self compassion, mental health

"when lizzo said "self love is survival" and when hannah gadsby said "do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? its not humility. its humiliation" and when mitski said "i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that's awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation"

when audre lorde said "caring for myself is not self-indulgence, its self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare" "

Every day this country is filled with incredible violence.

Burning cars crashed on deadly highways. Disabled elders rolled out of hospitals to die in the street. Unhoused people’s homes and lifesaving possessions crushed under bulldozers. Tasering, beating, and shooting by cops.

Rampant domestic abuse, child abuse, sex abuse.

Violent evictions, forced starvation, deaths of despair.

Workers threatened, abused, and stolen from by their bosses.

Immigrants deprived, brutalized, caged up, and killed.

BIPOC targeted, harassed, swat’ed, arrested, murdered.

Queer people harassed, persecuted, prosecuted, and killed.

Ubiquitous torture against detained and incarcerated people. Starvation, exposure, rape, overdose, withdrawal, beating, murder.

Vast slave labor in prison farms and prison factories, trafficked workers.

Nearly everyone suffering illness and injury kept from medical care. Over a million dead from Covid medical neglect. Chronic illnesses and injuries everywhere.

And every day the violence gets worse.

Every year is a new record for police murder and police brutality.

20% more people die every day compared to just a few years ago. And the deaths keeps rising. Everything keeps rising.

Climate apocalypse, also the violence of this system, has really started to set in: killing thousands in climatic events and exposing refugees to the some of the worst violence this system has to offer.

This system, which calls any resistance or push back “violent,” is nothing but violence and abuse and control.

The moments when we seem to recognize this, when people mobilize to fight against the rising tide, seem almost arbitrary.

Every day brings a thousand tragedies, a thousand outrages.

When do people reject the callous lies, the clear hypocrisy, and the constant constant violence of “business as usual?”

When do people mobilize their rage?

What is the source of a movement? Of a moment? Of action?

Privatization of public services.
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A yes the greatest country in the world shocks disabled kids that don’t immediately comply…
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@failures_of_capitalism

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The US Senate are trying to pass the EARN IT Act once more. TLDR it is a conservative attack on free speech that, if passed, will destroy Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code and force everyone and everything online to submit to conservative-dictated moral decency measures or be removed from the internet entirely.

Section 230 is the only reason why social media exists and why anyone can post what they want to online. The EARN IT Act is an anti-queer, anti-union, anti-progressive, sex-negative, pro-fascist, pro-conservative trash and nothing more. It will do even worse damage than FOSTA/SESTA. Full details in the link. Fight this thing with all you've got.

https://fullhalalalchemist.tumblr.com/post/715886672338878464/urgent-earn-it-act-is-back-in-the-senate