Gender roles are really out there. I had a customer tell me he didn’t want avocado because its a ‘Woman’s Vegetable’
hes rite tho
I am but a simple sandwich merchant for the few hours my old hands allow
what have I done to deserve this
why me
its been six years and this still haunts me
Apparently having 2/3rds of all rivers being unswimmable is an attack on the property rights of farmers despite being on public land. This is the direct result of National’s campaign to convince farmers that Labour and the Greens hate them despite zero evidence. Rest assured Groundswell NZ is no grassroots movement. There is dark money funneling in from somewhere but we won’t know until months or even years down the line.
If farmers knew how to run their own farms as they claim to be able to, we wouldn’t have such vast problems to begin with. Their actions and National bending over backwards to accommodate them are why ¾ of NZ fish species are endangered and why thousands of people get sick a year from effluent in the drinking water.
They are also pushing for loosened restrictions on foreign seasonal workers immigration despite the pandemic still being a huge global problem. If they can’t run their farms without slave labour then maybe they don’t deserve to.
Being held accountable is not an attack.
Please stop scrolling and please take 26 seconds to watch this video (TW: Abuse of disabled people):
(Reposted by kind permission of @/auteach on TikTok).
This blog will be dedicated to the #StopTheShock campaign and will include survivors’ stories and action points to help fight this decision and stop the torture of autistic people.
For a current list of action points, head over to the AuTeach website. PLEASE REBLOG and spread the word, even if you are not autistic, and follow this blog for updates.
Just to clear up some misconceptions I have seen elsewhere: This is not the same as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This is a device called a graduated electronic decelerator (GED) worn on the ankle which is used to administer remote electric shocks as a form of corporal punishment.
There is a group of people who are fighting a legal battle to be allowed to shock disabled children simply for displaying traits related to their disability. And they are winning.
This is an image drawn by Jennifer Msumba, a patient at the Judge Rotenberg Centre. A literal child.
A child like Andre McCollins who was restrained on a 4 point board and shocked 31 times over seven hours. His supposed crimes that justified this abuse? Refusal to take his coat off. Then tensing up and screaming when he was shocked. He required hospitalisation for the 3rd degree burns on multiple body parts he received from the ordeal.
This is torture. The UN calls it torture. The only reason the ban is getting overturned is because of a loophole exploiting lawsuit from the Judge Rotenberg Centre. The GED was initially banned for use as a behaviour modification device. According to the lawsuit the FDA does not have the power to ban a device for a specific use so either has to ban the GED outright or let the JRC continue as they please.
Michael Israel, the founder of the JRC and inventor of the GED, has stated
“ [The GED] could be used everywhere… It could and should be used—not as a last resort, because it has no side effects. I think it should be used in the schools. Prisons have the problem that people see that as coercion. But if it works here, why shouldn’t it be used elsewhere? “
So not only does he not see disabled kids as human, he wants to torture them more globally for minor infractions so he can profit.
Transphobes stay off my posts. Your attacks on trans kids are vile and damaging too.
Please stop scrolling and please take 26 seconds to watch this video (TW: Abuse of disabled people):
(Reposted by kind permission of @/auteach on TikTok).
This blog will be dedicated to the #StopTheShock campaign and will include survivors’ stories and action points to help fight this decision and stop the torture of autistic people.
For a current list of action points, head over to the AuTeach website. PLEASE REBLOG and spread the word, even if you are not autistic, and follow this blog for updates.
Just to clear up some misconceptions I have seen elsewhere: This is not the same as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This is a device called a graduated electronic decelerator (GED) worn on the ankle which is used to administer remote electric shocks as a form of corporal punishment.
There is a group of people who are fighting a legal battle to be allowed to shock disabled children simply for displaying traits related to their disability. And they are winning.
This is an image drawn by Jennifer Msumba, a patient at the Judge Rotenberg Centre. A literal child.
A child like Andre McCollins who was restrained on a 4 point board and shocked 31 times over seven hours. His supposed crimes that justified this abuse? Refusal to take his coat off. Then tensing up and screaming when he was shocked. He required hospitalisation for the 3rd degree burns on multiple body parts he received from the ordeal.
This is torture. The UN calls it torture. The only reason the ban is getting overturned is because of a loophole exploiting lawsuit from the Judge Rotenberg Centre. The GED was initially banned for use as a behaviour modification device. According to the lawsuit the FDA does not have the power to ban a device for a specific use so either has to ban the GED outright or let the JRC continue as they please.
Michael Israel, the founder of the JRC and inventor of the GED, has stated
“ [The GED] could be used everywhere… It could and should be used—not as a last resort, because it has no side effects. I think it should be used in the schools. Prisons have the problem that people see that as coercion. But if it works here, why shouldn’t it be used elsewhere? “
So not only does he not see disabled kids as human, he wants to torture them more globally for minor infractions so he can profit.
featherless ✅
biped ✅
this is a MAN
okay no.
noo.
i thought his nose thingy was the most unsettling thing I've ever seen,,,,, and then his tongue comes out???? what the hell???
hes just a little dude you don't have to slander him like that
Mmmmm... Yeah, able-bodied leftists aren't simply ignorant, you guys all are down right evil and none of you will see heaven.
See I wasn't exaggerating the times I've said able-bodied leftists see physically disabled people as bourgeois parasites, the lazy enemies of the working class?
Leftists of all variety will never win until you do something about people like this in your ranks
the anniversary of library paste man’s death is in four days.
One hundred and ten years ago to the day. Amazing. Incredible.
Yeah this was a homeless man digging through garbage to find food. Library paste is usually flour and water but it can contain alum which is toxic especially to someone who has been starved to the point of eating library paste to survive.
How many mass graves and extinct cultures are needed to convince Christian apologists that missionaries and missionizing are inherently xenophobic?
The answer is apparently always, "At least one more."
It just like... look. If your religion has an explicit instruction of belief that it needs to take every other religion out there in the world, wipe them out, and replace them with itself, that religion is xenophobic. And the people who engage in the fulfillment of that process are xenophobic.
It might not be as explicitly nasty a xenophobia as ethnic genocide, but it's still an instruction to commit cultural genocide.
If you want an example and get incredibly deeply unfathomably angry…
Shane “I will never wear a bow tie! That is a Shane Madej guarantee!” Madej
First image description: David Seymour standing in a business suit with a large dish of lasagne photoshopped into his hands.
Second image description: “This auction is for lunch and a tour of Parliament with David Seymour for you and two mates. Lunch will be at the iconic Bellamy’s Restaurant in the Beehive, where many a political deal has been made over a pint and a steak. After lunch David will take you and your friends on a private tour of Parliament.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a personalized tour of Parliament by one of New Zealand’s political superstars, as well as sit down for a meal and a chat .The winner of this auction will need to get themselves to Wellington for this experience. If you cannot get to Wellington, arrangements can be made to meet in another city. This will mean lunch at a different restaurant and forgoing the tour of Parliament. Once the auction has been won, we will arrange a date that suits both you and David before the 15th October.”
This is for a cancer charity but its still pretty vile. Its essentially paying to get access to a sitting politician. Granted David Seymour isn’t profiting directly but he is gaining a lot of free press and good will for helping charity.
Nobody is paying for this because they like Seymour. He has all the charm and personality of a sandpaper face wash. This is clearly an opportunity to get into the ear of a far right MP who is willing to make deals involving government assets and tax rates.
