links 5: the (Ron) DeSaster movie

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This is the crowd for a DeSantis campaign event in Iowa today.

Things don’t look good for Ron. pic.twitter.com/A7SICYawcU

— PocketCast News (@PocketCastNews) August 5, 2023

XD XD XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vica_-UEg0Q video - PhilosophyTube ft. LegalEagle - How Police Make Up The Law

https://neal-michon.medium.com/an-alternative-to-sapiosexual-671dc1bdf86a#.h9qt859q7 noetisexual

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/law-reversed-effort/ I have been feeling some kind of way the last few days, ever since I read a thing about what's called handicapitalism, which said that mental illness and disabilities haven't been destigmatized, just monetized. That we get sold a lot of products and things to "fix us", but still run into stigma and taboos talking about even basic access needs for things like psychosis, type 2 diabetes, or borderline personality disorder. And like, in my life I have bought (and bought into) so many different products and ways of thinking, chasing a cure for the ills of society that the neurodivergent, disabled, and mentally ill are made to bear. It's fucked up. I am fucked up about it. So I might take a while to just be for a while after Ghost and I get more stuff worked on. BC I've got some thinking to do.

Comments

[silk_dragon_zen]

Wuwei has been a godsend for us. Thanks for that link. 🙏

I get how fucked up things can be — capitalist exploitation of feelings of guilt on our [Disabled people's] part that we ought to be "productive citizens" to justify our existence. I felt the same way for decades till we encountered the Disability Justice movement and had it affirmed again and again that we are enough just as we are.

— Sage

[flamingsword]

Welcome welcome! I didn’t know anyone in the Disability Justice movement until I followed Bat’s tumblr, so only slightly before becoming chronically ill myself. Thank fuck for them though, that was a rough enough transition as it was, and it could have been a whole lot worse.

[niko_reubens]

Ahahaha, DeSantis has like... a small soccer team of people wanting to come to his campaign events. I bet my county fair has more people than that! XD

I'm not surprised police make up the law.. tbh I don't trust police, I've been targeted by them in the past for ridiculous reasons.

[flamingsword]

Same, tbh. I got arrested for telling off the school cop at my high school for not investigating when my friend was missing. (Fuck you, officer Shields. I hope those boots are tasty.)

[niko_reubens]

UGH! that's annoying. My first terrible experience with cops was after an incident with a boy in middle school, the cops took his side when he had done things to me. My second was being in a neighborhood where the cops knew who my one uncle is (they don't like him because he mouths off to them lmao) and they harassed me over that, then in 2014, I got into a fight in the same city and the cops got pissed again bc they know my uncle, and tried to charge me with assault (I was defending myself) and child endangerment bc the lady had her kid in the car and the kid saw us fight... ever since all that, and then all the bullshit cops do to people of color, I just.. don't trust them.

I'm a weirdo eccentric, I'm sure they'd love to pin some unjust bullshit on me for the hell of it anyway. (Also sorry for the ramble lmao)

ACAB

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You never need to be sorry for sharing your life with me. I know how to disengage when I need to, and short of that, I like having people infodump, rant, and brain-dump at me.

It is super shitty that you got harassment and prejudice for being related to someone, and especially someone who has a constitutional right to sass the police for being the way they are. They were proving your uncle right by treating you unjustly.

Re: ACAB

[niko_reubens]

Thanks :) <3

Yep. The charges never show up on background checks but I had to pay $1000 and I still have like… anxiety about the incident.