Writing Mayhem

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

"Magic shot" my ass. These weight loss drugs are just as harmful, ineffective, and fatal as all other weight loss drugs before them.

They still offer barely any actual weight loss when you look past the clickbait headlines and the flashy titles of research articles written by researchers paid by the drug companies selling the drugs. If you weigh 300 pounds and the drug helps you lose 5-10% of your body weight, congratulations. You're now 285-270 pounds. And the higher numbers unethically advertised by these companies who know that they're promising bullshit? 20% weight loss would make you 240 pounds. Welcome to thinness!

They still have countless negative health symptoms. Enjoy life with constant vitamin deficiencies, muscle loss, severe complications during anesthesia, kidney failure, the list goes on. Yes, these drugs also can kill you. And although it's 100% possible to live a fulfilling life while blind, going from seeing to suddenly blind out of no where because of these drugs would be distressing as fuck. And as somebody who's dealt with vitamin deficiencies due to anorexia, I can say that you Do Not Want Them. You don't want muscle weakness, motor and vocal tics, memory loss, damaged enamel, worse bone health, chronic fatigue, mood changes, a weakened immune system, nor any of the other symptoms of vitamin deficiencies. You may think this wouldn't happen to you, but it absolutely can and will.

They still require taking them for the rest of your life, if the drugs worked for you at all. You will gain the weight back. Yes, even while still taking the drugs. So not only will your tiny amount of weight loss fade away over time, you have to spend a fortune on these drugs for a lifetime. And there's no proof that even a lifetime of taking these weight loss drugs will manage to keep off those 15 minuscule pounds. You will gain the weight back, just like you will with every single diet, drug, product, exercise, program, surgery, food, and amount of "willpower."

You will not become a thin person by taking these drugs, but you also don't fucking need to become a thin person. The way out is educating yourself on fatphobia, diet culture, fat liberation, and weight-neutral healthcare. Now, are you going to use the exit door? Or are you going to keep harming yourself and other people by pretending thinness is the only way to have a worthwhile life?

even if someone WAS just lazy and simply didn't want to do anything but lie on the couch and watch tv, they should still have these things. it's irrelevant whether some people aren't actually lazy because everyone, including hypothetical lazy people, should have their basic needs met.

if we have the resources to do it, there is no defense of letting people die because they don't want to work, and much less because they can't.

Three-cueing is essentially crutches that help you get by but let you down eventually. It's very common when learning a foreign language, I misread kanji sometimes because I pattern-recognize based on context instead of really looking. The solution is to do some proper studying, but I don't wanna.

... Is absolutely terrifying in the context of all other anti-intellectualism happening right now. This guy is STILL pushing his 'observations' while denying evidence that it doesn't work.

and they removed the trans part and went: "no, women don't have to worry about being seen as predatory when interacting with people, either you are lying about that or you are not really a woman"

you would rightfully be pissed off

Lied and said he was non-verbal

Lied and said he was incapable of communication

Lied and said he had not gotten the surgery of his own accord

Lied and said his "guardians decided [he] was trans"

Got MGT to call a procedure done on a consenting adult "criminal" just because he had cerebral palsy

Mass reported his video and his account, which he ran, until facebook terminated his account for "child exploitation" despite it being his account, him being an adult, and him not being exploited

Ableism and transphobia are inseperable. Just like ableism was used to prop up bigotry throughout history, now it is being used to deny transgender people bodily autonomy the same way it is used to deny disabled people bodily autonomy. It's not a coincidence that so much of the rights transphobic rhetoric is focused on labelling us as "mentally ill". They don't think any disabled people, let alone mentally ill people should have independence or liberation.