February 10, 2024 - A crowd in San Francisco surrounds a Waymo self-driving taxi and burn it down. [video]
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being poor is so weird bc you'll see some edgy nyt or vice article or whatever about rural poverty, and it's all the pictures that are supposed to be sad, and they're framed as that, but it's just like. that looks like my buddy's kitchen. that's what my cookout looks like, people standing barefoot in dirt, holding drinks and wearing tore-up clothes. that sad old house is my house with different trees out front. and it's this weird whiplash, you know? like I know I'm poor, it sucks, but I'm generally happy in my life. and then I open some article written by some fucker from the city, taking pictures of barbecues or homes and treating what I experience as happy moments as tragedy. and it's like,,, am I off for being happy, despite the shit circumstances? or are these people so alienated from me that they can't fathom the idea lives like mine have emotional complexity, that I don't look at my house and see the roof falling apart so much as I see my cats waiting inside, a full spice rack in the kitchen, my loved ones laughing at the table. like are people really so far removed that they think we have no joy or love? I think, when I read those articles, they think we're either sad and self-aware, or too dumb to be anything but content, when it's neither. It is fetishistic writing, and I'm sad because I'd love to see poverty discussed in the mainstream but we aren't humanized, or given depth, or asked about anything beyond tragedy. Their sympathy is a farce.
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Cyber-Dystopia authors be like: oMg what IF you had to PAY to brEATHe and mOVE and slEEP what if the state quesTioned eVery purchase you made???!!
Meanwhile disabled people now: Lol yeah my inhaler costs more than my rent, my mobility aide is worth more than food, I can’t sleep without my insanely expensive sleep medication, and my insurance doesn’t seem to understand why I need all these things so they’re not going to pay
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"We will grow crops in the ashes of capitalism"
Graphic by Earth Liberation Studio
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