The one big thing I've learned as a Black woman, is say the quiet part out loud. You may not be well liked but at least you won't be poisoning yourself from within.

Ownership of kids. Ownership of women.

A quote in a grad school professor's book about Native American identities and the issue of tradition always sticks with me. An activist says, "Not everything the ancestors did was traditional."

We need to adopt as a nation a politics of kindness and empathy and peace. And to do that we do as a nation unfortunately have to put a bunch of specific people in the ground

Every year now there’s at least one book about how no one is heterosexual anymore. It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of a ludicrously false premise. The issue is not that heterosexuality is uncool, the “issue” is that women finally have choices

This has zero to do with protecting kids and everything to do with the government tracking what you do online and getting your ID on file. Absolute bullshit and further adds to the police state we're living in, where you can freely do a Nazi salute but get arrested for holding a Palestine flag.

EVEN THE PACKAGING IS DESIGNED SO THAT IT'S EASY THEY PUT SO MUCH THOUGHT INTO THEIR USER EXPERIENCE I HAVE WATCHED IT GET BETTER OVER A PERIOD OF DECADES

They’re definitely two things I need access to when I’m in an airport

Cool- a new Mi’kmaw archive: Mi’kmaw-led digital archive launches for 300th Anniversary of 1726 Treaty

the future they imagine for you is one in which you have nothing, own nothing. you will rent your life, and live at their pleasure. this is the world they fantasize for us.

They're trying to reinvent chattel slavery as the new normal, and rebrand slave trade as "choice economics" where the disenfranchised people forced into their exploitation are given the thinnest excuse of manufactured consent to excuse it all away.

I think they prefer slave camps for the folks who are not gainfully employed.

These aren’t people who are raising children or caring for elders or building communities Just fungible labor units going wherever capital is concentrated

They want us to keep reproducing so that we can replenish the workforce but want us to do so while in a constant state of poverty and fight or flight.

This, but also, short term rentals don't have lease protections. It's not just being too poor to own a home. It's you having any rights whatsoever in your relationship with your land Lord. The consolidation of ownership by the new aristocracy is the dissolution of the rights of everyone else.

So landed gentry and migrant workers for every industry? Except those with real estate don't have an interest in attracting workers so they can charge the absolute max. Oh, even better, company towns 2.0 because those were so fun. We'll even tie scrip to a blockchain so a grey market can't occur.

Seems pretty shitty to suggest more people will be migratory when most of human history has been very aggressive to migratory cultures. Seems like you just want more easily-exploited underclass folk.

Man they really just can barely hide how all their "innovations" seem to be oddly focused on making us landless peasants with no power...

the people who like moving are called nomads and they at least take their house with them. people in general prefer stability, not even having a place to connect yourself to will atomize your social circle and isolate you.

As we all know, it's a good idea to keep uprooting your children every year or so and have them start at a new school over and over and try to make new friends again and for you to find a new job every year or so this is what a healthy economy looks like

This is called renting. They already tried to rebrand the bus like a million times, why not rebrand renting too. That's a whole lot of words to say "you'll be too poor to own a home"

womanhood is a promise & a prophecy. womanhood is a poem & a threat. we are forged in flames & shaped by a percussion of hammers. Patriarchy tries to extinguish women at every possible turn while it demands the impossible. bite the hands of every oligarch holding your leash.

Only two kinds of people in the world: People Who Make Their Money, and People Whose Money Makes Them

I just saw a post about this the other day. Screenshot of a post by Ernest Untermann in the "Railway Carmen's Journal" from January 1912:

i don't give a fuck anymore. it is not interesting to me that you don't find it attractive when women reject your right to subjugate them.

it is actually hugely popular to mock feminists & women complaining about misogynistic mistreatment and abuse this way. there are endless caricatures and parodies in our culture of this fanatical, joyless woman who commits the great sin of not wanting to be subjugated.

how ridiculous and pathetic we are, for wanting to be treated like full human adults. and how unsexy to complain about it.

they want to just be allowed to call us shrill bitches. guess the new euphemism is "hr lady." it all means the same thing: a woman who won't stay in her place. a woman who complains. a woman who doesn't take the abuse. we're meant to accept a certain level of humiliation & if we object we're mocked.

It's generally amazing how the two stereotypes now line up to "abusive stepdad who molests his children" and "mom who makes you eat your vegetables and share your toys," and the country collectively decided the abusive stepdad is preferable.

“Vote for the dirtbag [in the general], it’s important” = correct “Being a dirtbag is good and Authentic, actually” = you’re a huge asshole, and this is terrible politics too

A lotta folx are telling on themselves in how they're desperately ITCHING to admit that they fundamentally don't consider women/marginalized groups as *people*. Dehumanization to justify cruelty must NOT be normalized.

Dem HR lady politics, is such a pathetic way of saying women advocating to not be harassed is a *bad* thing.

A bunch of dem men saw republicans be outright hostile to me too and suffer very little political consequences for it and decided "I've wanted that for me, so I'm just going to stop pretending otherwise."

Gender is a prison and dudes out here just volunteering to be inmates.

"hr lady politics" is just another way of saying "woke" which is just another way of saying "issues that effect marginalized people"

"being nice is for WOMEN and BABIES and anybody who wants me not to be shitty to people wants to turn me into a WOMAN BABY and probably steal my penis, I'm not a misogynist btw i just think women should know their place"

actually wait i think this is gender again "as a Man, things i like must be Manly- including women isn't very Manly, so it must be unnecessary/wrong"

Like a lot of it makes sense when you realise that they're not using "working class" to mean a relationship to socioeconomic power but to mean a big, strong, white guy who'll put all us mouthy bitches in our place.

The way leaders of institutions and movements can’t take their own supposed fucking values seriously and have to be lobbied to act like the people they tell everyone they already are is one of the most disenchanting and dare I say radicalizing realities of adulthood.

It's a personality cult thing, definitely. The leader who is "good" is given limitless leeway by his followers to be unimaginably cruel/bigoted to anyone who is "bad". If you don't like that, congrats, you become part of the "bad" camp and thus an acceptable target.

In fact, I think they venerate the ability of "good" men to also be cruel. They see it as some sort of romantic heroism.

Domestic abuse — assault, threats, emotional abuse, coercive control, etc. — is about entitlement and power. Platner is poised under pressure when he defends himself, but his behavior with women is seemingly contradictory to that. An incredibly common dynamic with powerful, charismatic abusers.

I'm so sick of being told to use kid gloves with grown men who abuse women when a lot of us have learned how to confront our faults and worked toward change and repair. "He was having a hard time." As if being a person isn't inherently hard and we don't all have to learn how to handle ourselves?!

If a woman warns everyone about a predator and no man responds, did she say anything at all? 🙄

and yet, when we point this out, we’re accused of being mean to men 😂

When men do horrible things to me it's striking how few men I know simply do not care

i believe in all the same policies and values as platner and his defenders *and* i also believe it’s important to actually live those values and that somehow makes me an idiot? no. fuck that. i don’t accept those terms.