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What kind of a person do you have to be to jerk off to emojis with fat tits

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Well, I started out trying to find what was up with my joints hurting all the time, and now I have to send an email to my professor asking if my english 105 argumentative essay can include meta-analyses of Hobbes and Augustine . So that's how it's going

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and I didn't get diagnosed until I was thirteen?

Got my old medical records back Was anyone gonna tell me that I have medical documentation of knee pain going back to six years old or

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Got my old medical records back Was anyone gonna tell me that I have medical documentation of knee pain going back to six years old or

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For once can I have a physical ailment that's associated with my age group

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I need to make Thomas Hobbes spend a month working at Walmart

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man is wolf to man, sure, but man is caterpillar to a different man, and man is daddy meatbringer to his cat. fluid, relational identity and interconnectedness predicated on a worthless understanding of existence foster an ever-evolving understanding of oneself and one's community, and especially the ways in which the two are the same.

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Uhhhh yeah my angel named stupid head lol

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at a point with this guy where all I can do is obey the maxim of universalizability

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>Discover a guy

>Read a bunch of him

>Have some ideas

>Deconstruct concept of labor

>Shyly ask two mentors for feedback

>both of them respond with the assumption that I am already in honors college

>apparently my little trails of thought are doctoral type construction & also Very Very New Ideas.

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I just wanted to be a little cheeky about Deleuze

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i got talked into choosing mag wheels for my chair and now im frustrated because weight was a big concern for me and now im learning theyre harder to maneuver and a couple pounds heavier each than spoke wheels :/ if it doesn't work i guess i'll have insurance and the power assist but still. pretty annoying

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If you are overwhelmed in public, try opening various doors. You might find an unoccupied conference room to lock yourself in.

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Ski lodge chill day

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I spent six hours hyperfocusing on fixation as a mode of cognition

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Im allowed to be angry until June and then I have to be reasonably understanding. For my own sanity.

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& by the way tell me if I'm crazy but here's a framework I've been thinking about. It's very much a first draft, and doesn't encompass all my thoughts, but might as well put it out here.

In a very broad sense, the social model of disability can be applied to most of not all Thinking About Oppression. Stay with me here - by this I mean we need to think about structural oppression as sociocultural/institutional forces that work to a) reinforce social hierarchy and b) a PROCESS in that it is a mechanism for disempowerment.

This mechanism of disabling is necessitated under a capitalistic framework that demands an ever-growing underclass from which to squeeze every ounce of labor. That is to say: Disabling is the process of structurally denying participation. Dis Abling

Disabling has two distinct parts that work in tandem: devaluation and exploitation.

Devaluation entrenches often contradictory social perceptions of a class that serve to undercut the value of their labor. This is all to enable the stigmatization (every pony please read Erving Goffman) and dehumanization of some underclass.

Examples: think the "welfare queen"'s positioning as both fundamentally incompetent AND a master manipulator, the idea of disabled folk as either burdens leeching off of The Money Of Hardworking Members Of Society or frauds choosing not to participate in production out of laziness/greed.

Both sides of these contradictory frameworks are able to exist in tandem because they both work as justifications for disempowerment, and to societally permit the second part of the process of disabling: exploitation.

Exploitation of an underclass that is seen as misproductive (does not produce to some arbitrary standard) is then justified by that prior devaluation. The devaluation works as an excuse: If these lazy cripples won't work, by god, we'll get all that we can out of them!

One potent example of how this framework can be used for analysis emerges in the use of law enforcement as justification for exploitative prison labor: criminalized labor such as selling drugs, a kind of deviant labor within this framework, serves as justification for the exploitation of prisoner labor within the system.

Another striking example is how wages for disabled people in America can go far below federal minimum wage based on an outsider's evaluation of what percentage of an able-bodied work the disabled employee is able to do. That's the exploitation. The devaluation comes in the policy's refusal to acknowledge all of the crip labor a disabled employee may have to undertake in order to simply navigate the world around them and their job within it. Instead of an appreciation of effort, their labor is exploited by refusing to acknowledge that extra effort and instead judging them by the metric of some mythical Perfectly Abled Employee.

Same with what I was touching on with domestic misogyny. The wife's labor performed in the house is devalued so that it can continue to be exploited for the benefits her labor provides to her husband. In order to continue receiving that labor, the husband is incentivized to continue to devalue his wife's effort, perhaps not even consciously: it's simply an expectation of dynamic deeply ingrained in our societal concept of marriage and the relationships within them.

Essentially, disabling is a mechanism used to reinforce oppressive social hierarchies that can be understood as having two distinct yet related parts, each of which serves a critical role in enabling the continued oppression of marginalized groups in order to uphold capitalistic power structures that demand the labor of an endless underclass.