Heard about their problematic takes before I ever came across any of their videos, so I didn’t even bother, but holy shit, that’s a bad take.

Watch how loads of “progressive” folks continue supporting them because they don’t see ableism as a real issue worth taking seriously…🙄

Are… Are you basically making the same point as them?

That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.

You have a lot of internalised and lateral ableism to unpack.

A court [in the UK] has ruled that consent for two new Scottish oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully and their owners must seek fresh approval from the UK government before production can begin.

Which they will get, without a fucking blink, because our government is and always will be for the rich and their interests, and Keith has made it perfectly clear that he couldn’t give two shits about the environment, nor even keeping up appearances that he cares.

A. air travel isn’t “psychotic”, fuck off with that ableism and

B. he wouldn’t be doing it once, he would be doing it 0.00000000000000001% of a time

So again:

spare me the “every little help” platitude, at the scales we’re discussing here, this person’s itinerary makes zero difference, and only serves to alleviate his personal guilt.

And apparently, some of yours, too!

I say apparently because I didn’t personally know anyone who went through that one.

👋

They tried that shit on me my first assessment, the whole “lift hasn’t been working properly”. I explained that my pain was too much to go up 2 flights of stairs, and eventually they got it “fixed”.

They denied me my benefits anyway, it took about 2.5 years, a load of appeals, and a tribunal, the first time before I got what I was entitled to.

They’ve denied me every re-assessment since, too, which they’ve given me every 2 years on average, despite my conditions being either from birth or chronic and progressive, and me winning every appeal and tribunal they’ve put me through, and being in receipt of the highest rates for over a decade now. I’m actually waiting for another re-assessment as I type since my benefit expired again.

Their goal is for us to die, either from our conditions while we wait, or by suicide after being denied or pushed too far by their process (or from the trauma and the feelings of being a useless burden they cause that last long after the assessment is over), either way, the more of us die, the less money they have to spend on us (never mind that disability benefits are an absolutely miniscule fraction of tax spending). So yeah, their MO is to automatically deny all claims. The fact that once appealed, over 70% of decisions are overturned goes to show just how deliberate it is.

I’ve only got this far because after that first assessment I started looking for help with the appeal because I had to get that benefit to survive, and discovered just how bad the system I’m up against is, but also that there are people out there dedicating their time to helping others get through it. I literally owe those people my life.

Thanks, I hadn’t scrolled down far enough.

without researching one of your own.

Lmfao, says the person defending nazi defenders…

But hey, whatever makes you feel better about your shit take, sockpuppet person who created a throwaway account solely to defend nazi defenders, which is much worse, but as you please…😂

So I’m glad he was compensated, but I struggle to take his stance seriously when he works for a neoliberal think tank and genuinely believes his personal travel arrangements make any difference whatsoever when someone like him should definitely be aware that billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime (spare me the “every little help” platitude, at the scales we’re discussing here, this person’s itinerary makes zero difference, and only serves to alleviate his personal guilt. The only difference we can make as individuals is to unite and tear down the systems that are actually destroying the planet, and the people responsible).

Lmfao, I never thought I’d ever agree with that mod team, if anything, yours is the kind of shit take they usually lap up 😂

I don’t know what the acronym to indicate you’re in the wrong is, but setting up a sock account for the sole purpose of defending a, at very least, nazi defender and profiteer, makes you the asshole (that mod team is too in general, but I can’t fault them for deleting your reply).

Just a point of note - the liberation by outside forces last time wasn’t done for the benefit of those being exterminated (hell, every single one of the allies had a significant part in either rejecting refugees, or actively doing oppressing and outright exterminating of their own before the war even started), but for the benefit of those countries leaders, and finances.

So there might be liberation, but it’ll only exist to enable us to return to “normalcy” which is the capitalist status quo that keeps leading to world wars (because they’re that profitable).

Oh, I get it, I just think it plays in to their rhetoric more than it contradicts it.

They’re grasping at any and every “he’s not a nazi” straw they can find or make up, this just gives them another one to grasp to, because they wouldn’t see or care about your intent, all they see is someone deliberately avoiding directly saying “musk is a nazi” or “what makes him a nazi is…”, which is exactly their tactic and feeds in to their cognitive dissonance.

You’re giving him the degree of separation they’re looking for, which he does not deserve.

So again, I understand what you’re trying to do, but I think that not explicitly saying “musk is a nazi because…” is counterproductive.

Yeah, I get where you’re coming from, and I like your design (though agree it could be a little easier to read) but feel like this is playing in to the “he’s not a nazi” narrative his supporters are trying to push, when he is in fact, a nazi, as well as a regime enabling industrialist. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, and we should be calling the nazi spade a nazi spade at every opportunity.

You’re wrong, and all you have to do to realise it is look around (hint: when you allow bigotry to exist in open society, aka, tolerate it, it will keep growing like the fucking cancer that it is).

I do have republican and conservative friends.

So you’ll tolerate a little bigotry, as a treat… 🙄

Which is precisely why I said it isn’t surprising.

You’re attacking them

Cis person comes on to a post about trans people being rounded up in preparation for their human rights to be removed demanding to be educated about a subject that has been discussed and written about millions of times by millions of people all of which are available at the tip of his finger, gets told “NO”, and somehow he is the victim that is under “attack”.

Fucking typical.

GTFOH

Sometimes people forget you can just not respond to things,

Lmfao, says the person defending the other person who barged in to a post where people are clearly hurting and inserted himself and his privileged feelings and wilful ignorance by responding to a comment that was clearly not an invitation for debate, declaring his opinion is already made up, and still insists said hurting trans people spoon feed him information that is easily available at the click of a fucking button.

I’m not the one who’s forgotten anything, clown.

I dont know how to respond to that to be honest.

Of course you don’t since you’re clearly incapable of shutting up and listening. That’s literally all it takes.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wanted to hear what you had to say

Lmfao, prove it. I told you what I had to say, and you’re clearly not interested in hearing it at all, nor in investing any of your own time or energy in to informing yourself.

Never mind who wholly inappropriate it is to even come on to a post like this in the first place expecting people to expend emotional labour on you.

So again - you not wanting to hear is a you problem, not an available information problem, and definitely not my problem or the problem of other trans and or otherwise marginalised people.

We don’t owe you shit, if you actually care you do your own fucking work.

Oh, and also

I’m not from America so have no skin in the game, and for all intents and purposes you’d look at me and see a cis dude.

as I said, I’ve already got an opinion based on where I’m from

And yet here you are, demanding emotional labour from people who very much do have skin in the game and are hurting and have better things to do than to spoon feed you information you’ve already admitted to not being open to hear.

Take this as a learning opportunity - open a search engine of your choice, and start doing your own work. The people you want to hear from have and continue to speak up (E: hell, you could even scroll maybe a page or two through my profile, as a person whose opinions you seem interested in, but not interested enough to lift a finger, and find plenty of places to get you started). You not wanting to make any effort to listen is a you problem, not a lack of available information problem.

this is a comment about a comic where The Purge is a reality.

I get that it’s fun to imagine, but even in an imagined purge reality…

As for toxic individualism - it’s thinking that you can get to him on your own. Each person is there for their own turn. So again - all that would end in, even in imaginary purge land is the queue getting mowed down by machine gun. For someone from .ml you seem unfamiliar with the concept of “workers of the world unite” and what it represents.

I’m also literally pointing out that serious revolutionary planning would be a much better way to actually get to him (and not only him, so actually having a long lasting impact rather than just a temporary dopamine hit before returning to the status quo), not suggesting or even implying that that’s what’s going on here lmfao