The B stands for based

They’re preparing the public in case of Biden’s loss. They want liberals thinking “wow, Biden was unjustly robbed of the presidency” when he fails, not “I guess people didn’t vote for him because he’s a genocidal plague lord”.

The government has abandoned us when it comes to public health. We’ve got to take care of ourselves and each other now. We’ve got to do what we can–wear a mask, a respirator if you can, filter your air, ventilate, avoid crowded places, use a nasal spray, vaccinate-- do as many of these as you can. Heart disease is something you want to avoid getting if you can. Please, protect yourselves and your loved ones. Covid is spread in the air and you can reduce your chances of getting it if you filter and ventilate your air and avoid sharing air with people when possible. Don’t give up. Each new infection carries the risk of permanent complications and it’s important to keep protecting your loved ones community. Every time you protect yourself you protect all of us. Even preventing one infection matters.

I don’t think they even give a fuck about building immunity. They have their rich people meds, their rich people antivirals, their rich people testing, all the rich people state of the art healthcare. Why would they care if we die? We die all the time from preventable things like cancer, war, environmental poisoning, etc. All they care about is harvesting all the value and labor they can before we die.

Please take care of yourselves, everyone. Covid is still going, still a threat, and can still kill or disable you and your loved ones. Please, do everything you can- wear a mask- an N95 or a KN95, filter your air with a hepa filter, ventilate your air, socialize carefully, get the vaccine, try to work remotely or at least away from other people if you can, use a nasal spray, avoid crowds. I know that not everyone can do these things but please do as many as you can. Assume that you and people around you are asymptomatically infectious, and take precautions as if that’s the case.

Don’t give up. Even a single case prevented is worth it. Even if you are exposed, if you can be exposed to a lower viral load that will be better- so precautions count. Think of your loved ones, your friends, yourself, your communities. You are protecting everyone each time you take protective steps. The government has failed us utterly and now it’s time to take matters into our own hands and slow this down as much as possible. The fewer people infected means that fewer variants develop. Fewer variants mean that future vaccines are more likely to protect us.

Getting disabled can happen to anyone. No matter your age or level of health, getting covid can make things worse. Some people get permanent conditions from covid, like heart problems, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. Please, do everything you can to protect yourself. Good health is temporary, and sometimes when you lose it it never comes back. If you can save yourself from a getting a permanent disability, you should.

Because the US govt is composed of genocidal shits, that’s why

If you’ve ever wondered what you’d do in a genocide, the answer is whatever you’re doing now.

wwiii has started. Help people.

THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE WHO GET KILLED IN EVERY GENOCIDE

THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE GETTING GENOCIDED IN PALESTINE

STOP THINKING ONLY WESTERN QUEERS MATTER

STOP THINKING ONLY WESTERN QUEERS EXIST

EVERY GENOCIDE KILLS QUEERS

QUEER PEOPLE ARE IN EVERY GROUP EVEN IF YOU DON’T SEE THEM

YES EVEN IN GROUPS OF “THE STRAIGHTS” OR “THE CIS” IT’S CALLED CLOSETING

seriously white queer genocidal takes are really pissing me off. Don’t let our communities be twisted to supporting this vile bloodshed.

Therapy is good in some ways but there’s an element of it that seems designed to divert people away from righteous anger at systemic inhumanity. Like it seems that an unspoken goal of therapy is to get people to come to a place of acceptance in regards to the shitty status quo rather than acknowledging the infuriating horrors that are robbing and killing us.

My country’s healthcare system

Fuck transphobia. You deserve better.

tw: sexual violence, forced birth

Why don’t you compare those numbers to the number of deaths caused by covid-19. Way more people have died or become disabled from covid, it’s not even close. https://ncov2019.live/data

To Othello: You are super cool and I really appreciate reading what you have to say. I really appreciate your perspective and all you give to this community. I hope the rest of us can make this a good enough place for you to stay. You deserve a good place where your comrades have your back. [/gen, angry on your behalf, hoping you stay]

To the white fragile people who were being assholes to Othello,: Raise your fucking standards for yourself. Read. Learn. Don’t take out your fragility and big feelings about race on black people. Do you feel upset when a black person expresses feelings about race? Do some reading about the history of racism. Do some emotional work. Don’t turn your ignorance and your feelings into a burden for black people. Don’t take out your insecurities, your anger, your fragility, your fear on black people. Deal with it yourself. If you don’t have the tools, find them. Research. Learn. And if you don’t have the energy for that, then shut the fuck up.

To my fellow white people on this site: We have to do better about defending our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades on this site. Yes, it takes work to learn, it takes time and energy and discomfort and going outside of our comfort zones. But we have to do that work, and we have to do a better job. We have to collectively create a site where our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades feel safe, where they know we’ll be there for them and have their backs. It’s fun to shitpost, and shitposting is an important part of the culture here too. But we also have to do ongoing work to make it so that when we see racism, we notice it, and call it out. It might take the mods a while to get to delete and ban racism, but we should be there to back our comrades up and make racists feel unwelcome. An important part of leftism is making sure that we have spaces that feel good for our comrades to be in. We need to be able to create and maintain spaces that are supportive. With the federations having happened, there’s been somewhat of a focus on bringing leftism to other communities, educating outsiders etc, but we also have to remember that gaining numbers by bringing in outsiders is not the only factor affecting numbers. If we bring in assholes, and then they drive out people from minority groups, then we haven’t actually gained anything good. We need to create spaces where our black, indigenous, and people of color comrades can stay. And from my digging to try to figure out what this was all about, it sounds like some (or all? not sure) of the users harassing Othello were from inside hexbear. So we need to do better. We need to go out of our way to do the emotional work, educate ourselves, and actively look for racism on the site so we can stamp it out.

Yeah. The propaganda machine has told them covid is not a problem anymore, and that’s what they believe. People are being brainwashed.

That’s really rough. I’m so sorry.

The “Covid is over” propaganda. Covid is not over. It is still killing people, still disabling people, still giving people lifelong autoimmune conditions and other long-term health problems. “Covid is over” Is code for “Go back to work so the capitalist class can reap the rewards of your labor, no matter how dead or disabled you become in the process.”

He should fire himself too, from the sound of it.

Just to be clear, women being constantly being belittled and treated as secretaries is discrimination based on sex, and it is extremely likely that they being sexually harassed in ways that you don’t see. There are tons of ways for bosses and coworkers to pull people aside, force people to stay late, or even pressure meetups outside of the workplace framed as business/mentoring lunches, to set up situations where they can say and do things that no one else will see or hear. Belittling people is often a practice that abusers use to wear down victims psychologically, to set the stage for ongoing and escalating abuse. Many abusers are very socially clever these days, and will go to great lengths to groom their victims into not realizing they are being abused, target people who need the job/reference/experience etc. and keep as much of the abuse as possible outside of official records like email, and even manufacture documentation in retaliation of the people they abuse, for example, creating false poor performance reviews, so they can dispose of victims when they are done and have a evidence in their own favor if there is a court case.

We also need lockdowns where people are supported in staying home long enough to eliminate the virus, regular and updated testing, updated vaccines, free high quality accessible healthcare, and changes to make workplaces safe - like letting people work from home; changing in-person work to be socially distanced, and unlimited paid time off so people can get medical care when they need it.