Having a disability or a chronic illness, whether it’s physical or mental, sucks rocks sometimes. And that’s okay.
It’s okay to say “this fucking sucks”
It’s okay to say “I hate this”
It’s okay to think negatively, to have a bad day. Nobody can be positive 24/7
You have the right to be angry, or frustrated, or sad. That doesn’t mean you are dealing with things badly, that doesn’t mean you have been set back, that doesn’t make you a bad person.
You are allowed to complain about things that make your life difficult.
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Dead Kennedys – Riot (lyrics there)
Another thing I picked up to try recently:
It’s GF and billed as pho-like, which sounded promising. Glad to spot some type of safe cup noodles, so I figured how bad could it be.
A little while ago I was freezing and very low on spoons, and I needed some hot food ASAP. So it seemed like a decent time to try those cup noodles.
That was the most disappointing soup experience since the last British-made cup noodles I tried. (Even after adding some salt, because if they’re pushing it as “Healthy” here I am going to want more salt.)
I probably should have looked at the ingredients more closely before buying them:
Yeah, no wonder that tasted weirdly candied, with freaking lactose and sugar as the next ingredients after the noodles. 😦 Even though I didn’t want to finish the broth, now I’m hoping it wasn’t enough lactose to send my digestive system into meltdown.
No wonder it didn’t taste like straight sucrose sweetness, though. The effect was very odd, which was what made me look at the ingredients more closely.
The flavor blend was very strange and not at all pho-like besides the sickly sweet factor. Not sure what I would even compare it to. It seemed like maybe they were confused and going for a pseudo-Thai theme, but didn’t quite get there either.
This also had an excessive amount of not the same kind of weird dried sweet red pepper in it as that other brand, but some unpleasant candied-tasting type I hadn’t encountered before. And I usually like sweet pepper flavor in moderation.
The noodles themselves were not bad, and I ate most of them in spite of the broth. (Which mostly went down the sink.) Because I really did need food, and paid like £1.50 for that cup o’ sadness 😵
Feeling pretty queasy now, and I’m just hoping it’s not from lactose overdose. At least that wouldn’t shoot my blood sugar up more, what with not being able to digest it. I really was not looking for a hefty dose of sugar on top of the rice noodles, though.
Not planning to buy anything else from that brand. This flavor put me off that much.
Though, as a bonus, their marketing would maybe be enough on its own. Maybe that’s just what happens when Brits playing samurai try to make instant pho.
(No, I don’t think they would appreciate any “noodle wisdom” I would share about now.)
shit working class leftists and ppl in general don’t need to hear:
– you making fun of our schooling
– you belittling us for working actual jobs instead of going into higher education
– you complaining that we don’t “do enough about our situation”
– you looking down on us because we might not have the time or the patience to read heaps of irrelevant political theory
– again, these fucking jokes about us having no idea about politics when we’re the ones living them
– you patronizing us about health, parenting, and literally anything else
– you asking why our families didn’t just buy a house (that happened more often than you’d think)
– you making fun of our dialects and mannerisms
– you using a lack of education as an argument against your political opponents
– you pitying us like we can’t be proud of our roots
– you ignoring our self-organization and community work because it doesn’t live up to your ideological standards
– the fucking LEFT in general being classist as fuck which should be a paradox but isn’t
for real I’m just really fed up with the academic left sometimes and y’all should really look at yourselves first when you ask why the new left is so out of touch with working people.
We don’t have to read Marx to know that capitalism sucks. Believe us, we know.This has been a PSA.
“everyone’s been through trauma!” no, no they haven’t. hardship ≠ trauma.
trauma is described by the dsm as “outside the normal range of human experiences”
OUTSIDE. THE NORMAL RANGE. OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES
that’s… an unusual definition, because trauma to many people includes family dying for example and most people… probably have experienced something like that?
and i mean even if it’s not most people there are millions of people who have trauma so to say that’s “out of the range of normal human experience” is weird, and i also don’t understand the purpose of saying that
OP… your post legit only applies to like financially stable people in positions of power socially…
Sexual abuse, domestic violence, parental neglect, psychological abuse, sexual assault, etc. are traumatic no matter how you spin it, but for disabled people, people of color, lgbt people, poor people, etc. Those are completely normal experiences. They are average. A large amount of people who fit those categories go through them or witness them happening to someone close to them.
For whole groups of people, trauma is entirely normal.
Abuse and assault are normal. Being poor is normal. Bigotry and Discrimination are normal.
Maybe if you come from a middle class family in the suburbs trauma isn’t normal but otherwise: it’s normal.
The kids on tumblr you’re convinced don’t know what real trauma is have probably actually gone through some real violence and terror in their lives.
Look, I appreciate that progressives are compassionate and empathetic people, who aren’t content to cheer on “winning,” but want to make sure they’re acting ethically and towards worthwhile goals. If we didn’t have these qualities, maybe we really wouldn’t be much better than the opposition.
But for God’s sake don’t let people hijack your empathy entirely towards a Nazi or a Klansman going “oh no you’re making me feel intimidated,” and away from the people he’d murder if he got half a chance.
This isn’t theoretical. The far right murdered most of my family in the 1930s and 40s. And now they’re trying to stage a comeback, with the approval of the fucking President. In the face of that, I think it’s justifiable to be a wee bit impolite.
The already worrying “is it okay to punch a Nazi” discourse is sliding into “is it okay to make a Nazi feel bad?” discourse, and FUCK YES IT IS. IT IS ENTIRELY OKAY TO DO THAT.
So many nerdy Internet people are psychologically stuck in how all their classmates thought they were weird and it made them feel bad and nobody respected their ~original unpopular thinking~, and project that in a silly and self-centered way all over serious political issues. When your Geek Social Fallacies lead you all the way to sticking up for crying Nazis, it’s time to address your own issues and seek help, not project your fear of social exclusion all over people’s opposition to violent far-right movements.
@katisconfused – Unfortunately good way of putting it. That is definitely a thing I have noticed too.
Still, I feel like I at least have a better chance of starting off at less of a disadvantage dealing with people who are not in such a position to view me as some kind of weird substandard human being who has a lot of nerve taking up their precious time and resources at all. Which is a different set of dynamics from any I ran into before, on top of some of those existing problems 
(Tbqh, if I weren’t concerned about both physical accessibility now and real possible language barriers, I might be more tempted to try one of the Polish clinics that AFAICT mostly got going thanks to similar concerns. I’m not Polish, but they’d have no obvious reason to treat me like that beyond the whole autistic weirdo factor. Nobody should have to go private and pay out of pocket to get competent non-begrudging treatment, of course.)
The history of British slavery has been buried. The thousands of British families who grew rich on the slave trade, or from the sale of slave-produced sugar, in the 17th and 18th centuries, brushed those uncomfortable chapters of their dynastic stories under the carpet. Today, across the country, heritage plaques on Georgian townhouses describe former slave traders as “West India merchants”, while slave owners are hidden behind the equally euphemistic term “West India planter”. Thousands of biographies written in celebration of notable 17th and 18th-century Britons have reduced their ownership of human beings to the footnotes, or else expunged such unpleasant details altogether. The Dictionary of National Biography has been especially culpable in this respect. Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from the Britain’s “island story”.
The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed
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an interesting article. this tidbit though: “About 40% of the slave owners living in the colonies were women” – this is why I don’t trust white feminist analyses. Even in a time considered to be highly oppressive to “women” (note how that term is never racially designated), white women could and did hold the power of owning Black human lives, at a rate almost equal to white men.
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Whereas the cotton plantations of the American south were established on the soil of the continental United States, British slavery took place 3,000 miles away in the Caribbean.
That is also very disingenuous. British slavery started in the 17th century in North American colonies, over 150 years before there was a “continental United States”. Virginia was the first permanent English colony in the “New World”, as they kept bragging about when I was in school there. Though, there they initially concentrated on tobacco and some other cash crops which were in high demand back home, rather than on cotton.
Unsurprisingly, there was tons of trade and movement back and forth between the Caribbean, the Chesapeake, and other convenient colonial ports like Charleston and Savannah. Including trade in slaves.
A settler revolt just created a new government entity, and changed who was in control on paper. (I.e., disgruntled wealthy British people starting out, who already had some political power–many of whom ran plantations.) They took over the systems set up under British colonial governance, and just went from there.
The same goes for genocidal policies toward indigenous peoples, after the attempts at “just” using them for slave labor didn’t work out so well. The new US government just took over existing inhumane systems, and ran with them.
The distinction is not that useful. There is no distinction to be made until about 1780. But, this is a popular separation in the UK. And it’s part of a larger pattern of denial.
As Robin Bunce and Paul Field point out:
They add that Britain is consistently portrayed by politicians as being “on the side of the angels” in race relations, and point to the 2007 celebrations of the abolition of the slave trade as an example of how Britain prefers to propagate a myth of itself as “the utopia of civilized fair play”.
I’m glad that the number of (often still-existing) British fortunes made through colonial exploitation and slavery is getting a little more attention recently. But, that didn’t just happen in the Caribbean colonies, and it’s very intellectually dishonest to act like that was the case. It’s frustrating when someone writing more honestly about some of this ugly history prefers to keep up the largely false distinction there.
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Reminded of this again, partly because there was indeed no honest distinction until about 1780. The abusive colonial systems that Jefferson and the others used to their benefit–and then took over to run for themselves–were already up and running for over 150 years at that point.
Chattel slavery in British North America went on for more years before the settler revolt than afterwards. That doesn’t get mentioned much anywhere.
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Reminder
if you post someone’s address, job, full name, personal details, anything that’s doxing, there are only two things that you want people to do to them:
1) really mess with them to an insane extent, like ordering gay porn, perfume samples, religious books and hundreds of pizzas sent to their house and try to ruin their personal lives/get them fire
2) kill them
so don’t fucking do it
don’t dox people
i want Nazi’s to get fired or worse
i get this but there has already been one instances from last week were people got the wrong person and it could fuck up his whole life for something they didn’t do
two instances, actually.
they got one of the wrong guys twice.
do you get that?
two people that are categorically NOT nazis got accused of being nazis by some half cocked dipshit on social media.
also fucking with nazis or trying to get them fired is categorically A Bad Idea.
I keep seeing this sentiment in the notes but don’t fucking do it
don’t feed into their victim narrative.
that’ll just push them further into extremism.
like, do you really think someone racist is gonna change their fuckin mind if they get fired because 5000 “undesirables” according to nazi doctrine get them fired?
do you think they’re suddenly magically gonna get a good attitude towards minorities that nazis have historically persecuted?
getting someone fired from a fucking hotdog job where they’re clearly miserable, probably not making much money in the first place ain’t gonna help.
not bein able to pay their bills will not teach them some sort of lesson, or the kind of lesson that would lead to them not being a fuckhead.
it’ll teach them
“these subhumans want you starving, want you to be unable to feed your families and want you dead”
WELL DONE
YOU JUST RADICALIZED A DUMBFUCK EVEN FURTHER
HE’S GOING TO GO DEEPER INTO EXTREMISM THANKS TO YOU, IDIOT
DON’T DOX PEOPLE
This is a major problem we as a society have with deradicalization. Like, you can’t exile someone from society and expect them to reform, it just further radicalizes them. People are social animals and need a network of healthy relationships so as to deradicalize. If you cut people off from the opportunity to build those relationships, you’re ensuring that the problem will never ever get fixed
This is a major problem we as a society have with deradicalization. Like, you can’t exile someone from society and expect them to reform, it just further radicalizes them. People are social animals and need a network of healthy relationships so as to deradicalize.
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