No, stop, I can’t fucking breath… 🤣🤣🤣

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I find it a little frustrating that you think any of this started with, because of, or will end with cheeto.

This:

a fractured nation, a failing education system, crumbling infrastructure, and a healthcare system that leaves millions behind

has always been the case, and it is a feature, not a bug. Always has been.

And it will never change as long as you continue to focus on the things the system tells you to focus on (like team red vs team blue, or the clown at the front of the stage) rather than on the system itself (a state mechanism built on slavery and genocide from day dot, and designed and enforced by and for the rich and powerful, who are the ones actually pulling the strings) and abolishing that.

And before OP gets their underwear in a twist - all states are oppressive and should be abolished, but a country founded on and with the biggest hard on for capitalism on the planet, and who has the power to, and has been since its founding, loudly and aggressively dragging the rest of the world on a race to the bottom (if not directly with war mongering and political interfering, then with profiteering off of their enemies war mongering and politically interfering), deserves all the criticism it gets, and the fact that it’s easier for you to create a straw person to dismiss the perfectly valid and long overdue criticism, than it is to hear them and sit with the mild discomfort it causes you to hear the truth and confront reality, is a you problem, not a lemmy problem.

I was about to say…

This may be a good awareness spreading tool, but actually being chronically ill, this game gets a big fat “no thanks” from me lol

I have to tell you, that Action Park shit is still sitting with me… 😂

Seriously though, thanks for managing that community, it’s a good 'un. I’ve woken up many a morning to a wiki page you led me to lol

E: also, it’s 3:45am now, am feeling a little called out by op (though I had actually gone to sleep at 10pm too, it’s just that I’ve woken up since 😭)

Your brother is on a (specifically designed and heavily funded) pipeline to being a total piece of shit (not just with misogyny, but racism, and probably queerphobia and ableism too), do what you can to get him off it. A quick search brings up what looks to be some good info to start you off:

Manosphere

Misogynistic influencers are trending right now. Defusing their message is a complex task

De-radicalising incels out of the ‘manosphere’ through Reddit

Making a Radical Misogynist: How Online Social Engagement with the Manosphere Influences Traits of Radicalization

Swallowing and spitting out the red pill: young men, vulnerability, and radicalization pathways in the manosphere

Exiting the Manosphere

There are also many youtube videos on the subject, though I haven’t watched any recently, so I won’t link, but look up something along the lines of “manosphere right wing pipeline” and you should see some results.

If you’re really asking what it means, an Alpha is a

pseudo scientific myth that has been twisted and then adopted almost exclusively by toxic men to try and boost their own ego and justify their shit behaviour

FTFY

And you’re telling everyone here that you are an ableist… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It obviously hit home with the bored loser, since they picked it for one of their latest account names lmmfao

(seriously though, the mods of this community need to get a grip on this spam)

So the queerphobia is gross in its own right, but the more quiet part is that ableism and abusing and discriminating against mentally ill people is a-ok too (and while sexual orientation and gender identity clearly aren’t mental illnesses, there is also nothing wrong with being mentally ill, but unfortunately the readiness of some to distance themselves from and throw mentally ill people under the bus to save themselves will very quickly become apparent, and everyone needs to consciously be avoiding that trap).

Yes, but also “laziness” isn’t actually a thing that exists:

https://medium.com/@beardedbestie/the-ableist-roots-of-laziness-9eaaf3026d6c

https://web.archive.org/web/20250106011554/https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1039676445/laziness-does-not-exist-devon-price

https://fortitudeandflow.com/you-cant-be-lazy-laziness-does-not-exist/

He let’s me freely hang out at his nice place full of amenities so I can’t badmouth him

Lmfao, no, you can, you just like the taste of boot, and the benefits he gives you (that he only has because he exploits people like you) too much to.

Also, those last two points in the meme, as well as this being your only post on a new account strongly suggest that this is a troll, or at the very least, a really sad LARP, rather than observations made by someone who has ever spent any time at all with any actual rich people.

There seems to be this new trend of accounts being created to post this low quality rage bate and other boomer humour at best in this community. This is either a bot, or a really bored loser, either way, the pattern is very obvious (new account that posts 3 comics in a row here and nothing else), and easy to spot and block.

I know this will have little impact, but do yourselves a favour - don’t feed the troll.

The fact that the link to the source essay takes me the the anarchist library makes me happy. I’ll try and give it a proper look later/tomorrow, but bookmarking it for sure!

E: I’ve just skimmed the post you linked, and yeah, that’s a really healthy and important distinction to make!

It isn’t just disable people who are fed this narrative, it’s everyone, it’s all a part of ableism, and this is one way it manifests when we internalise it.

As well as how it impacts us personally, it’s also important to recognise that it is a systemic, but also artificial construct that is enforced on society, not something that naturally exists (I don’t have the spoons at the minute to source this, but there is a lot of evidence starting from early in pre history of humans taking care of their old, hurt, and or disabled). Not only because it’s important to understand the big picture, but because doing that helps alleviate some of the guilt it burdens us with when we don’t fit the narrative of “beating it”. It isn’t our failure, it isn’t our responsability to “inspire” others, or provide them with a feel good story they can cling on to to stave off their fear and disgust of disability.

(E: I feel like I could have made my point much better, but my brain is too tired to figure out how so I’m leaving it)

I love how the men who can’t help but pipe up about how “ackchyually” this isn’t the case because reasons all magically happen to anecdotally be the statistical anomalies of what decades of research (not to mention their reflexive reaction) has repeatedly proven is a real problem that exists across all walks of life.

Like pretty much all posts about anything even remotely feminism related, it is a self selection mechanism that they just can’t help but react to.

being patient like that definitely a skill that is not always easy to get right, and certainly takes practice.

What it mostly takes is mountains of privilege.

Not to mention that tone policing and demanding faux civility (but only from one side, the other gets to openly support oppressive constructs and still be seen as “well meaning” while those defending their humanity and fighting for survival get framed as the problem) are tools that serve to further oppress already marginalise voices, not uplift them.

Do better.

Wow, I feel both seen and very attacked 😂

I do all of this and more. It’s constant, and it’s exhausting.

Ah, yes, women as possessions owned by their husbands and fathers, and used as objects to inflict revenge on other men with, how enlightened and progressive, and not just as shitty and harmful as when they do it. 🙄(heavy /s)

(and because defensive people like to make up straw people to protect their ego and cognitive dissonance - fuck the entire trump family, this isn’t a defence of any of them, it’s an indictment of how deeply misogyny is rooted in the entirety of society, including leftist circles that consider themselves “progressive” yet are happy to resort to this kind of counterproductive and harmful bullshit)

He wants to be king of the world, it’s as simple as that. He already has the most money (not that that’ll stop him from wanting more), now he just needs to have the most power, and actively supporting the rise of fascism around the world (which he has been doing for long before he let his mask start to slip and now completely come off) is his way of getting it.

The fact that you think he bought twitter, or is running it the way he is as some sort of troll, rather than a very real, and very effective, way of manipulating the public as well as politics as a whole, shows how well it works.