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  • “Vote for the lesser of two evils? Bah! I won’t vote at all!*”

    *and help the fascist who is super pro-genocide get into office. This will definitely help the Palestinians and as a Trump presidency helps the Israelis rain firey death upon them, they will die proud that I stood resolute in my convictions. Their deaths will be worth it!








  • I agree with your point, but want to highlight that at no point did I suggest people can’t be upset about multiple things. No offense intended toward you personally (or anyone really), but your response now seems to be the standard reaction to shut down anyone pointing out the disparity in media/public reaction between things like people dying or being repressed and material goods being vandalized or destroyed. It’s getting better, but the theme of reporting tended to be that property damage is a tragic loss of irreplaceable treasure, while genocide was more akin to “some people went to sleep and didn’t wake up again, maybe they should have complied”.

    Of course people can be upset by multiple things. When the magnitude of upset over precious but ultimately replaceable things being destroyed is greater than that for irreplaceable people being destroyed, then we have a problem.

    At least that’s my take and I’m anything but infallible.








  • Fucking hell, this. I used to live in a shit hole conservative state in a shit hole conservative town with a university. My buddy from New Jersey comes to visit. He’s a 5’5 Jamaican man. We take him out one night and two people, each on a separate occasion, asked him if he played football for the university.

    What the fuck.



  • I agree completely. I have a heritable connective tissue disorder that causes me trouble to no end, especially in frequently used muscles, like those in my forearms. I have to be very careful of what I do - not lift too much or grip too hard, avoid too much repetitive motion like typing or gaming, don’t hold things a certain way, etc. Once in awhile, I’ll forget and just do something like I used to, like catching something heavy, and I’ll be fine. Until the next morning, when I wake up in pain. Even then it’s still not awful, it’s the accumulation of multiple events that causes trouble. This isn’t in line with what most people consider a physical disability, so I occasionally get flack from people who think I’m faking. Sometimes I choose to deal with some pain so I can do normal things for a bit, but there’s no way I could do them every day for hours.

    My point is a lot of people don’t understand how physical disabilities actually work and seem to love “disproving” your limitations. Especially lawyers fighting against your disability claims.