For context and further information for those who don’t know:
Houselessness/being unsheltered is criminalized in many places. Calling 911 is going to backfire; they won’t help the person, they’ll cite or arrest them. If you’re genuinely worried, ask the person if they need anything. Or if you happen to know a local social agency, you can maybe call them *after* you’ve talked to the person you’re calling about. Give people the dignity of self-determination (if they’re, like, unconscious or injured and can’t respond to you, then by all means call for help, but leave the cops out of it).
The times I’ve checked on people who looked like they needed someone looking out for them, they were very forthcoming with what I could do to actually help. Most of the time it’s been getting them food, heat packs, water bottles, and/or a prepaid phone card. Don’t assume, and be humble enough to recognize that you are not the expert on what a struggling person needs most.
if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t
someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter
most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t
homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right
This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.
John Oliver is so crazy cus you see him and he’s british and he’s wearing a suit in front of a fake new york city skyline and you’re like yeah another white Democrat making jokes at late night but then he starts buying and cancelling millions of medical debt and saying defund the police years before it was widely-held conversation and drawing rats fucking each other and before you know it this owl in human skin has made you a radical leftist
A lot of people in the notes have been talking about how great he is for liberals and moderates to introduce them to more “radical ideas” and that’s true !!! He is great !!!! And it’s wonderful !!!! But also like, even for already radicalized people he is often exploring and exposing things that aren’t talked about and I’m still learning a lot from the videos he posts because a lot of genuine hard work and research goes into it. I often learn more from last week tonight than I do from a lot of other blatantly leftist sources. the moral of the story here is that appearances and tone should be separated from politics and morality ok thank u
ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends
I love this idea. We used to do things like this in Improv.
Related game: “THINK ABOUT IT.” You’re given a random topic, and your job is to build it into an epic conspiracy theory, the crazier the better. You end your rant with a serious face and the command that your listeners “Think about it.”
Another related game: Illuninati. Similar to Think About It except you are given 2 completely different topics and you have to connect them to each other in a wild conspiracy rant
Rb to safe an awkward hang out
me and my friends play “World’s Greatest Expert” where one of the other players says “Hey, I heard you’re the world’s greatest expert on ____” and you have to give an in depth (and probably completely false) lecture about the thing you’re the greatest expert on. Other players are allowed to ask you questions.
The version I learned was ‘Ah Yes’ in which someone gives you a work of art or famous landmark and you go “Ah Yes, the ____” in a posh accent while making up the most wildly inaccurate history of the topic. Bonus points for how hard everyone laughs.
Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive
This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah
Just because you’re part of an oppressed party does not mean you cannot hold bias against other groups or members of your own group. Bias is learned and ingrained through society and family and it takes real work to unlearn it. No one is perfect, no one is without bias and you are in fact going to fuck up now and again—what matters is if you learn from it and grow.
this is what people are talking about when they say “do the work”
every day. every single day i wish my taxes went to making the train and the hospital free instead of innovating new ways to kill people in other countries
“Here it’s a sequence that I know is disturbing. Because we just got out of this scene (the abortion scene), just got out of this representation of an abortion and we enter another dynamic, which is to represent abortion within the film.”
“It was very important for me even if there’s a double tension. It is important to have an abortion and to represent the importance of representing it. Because this is what happened by cutting women off from the opportunity to be artists. They did not represent their private lives, they did not represent their desire, they did not represent their bodies, they did not represent their lives. And all these images are missing from history, but they are especially missing in OUR life. It’s Annie Ernaux who said that there is not a museum in the world where there is a painting called « the abortion ».”
“So this scene may happen a little abruptly but it’s not to forget that art creates memory.And I also wanted to represent the pleasure of representing, the pleasure that we see on Marianne’s face. And also to represent the impulse of the model, her intelligence, it’s her who said what to look at, it’s her who had the idea of painting. This was the opportunity that women had, to be in the artists’ workshops/studios, it was to be models. They seized this opportunity, that’s how they made artworks.”
“This is my favorite painting. It has never been completed.”
