#Memes #Anxiety

@timberwraith
It's perhaps even more accurate to say that Nazism was Germany's American Bar period.

Yeah, people get really upset when I say that for some reason. 🤷‍♀️

The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. He to whimper, and was slapped. He asked for his mother and cried as he was slapped again.

Men were pulled from the buses so fast the guards couldn’t keep up. Chained at their ankles and wrists, they stumbled, fell. With each fall came a kick, a slap, a shove.

https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

#elsalvador #trump #venezuela #venezuelans #Nazi

The best way to #rewild is to be very, very, lazy. I can do that...

#rewilding

I've noticed that a lot of people drive with the assumption that a space they cannot see must be empty. Thus, they take blind corners and crest blind hills going way too fast. The same applies to our inability to reason about complex systems, or about history: we don't know what we don't know, and we don't even realize that we fill gaps in our knowledge with unjustifiable simplifications and optimistic assumptions.

We literally cannot do civilization. That is why civilization is literally wiping us out.

Affluent society
#veganhumor #veganmeme #veganmemes

Toronto orders creator of tiny mobile homes for unhoused people to stop
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tiny-tiny-homes-cease-and-desist-toronto-1.7458835?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Toronto @toronto-cbcnews

‘Poverty is not a crime’: outrage after #California city passes law targeting homeless encampments: #Fremont adopts sweeping law that bans camping on public property and makes ‘aiding, abetting’ encampments illegal

#Homeless #poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/fremont-california-unhoused-law

This paragraph by David Graeber makes me think - what if alternating between procrastination and hyperfocus is just how human brains are meant to work i.e. "normal" or dare I say "typical"? What if #ADHD is just some brains' ultimate refusal to conform to capitalism?

I can understand that some people feel the same way about spiders and ants.

House spiders are something we need to teach everyone to at least tolerate I think.

And there are some flies people should treat more like they tend to treat bees as wasps.

Our insect fears are not very rational or well-aligned with what is really harmful.

complex societies were a mistake

and because the human animal is more “special” than other animals, it polices the language of how these kinds of atrocities can be described, especially by those same progressives who speak so fervently on the subject.

- an animal can’t be described as a “slave” even when it is imprisoned against its will, forced to work, forced to obey, and considered entirely as property.

because to describe it as a “slave” is to diminish the experience of the humans who have experienced those same conditions.

instead of recognising that humans are animals too, and elevating the weight of the atrocity as it happens, even progressives will put animals down to preserve their special status.

- an animal can’t be described as being “raped” even when—without consent—it is restrained by machine or harness, forcefully penetrated against its will, forcefully impregnated.

because it diminishes the experience of the humans who have experienced the same conditions. the human is special. the line is drawn whereby animals can’t be seen as “women” (or “mothers” when their children are forcibly ripped away from them after birth). empathy ends after “human” because the human is not an animal. it is special.

- when 70 billion animals are slaughtered each year in gas chambers, with knives, with guns, drowned in scalding water, with their limbs hacked off and their throats cut open it cannot be described as a “holocaust”.

because that word is reserved only to describe the human experience which is something different to what an animal can experience. the words are protected to delegitimise the experience of animals. to protect humans as something more than animal. to separate humans from animals and to push the animals down so that these horrors can continue without thought.

A sustainable future will probably not have next-day delivery for most things.

Get used to that idea, so you're not going to stand in the way of getting there.

This is my main gripe with the "individual change doesn't matter against systemic issues" crowd:

People who build their lives on the conveniences of hyper-capitalism will not support policies that require those conveniences to be diminished.

But those policies are going to be necessary.

This headline is ridiculous, and the article refers to the man who was murdered by the police as “the suspect”, but he was just a homeless man sitting on the railroad tracks, so I guess he could be considered a “trespassing suspect”, but that makes him sound like he was doing something a lot worse than just existing outside.

#California cop shoots, kills aggressive man armed with rocks, authorities say – East Bay Times https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/12/18/sheriffs-deputy-shoots-kills-aggressive-man-in-redlands-armed-with-rocks-authorities-say/

#ACAB #homelessnessisnowacrime

Louisville, KY woman detained and issued a citation while in labor and waiting for an ambulance, under a new state law that allows cops to fine people for "intent to sleep" while #homeless. What can one even say about this?

https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-12-19/pregnant-kentucky-woman-cited-for-street-camping-while-in-labor

#Houseless #Homelessness #Housing

was talking about music to a family member who has seemed more and more radicalised to the right recently. i asked if they liked the album “the queen is dead” by the smiths and they got really angry and said “as a royalist i find that kind of thing offensive.” they then used that as a springboard to talk about overhearing a “pakistani” person saying they were going to egg the king, and how it’s not right for foreigners to come to this country and disrespect our way of life. they switched multiple times between calling the person “pakistani” and “indian” without actually knowing anything about the person. they finally finished off their rant by switching to talking about how the world is too woke these days and “everyone is so offended if you use the wrong pronouns” and “why is everybody so offended these days?”

i asked if they’d ever actually met a real human being in their entire life who corrected their pronouns and they genuinely stopped and thought about it and said no. i laughed and pointed out that in the last 5 minutes of talking they had been offended about an album title, an overheard joke someone else made, and a made up person that they invented in their head. that the only offended person was them and that they were the very person they were describing who gets offended about everything these days.

the conversation ended there idk why.