nerd teacher 🦇

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An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist.
Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace.

[Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.]

Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.

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nerd teacher 🦇23h ago
refraction 23h ago
the state will not abolish itself, we shouldn't expect unions to abolish the conditions that allow them to exist either.
nerd teacher 🦇1d ago
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴1d ago

The only purpose of a law binding the police is to confuse or misdirect you, so you're caught off balance when you're jumped and beaten up.

There is no law that actually constrains the police, there never has been, and there never will be.

And the same goes for laws constraining empire.

nerd teacher 🦇1d ago
William Gillis 🏴1d ago

HAPPY ANARCHY DAY!

While you take time for yourself and celebrate surviving another year, let us remember those who didn't survive or who otherwise faced the boot of state repression this last year...
(art by @nobonzo )

nerd teacher 🦇3d ago
Show threadSheryl Weikal3d ago
As a crude example, it's the difference between "Jews need not apply" and "All employees must work on Saturdays." They both exclude Jews, but one is facially neutral and gives the employer plausible deniability. Disparate impact targets the second one.
nerd teacher 🦇3d ago
Sheryl Weikal3d ago

This part of Alito's opinion is frankly terrifying. Note the language of "mere" disparate impact.

For the nonlawyers, "disparate impact" is the type of case you bring for housing or employment discrimination where the defendant does something discriminatory without an overt statement of intent.

nerd teacher 🦇3d ago

I love the frequency with which I get to watch the EU decry all the things bad about the US... and what they really mean is that it's bad that someone in the US is doing the things they want to do here.

They never mean that it's actually bad. It's just bad that they aren't also doing it or don't have EU-specific tools to engage in doing the shittiest things possible.

I say this because every day I see them developing the exact garbage that no one already wants and they seem to think the problem is that it's not Made in the EU or whatever... instead of that the thing they want (surveillance, AI, anti-immigration trash, etc) is actually terrible.

Stupid fake continent full of Superior Than Thous. I hate it.

Show threadnerd teacher 🦇5d ago

Also, when I went to the pharmacy yesterday? Because I had no other choice but to go, since I'm currently the... least unwell of the two people in this household.

I was behind this lady who basically coughed in the face of the pharmacist. And the pharmacist didn't even flinch.

And then when I was at the counter... in my mask. I started having a small coughing fit and immediately put my face in my elbow, and she backed off like the plague walked through the door.

... Which, fine. Do that for both of us, but she only did it to me. Which I find bizarre because I was far more cautious and considerate than the woman who literally spewed droplets in her face.

nerd teacher 🦇5d ago

I hate that I have to worry that my clients think I'm just being irresponsible because I've been sick so much this year... like just in the past three months.

Because, idk, some folks around here can't seem to keep themselves from coughing or sneezing in the faces of other people while they're on public transit.

And I get sick easily anyway. And it didn't matter that I was wearing a mask when it happened (but the point of wearing masks is mostly to protect others, not yourself—it can help you to varying degrees, but it's more for other people).

nerd teacher 🦇5d ago

I always find it interesting when people are like "total failure of policy and regulations" to shit things that happen because... idk. This feels like the point of policy and regulations, if I'm honest.

Like, the bad seems to outweigh the good on the constant, and the good seems like it was all designed around "well, we better do that lest we get some pitchforks up the ass tonight."

Clearly, we should be doing more pitchforking.

nerd teacher 🦇5d ago

Honestly, I think about the way that schools of all sorts handle problems between students (usually doing some 'both sides' bullshit, which is rarely even a true statement for any situation)... And how it's definitely part of what teaches these loser techbros and oligarchs and whoever else who are like "I'm being threatened by the people whose lives I'm ruining" that it's an acceptable statement.

Sure, if I actually only consider the definition of a threat, you're being threatened, dude. But why is that? Did you, perhaps, threaten the lives of millions and are now reaping just a sliver of the consequences you should've had for years?