leftist tiktoks for class consciousness
check your privilege edition put a finger down if you have been called a racial slur put a finger down if you've been followed in a store unnecessarily put a finger down if someone has crossed the street to avoid passing you put a finger down if you've had someone clinch their purse in an elevator with you put a finger down if you've had someone step off of an elevator to keep from riding with you put a finger down if you've been accused of not being able to afford something expensive put a finger down if you have had fear in your heart when being stopped by the police put a finger down if you have never been given a pass on a citation that you deserved put a finger down if you have been stopped or detained by police for no valid reason put her finger down if you have been bullied solely because of your race put a finger down if you have been denied service solely because of the color of your skin put a finger down if you've ever had to teach your child how not to get killed by the police any fingers left that's privilege i don't know why we're not willing to acknowledge the fact that landlords do not do labor simply they take money away from the working class through passive income and when we look at uh this this uh specific ordinance that they're talking about which is the runners writers and i actually did get into it with jeremiah tattersall over this because i did oppose it and i posed it for a simple reason which is that over the last 10 years there has been a consolidation of rental properties in this city there are a few large landlords who collect the properties of smaller slumlords when they get out of the business and those landlords are worse than the small-time landlords but the issue is that the small-time landlords have no interest in selling to the single families who would like to live in those homes because they can make more by bundling the properties together and selling them to the larger landlords and then you have people like alligator realty who are unresponsive and do not do the repairs that they should be doing and it doesn't matter what ordinance you've implemented because at the end of the day the landlord who is collecting the properties is shitty at the job we need to take steps to decommodify housing we need to take homes we're going to have rental properties because we have a college in the city but we need to figure out a way for those folks who do want to live here who want a home hi we need to figure out a way to get us into these rental properties take them off the rental market now you have people living in a home who care about the home who are going to put the work into it to keep it up and ensure that it can be passed on to future generations i just got home from lunch with my girlfriend at lunch we were sitting next to two kids i would say one was like 16 and one was maybe less than 10. we start overhearing the older one explained to the younger one gender they do it so well like so seamlessly so chill they're just like you know that stuff about gender it's all made up and everybody uses different pronouns really goes into depth about neopronouns she they he they pronouns explains all of it so well so easily and the little one whose only response was oh yeah i have a friend like that and then they just go on to drink a milkshake and eat some fries meanwhile me and my trans girlfriend are literally staring at each other like holding back tears because that's the way that i wish people would have interacted with my gender expansiveness when i was that age i'm just so grateful for the future and if you're one of those little ones that are explaining things or making a difference i hope you know that you inspire me so much and i'm so proud that you're here hello hello hello hello it's a [ __ ] pleasure if you take a rat and you drop it all alone in a cage with nothing but two water bottles one foot with normal water and one foot with morphine water that rat will do nothing but drink that morphine water until it eventually kills itself and dies if you take that same rat and you put it in a rat park instead with other rats to socialize with toys to play with and treats to work for even with the morphine water in their cage these rats will never get addicted what's particularly interesting is that study where the rats became addicts that study was actually used to justify the war on drugs but surprise surprise looks like it should have been a war on isolation boredom and lack of purpose instead here's a list of five movies that are actually anti-capitalist let's start out with an obvious one not only is wally one of the best animated movies of the last 20 years it's also a scathing indictment of american consumerism wally lives in a future where the earth has been consumed by garbage and humans have been reduced to obese immobile couch potatoes 10 out of 10 no notes office space might come off like a zany workplace comedy but it's actually about karl marx's theory of alienation when work is so mundane tedious and exploitative that you dissociate from your own existence one of the characters in this movie tries to kill himself because of how miserable he is though i'm sure there will still be libertarians in the comments who say well if he doesn't like his job he can go get a better job jumanji okay just just go with me for a second on this one so when robin williams character disappears into jumanji his father becomes so distraught that his shoe company collapses which ultimately plunges the entire town into financial ruin and jungle related devastation this is not a movie about a magical board game it's about urban industrial decay and yes you may steal this idea for your college thesis who framed roger abbott is low-key one of the most hardcore anti-cap films in existence judge doom's plan is to dismantle the la public transportation system demolish toontown and then sell that land to real estate developers this movie is about privatization it's also a straight-up allegory about the historical displacement of marginalized communities in los angeles except instead of black and latino people it's bugs bunny and mickey mouse i mean this movie should have won every single oscar the year it came out finally you've got mail so in this movie meg ryan's character owns a small bookstore and tom hanks's character owns a chain of national bookstores which puts meg ryan's bookstore out of business and even though he destroys her entire livelihood she still wants to be with him at the end this movie is not a rom-com it's a psychological thriller about the effects of market consolidation think they're [ __ ] with the unemployment numbers oh they absolutely are you know on one hand they'll talk about this is the lowest rate of unemployment in like what 40 50 60 years what the [ __ ] ever but at the same time we've had record numbers of jobless claims and unemployment claims in decades as well they talk about all this hiring that they're doing and it's 100 to justify those ppp loans which we know for a fact that like so many companies are committing fraud to get and of course we know that they're not counting all the people who have been looking for jobs since covet but just have stopped because it's just so hard the invisible unemployed it is 100 propaganda they're putting a band-aid over a gunshot wound and they don't know what to do everything that they're saying how this is fun no they are the dog in their burning room right now capitalism is the guy in the suit hiding his zombie bite why do people always say ridiculous when they could say regaculous and how can i help to fix this transphobic divide because frankly this is ridiculous it is good to listen to criticism but it's also good to be strong and not to compromise on your principles being a leftist or a marxist or socialist does mean having empathy on some level empathy for your class as well as various oppressed groups but that doesn't mean just having so much empathy to the point where you're weak or where other people can control your positions you have to read a bunch and educate yourself to know what your principles are and then you have to stand on those principles unless you're given alternative evidence that shows you your principles are wrong or they need to be changed you shouldn't change your principles just because a whole bunch of people are mad at you which is something that happens in leftist circles a lot there's like a whole mob of people i like to call them rad libs and a lot of them will get pretty vicious if you stand on your principles whether they be anti-imperialist principles or just principles that some people online disagree with these people will try to make you feel really bad but you don't have to conform to them because they try and make you feel bad if they can only insult you and they can't show you why you're wrong with evidence just block them what i learned there is so much wrong with capitalism uh like where do you even start but when a business dies its carcass is haunted by the spirit of halloween and that's beautiful that's beautiful if you're 200 plus pounds in queer show me your 200 plus pounds in queer i want my for you page like i like my for you page fabulous fat and freaky well how would you like it if the fbi rated the democrat to do it rate them investigate them charge them lock them up most of congress engages in insider trading on a regular basis that's a [ __ ] crime lock them up say that the difference between us and you is you only want the law to apply to the people you don't like we want it to apply equally to everyone like it's supposed to we're building it to break it back down to burn it down every 90 minutes a person like this gets a dirty look from an old white woman because of the outfit they're wearing if you're getting looks like this keep killing it you look great i see it coming down okay now smile from my friends i'm gonna need to smile like a normal person so that your parents like these pictures come on no not like nevermind that's fine that's the best we're gonna do here you go i trade you your bones for this oh no you make trade huh you make trade i like my phones no i can you give me your bones your bones for this no no i i i no i i have access to the internet i know this is a bad idea no but what you fail to understand is that the body positivity movement isn't about insecurity and a simple google search would have answered that the body positivity movement was started by fat black women to create representation for marginalized bodies you see i didn't say the word insecurities and yes everybody has insecurities and it sucks to be able to deal with them but that's not what the movement was for you're welcome to be in the movement but it shouldn't center thin white women because that's just the standard why does there need to be a movement for a standard but in turn it will help with insecurity because we're creating representation the more representation we have the less insecure people will feel but i have a feeling you already knew that you just didn't want to listen 10 but he's a 10 but he still is at home with this mommy hey dollar store katy perry um pop punk and punk in general should not be used to punch down at people who are socioeconomically doing worse off than you [ __ ] off hey turn down that music before i call the cops yes i realized that this is my party i noticed you took a shot there what's your venmo dude the party just started i'm not drunk enough for hip-hop music i was invited so i'm drinking your liquor i don't make the rules i just benefit from them before everybody hates me for bringing about life remember we had some working-class roots at some point maybe i know the perfect party song i know the artist is problematic but we have to be able to separate the music from the groom i didn't steal it i seized the means of inebriation the thing next to you is a pain in the ass when your leftism doesn't come from a love for people so somehow this ended up being a very controversial take um and from looking through the comments over the past month which i've been trying not to do but i've seen some of them um i've come to the conclusion that a lot of you are a eco-fascists who believe that all of humanity is equally responsible for climate change and therefore we should all go extinct or limit our population um or b you just have a very narrow individualistic perception of what love is and what it means to love something like literally from so many of the comments i saw those are the two things it boiled down to and i just want to ask some of you why is it so reasonable and understandable for you to hate humanity but so crazy for you to be able to love humanity i can't go out i'm sick boo you [ __ ] you have finally made it to black joy talk don't you dare live cause black joy is important i said stay just a little recap in case you didn't know black joy is very important because black people does not equal pain slavery trauma immigration all of that struggle you can be black and happy my name is zion i recommend black movies and books so here are some black joy movies that you should watch without further ado ladies and gentlemen let's dive in did you know that beyonce and jennifer youtube were actually in the same movie together yes i know dream girls is basically like your classic movie of a girl band who wants to make you big but obviously has struggles while doing so you know the song listen to a song hearing my voice well it comes from that movie next is girls trip barbie is that you let me set the scene you're having a girls night and you want to have some fun watch this movie akilah in the bee i absolutely love this film it's with the queen kiki palmer yeah it's basically the story of a very smart girl who makes it very far in spelling competitions last but not least little by the same producers who did girls trips so if you like girls trip you're gonna love little little is basically the story of this boss who thinks she's all that and then she gets gust or something and basically she wakes up being like her like 15 year old self it's hilarious you go watch just movies now okay what are you doing on friday night oh chick black baby sir exactly now if you want black joy tv shows recommendations or books follow along and if you want to know all about black films black books be part of an amazing online community check the comments below what are you doing on friday night what temperature do you keep the restaurant thing see here you have stuff that um is on the kid's menu are adults allowed to or just describe like the lighting to me like what's the vibe you think someone would be weird if they say brought their markers and crap just the latitude and longitude just so i know exactly struggling with anger is fairly common for autistic people okay the scale represents the intensity of your emotions and when you start getting up around like a five or a six that's when you start acting irritable this is overly simplistic i just want to help you understand and recognize when you start getting up around five or six right being autistic doesn't mean that i don't recognize emotions for me it means that almost everything aggravates me in some way that's why i think it would be good for you to understand the scale this is geared towards like kindergartners do i struggle with anger at times do i want to work on it absolutely but i need something that's like for phd students i think you're not quite understanding how the scale can help no i i understand it so well that my model has three tell you what i'm going to show you my model and then we'll go from there fine these are boilers tank ones connected to tank two tank two is connected to tank three there's a valve in between each one of them so i can control how much steam travels between them what are the tanks represent the first one is what my body is experiencing the second one is what i'm feeling and then the third one is what i'm showing externally how is what your body's experiencing different from what you're feeling this is physiological i'm aware of it but it's like data and it's usually about the same pressure as what i'm feeling but that's more emotional so as the pressure comes into tank one it's usually working in tandem with tank two to release the pressure at a pretty steady pace as and i feel my emotions and they dissipate naturally and this is like 90 of the time but sometimes the pressure builds faster than those two tanks can release it and that's when you show it externally no i just increase how fast i can release pressure by like stimming or getting a break from the stimulus and that's the other like 9.999 of the time usually the only time that i change the pressure in tank one what you see externally is when the situation calls for me to appear more agitated three tanks just for the sake of complexity doesn't make it better sometimes i'm in places where i can't stand like an airplane with two kids so as that pressure is building as it gets up to be around like a six or a seven i cut off tank two i'm going to hold the pressure in tank one and i can tell that i'm getting more agitated but i'm not allowing myself to feel it and that's to keep it from spilling over into tank three so that's what we should work on just because i'm aware of a situation does not mean that it happens a lot i find ways to limp along until i can get a break and take care of myself the problem is when the pressure is building i have it under control but then i'm caught off guard like when a few big things happen in a short amount of time and i'm not able to tighten the valve between tanks one and two so it spills over into two and then into three and that's usually when i snip i think hold on that's fine because i'm very quick to apologize and recalibrate and it doesn't happen often the real big problem is when i'm holding that pressure in and like a few big things happen or something really big happens like my kid screaming in an enclosed space where pressure skyrockets and tank one past its capacity spills over to two then spills over into three and that's when i shout that's when i have a hard time recalibrating and it doesn't happen often like nowhere near like it used to but i want it to never happen so that's where i'd like to start can we focus on that i just don't care for the three tank thing one is so much easier to understand sure do sound a lot like colonizers some people's dietary practices have a lot to do with their also they're ableist a lot of people don't think about this but a lot of vegan activists are ableist because i've had vegans literally tell me to my face that i should commit kamikaze because i cannot be vegan due to my disabilities i'm allergic to nuts soy and all fruits and vegetables which is what vegan alternatives are made out of i would be vegan or vegetarian if my stomach didn't suck because also i need to have a low-fat high-protein diet what what provides that meat i don't eat red meat a lot because my stomach can't process red meat but i do eat a lot of chicken i eat chicken probably about once a day i eat a lot of chicken because it's the only thing that doesn't hurt my stomach and doesn't make me throw up so yeah vegan activists are also ableist furthermore i can't have fiber people with gastroparesis cannot have fiber and a lot of vegan substitutes are full of fiber special delivery so foreign you
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