david rockefeller finally died this year i had no idea
Is this the same dude who had something like 10 heart transplants
6. but yeah.
you can’t hang up on the reaper forever.
THIS MOTHERFUCKER!
God my crippled ass never gets a chance to rant about how much I hate this asshole and his family because apparently it’s not common practice to sit in the line at Dunkin Donuts only to start ranting about him. So thank you for this opportunity.
It’s 9:00 AM, I’m half-asleep, but here we go.
This asshole’s entire family are almost single-handedly responsible for literally the entire modern eugenics movement! See back in the early 1900s, it was the Rockefellers who were so proud of their white able-bodied elitism that they got it into their heads that anyone who wasn’t white or able-bodied needed to die. They usually publicly focused more on the disabled Americans. Frankly, I think we were easier targets but I digress.
The Rockefellers, Carnegies, Davenports, and other super rich families chipped in to create the Eugenics Records Office on Long Island which began cataloging the genetic makeups of every single family in the nation. I’m dead serious. There was a building out there that housed all of your ancestors’ breeding information. Legally. Funded by millionaires. Only a century ago.
Now this asshole was only a kid at the time so he escapes most of the initial blame but here’s the thing. Like any good pioneering millionaires, these guys didn’t just talk about wanting to get rid of the disabled population. They actually started putting it in action. We’re talking doctors injecting milk with TB to give to disabled babies. Disabled women (and black women and Native women, it’s also important to remember that too, I’m just disabled so this is the demographic I’m focusing on more here) were forcibly sterilized against their will. Scientists began talking about gas chambers that could be used to kill disabled adults. Yep. That’s right. Gas chambers. And all of these projects were funded by families like the Rockefellers. That’s why I can say with a straight face that the Rockefellers were worse than Hitler. Why? Because Hitler saw them as his heroes! He sent these scientists/families fan letters gushing about how he wanted to be just like them. And guess what? A few years later, he happened to get some power (just a smidge) and started Aktion T4 – a Germanwide eugenics movement that killed half a million disabled individuals. Half a decade later, he would use the killing methods to start the Holocaust.
All because of this guy up here and his family.
Who continued to fund Nazi experiments.
And even up to his death, David Rockefeller talked publicly about eugenics and what a great idea it was. The same guy who had six heart transplants went up onto stages to talk about how we need to kill everyone else who he deemed unworthy to live.
Here’s a bunch of sources because you can’t make this shit up:
tl;dr: David Rockefeller and his family singlehandedly led to millions of people dying and if they had gotten their way, would have led to millions more. And as far as I’m concerned, he can rot in hell.
Does that answer your question?
ARR WE RANTING ABOUT ROCKERFELLERS??
Because if so olease let me share this quote about there thoughts on education:
“We shall not try to make these people [poor peoole getting free education] or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poetd, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, or statesmen” -Rockerfeller’s general education board.
Literally the funded and promoted public education to make sute the poor were smart enkugh to work for them, but not s.art enough to rise above them.
The Rockerfellers are part of why public education is as bad as it is.
i never thought i’d get the let me learn you a thing stuff on one of my posts but yeah i’m cool with it
I don’t believe in hell, but people like the Rockefellers make it seem like not such a bad concept
I sincerely fucking hope that he was in absolute agony and full of fear and misery when he died
And if I worked at the funeral home that got his body, I’d stuff the coffin full of rocks and then toss his actual corpse in the trash
Henry Kissinger called him his friend that should tell you everything right there.
And this doesn’t even touch on how their family knew about the coming collapse of the stock market in ‘29 and, along with their rich friends, removed their money and accelerated the oncoming crash. Then, in the absence of public funds since you know, the economy collapsed, they “donated” a bunch of money and put their names on everything, making themselves seem like heroes. It’s part of why I loathe the lauding of the 1% for their “charity” when they’re the ones crippling our public entities through tax evasion and oligarchical manipulation of our economy and government.
Oh! Or how the Rockefeller Laws in the 70s and 80s devistated people of color and hippies in New York and assisted in the mass incarceration boom of the drug wars.
People wouldn’t really fake needing mobility aid, when people who need it will literally often neglect using it or not have access to it..
Because disabled people feel shamed, feel worried they’re exaggerating, or people will always get really invasive or stare..
and you’re telling me when this is the case, people who need shit will neglect themselves.. that somehow a bunch of abled people would just somehow deal with that shit and feel like they should pretend to need mobility aid??
how about addressing ableism and people doubting disabled people and diagnoses/medication/aid/treatment being inaccessible.. than to go around accusing disabled people of being fakers…?
but seriously why do people feel the need to avoid the word ableism?
an abled person using disabled bathrooms/parking spaces/elevators isnt just a “shitty thing to do” my guy its ableist as fuck.
an abled person openly hating a disabled person simply because they are disabled, believing they shouldnt have certain rights or certain necessities because they are disabled, isnt just shitty IT IS ABLEISM.
someone believing a disabled person should have to go into debt to pay for medical bills and that they shouldnt be able to get accomodations or help to survive, it isnt just a shitty thing to think, its ABLEISM.
just say the fucking word people it isnt hard, dont talk about discrimination against disabled people as if its just annoying or shitty or mean, ITS DISCRIMINATION, ITS ABLEISM, SO CALL IT ABLEISM.
im so tired of people openly trying to avoid the word.
i’ve been reading about this sort of thing lately, especially wrt uspoli – where people condemning ableism refuse to acknowledge that that’s what it is, and just call it “mean” or “in poor taste” or whathaveyou –
and the best breakdown of it i’ve read/pieced together is that everyone tsking and shaking their heads at ableism, are in fact shaking their heads at crass behaviour and a lack of discretion when discriminating against disabled people.
calling ableism what it is – discrimination, marginalization, oppression – would mean that these people would have to examine their own behaviour and beliefs.
when 45 mocked serge kovaleski for example, he wasn’t mocking a disabled man with great skill and many achievements – he was mocking a person with a disability which is a no-no because that poor man can’t defend himself and why would you behave with such terrible manners and what do you mean, disabled people can advocate for themselves? surely their disability renders them entirely helpless and etc.
people across all political spectrums are guilty of neglecting to acknowledge the full humanity of disabled people, and i think that’s where the root of sidestepping the word ableism lies. if they were to acknowledge that disabled people are whole people, they’d have a much harder time ignoring all the ingrained beliefs that dispute that fact, and the abounding policies that seek to deny it.
Cards Against Humanity is a game whose own creators describe it as, “a party game for horrible people.” The game has been extremely popular, with several official and unofficial expansion packs available. Recently, a group of behavior analysts decided to get in on the fun by making their own expansion pack. Unfortunately, the result is anything but fun. In fact, it makes light of several abusive…
I know I’ve posted numerous times about how welfare fraud is in fact very, very rare and welfare programs have lower fraud loss rates than things like businesses. Which is true, but it’s also true that most actual technical welfare fraud doesn’t look much like the stereotype either. Pretty much the only people who “get rich” off fraud are service end things like stores, hospitals, etc. Nobody else really gets rich from lying on their food stamp paperwork.
Welfare fraud looks less like “cadillac and mansion” and more like:
a disabled person lies about their level of mobility because medicaid will often only cover wheelchairs if you need them in the house, not if you need them to go out or do anything outside of the house
a poor woman claims her boyfriend lives separately from her because the amount he contributes to her and their kids counts against her less if it’s listed as childsupport instead of part of the household income and that small difference can be enough to keep the children from going hungry
a poor person sells part of their food stamps and lives on things like instant ramen because almost nobody gets cash assistance anymore and they need things like toilet paper or tooth paste
a disabled person who could not hold down a regular job sells $100 a month in homemade crafts and doesn’t report it because they might have to spend months or even years re-fighting their social security case if they reported it
a homeless person makes more than $20 a month begging but lists their income as zero because that’s less confusing
other things like that
A lot of that is just survival. It’s not a system set up in a way that makes it easy to even live unless you “cheat”. People aren’t doing it to get rich, they do it to cling to the very basics and just manage to live. I don’t blame people who violate the laws to keep their heads above water, I blame the people who set up a horrific system like this and who benefit from harming and exploiting poor people.
hi guys so guess what when you frame food allergies/special diets as a Luxury For Rich People (and/or any food-sans-allergens as a gentrification-esque Assault By Rich People On Normal People Food) you’ve progressive’d so hard you’ve looped back around to “back in my day we just suffered and it built character.”
it’s true that a lot of annoying trends have co-opted “gluten-free” in particular and used it as a marketing buzzword aimed at people who actually have no fucking idea what gluten is and just see “______-free” and assume it’s better for you. (i’ve spoken to several people who just thought “gluten” was another word for “carbs” and insisted that potatoes weren’t gluten-free.)
but the problem with that is that it equates some people’s lives with luxuries. and it feels like the Popular Discourse is going more towards ceding the language of dietary needs to the people who’ve stolen and warped it to sell six-dollar hamburger buns rather than collectively saying “nope, this is too important to let you fuck it up, and there’s no actual reason this shit needs to cost this much.”
idk man.
Also it forces people to disclose medical information to not have you put their life at risk and even then people still do it
Someone shouldn’t have to disclose that they have diabetes when ordering a coffee or soda out so that you actually give them diet or sugar free. Someone shouldn’t have to say they have a gluten allergy or celiacs disease to get the gluten free option
The environment becomes “snobby/entitled until proved disabled”, and that just becomes further a situation where we have to choose between having our privacy respected or our needs accommodated
Most abled people would flip their shit if they had to make that gamble or choice themselves. (Not that they can’t have their privacy invaded, but it doesn’t become the price they pay for having the right accommodations)
Also it shows where people forget disabled people exist yet again or completely don’t care enough to include us. It’s the snuggie, fidget spinner infomercial issue all over again. People get a good laugh at “rich” or “lazy” people not considering that the products are even made to accommodate certain needs. How many abled people would know that the snuggie was designed for wheelchair users to make wearing a coat easier? Zero.
And do you think they would help with the price gouging of these products? No. Because it’s seen as “frivolous”
Fuck poor disabled people essentially. It’s the same “poor people can’t drink Starbucks/eat out/have nice wine they should only exist on rice and beans and maybe one vegetable a week” argument just directed specifically at disabled poor people.
It just all over shows how little disabled people matter in sj spaces imo
The environment becomes “snobby/entitled until proved disabled”
I’m exhausted after a long day, and about to try for some sleep. And I really can’t write more at the moment about the the bigger context this came up in connection to.
I’m sticking this behind a cut, because it might be disturbing for people who have had similarly bad experiences.
But, a few things occurred to me about the ‘80s-’90s repressed memory therapy fad specifically. Some of it might also be relevant to other psych things which can turn abusive. Especially involving kids and other people with very little power, credibility, or rights are involved. (My personal experience there, yeah.)
I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it in these terms before, but the big thing that occurred to me tonight? Too much of this looks like exorcism just barely disguised in secular progressive pseudoscientific clothing–but enough for insurance to pay for it.
Any resistance? It’s probably not even coming from the victim at all. Even if it were? Don’t listen to them. Their memories, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions can’t be trusted under the influence of demons. They can’t be trusted to know what their own best interest is, much less act toward that. Intervention is crucial, and ASAP, before their soul is further corrupted or even totally lost to Darkness. Even if they can’t see right now that it’s for their own good, you’re really doing them a favor.
Any signs of increasing distress from your chosen intervention? Likely a good sign that the demons are putting up a struggle. Better keep pressing harder, to weaken them. Again, any protests are not the victim talking, and are best ignored for their own good even if they were.
The situation will look worse before it gets better, but we must all have faith that these demons will be overcome by righteous power. If something happens to the afflicted person? Not enough faith, and/or they weren’t strong and dedicated enough to the fight. It probably would have happened sooner without your help.
I was going to say more, including about dire predictions and getting people who care afraid not to go along or even express many doubts, no matter what happens. But, I’ve pretty much run out of steam for now. Don’t know how good a job I even did of wrapping words around this comparison, but hopefully you get the drift.
Too many people are primed to think in these kinds of terms, without necessarily seeing the ideological connections there. (Very much like the whole Grand Battle Against $DISEASE narrative, yes.)
And it frequently takes disturbingly little to justify denying people’s agency if it can be cast as For Their Own Good, and/or that they’re being influenced by hostile forces.
Most of the ones perpetuating this stuff really do think they’re doing the Right Thing, out of the best motives to help. That doesn’t make it right. It does make it more disturbing and dangerous, in some ways. (And we’re right back around to the self-image of “goodness” malarkey, as it can relate to abuse on a more systemic level…)
I also keep coming back to the fact that if you promote just plain exorcism as a treatment for autism–as one too-relevant example–that (very rightly) will not go over so well outside of some fringes. Most people would likely agree that you should be held accountable for harming children with that wacky blatantly abusive bullshit. And that the parents subjecting their kids to this share some culpability there.
Slap a more socially acceptable (pseudo)scientific mask on the same basic ideas, though, and suddenly it looks less scary to pretty much everyone but the people subjected to that treatment. Very possibly covered by insurance, as I said before.
(Personally, my parents losing their jobs with “good” insurance was what got the worst of the psych abuse stopped. Sucked for dealing with actual medical problems, but I still have to think it was worth it. What prompted that approach? Mostly badly misinterpreted autistic stuff, plus some actual overlaid PTSD from causes that went totally unaddressed. They were essentially trying to fix autism through exorcising the Imaginary Abuse Demons, while directly layering on more trauma and encouraging more emotional abuse at home. As the short version.)
That particular therapeutic garbage may have thankfully gone mostly out of fashion. But, there is still some equally terrible stuff with wide social acceptance.
Over time, I internalized others’ beliefs about me – that “there was nothing wrong with me”, that I only needed to try harder, that if I really wanted to do things differently I could. In order to deal with each of these premises, I had to develop an interpretation of them, to translate them into something I could (at least partly) understand, and then turn into my beliefs about myself.
So “there is nothing wrong with me” became this: “Don’t ask for help, because I’m not supposed to need any. Besides, if anyone looked really closely and still didn’t find anything wrong, all of this really would be my fault. It’s better just to have a small hope than to risk actually finding out.”
And “all I need to do is to try harder” became “The other people around me are succeeding while I am not, and it must be as hard for them as it is for me. So I am never to complain about difficulty or physical discomfort. If anything is physically at all possible to bear, it should be borne in silence.”
Finally, “if I really wanted to change, I could” evolved into “I am deliberately resisting having my life, and the lives of those around me, be any better. I don’t know why this is. But everyone feels this way, and they can’t be wrong because look who they are and how many of them are saying it.” In other words, I was deliberately making the people around me upset and angry.
Trying to function under these self-imposed guidelines was difficult. It was like trying to build a house on swampy ground which could not support any weight despite looking all right at first glance, or like trying to ice skate on a pond which in many spots was barely frozen over. In each of these cases, the surface impression does not at all reflect what lies beneath, or the fragility of what is seen. And those around me built their houses, or skated on their ponds, and could not understand why I was having so much trouble. And neither could I. My self-esteem was very low, and more than anything else, I was ashamed of my self. Of my being. Of my entire life.
I was reminded of this one again, with the other piece I just reblogged a quote from.
And the other bit from the same piece I had to add on:
You are avoiding the subject, the therapists say, over and over, you only want to talk about dogs and not your real issues. Why do you have such a problem with authority? Why are you so rude on purpose? Why do you like making people mad? Your whole family is in a shambles and it is all your fault.
(Plus the “We were drugged. Oh, we were drugged to the heavens…” Ouch.)
“[L]ook who they are and how many of them are saying it”, indeed. 😐
Of course my thoughts went back around to some of the observations on misdiagnosis and self-diagnosis.
Whatever else may be happening in my life these days? At least I’m not regularly getting a bunch of harmful assumptions like that pushed at me anymore. And I am at least somewhat able to see that most of those assumptions were terrible, no matter how many people would rather believe what’s going on would be “fixable” if the person were only pushed to try harder. That is a definite good.
Even if, you know, too many other people wouldn’t see it that way. That’s an easier story for them. And they’re often the ones in positions to do real harm.
It just gets overwhelming sometimes. Especially with how many people do wind up on the sharp end of assumptions like that–and don’t always have the same chances to get enough distance to figure out that nobody deserves that. Much less that, no, the assumptions aren’t necessarily right, no matter who all they’re coming from.
the fact is that communism will mean less cars, less motorboats, etc. these things cannot exist for everybody, and the people they exist for now are destroying the planet with them. communism means a slower world -no planes, we’ll take slow trains instead – but that’s alright, because we’ll have more time, since there won’t be work.
I don’t like this. Space age communism is my speed. That said maglev trains can outpace a lot of modern airliners.
I’m talking electric, slow trains buddy. no maglev anything. also speed is fascist
this is a job I’d take – slow train driver, just making my lazy way across the country, talking to people, I’d love that
Speed literally is fascistic though. It’s not surprising that the futurist movement, which was full of people who went on to be loyal fascists, was centered on speed and violence. In particular they loved cars, trains, planes, and the fast-pace of modern industrial life.
The car is easily the number one killer of life either directly, accidents, or indirectly, air pollution, mining pollution, refining pollution, stress. Not to mention what it does to human geography and wildlife habitat. And if people love cities they should hate cars since cars are the number one reason why cities suck these days.
I think it would be cool if small electric cars for inner city were reserved for people with mobility issues. Or were communized and you took them out on the outskirts of a well-defined city when you needed to travel somewhere not easily reachable by train or ship. Or if you just wanted to slow-cruise the countryside.
My “ideal” would be to use limited technology to a bare minimum for utilitarian purposes. Primarily healthcare and for assistance to those with disabilities. And where absolutely only necessary to relieve labor. IE sanitation or heavy lifting of objects safely.
Luddites are a fucking trip dude
Holy shit what a bunch of losers
lol don’t drive cars guys they are fascist.
“Getting enough nutrients is so reactionary”
These are the exact type of people I would picture blaming capitalism for their laziness.
I saw someone say ‘Speed is fascist’ on another post before I saw this and I was like ‘yeah okay I guess the movie’s got that one part about how police should shoot hostages I suppose that could be taken that way’ but it was actually about just…going fast…
I have a disability. Fuck your abstract ideological framework THE MOMENT I need medical care and can’t get it because transportation is for fascists.
Why does every ideal utopia always sound so goddamn oppressive and boring?
Sorry, Nana, I’d spend a week on the ~slow train~ to visit you, but this here butter ain’t gonna churn itself! Hope this letter finds you well, since Skype is a frivolous indulgence.
and discord is for Problematics
I don’t understand why cars are seen as so evil. Like if you have a problem with emissions, that’s fine. We are working on it, eventually they will make a suitable fueling method for electric cars eventually, then the effect is based on our power grid so make sure you are worrying about how much coal we are using still.
Also like… “only the disabled can have cars” what is your form of measurement? at this point I might not qualify for a blue tag anymore, but I can’t play pokemon go too many days in a row because too much walking makes me bedridden. No one wants to spend money on provinding shit so you damn well better believe the way they measure need is ALWAYS far too strict to not badly screw people over.
So yes, you would be likely trapping people in their homes with this idea. Good job. You can pry my precious cars out of my cold dead fingers they are my larger wheelchair.
if you are able bodied and have a car, do you only use it for distances you couldn’t physically walk? what if you can walk 20 miles in a day? no car if it’s within 20 miles, you gotta walk cuz after all, you CAN, right?
i have literally been told i don’t need my wheelchair by an abled person who owns a car in the center of a highly walkable metropolis with ample, 24 hour public transportation. i can walk around the house. sometimes a few blocks. weirdly, i want the ability to go more than a few blocks past my house.
i have read that most wheelchair users can stand or walk at least a little. i don’t know if this is true but it tallies with my anecdotal experience. what i do know is that i am nervous to stand from my chair in public. i try to do it when i need to because i hope it will help some people learn, but i always know some will judge me. and i always feel compelled to ham it up by moving slowly and stiffly with a face like I’m in pain even if I’m not, so they’ll understand im still disabled even if i can stand up for a minute.
people have a false concept of disability as an obvious and binary condition. “disabled” means a wheelchair user who can’t stand or walk at all, ever (never mind all the other types of disabilities). and then people judge and abuse us for making our ways through the world as best we can.
this is bullshit. this is hypocrisy. you understand that some people can walk further than others. you know this. your athletic cousin who ran a marathon last year can probably walk farther than you. you can walk farther than someone less fit than you. it’s so obvious and simple, but what is a gray scale for everyone else is suddenly cartoonishly black and white once a wheelchair is involved.
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