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yesterday when working with my case manager, she went through a long checklist of my comprehensive needs to refresh our treatment plan. as a part of the questions she was asking me, she asked for various areas of my financial struggles, including if i was able to afford social activities such as hanging out with friends, going to the movies, etc. as part of my necessary purchases. the question was specifically phrased as "Do you have enough money every month to be able to afford social activities?"
this was not proposed as a "luxury". the question was not phrased as "Do you have enough money every month to afford luxuries/luxury purchases?" this was listed with the necessities like food, housing, medical needs, transportation, bills, and clothing. this made me burst into tears when i realized it was considered a necessary part of everyone's mental and well being. my case manager told me that not a singular person on this planet deserves to have to "earn" the right to socialize, interact with leisure activities, or to do things that bring you personal fulfillment. your money does not, and should not entirely go toward survival and practicality. it will ruin your mental health.
to any poor person who has ever been told that they don't "need" or "deserve" social or leisure activities or that your money "needs" to go 100% toward survival: they are straight up lying to you. it is a fundamental part of your mental health. don't fucking listen to them.
#anticapitalism#anticap#anti capitalism#punk#punx#queer punx#trans punx#trans punks#queer punks#our writing
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capitalism is so fucked because we could be using robots to do our labour while we sit around naked in fields of flowers eating fruit from trees swimming in lakes writing poetry and making art and love but instead we're working minimum wage in shitty dangerous jobs unable to make ends meet while the rich get richer and the robots steal poetry and art
#fuck ai#anti capitalism#“make the proletariat placid through cognitive supression so we can continue to exploit them” but with modern seasoning#tumblr language post#or whatever you call thought posting#idk#snailpaste: thoughts#anti ai#ai is theft#communist#fuck capitalism#anticap
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Friendly reminder that stealing or shoplifting from corporations is moral and ok because they make godless amounts of money off of the impoverished and desperate every single day and would literally rather see you die than live healthy and affordably! Please your local trickster god, steal from a Walmart today!
#male witch#green witch#hellenism#hellenic worship#paganism#druidism#witchcraft#baby witch#pagan witch#anarchy#anarchist#anticap#anti capitalism#anticapitalista#loki god of mischief#loki devotee#loki devotion#chaos
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I once heard someone say "even the plants aren't free under capitalism" and it fucked me up ngl
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curious question, if it's alright - does 'anti-cap' (referring to your tag on it + seaworld) specifically mean anti-captivity for cetaceans only, or is it a term for being against animals in captivity as a whole, including zoos and sanctuaries? asking because i've never heard the term before and i'm curious.
my stance personally is pro-zoos/pro-(accredited) sanctuaries, but anti keeping cetaceans in captivity given our current inability to provide adequate welfare (as far as i know). if we were to invent conditions that would allow cetaceans to lead healthy and fulfilling lives in captivity, i'd change my mind on the basis of it being a great boon to conservation efforts of marine life. but again, until that's proven, i'm against it.
feel free to delete if you're uncomfortable answering. thank you!
I've usually heard it used in the context of cetaceans, but occasionally in the context of other types of animals. Doesn't really matter though, because the truth is, it's not as simple as one or two easy labels.
You've got to be really careful with "accredited zoos." Just because a facility is accredited doesn't mean it's doing right by its animals, or by all its animals. Loro Parque is humane certified despite all its issues; Georgia Aquarium is accredited despite attempting to import wild caught belugas just a few years ago. Copenhagen Zoo is accredited in spite of its policy of allowing animals to breed freely, then slaughtering the extras. The zoo where I grew up has some excellent exhibits and breeding programs, but their gorilla enclosure is downright shameful.
We'll probably never be able to invent conditions that allow cetaceans to lead the lives they deserve in captivity; they're just too built for their environment, too wide-ranging, and their social structures are too complex. It's comforting to us to think that if things get dicey, we can round up an animal and breed it in captivity, but as we saw with the vaquita, that doesn't work with cetaceans. The only way to protect them is to protect the ocean.
There are zoos and sanctuaries worth supporting, but it's really got to be a case-by-case and a species-by-species type of deal. No one, whether it's the people visiting a facility or running it, should ever stop asking whether this is right, whether things could be better.
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one of the best things about the wga & sag-aftra strikes is the publicisation of worker relations. like we should ALL be talking about how we get treated at work, our experiences at work, our contracts and how they are fair or unfair. it's just GOOD because if we talk about it we can understand that there is class solidarity in the experiences at work!
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I HATE the trend of people making 100k complaining that “it’s the new 50k” as if a majority of americans arent currently wishing they had even 50k to work with. It’s not the “new 50k”, you’re just dealing with lifestyle inflation, butthurt about it, and think earning more would fix that (I promise the goal post will always move up)….100k salary would be absolutely life changing
#what’s that study that says after a certain livable wage your happiness plateaus/drops…yeah that yalls actual problem#anticapitalista#anticap#communist#socialist#these same people are always mad they make too much for government assistance & are out of touch with how difficult those systems are#anticapitalism#anticapitalist
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On the OGL
I have seen a lot of people say that they want to stop playing D&D because of the money grabbing fuckery commited by Wizards of the Coast, concerning the changes made to the open gaming license. This makes me sad. I see a big corporation stealing joy from a community that I have loved, and that has changed my life for the better. DO NOT LET THEM. Keep playing the game. It is your game, not theirs, do not let them take it from you.If you have the books, keep them, keep using them. Burning them is stupid, it is a waste, it is meaningles protest. Please do unsubscribe from D&D Beyond, that is meaningful, do not buy anymore Wizard produced content, that too is meaningful. And if you are need some books, a lot of them are out there as PDFs, which of course you should not download illegaly. In fact, if you PM me, i will tell you to not get pirated PDFs of the core rule books, and even point out which links contain such illegal copies, so that you may avoid them.
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this summer has been brutally hot. while you're trying to stay cool, please consider giving cups or bottles of water to any homeless people you see. i honestly don't care what your stance on homelessness is: just do it. if you've never had heat exhaustion or heat stroke, you have no idea how utterly miserable overheating is, and it gets worse when you're dehydrated. now consider how much worse it gets when you don't have a consistent source of shade to lower your body temperature. nobody "Deserves" heat exhaustion or heat stroke, leave your "they have to earn shelter" shit at the door. no one's listening.
i live in what's regarded as the worst part of town, dubbed "the war zone". i have countless homeless people walking by my apartment daily, and whenever i'm on the porch, I do my best to offer what I can. some folks turn me down for food, not every person who comes across my block needs narcan, but water is always gratefully accepted. please try to give water instead of sugary drinks if possible and avoid caffeine, as that is a diuretic and can cause people to dehydrate faster. if all you have is juice or soda, go ahead, but please give water when and where possible.
i have never had anyone get belligerent with me even despite the awful nickname this part of town has gained. if someone seems like they are in the middle of a psychotic episode (speaking to someone you can't see, irritable outbursts, confusion, reacting to cues you can't see, and so on) and are visibly agitated or angry, give them space and don't force them into anything. DO NOT CALL THE COPS ON THEM. don't call the cops on ANY homeless people. when a psychotic person is in the middle of an episode, what they are seeing, hearing and feeling are real to them, and can be perceived as life-threatening. sometimes someone in the middle of a psychotic episode cannot parse that you are not a threat, especially if they are in the middle of a particularly paranoid episode, which happens extremely easily when you have nowhere safe to rest your head at night. constantly having to watch over your own shoulder can easily lead to someone feeling constantly persecuted.
my neighbors have been handing out food, water, and cigarettes too, without any provocation from me. now that I've moved in, we have someone to hand out narcan, too. we can build a more compassionate world. if everyone on my block wordlessly helps the homeless folk who walk past without any provocation from someone else, the whole world can be this kind. i promise it can. you can possibly save a life just by reaching out. we all have the power to make a change for the better. a simple glass of water can literally save a life. your unsheltered neighbors are still your neighbors.
#anticapitalist#anticapitalism#anti capitalism#anticap#trans punx#trans punks#punk#queer punks#queer punx#homelessness#homeless#humanitarianism#humanitarian#our writing
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being disabled by work is honestly so embarrassing
like you're telling me i fucked up my body so bad just from going to work and doing a job? really man? this injury that may affect me for the rest of my life, i got from a job where i barely make 100$ a day?
it's so stupid and fucked
anyway as always, fuck capitalism
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Fun fact: the United States hates its citizens so much that it asks you for almost $400 entire fucking US dollars just to submit a tax number ID request so you can start selling things to keep yourself afloat. I suppose they’d like me to bend over and pull my pants Down as well seeing as they seem to love fucking me in the ass.
#male witch#rant post#i hate this country#fuck america#america is a hellscape#dystopian society#anticap#anticapitalista#anti capitalism#irs#corporate greed#government corruption
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Mocha Perfection.
The Anarchist in Toronto makes the best coffee in the world. show some love https://theanarchist.ca
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commie
…Yes? You do realize this is the Commies & Queers website, right?
#in actuality I havent read enough theory to say w/ my whole chest I’m a commie#but I’m definitely somewhere between progressive and socialist/democratic socialist on the scale#anyways this was very funny#that anticap affirmations post has really brought out all 12 of tumblrs capitalists#asks answered#anonymous ask#the humans speaks#text
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