It would be one thing if people said I don’t personally wear bonnets in public but I don’t care what people do but no you guys want people to feel morally and socially inferior due to respectability politics and social policing.
If you haven't reached a place in your activism where your love for humanity trumps your hate for your oppression. If you can't imagine systems being dismantled, and create new ones in its place, if you can't understand power is the problem and not human beings, no matter how much they benefit from certain power structures - I can't organize with you.
Reactionaries will never understand that if you allow for the state to abuse the people you don’t like, they will inevitably use that power to abuse the people you do like
This is why barely anyone dances at clubs or gets really excited in public or really tries to express themselves other than online.
Some antisocial person with a smart phone is on standby, ready to capitalize on it for clout or a dollars of revenue sharing.
The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.
do you ever think about how lucky we are that some people are interested enough in clinical research to make miracles happens for less money than they deserve??
ok sure, let's say that the government *should* be run like a business.
in that case, it should maximize shareholder value.
and who are the "shareholders"? the taxpayers, obviously