machine.

He had a realization last night that I'm less than a year away from being 50, which made him feel old (because of course my life is about him). And he texted me this, followed by his concerns about our current life and future plans.

His suggestions for job hunting were so basic that I would have been insulted he thought I'd never considered them if I imagined any real thought went into the message at all. But it wasn't about me - it was about him and his anxieties that he decided to offload onto me.

Which made me realize, I don't think my dad has ever actually looked for a job. Maybe when he was a teenager. But he was drafted in the 70s, so his entire adulthood was spent in the military. Which makes his input about civilian job hunting worth even less.

I'm sure he is concerned about my life when he actually thinks about it. He has no idea what's going on with me, what my short- and long-term plans are. These are not things I share with him. Why would I?

thatstormygeek

Of course, this is ignoring the giant elephant in the room.

That grand ol' pachyderm.

I live in Missouri, so both the federal and my state government are quite open and clear about hating people like me and wanting us to not exist.

My dad is and always has been conservative. While we don't talk politics much at all, I'm sure he votes straight Republican, when he votes. Which means he's all in favor of the very people making life hell for people like me.

So yeah. All of that "concern" he expressed rings pretty fucking hollow.

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