#all mental health professionals are included in ACAB

[fenrichaita]

the mental health industry is an auxiliary of the police state. It is not a tool of healing in the same way that a prison is not a place of rehabilitation. In both cases, you are more profitable while demoralized, detained, and stripped of your rights, than autonomous and empowered.

[chickensmoothieisbs]

So this complete mess up of a website got even more problematic, and at the worst time too. I'll be including some quotes from the moderator form posts and my opinions on their overall statements on things.

"Staff have been discussing how to address the community needs in relation to the BLM movement for the past week. We didn’t wish to make an insincere statement just to jump on the bandwagon."- tess, june 14 2020.

this wasn't the right way to go about it in my opinio. I feel like they should've stated their thoughts and their opinions sooner. the movement isn't a fucking bandwagon. God.

"Forum threads with the sole purpose of ranting or venting, even if about people or events in real life, or threads created only to discuss a negative topic (example: disliking a band). Staff maintains the Comfort Corner thread as the only exception to this rule. If you need more support please reach out to resources such as family, friends, counselors, or mental health professionals. “Vent art” is allowed as long as it follows all of our other rules and the topic of the vent is not CS or CS users." - Simon Aug 24th, 2020.

I feel like this rule is not called for. the internet is about expressing ourselves and if we are feeling down we often seek help online. Plus, the comfort corner isn't that great it's too positve like when someone said their cat died someone was like "their in a better place now don't worry." like that's gonna make them feel better when it Won't. I don't know man I feel like people should just be allowed vent.

“Anti-” statements in user profiles or as a thread topic. Statements may break this rule even if they do not include the prefix “anti-” if they are intended to be negative. Please express your interests in a positive manner." - Simon, 24th of august 2020

i have something against this again, they really want to seem like their websites clean when really the mods are terrible.

"Due to the nature of such conversations, we do not allow debates about real world topics (especially of a political nature). However, discussion threads for support and education are allowed in a limited capacity about such topics. These should be created in the Adults Discussion forum. Such topics will be moderated closely and if the discussion is deemed too inflammatory or trends toward debate the topic may be closed.Your profile should not contain information about your political affiliation, support of political candidates, or stance on divisive political issues such as abortion or firearms that have no relevance to Chicken Smoothie. Your own gender identity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation and broad statements supporting human rights (such as stating Black lives matter) are exempt from this. Please be aware that some statements (such as All Lives Matter) are inherently anti-human rights and will be moderated accordingly. Oekaki drawings may contain political or religious themes in non-editable boards only with no discussion of those themes on the Oekaki thread. Depictions of the Confederate flag are not allowed."- Simon, 24th of August 2020

this rule only came around after the ACAB movement. can you see where this is going? this isn't political anymore. This is peoples lives. They still treat aborttion and the blm movement like it's all political when it's not.

"Innocent images and content from media that contains elements that are not child-friendly are acceptable as long as the media is mainstream and widely known (example: Game of Thrones). Content from lesser-known media may be moderated more heavily. Content from media where adult content is the main/sole focus is not allowed." - Simon, 24th august 2020.

wow.. this is basically saying "mods, monitor everyone 24/7 and make sure all images are good and if you don't recognise where it's from it's bad" basically if it's not mainstream, your gone.

I'll make more rants later,, I'm kinda done with the websites bs right now.

[terdburgler]

Defund police and ACAB are generalizations that just help extremist and criminal thinking growing, including those who are already inside politics and authority key points giving them more pretexts for "anti-establishment" propaganda with that (even more) distorted idea of public order that we are trying to avoid. I didn't see much signs or heard many speeches, if not in a weak form, explicitly say "responsabilize law forces" or "throw out the corrupt and violent cops" yet.

Alright, looks like we're getting into this. For starters, we need to take a look at the Police Institution as a whole. The sad truth is that not only is it currently a system of racist and classist oppression, it always has been. From persecuting the Irish (see 'Paddy Wagon') to the Jewish, to Asian and Hispanic, a primary purpose of the Police Force was to enforce the will of the upper class and maintain White Supremacy. If you find that statement shocking to hear, I would like to ask you to check your privilege and research the subject with an open mind.

After the abolishment of Slavery, African Americans quickly became the #1 target of police brutality. See 'Segregation' and 'Lynching' if you would like to know more. If you think this problem was strictly relegated to the South or that all the problems just went away after Desegregation, you're being naive and I would request you again check the privilege. You need only look at the current statistics to see just how broken the system is.

African Americans only make up 18% of the population and yet they comprise nearly half of the prison population. Charges against Black people are routinely inflated to ridiculous levels, landing them decades behind bars for minor offenses while white criminals get months for the same offense. 1/1000 African Americans will be killed in a police altercation and time and time again, police are FILMED brutalizing and murdering Black people and suffer no long-term consequences.

There have been reforms. There have been new laws and pledges to improve from the Police but nothing has changed. How could it when Qualified Immunity has made every officer completely protected from consequences? Cops will still choke and beat and kill because they have a system where they cannot be stopped and any threat to put them in place results in the entire Police Union coming down on local government.

People call these officers Bad Apples but One Bad Apple spoils the bunch. The bunch has been spoiled. It's been spoiled for a LONG TIME and we're sick of it. Asking for reform or regulation is naive. It won't fix the problem. The Police system was bad from the start and protesters from all over the globe agree. Spending over 80% of the city budget on beating and imprisoning citizens will never fix the problem.

Defund the Police! Put that money in programs that fix the problem instead of punishing the symptom! Build Community Outreach programs that make better homeless services! Create Housing and Job Training Programs to help the poor! Invest in Infrastructure to create a better city for all and create jobs for the working class! Instead of sending officers with less 10 hours of sensitivity training to respond to disturbance calls, send mental health professionals! We don't need dozens of officers patrolling low-income areas armed to teeth with military-grade equipment but that's where all that money is going. It's time to break that cycle and there's simply no way forward as long as the Old Guard still hold the keys. So kindly get out of here with your "responsiblize law forces" talk. They had over 100 years take responsibility and they blew it. We will dismantle the system and build a new one. All the "good cops" are free to submit their applications once we're done.

-TB

[gay-psychopomp]

Stances

Oh boy, I haven’t made a post/page like this before, so if it’s a mess, I apologize. I also will only list topics which I am informed enough to have (or deny) an opinion on. So if I literally haven’t heard of an issue, then you probably won’t see it here.

Pro-choice. 

Pro-feminist. 

Pro-LGBT+. 

I support raising minimum wage to a living wage. 

I support eating the rich. 

I don’t think ACAB, but I do think that police officers and the justice system are not inherently trustworthy. 

Anti-MAPs/NOMAPs/supporters or whatever the fuck else pedo*philes are calling themselves. 

I am neutral on syscourse (system discourse) and neutral on endogenic systems. I am not a mental health professional nor am I a diagnosed system, so I have no right to have an opinion on the subject. 

Anti-Nazi/fascist. 

Anti-racist, but I feel like that’s kind of obvious. 

I wholeheartedly support disabled, mentally ill, and neurodivergent people.

I support people of color and people of all religions.

Asexual and Aromantic people are inherently LGBT+.

You do not need dysphoria to be trans.

Trans women and sex workers MUST be included in feminism and equality movements.