Got sick of bigots, and pedants, and trying to figure out if something is “meme enough” to count, and of feeling like I’m spamming other spaces, and very quickly of the lemmy UI too (still love you blahaj.zone!) so am opening my own space where I can make my own rules and post my collection in peace. ❗BE WARNED: SOME OF THE IMAGES YOU SEE HERE MAY NOT TECHNICALLY BE MEMES❗ Now that we got that out of the way, let the infodump commence! Expect a mix of slightly outdated: mostly leftist (but never tankie) content, many cats, and some general old memes I’ve collected over the years. There are many, so will try to mix it up! Update: looks like 🐝Beehaw🐝 have banned this magazine. If you want real leftism rather than "nice" (more like "unchallenging to the status quo and the comfort of libs") leftism, I guess you'll have to follow from elsewhere!
tweet by kat @graphickat:
When people say "they never use disability as an excuse" it makes me furious.
Stating my reality is not an excuse. My body has physical limitations that aren't negotiable.
When I tell you I can't do something, it's not an excuse. It's not a matter of positivity. It's truth.
No that wasn't my point. My point is that is the type of thing that some people who disagree might say. Such as spencer West, who I believe is the guy who I saw speak at a conference. But there are too many in google results to be sure which one it was. And it might have been kilamanjaro! Not everest. I saw him speak almost 20 years ago so the name and details grow fuzzy.
The point is, for someone with a disadvantage, giving up is not the best medicine.
What you see as "giving up" might be someone who has tried a million times only to realize they aren't capable of doing something. So instead of constantly hurting yourself and getting discouraged from not being able to do the task, you realize that is a boundary and something you just can't do.
So when someone comes around, sees you "giving up" on something and telling you the disabled man climbing Everest story, all that does is bring all those horrible feelings back up but now with judgement from someone else.