I Am On My Knees Begging, Begging People To Remember Disabled People In The LGBTQ+ Community This Month.

I am on my knees begging, begging people to remember disabled people in the LGBTQ+ community this month. Please don't leave us to die.

COVID never ended and it made many people immunocompromised. Wear a mask at Pride events (and other places too). Yes, even if it makes you uncomfy or doesn't match your outfit.

Some anti-trans laws are specifically targeting mentally disabled people, arguing that we're not capable of making decisions about our own bodies and thus should not be allowed to medically transition. Include us in discussions about trans legislation.

Disabled people already face high discrimination in work and housing, and it's worse for those who are LGBTQ+. Stand up for your disabled and LGBTQ+ peers.

Some disabled people with caretakers can't come out because the people they depend on aren't safe. Support closeted LGBTQ+ people.

The insurance companies that always find a reason not to cover gender-affirming surgery are the same ones that always find a reason not to cover medication or therapy or mobility aids. Have some solidarity with disabled people who have to fight against the same greedy pigs you do.

Make sure Pride events are accessable to mobility aid users, people with service animals or caretakers, people with sensory issues, etc. Or at the very least, be honest if they're not, so people don't waste their time going there only to discover they can't participate.

It breaks my heart seeing so-called leftists throwing their disabled siblings to the wolves. You like to say that you'd punch a Nazi, throw bricks at police cars, fight tooth and nail for the rights of LGBTQ+ people... But the moment it concerns disabled LGBTQ+ people, you drop your support like a rock. Your hypocrisy is disgusting, and it's going to kill many people in the LGBTQ+ community this Pride month unless you take a moment to realize that, whether you like it or not, some of us are disabled and we don't deserve to die for that.

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hatesquash

1 year ago

Every day Landry and the ultra right-wing legislature in Baton Rouge launch a new attack against Louisiana’s workers. They figure they can get away with it because Landry’s corporate funders—the real force behind the attacks—have near total control of news and social media, which they count on to keep us misinformed, ignorant, and divided. We can’t let this situation stand.

"We’ve launched the Louisiana Worker to get out the facts and spread news of organizing to working-class Louisianans across the state. We need to break through the lies and censorship of the big business media and expose the real cause of our hardships. We need to show the power of working class unity and fight back.

Click here for our first edition which went to newsprint this week: https://nolaworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/240517_LouisianaWorker_Final.pdf

We hope you will get involved with the paper by distributing it, donating funds, submitting articles or letters about your town, your job, or what's on your mind. Contact us at louisianaworker@gmail.com.

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hatesquash

1 year ago

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

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hatesquash

1 year ago

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

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hatesquash

1 year ago

Just a reminder for people who may not know, in light of protestors at UCLA being shot in the face with rubber bullets— rubber bullets are not bullets made of rubber. They are metal bullets encased in rubber.

Despite being called “non-lethal” or sometimes “less lethal”, they are well known to cause death and permanent disability.

Here’s a photo showing their size— these are actual rubber bullets used during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

A photo showing three large rubber bullets lying in a human hand. The smallest spans the length of four fingers, the largest spans from thumb to pinky across the palm.

Do not let them downplay the severity of what they are subjecting this students to for standing against genocide. Stay safe and stay educated.

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hatesquash

2 years ago

Call for a demonstration in solidarity with struggle to #StopCopCity in #Minneapolis.

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Attached: 1 image Call for a demonstration in solidarity with struggle to #StopCopCity in #Minneapolis.

Call for a demonstration in solidarity with struggle to #StopCopCity in #Minneapolis.

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hatesquash

1 year ago

//TIME IS TICKING.

WE ONLY HAVE A FEW DAYS UNTIL KOSA IS DETERMINED. THERE IS A HUGE AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE TRYING TO PASS THIS BILL, BUT THE INTERNET IS BIGGER!

WE NEED ALL THE SUPPORT WE CAN GET.

CALL REPRESENTATIVES, TELL FAMILY, FRIENDS, MOOTS, LITERALLY EVERYONE YOU CAN.

IF THE BILL PASSES, THE INTERNET WILL BE CHANGED AS WE KNOW IT. IT WILL NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE OUT OF THE US. MANY FANDOM SPACES ARE IN AMERICAN DOMAIN.

YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE FROM USING A DIFFERENT EMAIL, ACCOUNT, ANYTHING. STOP BELIEVING THAT. THIS BILL WANTS CONTROL AS FAR BACK AS TRACING US BACK TO NAMES, AGES, GOVERNMENT IDS AND LICENSE PLATES.

YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE BECAUSE, “OH THIS BILL CAN’T PASS IT VIOLATES THE 1ST AMENDMENT!”. THEY HAVE PASSED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BILLS. YOU WILL NOT BE SAFE BECAUSE “OH, THIS BILL HASN’T PASSED FOR 2 YEARS!” THEY ARE AGGRAVATED. THEY ARE PUSHING FOR THIS BILL.

DO NOT FORGET KOSA MERELY BECAUSE A LACK OF UPDATES. I NEED YOU TO SIGN PETITIONS, CALL REPRESENTATIVES. DONT FORGET. I WANT YOU TO MAKE AS MUCH NOISE ABOUT KOSA POSSIBLE. DO NOT. FORGET. WE HAD THE TIME TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT KOSA, AND YET WE FORGOT BECAUSE OF A LACK OF UPDATES. THAT BRIEF TIME WAS NOT A COOLDOWN PERIOD. IT WAS A TIME TO KEEP KOSA TRENDING.

STOP GOING ON TIKTOK, COMMENTING “B00ST” AND THEN CALLING IT A DAY. YES THAT HELPS, BUT YOU NEED TO DO WHAT 90% OF THESE VIDEOS WANT YOU TO DO. SIGN PETITIONS. CALL REPRESENTATIVES. THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS POST ABOUT KOSA YOURSELF.

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hatesquash

9 months ago

an anime-style illustration of a femme eating pastries at a table. a cat is standing on the table and is speaking. all the following images are the same except for the text. “at the elections, capitalism always wins.”

History shows that before fascism rises to power, there is a period of defeat and demoralisation first that prepares it: periods of failure and retreat for the workers' movement, in which the left reformist parties then moved to the camp of the bourgeoisie, where they played a leading role.

By demoralizing the proletariat and drawing it away from its revolutionary path and instead into efforts to improve capitalism, the reformist leftists pave the way for the workers' defeat and the rise of fascism.

The struggles conducted on the terrain of anti-fascism have been revealed to be incapable of opposing their designated enemy. The role of "popular fronts" has always been to drag the proletariat into the maelstrom of global imperialist war.

Left parties have often fulfilled a crucial function for capitalism by supporting the existing regime in the name of the immediate need to defend democracy, all while the conditions for fascism and world war come into focus. When leftists are zealously defending "democracy" under capitalism, they are thus obscuring the consciousness of the workers and hindering their combativity.

Let's raise the alarm against the error of supporting one side of capitalism (that of "democracy") against another (that of "authoritarianism”) in the name of anti-fascism. Capitalism is inseparable from state authoritarianism, racism, militarism, national chauvinism, and the reactionary and conservative mobilization of the people against each other and the revolutionary movement of the proletariat.

All the parties which claim today to mitigate the effects of this multifaceted crisis will tomorrow be forced to become its instruments. In so doing they will contribute to the polarisation of the attention of the working class towards an impasse, precisely when the situation requires them to regain confidence in their own strength in their struggle to defend their living conditions.

The experience of our class shows that the attacks of capitalism cannot be pushed back through theballot. All governments, however absolute, are nothing but the executors of the needs of capitalism in the situation in which it finds itself, and of its economic needs in particular. Contrary to electoral agitation, revolutionaries must base their actions on the collective and historical interests of the working class.

By turning up at the ballot boxes as individual citizens, proletarians will have already lost the class coherence which can only be experienced within the real movement to oppose capitalism, and in the revolutionary organisations which intervene to guide the struggle.

Proletarians, let's reject all this, because we know that these elections will change nothing for us and will serve to revive their system! Let's not vote for our enemies, whether on the left or the right, because they are all preparing our exploitation!

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hatesquash

1 year ago

We need to talk about how so many queer spaces are inaccessible and even actively hostile to physically disabled people.

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hatesquash

1 year ago

Why anyone, anywhere believes without question cop spokespeople/statements is fucking bullshit.

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how many times they gotta lie before you quit

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hatesquash

1 year ago

the orcas sunk another yacht in the strait of Gibraltar on Sunday. this time it was a 49 foot (15 metre) vessel. there have been over 700 incidents since May 2020 and in Spain, there's reports of them happening "daily." at least one species is attempting to put the rich at the bottom of the ocean and i think that's neat.

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