StarkWolf [she/her]

Industry representatives said they were satisfied with the verdict.

It is very easy to support a harmful practice when it does not affect you personally and you have never had to experience it yourself. I guarantee that if these “industry representatives” were to go through the same experience as the pigs, they would never do it again.

Turns out God is just another who just wants to grill and support their favorite sports team while the world burns.

Maybe this isn’t the place for it, but I have some uncertainties or perhaps misunderstandings with how people talk about Lumpen/Lumpenproletariat. Is my understanding of these terms wrong? Wouldn’t I, as a disabled unemployed adult, be classified as lumpen? Wouldn’t homeless people be? Wouldn’t prisoners be (including all the many people wrongly or unjustly imprisoned)? People pushed into sex work? As modern socialists, these are all groups that we support, and many of our comrades fall into these groups, so why do so many people still use lumpen in exclusively a negative sense? It’s one thing to read books written in the 1800s or turn of the century referring to lumpen exclusively as unthinking, uneducated thieves and bandits and criminals, ‘vagabonds’ and prostitutes that serve no value to the socialist movement, but seeing it used exclusively in a negative sense or carrying those same sentiments in the modern day makes me wonder if these people are actually my comrades, or if I just seriously misunderstood the term.

I feel like autism itself is not inherently disabling, but being forced to live in a world where the vast majority of people are not autistic, makes it so. An entire society built in such a way that is inherently hostile toward autistic people in every way conceivable, where practically no consideration is taken, creates a traumatizing environment. I think a society that took the needs of autistic people into consideration, or even a society in which everyone was autistic , would be a much better society overall, and it wouldn’t be nearly as disabling. Capitalism is not compatible with autism. (My experience as diagnosed)

Edit: More thoughts. It feels kinda like being born into an alien world, where you are (seemingly) the only of your species. You really don’t understand everyone else. They do and say things that make no sense to you. They expect you to do weird things in order to fit in. And they all get very very upset at you when you don’t do the right things to fit in. Nobody really seems to like you, avoid you, or are openly hostile toward you, and you have no idea why. You live in an entirely alien world where you are forced to go to strange places and do strange things, where everything feels like the worst thing, or the worst places you really do not like being in. You start to feel exhausted doing these things but you are not allowed to stop. It genuinely starts to feel like everyone around you is insane. Yet everyone is acting like you are.