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@Simply_Psyke
@DiscordianKitty
Post-9/11, at that. The way the backstory reads as this feel-good "the idea came out of nowhere from a kid" and doesn't give any background to the author's sister who conveniently had "marketing experience"...
Makes me wonder *who* that sister worked for previously.
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@briggityboppity
neurodivergence is only okay when it justifies treating your neighbours as inherently suspicious/dangerous (and thus calling the cops at the first sign of any conflict between you and them)
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@whtvrhnstly
really floors me that there's an increasing push to treat COVID as essentially a moral failing when it has taken *decades* to push back against the notion of STIs as moral failure in the name of prevention
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@luckytran
I love how "you do you" people are far less concerned with the many well-documented instances of harassment/assault by anti-maskers, than they are with people on Twitter telling them that their unwillingness to mask forces disabled people to risk our lives just to see a doctor.
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@LethalityJane
@arakkisuperstar
ah yes because it is totally healthy and not paranoid to treat someone like they're going to pull out a gun and murder you on the spot just because they failed your random arbitrary 'vibe' check
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@jamreed02
@ChaosIsMel
actually, fun fact, Christianity is a huge outlier in terms of "you're Christian if you just say you are"
in most cases you *can't* "just change your religion", because conversion is a process. the one you *can* do that with...is converting to Christianity.
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Why does it feel like a hot take to say that the sort of lockdown that causes excessive stress and mental health issues isn't the aggressive sort that NZ, Australia, and multiple Asian countries have done but rather the uncertain never ending semi-lockdown that North America has?
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@AlexandraErin
And "the flu isn't *that* serious, we don't need to enact measures to prevent the spread of airborne disease like we did for cholera" was a policy decision made after the 1918 pandemic in the name of, as the Harding campaign put it, "A Return To Normalcy".
Funny how that works.
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@APunishedBill
Also we are being told that getting infected with a multisystem disease with chronic long term effects is actually *good for us* and that the things that stopped us getting sick not just with it but also with the flu are *bad for us*.
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@scottmonaghan
@dansinker
@ChuckWendig
They don't "believe it causes inflation", they use "inflation" as part of their PR effort to cast their retaliatory action as just the "natural consequences" of trying to solve poverty.
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@sisyphusmyths
@scumbelievable
"polyamory is cheating even if all parties involved approve of it"
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@latkedelrey
I saw one whining about how talking about hospital acquired COVID is "scaremongering" and driving people away from necessary care
because obviously the problem isn't the COVID, it's that we're talking about it
is talking about hospital acquired MRSA bad too now?
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@jonasattilus
Disabled people in Canada are opting for medical assistance in dying for these exact reasons and the system sees nothing wrong with it; if anything, the government is *expanding* access...while not doing the same to social assistance, at all.
You are exactly right.
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@luckytran
If anything, they're suggesting that this harassment/assault is *justified* because they don't like Being Shamed for putting other people's lives at risk.
We have to "respect their personal choice", but they have no obligation to respect ours in the slightest.
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@Kafzeil
I mentioned the partnership with certain eugenicist "autism organizations" but another thing this seems to have caused is a pivot towards teaching kids to essentially uh...blame themselves if they feel mistreated, in so many words
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@RadioFreeTom
@kim_calderwood
"We shouldn't have a fire department, we don't reorganize society around a permanent fear of fire" - you probably a century or so ago
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@SGaykwon
"No legitimate political scientist thinks the Nazis or Fascists were right-wing."
idk if this is mere libs, that one is very much something that only actual fascists would say
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I love how these folks always make it about having a "different take/opinion" and not how that "different opinion" is literally "disabled people should shut up and accept a life of isolation so I can go to Applebee's in person rather than ordering DoorDash"
Taylor - we know. We know. You are absolutely and utterly a Covid fear-mongering and a judgmental asshole to literally anyone who has a slightly different take on Covid than you. It’s bullshit. To you, “minimizing” the virus is anything less than staying inside all day.
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@Gidimten
I absolutely cannot get over the part where the land defender constantly interrupts the GasLink dude with a war cry
The Stone Cold response is ALWAYS the best response
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School impressed *extremely hard* on marginalized kids in the 90s and 2000s that defending ourselves or having power fantasies where we have the ability to actually stop our oppressors and tormentors makes us just as bad as them and it shows.
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@Simply_Psyke
@DiscordianKitty
Because what better way to sell surveillance and imperialism to an entire generation of children, than with Santa. NORAD already does it with the "Santa Tracker!"
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@ChaosIsMel
Still waiting for the explanation on how treating "I don't *wanna* change my ideas at all and you can't *make* me and you're horrible if you try" as the ultimate sacred stand of principle was ever supposed to help us actually eradicate these ideas
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@JUNlPER
it turns out the person who did this literally worked for Kamala's campaign and I really cannot find a better way to epitomize how mainstream Democrats run smear campaigns against anyone to the left of their favourite neoliberal war criminals
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@Simply_Psyke
@DiscordianKitty
To wit, I suspect the author's conveniently-available-to-work-on-contingency sister probably worked for a surveillance or defense contractor and that's why that bit of background information is conveniently omitted from the Wikipedia page.
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@Kafzeil
So...it's sad but the conservatives kinda won by defunding things to the point that this nonprofit-industrial complex is now using Sesame Street as a vehicle for, essentially, social Darwinism...
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@yuungbean_
Thorne: "Elon-senpai would NEVER coup Bolivia, that's just a conspiracy theory!"
Elon: "I'LL COUP WHOEVER I WANT!"
Grimes: "Elon-kun, please! This isn't your heart!!!!"
Elon: "I REJECT MY HUMANITY, GRIMES!!!!"
The anime writes itself thanks to Grimes' pfp, lol
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@Kafzeil
This is what it's called but this article was *very* obviously written by someone working for the org pushing this system, an org that's "partnered" with orgs whose main business seems to be "education reform" and "childhood obesity"...
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@mssinenomine
Feels like they mean it in a social Darwinist sense of "if someone dies from a preventable infection it's just because their immune system Wasn't Strong Enough"
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@fitterhappierAJ
"year without germs" *hospitals* don't even have those conditions but apparently all our houses magically became BSL-4 laboratories in 2020???
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@MisterWillow_
@rex_woodbury
@jean_twenge
even ~15 years ago if we hung out in a park with our friends the cops would roll up and hassle us if we were visible from the road at all, like
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@jamreed02
@ChaosIsMel
gee, I wonder how Christians framed conversion as a "choice" while still justifying pogroms
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@shadihamid
"I treat real people as thought experiments. That is what makes me Very Smart, Very Serious, and Very Worth Listening To. I am the height of humanity, everyone else is just my intellectual plaything. They might not even really exist, if I don't like them." - you
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@ultrafuturist
wasn't chicken tikka masala invented by a Bangladeshi, in Glasgow
so technically isn't it Scottish
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Are people leaving downtown because the rent is too high or because homeless people exist? We asked a landlord. (cc
@CBCPitchbot
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Crime and disorder:
#Vancouver
building manager says fed up tenants are leaving downtown
#vanpoli
#bcpoli
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Canada will reject disabled people even if they're married to a Canadian.
Many countries also will not take you if you’re disabled. Or fat. Like, if your BMI is over 35 you’re not likely to get into New Zealand. If you’re LGBTQ+ that takes a ton of options off the table. And if you’re poor? You’re not getting anywhere. Stop suggesting leaving.
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disabled people: "hey can y'all consider using some of this awesome 21st century technology to have funand order your comfort foods so we can all get to work and appointments without getting sick"
ableds: "YOU'RE SO HORRIBLE TERRIBLE YOU WANT US IN 24/7 SOLITARY CONFINEMENT"
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@TaylorLorenz
@KashPrime
The "lockdowns" they claim we're advocating for never even *happened* in Canada or the US, there was a significant chunk of the US that didn't do much of anything at all.
They act like being told to reconsider certain *luxuries* equals 24/7 solitary confinement in their home.
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I mean the answer to this one is literally B.F. Skinner
Even though his daughters sued him for child abuse his methods are literally all over white suburbanite pop-parenting books and shit.
The other thing they love to do is micromanage kids' exposure to tech/media.
who the hell told white cishets that child rearing is their chance to run a small scale fallout vault experiment
like what is going on with this shit, todd
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@timoey
@michael_w_busch
@Sablecrow
@SenJoshBecker
@BenAllenCA
@SFdirewolf
or we could just be honest and admit that this eco-consumer stuff is being pushed on us by industrial polluters who don't want the microscope turned on their harmful practices and how those disproportionately affect poor and racialized folks
we could just do that
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@AnaMardoll
@ami_angelwings
@jvdgoot
From what I can tell it's this weird fantasy where the problem is the fact that people still believe there's a pandemic and if we'd all just relax then all the associated problems would just...disappear.
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the Dems whining in the quote tweets about how everyone who disagrees with them is stupid are exactly why they're going to crash and burn in the midterms
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@JUNlPER
this is, to a T, how both Bernie and Corbyn were character assassinated and how it was made impossible to defend either without getting branded as misogynist/racist/antisemitic
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@AnaMardoll
@MercuryC0bra
Also the measures we took to mitigate COVID also massively reduced the amount of flu cases and may have caused one lineage to go extinct?
People bring up "well the 1918 flu" as if leaving THAT around wasn't a policy choice either.
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A lot of folks focus here on what parts of history school likes to focus on but that's not what I'm looking at here. What I'm looking at here can be boiled down to this:
School administrators explicitly punish victims for "fighting back".
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@AnaMardoll
@MercuryC0bra
Never mind that Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan was "A Return To Normalcy". And that the mass disability caused by "long 1918 flu" was met with a wave of eugenics policies in North America and worldwide.
No, it was just inevitable, declare people with NO CITATION WHATSOEVER
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@Nymphomachy
It gets worse when you parse their rhetoric around keeping schools open through this lens: they are convinced that it would be worse for their kids to develop any manner of neurodivergence by not being in school in person, than for them to get COVID.
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@seebeyond234
@annastxrk
the thing that makes me afraid of another lockdown is the likely fact that it won't come with aid this time bc the COVID aid we already got is now being blamed for "inflation", as if businesses raising prices in retaliation for not being able to overwork people is just 'natural'
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@Nymphomachy
They say "learning loss" but that just amounts to, essentially, supposedly lower performance on standardized tests.
But then they also say "social deficits", which, if that's not a dogwhistle for "autism or other neurodivergence"...you tell *me* what it means.
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@fakegothsarah
@autogynamelia
this health registry combined with a cop going into years-old files to deadname me rather than using my vehicle registration or allowing me to get my bag with my ID and phone in it led to my wife not knowing where i was until 3 AM after i was in an accident on the Alex Fraser
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jesus, this is just
they make up completely, blatantly ridiculous caricatures of us wanting things that are flat out impossible, just for wanting to participate in society at all
and then call *us* insane
@TaylorLorenz
@mindyisser
Also, Mindy is right - the fear mongering is fucking insane. Stop.
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"Land of the free", unless you don't support NATO.
By banning
@redfishstream
, YouTube and Facebook prohibit us from viewing documentaries filmed by Latin Americans in Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and around our region on important issues. It's censorship of one of the few platforms which shows these perspectives.
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@elorraine_
one person tries -- unsuccessfully -- to bring a bomb in his shoe -> everyone has to take their shoes off to get on a plane
a bunch of people decide they just hate masks and don't want to wear them -> apparently masks are just bad now
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@andreigoldfain
@MisterWillow_
@rex_woodbury
@jean_twenge
tried to have a fire on the beach in 2009, a mile away from anyone
it was barely getting dark and the cops marched about a mile down the beach just to bust us up, saying they used a damn thermal scanner to find us, FFS
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@TRyanGregory
I mean, the *real* first indicator should have been the whole "lockdowns are bad because our kids are experiencing Learning Loss in the Totally Not Social Darwinist Education Competition For High Test Scores", as if disabled kids should just die for the "strong" kids' benefit
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Literally a CBC Pitchbot headline. "Should we cut COVID isolation times? We asked CEOs."
“The more that we can safely limit the amount of time we have to take people out of the workforce, the better,” said one business group.
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disabled people: "what? seriously? we literally just need to get to the doctor too you know"
ableds: "NO. NEVER. ABSOLUTELY NOT. YOU ARE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD FOR DARING TO ASK AT ALL. SHUT THE FUCK UP."
every. single. time. for the past year and a half now.
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@AnaMardoll
@AlexandraErin
"Online School? *gasp* But then my precious Jimmy Ubermensch The Future Scientist Diplomat President And Multi Sport Athlete would fall a full four months behind the Chinese STEM Machines in reading and math and we'll all get taken over by CHINA!!!!!!!!"
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@elorraine_
or from the flight that you had to go through a body scanner and dump out all your liquids to get on in the first place
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@PrtlyEstrogn8td
@communoah
so, uh, funny thing, alcohol is the one that you can't actually really use as medicine, it is *actually* more harmful than most 'hard drugs' with little if any benefit.
but it's really helpful in terms of 'undesirables', ahem..."self-medicating" to death.
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"I can't believe that we see someone bragging about child abuse and all we can do is a Main Character Pile On!"
...yeah uh the "pile on" is supposed to send a message to all the people who agree, which is *a shitton* of parents to the point where child abuse is normalized?
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@andreigoldfain
@MisterWillow_
@rex_woodbury
@jean_twenge
and you know what makes teenagers look *not* suspicious in public places?
being on their phones. then it's just "kids and their phones". if they're doing ANYTHING else? call security they're up to something.
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@APunishedBill
We are also being told that the carton of eggs costs more than minimum wage because we dare to demand increases in said minimum wage or even to be paid enough to live while on disability.
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Yet that is also the solution that absolves the administrators of having to, say, possibly deal with privileged as hell suburban parents who are angry that their golden child actually got *punished* for something.
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IDK maybe if you understand that CPS protects rich white abusive parents and there's probably no way for randoms on the Internet to actually help the kid of a rich right-wing strategists then you understand why the "pile-on" is probably going to protect more kids in the long run.
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@coffeespoonie
-pushing to reopen schools despite the pandemic not being over
-age gap discourse, my gods, that was...something else
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@AnaMardoll
If you think that malicious compliance hasn't been saving the lives of whistleblowers for *decades*, you haven't been paying attention
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@naebumaye
extremely unsurprising considering they were defending "male socialization" what, a month ago
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@APunishedBill
ice cold take: for most "mental illness" has been cheapened to rather mild anxiety/depression (if that) and consuming something in order to assuage it, be it Buying A Thing or engaging in Self Help
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The victims who defended themselves in these cases only "had to live with the consequences" because those consequences were imposed by a system that seeks to punish oppressed people who do not accept their oppression.
This is an oblique reference to Marissa Alexander.
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@DFisman
I think it's now just literally "the virus knows if you're being good and productive and sitting quietly and won't get you as long as you're doing that"
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@della_morte_
And is only ever about *action*, not inaction. If they're passively violent by inaction, that's fine.
Call out their passive violence? Now you're *stigmatizing* them, which is "violent" because they've been caught out as a shitty person and are deserving of reprisal.
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Can we talk -- again, probably -- about the extremely ableist notion that kids are born in some sort of 'pure' initial state and that disabilities that show up later in life are necessarily the result of some 'contamination' by outside influences
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This Quora article is the most honest -- and awful -- summation but I just want to highlight the last paragraph which all of us victims know happens less than one percent of the time, if ever.
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@fitterhappierAJ
See I'd be more honest and call it a social-Darwinist term that implies that too many "weak" children are surviving and burdening society.
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@arthur_affect
Me in 2006: "Hey, these Republicans sound like creeping fascists"
Centrists in 2006: "OMG, DON'T BE ALARMIST"
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@AnaMardoll
@MercuryC0bra
These people just see "well we had that 1918 flu and it never went away", do zero historical research, and just act like they can declare WELL THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS PROVE ME WRONG.
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@della_morte_
Also the just...overwhelming backlash against any and all support for the poor, blaming the absolutely meager supports for "causing inflation" across the board and insinuating that we need almost *retaliatory* austerity to force people back to work
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@mssinenomine
"just go in looking like you're homeless, they totally won't just take one look at you and label you a drug seeker" - someone who has never, ever, ever had to fear being tagged as a drug seeker
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@lisa_iannattone
See I would have never thought we'd have said "fighting a pandemic is tiring, we need to go back out to concerts and crowded bars and stadiums, we're going so crazy without them it's worse than the disease going around" but...
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Marissa Alexander, if you recall, was a victim of domestic violence who was imprisoned for killing her abuser because...she killed her abuser, which apparently is just as bad if not worse, in order to escape.
That's the logic in play here.
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This was always the plan.
Ontario woman facing financial loss of long COVID begins process for medically assisted death
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@grossfemme
@socializm_
And I'm sure that by "weird, robotic, and creepy" you totally aren't trying to say "autistic" without sounding too obviously cringey.
In fact, you'll probably insist up and down that you aren't even though it's beyond fucking obvious that you are.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that "Elf on a Shelf" came out of nowhere in the mid-2000s and did not actually exist pre-9/11.
Reading the Wikipedia page makes it obvious that this was a post-9/11 invention meant to normalize constant surveillance at a young age.
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@lisa_iannattone
Especially when things outside of COVID are considered.
Like...we really need to just be flying less. As a whole.
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@andreigoldfain
@MisterWillow_
@rex_woodbury
@jean_twenge
they had to come a mile down the beach because where we were was at the bottom of cliffs, but, they literally wasted that time just to hassle some kids having a small fire on the beach
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@Madster722
@autist333
MOOD, especially since I can't drive and thus am trying to figure out when I should arrive there based on the bus schedule + rough walking distance from the nearest stop
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@vivafalastin
Omicron has been showing to spread *a lot* faster and also reduce vaccine effectiveness
and meanwhile so much messaging in so many places has been "it's safe to go back out, go! wasn't lockdown so sad, don't you want to Go Buy Things now?"
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@prisonculture
It's so weird. They position themselves as the "rational, intellectual" types even though they throw the absolute most ridiculous tantrums over...*other people* wearing masks or not going out.
And anyone who sees this behaviour as irrational is somehow the irrational one.
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@vertigo_san
@owillis
that is literally the opposite of what engages our ADHD brain. that sort of thing just makes us switch off and go back to something familiar, where FB and Twitter serving us things is like "hey, interesting thing"
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@BeingCharisBlog
Don't forget the part where ableds react to our public health plan as if we want to institute some dystopian hell where nobody is allowed outside ever and people's doors are welded shut or some damn thing to keep them inside.
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@RightsRobins
@angrybooklady
@piratefoxy
@PerthshireMags
@phyphor
@ArcaneHedge
@seventiessally
@arthur_affect
@jigglychaos
@SDernim
@ArttuY
@moxfyre
@Stormblessed545
@loudpenitent
@PnictogenAnnex
@backJramhall
@sfdcullen
...
We *HAVE* those. And the response from y'all is literally throwing tantrums about having to order delivery or put off your trip to Mexico as if that's anywhere near the level of stress we're facing.
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@JUNlPER
and the *valid* criticisms of them didn't matter, everything was about associating anyone defending either of them with some paper-thin accusations and some random white dudebros saying awful shit
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@m_s_ska_tov
@della_morte_
I mean that position was never based in anything other than social performance anyway. It's not something you come to logically, it's something you *yell* at the dinner table to shut down anything that might make you look bad.
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@arthur_affect
@Czhorat
@FieryDarkstar
@loudpenitent
@BootlegGirl
@KittenBalerion
@Stormblessed545
@mssilverstein
"China's vaccine doesn't even work" well MAYBE if instead of going Business As Usual and having a bunch of different places making different vaccines becasue Big Pharma wants to cash in on patents, we instead made THE BEST vaccine PUBLIC DOMAIN and MANUFACTURED IT EVERYWHERE...
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@Fenix_404
@LizRummy
@LightsCameraPod
No Scrappy is the shady lawyer who helps Scooby launder his money
Better Call Scrappy
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"Well none of MY friends are facing eviction or struggling to eat, in fact one just made a down payment on a new house!"
Here's the thing: if you bother to talk to people about the economy (and trust me, I've had this conversation with a lot of people at this point), you'll find that MANY, MANY people who believe the economy is dismal are not doing especially badly themselves, or even doing well.
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@ThirstsShe
the fact that it's spilled over into trying to nuke disabled people's support networks pretty much confirms this
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