Kinda wild how all the bacteria in your gut have their own DNA, like they are not related to you, they don't have your DNA in them, they are just separate lil beings that just live in your gut. They don't even know they live inside a human, but you are their whole universe
fucking bullshit how when a member of the working class isn't thriving in a system meant to exploit them it's somehow their fucking fault because one way or another they've somehow Done Something Wrong.
"you should have asked for more hours" what if you're working all you fucking can while still being able to stay awake on the job. which we shouldn't have to fucking do.
"you shouldn't have spent too much on things you don't need" you should be able to spend on one or two nice fucking things without being broke
"you should get store brand instead of name brand" getting the store brand of everything still amounts to hundreds of fucking dollars for a week's worth of groceries
"you should have listened to the financial advice you got as a teenager" we did. we fucking did.
"you shouldn't have spent so much in loans" we did so we could get those Good Jobs You Need Degrees For like you fucking told us to
"you should have gotten a better degree" I shouldn't fucking need one to have a job that I can live off of
"you should have started working sooner so you could have saved up" not every teenager has parents that will fucking let them work and even then you should not have to work on top of school as a fucking child
"you should have listened to this financial coach" I am not fucking poor because I didn't listen to some grifter trying to sell me a fucking "course" that I can't afford. I fucking promise you that.
"you should have" "you should" "you shouldn't have" "you shouldn't" you should maybe fucking consider that this is bullshit. jumping through these hoops is bullshit. trying to do everything you were advised to just to still end up in shitty circumstances is bullshit. trying to prove you've made all the choices you were told were the right ones just to try to get people to believe your struggling isn't your fault is bullshit. still being told it's your fault because you didn't do this Secret Financial Life Hack or whatever is bullshit. it's all bullshit.
I love you smile lines and worry lines and grey and white hair and wrinkles and purple spiderweb veins and the process of aging and living in a body that is standing the test of times. I love you experiences that make you wiser and stories that make you laugh, and every little process that happens to get to the point where you have so many memories because you have the fortune to be here and be so radiant
i actually hate the whole "buying books and reading books are two different hobbies XD" thing. like you guys booktube / booktok already has a huge consumerism issue, we shouldn't make "i have a spending problem" into a funny little quirky trait.
"Ahhh, Perry the Platypus! Behold, my Anti-Amatonormativity!... Inator.
With this, I shall turn every human being in the Tri-state Area into aromantic!
...Or polyamorous. Or both. I couldn't reaaally decide which one I liked better so I just let the machine randomize it.
The point is! Capitalism here will eventually cease to function since it can no longer exploit the overrated nuclear family dynamics as the aros and polyamorous are known to thrive best in the mutual aid co-op environment.
With their control over the means of production, the state power will be rightfully returned to the people, and I, the hero who makes that happen, shall be hailed by them as the dictator of the proletariat of Tri-state Area!"
We need to abolish POVERTY, not prostitution. When you try to stop people from selling sex because you're concerned for poor people who are coerced into it, all you do is condemn those poor people to starvation and homelessness and poverty instead, limiting their options further.
since my post talking about attention on the oceangate situation vs greece's coast guard killing hundreds of migrants broke containment and now people are pissing on the poor, i want to make something clear:
you personally are not responsible for this wide-scale disparity in attention. this situation has become a very vivid illustration of hegemonic media outlets not valuing events that don't happen in the us, canada, great britain, etc; global devaluation of black and brown migrants and refugees; the idea that anything an arm of The State™️ does must be moral and just (as long as it's a Good State™️); etc
unless you, person reading this, are like. ceo of cnn or whoever had the power in the eu to decide not to investigate this whole situation, you are not responsible for this. this is a horrible, horrible situation, and part of what makes the system we are currently under so unjust is that it forces us to be bystanders in inhumane tragedies such as this. don't let anyone make you feel guilty for something you have no control over, it helps no one
You know how Midsommar is a litmus test for whether or not you'd get inducted into a cult? Bioshock is that for capitalism. If you come out thinking that Andrew Ryan had a point, you're the same as the people who think Midsommar is about female empowerment.
bro despite understanding the inherently classist nature of my request and fully realizing that the push for our current de-odorized society was the direct result of a transformation in the cultural concepts of privacy within a newly-dominant bourgeoisie exercising its own power in order to differentiate itself from both the farmer and proletarian class, guided in its ascendance by a childish, blind and ultimately naive faith in the soul - and child - crushing machine of XIX century industrial capitalism, you should really take a shower before we play D&D next time
good news for fans of zines and haters of wage labour, i have finally turned my 50 page dissertation into this much more digestable zine that also contains the zines my research participants made in a workshop i ran!! this was super fun to put together, it's pretty text heavy but hopefully the zines make it a bit more fun.
Guy: What about that girl who opened up a lemonade stand to help pay for her father’s cancer treatment?
Diane: How is that a feel-good story? “Hey, America! We’re the only developed nation without subsidized healthcare, so this child joined the workforce in a desperate bid to keep her father alive!”
[later]
Guy: Whitewhale’s not evil. They’re just capitalists.
Diane: What’s the difference?!
The US is like hey if you wanna drive somewhere it's 15 min but you'll spend 40 min and $20 parking. Oh you take the bus? You'll be there in 3 hours. 1.5 hrs of that is walking lol. lmfao even. Oh youre walking? Just walking there?? Asphalt is a pvp enabled zone and the sidewalk is width of a single grape. We have removed all of the benches for your convenience. See you there in 28 hours