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Came to say this!
Thick, curly waist-length hair requires that I be in there. God help me if I want to do a second pass at it.
That is a very fun fact.
Woah. Soulism is actually pretty cool.
...I only read a quick description just now for the first time so if I'm about to stumble into some insanity, don't spoil it for me.
The stories I could tell you from my time as a caregiver for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities...
::: TW: neglect, abuse, SA
Here is a link to a lawsuit against Clover Bottom Mental Hospital, which was one of these institutions. The lawsuit happened in 1993. This was not that long ago.
"At the defendant state institutions, plaintiffs spend their days waiting out the hours. They sprawl in ill-fitting wheelchairs or carts. They are parked in dayrooms or hallways unattended, or are left alone in their rooms. Many plaintiffs languish in hospital beds or cribs, with no stimulation except when they are changed or fed. Others are left in wheelchairs, unattended for hours, with no stimulation or human contact available to them."
"Plaintiffs' basic care needs are ignored; they are left alone for hours. Clover Bottom residents in diapers are often wet, their clothes soaked through with urine."
"Defendants have failed to protect residents of the institutions from physical abuse and neglect."
"Verbal abuse is widespread. Staff at Clover Bottom use abrupt, verbal commands to communicate with residents; often, they scream at them."
There is so much more, and so much worse. The thing is, some of these folks are still alive, and still members of our community, and they still have the evidence of this ongoing trauma writ large. The current system isn't ideal. There's never enough care, and the people who are providing care are often under-trained and under-paid and over-worked. But at least it's better than this.
ETA: I had to come back and add: I left out all the sexual abuse. There was... a lot. There's evidence. It's mentioned in that lawsuit but there are stories I can't bring myself to tell. :::
So like I said, there can be satisfaction in breaking the rules. But you're still going to get the obvious repercussions.
If I called a nazi a nazi and get punished for it, I'd wear that shit proud, not bitch about it. And things being the rules doesn't make them moral. But you can still deserve the reaction you got, even if you were right in everything you did, and when that happens, you should be thrilled, not complaining.
If I called a nazi a nazi and got punished for it, I wouldn't be posted to YPTB, because that's not power tripping. I'd be posting it everywhere else that there are nazis, and don't you want to come call one of them a nazi and collect your trophy ban?
Man, what a comeback story, No Man's Sky!
I'm psyched for Light No Fire.
Here's a link to the song "Pet" by A Perfect Circle.
Don't know why your comment made me want to add this.
I don't know why your comment made me think you might know. Oh, well, thanks anyway.
YDI.
I'm not usually one to be a tone police bastard, but (hope I'm tagging this right) @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net was right.
Rule #3 on Europe@feddit.org- "Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. Don’t post direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments. Don’t troll nor incite hatred. Don’t look for novel argumentation strategies at Wikipedia’s List of fallacies." Emphasis mine. "No the German authorities are the racist idiots. And so is anyone agreeing with the German authorities." That's pretty obviously insulting.
I really want to stress that my judgement here is independent of the point you were making. No one provoked you. You can read the rules. You could easily have made your point without insulting someone, but you chose to be insulting. And don't get me wrong, you can take satisfaction in doing that, if you're doing it on purpose and you feel it's called for, but you still would've deserved it for breaking the rules of that space.
My opinion of this issue is separate, so I'll post a comment with my feelings on it, but I wanted to ask you- is there anywhere in English that talks about this property damage? I tried looking everywhere but the only reporting in English I'm seeing is leaving out this alleged property damage, and I tried machine translating the few articles I could identify (I'm no longer fluent in German, which is frankly tragic, and I don't know how to get it back) all had the same angle as the article posted and no mention of damages.
This space gives me the life that the ever-present tankie-versus-liberal fight elsewhere on lemmy is constantly trying to steal.
Activism, and as always, the ever-present threat of retaliatory violence that is all the state seems to respect!
We need to get back to our roots.
And now we are friends!
That's the other cool thing about the Sailor Moon fandom. I've never once met a Sailor Moon fan who was a racist, or a bigot, or... anything. It comes with the 'love and justice' thing.
I have to say, I read your comment, then went back and actually looked at the first three links they posted. None were rhetorical questions. Are you looking at something somewhere else that I'm not aware of?
But it doesn't... Like I'm not actually interested in your fight. I just have a massive pet peeve about someone coming in, seeing a wall of links called 'evidence,' and choosing to ignore all that to start a different fight.
I appreciate your vehemence and the vigor with which you make your point, and also agree with your point. I only had issue with that particular insult because in my culture, it does initially read as misogynist. I figured I'd ask if you meant it that way because you probably didn't.
Every time some liberal recommends peaceful protest, I yell that MLK Jr. couldn't have got where he got without Malcolm X, that Stonewall was a riot, and if someone takes away my right to vote, I'm going to behave in the way that got my foremothers the right to vote!
With 15-hour weeks I'd be first to sign up!
Diva, we disagree on a lot of things, and we agree on others, which makes you (genuinely) so much fun for me to see in a thread.
I just told people on another thread that (because of my trauma background) I don't feel anger very often, which means I appreciate folks like you (and conversely, maybe, Rusty here) because I see you leap straight to it with abandon.
I guess what I'm saying is, it takes all kinds to make a world, and I'm glad you're in it.
cm002, I have no dog in this fight, and lemme say, I love having no dog in this fight.
But if someone tells you that you have too much evidence and they aren't going to engage with it, and then instead pivots to trying to force you to engage with their points, and devolves to "please state whether you believe the comics are antisemitic..." This is just a suspicion, and I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're not engaging you in good faith.
Those three links were posts of screenshots of mod actions? If I was doing a big, hyperfocus-style, documenting-things kind of thing, I wouldn't link directly to the modlog for a lot of reasons. I'd link to a screenshot of the modlog. That way, people can see the thing I want to point out, and then if they want, go verify that it's in the modlog.
Normally I wouldn't wade into this obvious shitshow, but I have a massive pet peeve of a person dismissing another person's argument with, "There's too much evidence." I get not wanting to comment individually on each and every thing they posted, who has the time, but for "I don't want to engage with all this content," there's the option of not commenting at all. Telling someone that their point is invalid because they have too much content is really really really frustrating for me. That might be my neurodivergence but...
But, "your point is wrong because there's too much evidence and I don't wanna read it" isn't a counterargument to the original point being made. And making a counterpoint of, "but here's MY argument and MY evidence and I want you to engage with THAT" is... not what good faith debate should look like. If you can't be bothered to engage with the original point being made, using it to pivot a discussion to your own point is... rude.