I wish I knew this before I wasted so much effort trying to build relationships with assholes.

Tertiary education is a scam and you should have listened to the people who tried to tell you this.

Currently doing a phd and wishing I could go back in time and tell myself not to fucking do it. They really get you with that opportunity bullshit but the whole thing is a fucking pyramid scheme imo.

At an inspection for a rental property the agent, mid small talk, said “and I’m glad it’s people like you (white, cishet couple) checking this place out, the owner is not keen to lease the place to people who aren’t white”.

Probably because their ‘disagreement’ is about whether or not certain groups of people should exist.

The real truth of 9/11 is far darker than the idea that it was an inside job. It being an inside job implies that the Bush administration was competent.

Have you ever listened to MLK speak or read anything he’s written? Dude would absolutely be what he is today if he had not been murdered.

Look if you’re not disabled or special needs you really don’t have any right to reclaim this word in any sense. This is the equivalent of trying to reclaim the n word as a white person. It’s just incredibly inappropriate and insensitive. Also, can I just say, your definition of repurposing this word is incredibly problematic because you’re actually still just using it to mean the same thing it was originally intended to mean. And it’s incredibly offensive, just so you know. So please don’t use this word.

And frankly as a person with a cognitive disability, our community really isn’t keen on repurposing the r word in any way so please don’t think you can just jump in and do this without consulting the people it impacts. Even if we had repurposed this word, it’s still offensive for non-disabled people to use it in the same way it’s offensive for white people to use the n word.

The happening really holds up as one of the greatest bad movies.

Anywhere with one of those social market economies is looking good right now compared to the rest of us trying to survive in free market capitalism. I know the differences may not seem too obvious on the surface but my country has pretty much outsourced all aspects of governing to the private market. We used to have quite a robust social safety net and now we’re just like a mini America and it fucking sucks.

Hopefully people’s weird hang up about gender all together won’t be around in 100 years.

There arn’t really specific mutual aid programs here in aus but a lot our community services are built on mutual aid principles. Our egalitarian values actually sort of go well with mutual aid as well i think. But technically our community legal centres are a form of mutual aid, even though they’re government funded. So are community centres that do community pantries and stuff like that. Certain communities were also somewhat forced into mutual aid set ups during recent flooding and bushfire events.

Why civil rights are a thing.

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