The amount of time I wasted trying to make myself palatable to men I didn’t even like is appaling. Girls, it’s not worth it. Go read about political revolution and learn how to knit. 100% better use of your waking hours.
As a 39 year old woman, if there is anything I wish someone had explained to me when I was in my 20s it’s the fact that the sooner you decenter men from your life, the faster you will find peace.
Gee I wonder if decades of having teenagers played by 20something actors in films and television had anything to do with people now seeing teenagers as “not children”.
Propaganda permeates all.
This picture encompasses everything wrong with western culture and capitalism.
A message meant to convey hope but completely empty of substance, stance or call to action, flanked by brands and sponsors, topped with shiny fireworks.
It’s like dangling keys in a baby’s face to distract them.
Turns out Heated Rivalry is not a tv series, it’s a 5ish hours long movie.
You press play then let it gently lead you to the cottage.
Hey folks do you know what’s even better than one day of general strike?
Striking until your demands are met.
Stay strong, Minnesota. ✨
If you currently are employed, fed, and have a roof above your head, your job is to help out people who don’t.
Community is how we fight this.
Dick Cheney kicked the bucket and I’ve had “Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!” stuck in my head all morning. Probably unrelated.
Strikes are supposed to be disruptive. Support your fellow working class folks as they stand up for themselves and their quality of life. Their fight is your fight.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but having Air Canada flight attendants, doctors, postal workers, and STM staff all strike within a few months of each other is not really the sign of a healthy society and economy.
COMPENSATE PEOPLE FAIRLY AND STOP OVERWORKING THEM.
If your feminist icon unironically writes a whole song about her boyfriend’s fat dong I’m sorry to say that you need to find yourself better icons.
Honestly if the last couple of days have shown me something it’s that a LOT of folks see being a politician or a political commentator as just a job like any other and not a position of power often leading to the very real oppression and abuse of marginalized communities.
If you find the death of Charlie Kirk “appalling” after two years of ongoing, livestreamed genocide, you are not “against senseless violence”, you’re a fucking racist.
If they no longer do, your duty as a citizen and worker is to rise up and remind them that if they fuck around with the social contract, they will find out in a drastically unpleasant way. 2/2🧵
What Nepal and Indonesia are doing is the correct response to the social contract being broken consistently and systematically.
The proletariat will abide by law and order as long as the government provides a decent quality of life. 1/2🧵
I desperately need folks to understand that the proletariat to oligarchy ratio is WILDLY on our side; if we all decide we’ve had it with billionaires, it can be over reeeal fast.
Hey guys here’s a WILD life hack: see what the Air Canada flight attendants are doing, striking and refusing to go back to work even after the government ordered them to, until their demands are met?
You can do that too. ✨
ORGANIZE.
So much of the right wing identity politics rest on being anti- another movement; anti-LGBTQ+, anti-feminism, anti-veganism, anti-woke… and literally none of it is pro- something.
These people are not fighting with conviction, they are bullies in the school yard.
Borders and frontiers seems to make sense until the sky in Michigan fills up with smoke from the Canadian prairies’ wildfires that have gone unchecked for months now.
The climate crisis doesn’t give a shit about your postal code.
The ones who aren’t are unfortunately too busy surviving to organize efficiently.
Paired with legacy media exclusively owned by the ruling class and the manufactured entropy of our education system, it was a sure shot. 2/2🧵
I think that cognitively we like to imagine that fascism happened because of a very complicated succession of geopolitical events over decades, but the truth is simply that an overwhelming number of people are extremely dumb and dangerously malleable. 1/2🧵
“I hate the person I was 5 years ago”
Skill issue. I hate the person I was 2 months ago. And two months from now I’ll hate current me. Repeat until death.
(This is a motivational post about never giving up on improving yourself ✨)
And you know what? Even so, some people will still want to cook for other people once their basic needs are met. Some will want to make clothes. Others will want to build furniture, and houses.
It doesn’t deincentivize work. It just gives you your labor power back. 2/2🧵
“If we roll out universal basic income a bunch of people will just stop working altogether” Ok well good? We already produce way too much stuff. We don’t need everyone to be working all the time. 1/3🧵
Capitalism keeps homelessness around as a threat to the working class so they’ll agree to remain exploited by their employers indefinitely.
Minimum wage is the ruling class trying to test the limits of our loyalty to the system that exploit us systematically.
“Oh so you think we should provide food and housing to addicts who have no intention of going to rehab and immigrants who don’t want to learn the language?”
YES YOU FUCKING FASCIST.
People putting terms and conditions on basic human needs are a cancer.
May all independant, socially conscious and activism-driven journalists rise through the ashes of the broken fucking legacy medias and bring back integrity to reporting. 🖤
“Your entire personality is political now” well your entire personality is hating minority demographics that have zero incidence on your daily life so maybe ask yourself why that is instead of pointing fingers at people fighting back.
You don’t want to be an activist? Cool. Go help out soup kitchens. Go to a protest in your community. Read about fascism. Do something. Anything. 3/3🧵
“But you need to find a way to live for yourself through all this” NO. This fucking individualism is what got us here. Get your head out of the fucking sand you moron and DO SOMETHING.
2/3🧵
