#we are them

[murphyoftheendless]

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[rexikyu]

My boyfriend has been getting me into jjk…

The jjk brainrot is consuming me 🦭

[boof-chamber]

from a leftist perspective - which requires us to consider these types of issues within their proper social context - cluster b disorders can be understood as a hyper-adaptation to capitalist alienation - which would then mean that their behavior is a rational response to extremely effed up conditions.

people do not “behave” in a vacuum. when we think “crazy,” we think of wildly irrational, unpredictable behaviors that have no connection to the reality that “sane” people inhabit. but all behavior has context. mental illnesses, including cluster b disorders, are rational responses to the conditions of this anti-human society we are all immersed in, the reality we are all living in. some of us adapt to these conditions better than others, and some of us over adapt - as is the case with cluster b disorders. truth is that the “problematic” behaviors associated with cluster b disorders are actually pretty heavily rewarded in our society under circumstances that are deemed acceptable.

as leftists, we’re supposed to be all about “community” - building community, connection, interdependence, collective well-being. but the truth is that most of us haven’t spent much time thinking on this much deeper than meetings, actions, political work - all guided by our own internalized alienation under neoliberal competitive individualism - that anti-human system that starts hammering away at our humanness from the day we are born. we learn to tolerate it by dehumanizing ourselves and one another - we blunt our own humanity so we can keep plugging along, fulfilling the obligations imposed on us by this anti-human system.

and so we take on the role of oppressor, using the oppressors’ tactics, when someone is seen as disruptive of our shallow efforts to perform “community.” understand that banishment is violence. to deprive a human being of social connection and belonging is to inflict psychic pain and lifelong torment - that’s trauma. and trauma is where cluster b and other mental health diagnoses got their start.

as leftists, we need to broaden our ideas around what constitutes a “leftist space.” if we are serious about transforming society, we need to take ourselves seriously by incorporating counter-alienation practice into our day to day lives.

if we want to raise collective consciousness, we need to recognize the ways our own character has been shaped by social forces, and we need to learn how to recognize the ways those same social forces have shaped others, most especially those who are most severely impacted.

if we hope to decommodify social relations, we must make a conscious and deliberate effort to keep our spaces free from transactional dynamics that replicate market relations

if we are serious about building solidarity, we need to take ourselves seriously by developing community support structures that counter the isolating tendencies that neoliberal society has so deeply instilled in us.

to further isolate the people who have been hit the hardest by capitalist alienation is basically what we have been trained to do by the system. the entire point is to resist.

i am in no way minimizing or dismissing the harm that some people with cluster b disorders can be capable of - i am in the thick of it right now, my life has been a nightmare for the past year and a half and it’s not even close to over. i am hurt, i am afraid, and most of all, i am angry - because it didn’t have to get this bad. none of this shit had to happen and the fact that it’s STILL GOING—-

when we say that people need to be held responsible for the harm they cause, what are we even talking about? punishment? retribution? vengeance? banishment? what is it that you think propels the destructive behaviors we’ve come to associate with BPD? it’s carceral logic. the logic passed down to us by the hegemonic neoliberal order, that tells us to harm one another under the guise of “safety” - is pathologized when it’s turned onto us by those we have left behind.

what i’m saying is that we are them, they are us. and we need to start taking responsibility for the harm done to them as well as the harm we allow them to do to us. they do not have the power that the ruling class has. they could not cause such devastating harm if we were at all serious about building and practicing solidarity.

networks of genuine solidarity, community care, and interdependence mitigate that harm. but for as much as we like to talk about it, few if us have the faintest clue as to what that actually looks like, or how to turn it into action when it matters most.

[osoberrypie]

🖤🤍💜 Belated Ace Visibility Day 🖤🤍💜

I forgot to make a neat formal post, but I love all of us ace peeps.

[mockerycrow]

me fighting the urge to not send every soap and ghost fanart i see to one of my best friends because we 🤝🤝

[kelongt]

AAHHHHGGGH DREAMS LITTLE RANTS !!!! :(((((

[orphic-exe-archived]

[rhymingteelookatme]

#what do you think ye olde girlies thought about hamlet/horatio

oh they thought much and oft about them. hardcore sailing-vesseled them

I just know that when Romeo and Juliet premiered two ye olde girlies in the pit at intermission were like didst thou see the sparks betwixt Tybalt and mercutio… aye and not from their swords alone!

[arielsojourner]

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

I took a 6yo boy to his placement and as soon as I got him situated in the back he saw my SpongeBob driver’s license air freshener hanging on my rearview mirror. He asked if that’s really SpongeBob’s driver’s license and I said yeah it’s real. Then he asked where I got it if SpongeBob’s underwater so I told him I wore a helmet like Sandy and stole it from SpongeBob when he slept, and without missing a beat he goes “That’s identity fraud”

[crabussy]

slightly furious reminder that fish do in fact feel pain and do in fact experience fear and distress when in pain since people seem to love spreading the myth that fish don't feel pain. what is it with people assuming a creature is incapable of feeling pain or emotion just because it doesn't have complex facial muscles. come on gang

[riverageleis]

Is this sudden?😭 I love this conversation. More people need to hear it. For years, I've been saying it. For me, it started with finding out about needle exchanges. Everyone deserves to have a safe place for their vices. Idc if it is a cigarette or heroin. You deserve to be safe by virtue of being alive. You deserve to be shown how to cleanse the area you're going to inject. Idc. Idc that it's drugs. You don't deserve a potentially life-threatening infection. Sex work is real work. As long as it is between legal consenting adults, yes, it should be legal. Legal and safe from exploitation. Affordable housing for those who want it. Some don't, and that's okay, too, but they need to be safe, as well. We need to check up with them and check in. Buy them smokes. Buy them alcohol. (See above, vices) Buy them food. Free condoms, sex education, MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS, natal care for all stages of pregnancy, AND affordable formula for those who can't/don't want to breastfeed! Community gardens, fruit trees and berry bushes should line the streets for shade and a tasty treat! We shouldn't need food banks.

All of these things and more.

Really glad we’re all into harm reduction now, suddenly! I look forward to everyone’s continued support of needle exchange sites, decriminalization of drugs and sex work, affordable, multi-unit housing (yes even in your neighborhood), and free universal sex education, contraceptives, menstrual products, and pre/peri/post-natal care.

[coleopterabyte]

Part of the reason I'm so adamant about encouraging people to get comfortable with bugs, my own interests aside, is because we cannot have a bright, solarpunk future without them.

A green future is not a bugless future. It is, in fact, a fairly bugful future. If you care about ecological stability, then you need to start with bugs, because they're the most at risk with our current use of pesticides.

[boof-chamber]

caring about the struggles of others is not harmful to us. what hurts is that we think we can’t or shouldn’t do anything about it. to see what we see everyday all over the world is painful because we have to go about our day to day lives knowing that, and doing nothing. we are trained to avert our eyes, “it’s not our problem.” but it is our problem, and averting our eyes is what hurts us.

that is why the “helping professions” have their entire concept of self-care centered on NOT caring about the horrors they are told they cannot fix. and so they start to resent those suffering people because they blame them for the pain that comes from doing nothing about it.

caring is not about warm fuzzy sentiments. we have this innate drive to survive as a species. that feeling we get when we “care” is supposed to move us to act. that’s what it’s there for.

but instead we are supposed to suppress our human instincts because we have to focus on our own individual “survival.” and what do we have to do to survive as individuals? we have to uphold this antihuman system. everything we do to survive on our own, goes against this drive to survive as a species.

caring doesn’t harm us. it’s not a burden, it’s a threat to anti-human society. if we allowed ourselves to follow our instincts to survive as a species (caring), what would happen to the capitalist order?

[crafteeauthor]

Gentle reminder that they almost definitely planted evidence on Luigi and arrested him to distract from the fact that the real UHC shooter got away with killing a billionaire. One of us successfully killed a billionaire and one of us could successfully do it again

(edit: Thompson was a millionaire but my point still stands billionaires and millionaires who make money through killing thousands gotta go)