You can’t “try harder” your way out of disability.

All the “wellness”, yoga and healthy food in the world won’t ‘cure’ you.

It’s not a moral failing. It’s not the result of bad choices. It’s not something a person ‘chooses’ at all.

Disability can and does happen to most of us.

Yes, this is about white privilege, but this also explains the privilege of wealth.

You have a much harder time than wealthy people. You put up with this unfair arrangement because wealthy people make life even harder on women, minorities, etc.

You look at the worse circumstances they have compared to you, and so you stop worrying about how much easier and better the wealthy have it.

Most humans will let someone put a boot on our necks, provided someone gives us another neck to stand on.

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Did you find a post from a follower that you really liked? If so, just boost it. That way other people have the opportunity to like it too.
It's such a simple thing and many gloss over it.
With non-algorithmic posts here, it's the only way it will show up for new people as there's no promotion or advertising.

Like it, boost it, pass it on.
So simple. So Fedi.

Stem je PVV?

Dan doe je met de genocide mee.

Stem je VVD?

Dan doe je met de genocide mee.

Stem je BBB?

Dan doe je met de genocide mee.

Stem je NSC?

Dan doe je met de genocide mee.

#RodeLijn

Jesus Christ God. This is horrifying.

'One particularly alarming anecdote, due to its potential for harm in the real world: a woman who said her sister had managed her schizophrenia with medication for years — until she became hooked on ChatGPT, which told her the diagnosis was wrong, prompting her to stop the treatment that had been helping hold the condition at bay.'

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-illness-medications

By now you've probably seen this unedited footage of Trump's birthday parade with the mostly empty bleachers so quiet that all you can hear is the squeaking of the tank.

And as funny as this is, I want to call your attention to another aspect of this that seems to have not been reported on so widely - and that is how utterly joyless MAGA people and gatherings are.

I live in Seattle, where the No Kings protest was basically a non-stop party in Cal Anderson Park all day long. There were musicians, dancers, performers, my god people put on fully acted PLAYS about Lady Liberty beating the shit out of "King" Donald. People were laughing and singing and chanting. There were jokes told, some people were handing out free snacks and bottled water. It was a party! No, strike that, it was a HANGOUT. It was like hanging out with 50,000 of your best friends.

Now, watch the clip I posted again. Look at the people in the stands. Really LOOK. Zoom in if you have to. They're TIRED. They're wet, they're exhausted, some of them are angry. Most of them are just standing there immobile, miserably filming the one tank driving past them on their mobile phone as some droning voice gives them instructions about how to spend money at Coinbase from offscreen. There's no music. There's no laughter. There's no JOY.

This is Trump's America. A joyless, artless tiresome wet blanket filled with the squeaking of tank treads and the cold sound of boots on asphalt.

We could have had joy. But we got this instead.