NikkiB

“Won’t someone rid me of these turbulent forests?”

Economy bad —> less consumption —> economy bad —> less consumption —> economy bad…

“Some are saying the color of your skin can help determine whether or not you can make your mortgage payments! For those with bad credit, it could be a blessing.”

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NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

It’s sexual harassment and misogyny and exploitation unless it’s in its purest form. Thank you! I do not get this at all.

NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

Thank you, sister

NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

THANK YOU! The way people suddenly act like it’s fucking normal is absurd! Who trained these dogs to bark like that?

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NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

Thank you, I don’t agree but I hear what you’re saying. I wanna clarify I’m not interesting in judging sex workers. I’m just gonna speak on a couple points.

Selling my body and selling my labor are two completely different worlds. The factory managers are only interested in my ability to perform a series of discreet tasks to keep the line moving. They don’t care how big my tits are, because that’s not part of the job. It’s about my work, not my body. This is not a superficial point. I hope this is obvious. Do I really need to explain that this is safe, dignified, and secure, and sex work isn’t?

About the cotton picking thing, my people have for several generations been forced to the absolute margins of society. We were barred from all traditional occupations for our nonconformity. We served as erotic curiosities and human sex toys for misogynists and rapists not because we organically loved doing it or thought it was a good idea, but because we needed to in order to survive and there were very few other options. We endured decades if not centuries of horrific violence and humiliation from people who hated us for even daring to exist, but were more than happy to get off by using us as sex slaves and beating us to vent their shame after the fact. Yes, it is like picking cotton. This is a dark chapter of our history. And even now, you and other queers (I see the pronouns) reflexively associate ourselves with weird kinky sex and the associated puritanical reactionaries who hate us for our alleged perversions.

You are a human being. You deserve decent work and to live in mainstream, polite society, and your sexual life is not for display or critique. Have some pride.

NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

Extremely overlooked. Thank you for pointing this out.

NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

“Stupid poors keep buying avocado toast! Save your money!”

Alright, done.

“Wait no the economy”

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NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

I didn’t mean to imply you held beliefs you didn’t. You’re just losing me on the point about education. They didn’t join because of deception or disinformation, they joined because they wanted what the military offered them. This is not someone you can “educate” into different behaviors, right? What would you even tell them?

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NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

You’re ignoring the role of pro-military culture, militaristic propaganda, higher ed incentives, medical coverage incentives, housing incentives, peer pressure, hero worship, etc.

You and others are the ones ignoring this. You can’t pretend that soldiers are blameless victims of a machine while acknowledging they participated voluntarily and received payment and credit for doing so. This is what makes them morally culpable.

If I work in a factory that makes bombs that kill people, I have an ethical responsibility to strike or quit. How is this same dynamic gone for people who drop them?

NikkiB @lemmygrad.ml 7mo ago

The Nazis declared war on the United States along with Imperial Japan, so during and after the Second World War, opposition to Nazism was an issue of patriotism. A lot of the contemporary understanding of fascism was propagandistic and untethered from reality. Many today still attribute Hitler’s ideology and policy to atheistic secularism, even though this is just untrue.