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When someone says they love you "for who you are" or "because you're you" that's not a cop-out or a non-answer. You are being told in no uncertain terms that you are loved for something that's not gonna change overnight. You can stop being funny. You can lose your skills. You can cease to be beautiful in the ways you currently are. But you can't stop being you. And therefore you can't stop being loved.
Leftists will be like "acab fuck the police they use their position of power to abuse people" but will wholeheartedly bootlick doctors and support the psych industry even though they do the exact same thing
The duality of "If you even imply that being aro or ace condemns someone to a sad and lonely life I will fucking fight you"
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"being aro and ace is the most isolating thing I will ever experience"
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This.
Like I think it's really telling that our society idealizes the general concept of "a romantic partner" to a degree where the status and validation associated with getting someone to fill that role for you frequently ends up being prioritized above the individuality of the person you're dating. Like the concept of "having a partner" is by itself considered so valuable that it often ends up overshadowing who the person you supposedly love the most in the entire world actually is as an individual and that's scary to me
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Also like the concept of loving the IDEA of your future partner more than anyone else is incredibly concerning to me. Like there's no shame in strongly wanting a specific type of relationship, but what do you mean you love the hypothetical idea of a romantic partner more than anyone or anything else which is actually a part of your life?? Are you okay?
I just feel like if you go about it this way you're gonna end up shoving a more or less random person into your idealized idea of "a partner" more so than you're gonna build a real connection with someone for the sake of them as an individual
can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do
UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.
it's hard to overstate just how intertwined disability advocacy and youth liberation are. ableism and adultism function on such similar axes as to be, in many cases, one and the same. and it's for that reason that i'm consistently disappointed to see disabled adults discussing their oppression with appeals to their own age.
'i'm a grown adult i should be able to control my own sleep' or 'i'm a grown adult i should be able to read curse words in subtitles' - both of things are clearly true, but why are they exclusive to adults?
much of ableist oppression functions via infantilization, but the solution to this is not adulthood, it is youth liberation
school uniform codes extending to what colours you’re allowed to dye your hair, and what piercings you can have and stuff is so crazy. you HAVE to go to school and you’re not even allowed to have pink hair or pierce your nose about it????
“oh it’s to prepare you for the workplace” okay. i don’t think any workplace should be dictating what you can and can’t do with your body either and i think it’s strange to decide to teach children that their body is not their own
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There is so much casual ableism towards people with intellectual-cognitive disabilities. I was listening to a podcast I listen to religiously (and is a very very leftist podcast) and they hit me with the "you'll understand this unless you are Three Years Old." And it was something I didn't understand. And this podcast (that I love!) does this quite frequently. The hosts would never purposely make fun of someone for their disability- but they say things like "no one is that stupid" or similar quite frequently. And as someone who is that stupid- it kinda fucking sucks.
out of all kinds of people, even among disabled people , we are among some of the most vulnerable largely because the idea of us existing in and participating in society like a person is completely unfathomable to almost EVERYONE . like u said , even people who are leftist strongly in every single other way .
The problem with "but the psych ward saved my life!!" argument is that it's factually untrue.
You can't even be admitted to the psych ward until you're out of critical condition, because--and this is crucial--psych wards are not places of healing.
Psych wards do not have the appropriate equipment, technology, staff, or training to administer life-saving medical care. They are not equipped to perform life-saving procedures like emergency surgeries, pumping someone's stomach, etc..
Even for psych wards that exist within "normal" hospitals, an inmate would need to be transferred to a different section of the hospital in order to receive that life-saving care.
The psych ward exists exclusively as a method of incarcerating "problematic" people and torturing them into submission.
Even if you claim that you weren't personally traumatized by your psychiatric incarceration, research shows that psychiatric incarceration drastically increases long-term suicide risk. Which certainly seems to indicate that the vast majority of people who experience psychiatric incarceration are traumatized, or at the very least, had a negative experience!!
So it's just a really, really bizarre thing to claim that the psych ward is a "necessary evil" because it "saves lives" (implying that everyone who's had their life torn apart by it needs to shut up and suffer in silence).
1.) that's simply not true
2.) who the fuck gave you the right to silence the rest of us psychiatric survivors just because you're complacent with having your own human rights violated?
I've found that people have this belief that if you explained that you were disabled, then actually the person giving you a hard time would relent. They assume that the only reason someone might be ableist about someone else is because they are simply lacking information, whereas I find that many people who jump to being ableist, inadvertently or otherwise, do not give a flying fuck if you cannot do [X action] because of a disability, and will in fact still demand you suck it up or stop making it everyone else's problem.
Ai:
1) uses literal slave labour in countries like Kenya - Once again, Black slaves are being used to "improve" the world with absolutely no care to their welfare or wellbeing. In fact, they're being deeply traumatised by the images and information they have to see as they load all the info into the computers. So slavery and trauma. Good job.
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Frankly, that should be fucking enough for everyone to make it stop. But no.
2) emits an absurd amount of CO2 and uses a crazy amount of power and water, and is quickly undoing what progress we've made against climate change.
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3) destroys communities with the e-waste-- primarily marginalised communities- Once again, screwing primarily Black neighbourhoods
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4) steals material from people with no compensation or credit. Most recent example, ScotRail stole the voice of a voice actor for their announcements and refused to notify, pay or credit her. They've recently backtracked on this because of the backlash, but they've got away with it for some time.
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5) It's bad for your brain, with one study saying it 'atrophies' your brain, and another that 'warns of a phenomenon known as "mechanized convergence," in which reliance on AI leads to less diverse and creative outcomes. As more users accept AI-generated suggestions without sufficient scrutiny, there is a growing concern that originality and contextual nuance could be lost. AI’s tendency to generalize information may lead to homogeneity, where different individuals working on similar problems arrive at nearly identical solutions — often missing the complexity that human insight can provide.
Other key concerns include:
Decline in independent problem-solving skills – With AI handling much of the cognitive heavy lifting, workers may find themselves engaging less with deeper analytical processes essential for innovation.
Increased risk of misinformation – AI models, despite their advancements, still generate errors, outdated information or biased responses that require human oversight to detect and correct.
Reduced diversity in thought – Overreliance on AI suggestions can lead to standardization, minimizing original perspectives and creative approaches'
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There are multiple sources for all of this-- these are just one or two links to prove my point. The fact is, there are dozens and dozens of sources for each of these, I just ran out of energy.
But all this means
FUCK AI. and fuck the people forcing it on us, fuck the people using it.
Time to find alternatives, people. Time to de-google.
#i can't emphasize enough how much i hate ai#and how it's ruining so many things#anti ai#google
Rod Serling warned us. SO MANY TIMES.
Star Trek tried to warn us.
2001: A Space Odyssey tried to warn us.
Westworld tried to warn us.
Philip K Dick warned us, and we've had a variety of versions of this.
So did Asimov.
Terminator 1 & 2 warned us.
The Matrix shouted very loudly. Begged us to listen. They didn't even fucking TRY to make it subtle.
Hell. Fucking even Wall-E tried.
And we clapped every time, we oohed and ahhhed and marvelled at all the warnings, nodded in agreement-- this is all a bad thing.
And then we did the one thing that all of this shit begged us not to?
fucking released it into the world.
No holds barred, no accuracy, no way to control it, no ethical way to use it.
And then encouraged the world to become as dependent as possible as quickly as possible on it whilst the world burns.
what the fuck are we doing, lads.
ngl the hardest part about being hurt by therapy isn't even that it happened, it's that so many people are so pro psych it's alienating
Genuinely, if you've been abused by psychiatry it's immensely triggering and alienating how many people treat it as a universally helpful solution that you should still be expected to fundamentally trust.
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The problem with defaulting to "well it's better than nothing!" is that sometimes it really isn't...
"Well maybe locking up and drugging distressed people against their will isn't a perfect solution, but it's better than not doing anything!" Is it really though? Is it really?
I do think most childhoods are pretty traumatic just, by default. even run of the mill taking your shit, grounding you, setting strict rules (which would be absurd for an adult) style parenting. Physical and sexual violence on top of that is more fuel to the fire, and certainly contributes a heavy mental load, but children are fundamentally not treated like people by most of the world. They're an investment; a form of useful property that might someday become an endebted human being. This is the context under which all child abuse occurs; but the context itself is rather deplorable, don't you think?
