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god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh

I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards

i was going to do a rant about this before seeing this tweet but imma just leave this here

#been saying for years#rainbow capitalism isn't a movement but it sure is a fucking canary (via @runawaymarbles)

This goes hand in hand with pushing for only queer people to play queer roles. Which in theory sounds like a good thing to push for authentic representation when so much of the past stuff was bad.

Except the actual real world outcome has become queer leftists abusively dog piling any actor they deem "inauthentic" leading to actors being forcefully outed against their will before they were ready in an attempt to make the abuse stop. Including children. People have been justifying psychologically tormenting literal children for not publicly disclosing (and being firm and set in) their gender and sexuality in order to work.

In many wants it's set back queer media and made people just as afraid of queer roles ruining their careers and their lives as they were when bigots were doing it. Which is not an improvement to the situation! It's really only giving cover to people who want none of this to exist.

We could have just praised the process we wanted to see. Personally I love seeing Jim Parsons take that big normative sitcom money and fucking off to make emotionally powerful queer films with it casting queer actors whenever he can. But praising that will always be more constructive than bullying Kit Connor. If Daniel Craig wants to spend the rest of his career making charming gay detective movies about helping marginalized woman get revenge on abusive rich assholes, then I don't care what his sexuality is because it's still pushing queer media far forward.

We could have positively addressed rainbow capitalism by supporting queer-owed business. We could have accepted that mainstreaming queer iconography at Target (much of it designed by queer people who got to pay their bills making it) would make space for people buying that small batch t-shirt at Pride. It's not like people only ever buy one t-shirt in their life.

A closeted-for-safety trans boy buying his first binder at Target could have created an opening for the next one to be from Shapeshifters. Instead he may never get the chance to know what it would feel feel like to take the first step because the wrong packaging could endanger him and the (fair) price mightbe unaffordable.

We can't built perils into doing better. We can't keep calling nigh-impossible next steps"the bare minimum" and tearing into them for every imperfection if we want people to do them at all. At minimum that's a burnout machine. At worst it gives bigots leverage to maker sure we have nothing. Kindness and enthuses support of what we want to see happen makes way more progress.

Unfortunately many leftists are still so stuck in the purity-sin-redemption mentality, even when they surface-level reject Christianity, that instead of growth and change everything keeps getting treated as blasphemy unless it's perfect. Even though perfection is impossible. So the whole well is primed to be poisoned by the people who genuinely hate us.

I was listening to my asmrs to fall asleep (as usual) & I’m suddenly bombarded with whispering about their diet and weight loss plan because, in their words, “who wants to be fat?” bro this youtube video is supposed to be about making relaxing sounds. I can’t even fall asleep without people reminding me my body is unwanted. IS NO SPACE SACRED?

Ugh, this would be infuriating. I was once watching one of those lawn care channels and in the middle of clearing out an overgrown driveway, they started just straight up playing a Jordan Peterson lecture. No warning, no context. It amazes me that these people will turn around and accuse us of living in a “bubble” as if we can ever really be free of their bullshit.

Have what I suspect is an UNPOPULAR OPINION about fat politics/fat liberation but I also I don’t really have a platform anymore, so maybe it’s pointless to express anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So, I understand there are risks of toxic positivity setting people up to feel like they are a failure if they ever experience internalized negativity. I understand the value of concepts like “body neutral” as a step in the process of recovering or just responding to a world of cruel fat hatred.

But at the end of the day, I also feel like fat liberation has suffered from a lack of unambiguous and unapologetic fat positivity. I think we could have better handled the nuances there but too often the community was reluctant to allow space for fat positivity because too many didn’t really feel positive about fatness and that was a bad fucking reason that has left all of more vulnerable, more targeted, more stigmatized. At its most well meaning, I think people thought we could build a bigger tent if we didn’t challenge people too much. At its most bad faith, people scorned fat positivity and wanted to rationalize not wanting to engage with it.

Fat politics and fat liberation shouldn’t even need to make room for fat positivity. It should have always been a core ambition and I feel angry for what collectively neglecting that has resulted in. It’s a theme I often wanted to come back to, sometimes with a playful irony that I hope no one ever mistook for shame or self-mocking. Fat people deserve celebration, not just tolerance or acceptance. Some people who only barely ever tolerated us were waiting for “permission” to hate us with all their spirit and I loathe that so many of us knew that but have been stuck watching the predictable play out.

But, like I said, I don’t have much of a platform and never really had much influence, so I feel helpless in the face of it all. I know a lot of people do. You all deserved better. We deserved better. I hope each in our ways can get some of what we deserve. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly, the history of the Republican Party since at least the Tea Party era proves the lie to leftists who say stuff like "well if we don't withhold our vote, the Democratic Party will never move left!" In fact, Republicans have shown that it is specifically voting for their candidates faithfully in every election that allows a "radical" faction within a party to have leverage. That you can do that and also criticize candidates for not conforming to your views enough - but you only get leverage to do that by voting for the party regardless, but utilizing primaries, the media and other tactics to try to make your voice heard as much as you can within that party. I know this doesn't make "logical" sense on first blush, and isn't how other forms of political pressure (like boycotts) work, but history has proven that that is how you get leverage within a political party in the United States. And the left has done the right thing on this a lot! But when we don't get our full wishlist (or even when we do, but checked-out people online lie about it - see the myth in the 2024 election that the Dems "weren't doing anything/were the same as Republicans" on trans rights, and then after the results where Dems lost big, a few of them wrongly concluded that they should back off on trans rights!) we pull away and that sends the message that we can't be relied upon. Republicans, though, know how to play the long game and that even if they don't have their preferred person this election cycle, faithfully turning out and then reminding those politicians that they did later will, little by little, over time, result in more of their preferred candidates. This is the story of how the far-right took over the Republican Party - and the left could learn from it, if we wanted to. (Well, I want to, a lot of us want to, but we are too often drowned-out by the ideological-purity, no-knowledge-of-history-from-before-a-couple-years-ago, would-rather-critique-power-than-have-power ignoramus segment of it.)

If the hardline anti-choice evangelicals who believe in their tiny brains that abortion is a genocide had spent the last 50 years throwing up their hands every election saying, "the Republicans haven't stopped the abortion genocide yet, they must not actually care about this and are just posturing to win our votes, we should withhold our votes in protest" we would still have Roe v. Fucking Wade.

Thing is, I'm not just anti-fatphobia as in "I don't want people to be mean to fat people"

I am pro fat liberation as in "I want to dismantle the systemic biases against fat people and the diet culture and medical industrial complex that feeds into the very real systemic oppression that fat people face"

I don't see fatphobia as a mere interpersonal issue where if you are being nice to fat people or saying things in a polite way to them you're automatically free of fatphobia. I see it as essential to challenge every bit of diet culture myth that we might encounter and break the unscientific ideas of "health" as defines by weight, fat, calories, bmi, and other nonsense. I see it as essential to view fatphobia as the political issue it is and take it seriously as such, and to unlearn and help others unlearn oppressive baseless ideas we have assumed to be true and natural.

honestly the way people will talk about fat or poly people is often super indicative of how they would talk about queer or otherwise marginalized people if it was 10% more socially acceptable to do so within their circles

like genuinely the rate at which i go to block somebody for being an outright bigot and discover that i had already blocked them a while ago for being weird to fat people is just crazy. a lot of people with deeply hateful conservative views like to test the waters with shit like this against groups that "don't really count" while maintaining at least a facade of progressivism outside of that, and while fat people should not have to be canaries in the coal mine for you to care about us, i do think it's worth acknowledging that being hateful about fat people & our bodies is very often a tell that somebody is eventually going to go mask off with more widely frowned upon reactionary politics

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