anyway for the record, yes, so-and-so did use girl power when she committed a bunch of murders. it’s called girl power not girl ethics or girl qualms or girl wisdom or whatnot.
Ok so, I just remembered how people in the comments of a tiktok video were being assholes, and I want to rant now :3
The video showed two wheelchair users at a train(?), who had just arrived to their stop to find nobody was there with a ramp so they could leave the train. One of them blocked the door so it wouldn’t close, and this lasted for 15 minutes. The train was stopped for said 15 minutes. There was a button by the door, that said that it’d contact the driver when pressed. It didn’t. People offered to go find the driver, and they came back with the news that there were no people in the platform to put the ramp. In the end, passengers had to go out, and place the ramp themselves, before the train could carry on. The wheelchair users had warned they were coming, and asked to have the ramp put there so they could get down. The platform turned out to have workers, they all just ran away because they’d never encountered the situation in which they needed to do this simple task.
Because of the workers’ negligence, the train was forced to stop for 15 minutes.
Everyone’s comments?
“Why did they block the doors and stop the train? So selfish” Selfish were workers who refused to do their job.
“What if someone had needed to get to their stop urgently? They shouldn’t have stopped the train” It wasn’t the disabled people’s fault, it was the workers who were negligent.
“Why didn’t they just wheel themselves down those steps?” They shouldn’t have to risk their (expensive) chairs just because people didn’t do what they were paid to do.
“If I had been in that train I would’ve been pissed, how dare you stop it” And you probably wouldn’t have even thought about fixing the problem yourself, would you?
“Entitled assholes” Ok I’ll leave you stranded in a train with everyone who could help you get down outright refusing to. Let’s see who’s an entitled asshole now.
If someone fights for accessibility, as much as it might be a bother for you, you do not have the right to be mad at them. If someone fights for accessibility, it is exclusively the fault of a world catered exclusively for able-bodied people.
So next time you think, “hey the consequences of these disabled people fighting for their rights bother me”, instead of blaming them for this, help them solve the issue. This way, next time they will not have to fight at all.
Able bodied people, go out and fight for a fucking accessible world if you’re not an asshole.
[ Able-bodied people are encouraged to reblog this post, but try not to derail ]
Hot take: Both 20–22 episode seasons and 6–10 episode seasons have their place; the trick is knowing what types of stories are best served by each format.
rolling stone: every person in a position of power in the US collaborated together to do this to you. the media sold you out for profit and aided in the indoctrination of millions to right-wing xenophobia via instilling a fake crime panic. Biden sold you out by putting his own selfish ambitions before the wellbeing of 330~ million citizens by running for a 2nd term and failing to undo any of the cruelty and pain done to people who were hurt under Trump and in some cases making the pain worse. the rest of the Democratic party sold you out by falling in line, normalizing Trumps rhetoric and becoming Republican Lite. Federal law enforcement sold you out via Merrick Garland doing absolutely positively nothing to prosecute right-wing extremism, falsely adding to the Trump narrative that it wasn’t all that serious. and most of all, corporations sold you out as they always do, by working together to falsely inflate prices over the last 4 years, causing the economy to appear far worse to the (yet again) unwitting public who have been totally devastated and in some cases made homeless. this also dooms the Democrats on the economy for the foreseeable future. hold these institutions accountable.
you, a person completely immune to being radicalized through propaganda: the american people really dropped the ball here
Purchasing Power (Salary after Costs and Taxes) of Europe, 2023.
to add: groceries in pink countries are cheaper than in blue countries. same brands. yes, same brands are cheaper. same brands in pink countries that are cheaper are also of higher quality. its been proven that eastern europe receives garbage leftovers of the west. this even went to the european court, nothing has been fixed.
i have some anecdotal evidence too bc i didn’t even realise just the sheer Amount of quality difference there is. but when i visited italy i bought some random juice, the cheapest family pack one, cuz i recognized the brand from Romania. i tasted it and it was one of THE tastiest drinks i’ve had to date. so when i got back to Romania i scrambled to buy the exact same brand and exact same flavor… and it tasted like shit. genuinely just, it tasted like empty chemicals. i was so sad and disappointed and just. i never realised just how huge the actual quality difference is until that point :C
it isnt just anecdotal! though lots could be said about our anedoctal yugoslavs and “german nutella”, as a popular joke. this went all up to the court.
amhrancas 