happy pride month once again, here’s a redraw of this iconic medieval art
robotgirl has the mostest autismest moment on call scientists stunned (she becomes 300x more attractive and amazing
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I go outside regularly
no you don't
okay fine I go outside weirdly
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i think there should be a game of entirely cutscenes and no gameplay besides hitting a button to advance to the next cutscene. just to make Gamers mad.
Those are called "visual novels". They're arguably one of the most popular game genres.
gay sex won’t fix this. it’ll probably make this worse. that being said don’t you want to see how much worse it can get?
twitter is hell but i really hope it doesn’t actually die because this is in contention for the funniest thing i’ve ever read in my life
penis parker was bitten on the dick by a radioactive spider and fights crime as her alter ego: spider-cock
why the fuck is penis parker a girl
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I rly think more leftists need to realise that it is not just the police who serve the state and not the people, that it is not just the police that are inherently corrupt institutions that are not made better by the few good ones.
Teachers, medical professionals, social workers etc all commit the same evils for the same reason. All are willing to cause unimaginable harm to protect the interests of the state.
Teachers bully children and their families on the regular to force them into conformity with no regard for disability, neurodivergence, situation or culture, causing massive trauma and ruining lives. Teachers participate in a system designed to crush children into obedience and destroy their individuality and sense of self.
Medical professionals prioritise respectability and ability to contribute over quality of life. They enforce oppression through medical care, maliciously diagnose, neglect and medically abuse those who question them. They outright cause the deaths of those they deem less worthy when given the opportunity (or at least try)
Social workers are tasked with forcing families to function to benefit the state and capitalism. They will abuse and traumatised families as punishment for disability, for being LGBT+, for not being of the dominant race and culture. They will punish parenting that respects the autonomy of children. They will punish accommodation that's helps the child.
And this is like. Barely scratching the surface.
This rly could be expressed better but I am dealing with the emotions of being chronically disabled and under treated, hearing my child open up about the trauma of schools and social workers, seeing the abuse directed at other home educating families and the realisation that I will be subject to the same some time next month, seeing how willing schools are to assist the government in their slaughter of the disabled and otherwise vulnerable and that makes coherent points hard.
I am interested in other ppls Hot Takes and experiences with these things tho cus as a white who was taught well how to pretend like I'm a temporarily embarrassed middle class, I ain't gonna be seeing the worst of it.
[image contents: Against “soft” policing. Are cops the only people who do the work of policing?
The word “police” was first used in the 15th century among european elites to discuss how they could promote commerce and compel people to work the wage. It meant what we now call “policy.” What we now talk about in terms of education, healthcare, urban planning, etc used to be discussed in terms of police.
Have you ever been policed by an official that wasn’t a cop?
(a woman is pictured saying “You’ll have to take a drug test to remain in transitional housing..”)
Could we re-imagine doctors, social workers, teachers, and other “helping professions” in a way that breaks the connection to policing?]
This post is a good example of performative leftism that's both inaccurate and harmful to the leftist fight for true liberation.
Essentially, the point behind this post is to argue that teachers, medical professionals, and social workers are all another form of police, as though all teachers are bastards, all medical providers are bastards, and all social workers are bastards, just like the cops.
Fortunately, we can put a name to this kind of misinformation so it’s easier to discuss:
False consciousness
Or what you call it when someone tries to mislead you in order to pit you against your fellow workers. Whether done intentionally or unintentionally, it’s a powerful tool used by capital to divide up the working class so that we’ll be too busy fighting each other to fight them.
Instead of having a discussion about the problems of the educational system, let's just say that teachers are commit the same evils as cops.
Instead of talking about how social workers work within a broken system, let's talk about how they're abusers.
Instead of confronting the problems in the medical system, let's say that all medical professionals are basically just evaluating which of us are allowed to live and which of us are left to die.
Psst: Also, don't look at the power dynamics involved, because the poverty faced by teachers, nurses and doctors, and social workers might suggest that they're being exploited rather than being the exploiters.
Yeah, it sucks that we’ve all run into people in these professions that are harmful and abusive. That doesn’t mean that everyone in those fields is actually participating in a second layer of policing, and yes, that’s even accounting for the way that those systems are broken and can do serious harm.
The educational, medical, and social safety net systems all have huge, glaring problems. Pretending that the people who are being exploited in those fields, some of whom are indeed terrible people, are on the same level as police is complete nonsense.
There's nothing wrong with talking about the horrible experiences that many of us face at the hands of professionals from these sectors, but neither does that demonstrate the kind of systemic violence perpetrated at the hands of police forces.
Plus, this explicitly positions workers with no real power as oppressors in order to divide the workers against each other. If you believe this claptrap then you might not be interested in supporting your local teacher’s union, or fighting to defund the police and distribute some of that funding to the social workers in your municipality so they can set about trying to keep people who need mental health interventions from getting murdered by cops.
These kinds of narratives, whether created intentionally or unintentionally, prevent us from creating solidarity and raising class consciousness by driving a wedge between us. Instead, might I suggest that you support teacher's unions, support nursing strikes, informed consent models, and healthcare reform, and support distributing funding from police to social workers. Things that can have a real and meaningful effect on helping these workers fight back against the exploitative forces that plague their own industries.
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PS: Since I can’t leave well enough alone, this isn't even what soft policing is either, which actually refers to police strategies in which they implement plans work with a community rather than against it. That means adopting policies that rely on persuasion, like community outreach programs and the like, rather than engaging in the kind of coercive and literal violence that police are well known for. And for the record, there’s a lot of skepticism that police can actually engage in soft policing because they see themselves as authorities that don’t need fixing because...drumroll...they act as the enforcement arm of the capitalist class.
After all, there’s a reason that people say ACAB, and it’s not because they’re part of a broken system that hurts people unintentionally. Police are part of a system that’s working as intended that hurts people intentionally and that alone makes it completely unlike teaching, health care, and social work.
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Tbh, I think both things can be true. Being a victim does not mean you cant be an abuser too, in a power chain.
And more often than not, being in a broken system actually makes the chances HIGHER for those who work there to end up being an abuser too, not always out of active malice, but sometimes even as a way to survive (in this case, usually meaning "to not be fired").
Please don't reblog from korrasera on my posts so long after the interaction, you might reawaken the evil and I am frankly too tired to deal with her and the drama she brings
I'm sorry to add to this but, honestly, it's not even such a big leftist Hot Take to talk about how education and medical systems are agents of the state? It's quite basic leftist theory, like, very very basic stuff, to understand that police and military are just the tip of the iceberg - the repressive state apparatus that work for the state by actively repressing any threats to it. They are different from education and religion and medical systems sure, in that the latter are more indirect in their working but they're working towards the same goal - they are ideological state apparatuses, they enforce the ideology of the state, they protect the state from ideological enemies.
Obviously ACAB doesn't translate to your high school teacher trying to help you out also being a bastard. But that's literally not the point. The point is that these apparatuses - your church(or other dominant religion in your country), your teachers, your doctors - are often seen as being nigh saints who are bestowing blessings upon you that you should be thankful for, and they are placed as sort of "experts" to defer to oftentimes, they have a do-no-wrong shield around them. And leftists got better at realising the role that religion plays in advancing the agenda of the state but they missed all these other ideological apparatuses.
In fact, Althusser says that Education has replaced religion as the primary Ideological state apparatus in our modern times. You are being taught subservience and trained into a capitalist mindset at school level, the education system is beating the rebellion out of you - this isn't a conspiracy theory this is the function of education systems in a capitalist state. You might think "well my university had very progressive leftist discussions" yeah mine too that's where I learned all this, the moment those discussions turn to action, to protests, to actual material criticisms of the state and government, they get taken down, removed from the curriculum, removed from the University spaces. Neurodivergent and disabled students still have a hard time getting into education and staying there, and are constantly discriminated against and abhorred by these systems - including by the teachers. No not all teachers are bastards but don't pretend they're all gonna be your friends either because they are serving a system that puts the state before you.
Same with medical professionals. Listen, I love the doctor who did my stitches and was oh so patient with me. But have you not seen how doctors discriminate against disabled and mentally ill people? Have you not bothered to read into the history of psychiatry as a system meant to imprison us when we step out of line? That's what it still is, a system that presumes to define who you are to yourself so it can label you a threat and an inconvenience and lock you up or lock you out. Have you not bothered talking to disabled people about their experiences of being treated subhuman at the doctor's? Have you not heard the stories of every kind of prejudice being replicated in these fields?
And look, I have been to protests with teachers, I have protested on behalf of teachers, I understand solidarity with our fellow workers, but if you want to pretend that it's ACAB or Ally and nothing in between then you're the one being obtuse. And again, this is all basic leftist theory, I don't get why so many leftists suddenly get scared off when reminded of it, when reminded that teachers and doctors are in a position of power over us, like I'm sorry but WHAT books are YOU reading? The convenient ones?
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