#sociopolitical

[neuroticboyfriend]

honestly, although i really hate to say it... being able to work, on a systemic level, still puts you in a privileged position compared to people who cannot work. i wish i could say it's only an advantage when you're disabled, because i know it feels bad that being employed and getting income is a privilege even if its hurting you to do it. but it's not the hurting-you part that's the privilege, it's the way it systematically supports you. there are things that disabled people who're unable to work (especially those without income and/or savings) experience that you just don't, because you still have the ability to work and generate income yourself.

it's not a pleasant situation and by no means should any disabled person be forced into working. it's 100% torture and working disabled people deserve so much better. it's just that you just can't change the fact that society gives you chances and resources that disabled people who cannot work just don't have. that's not inherent to you, it doesn't make your disability invalid. it's systemic ableism and classism. being working class (as an individual) is still a step above the bottom of the barrel, even if you're disabled. so if there's anywhere to direct your grief and frustration on this towards, it's society. it's ableists. it's the ruling class and capitalism. not other disabled people.

#softspoonie #disabled #disability #ableism #lateral ableism #systemic ableism #disabled community #disability advocacy #systemic oppression #systemic inequality #systemic injustice #sociopolitical #privilege #oppression #working class #anticapitalist #anticapitalism #capitalism #anti capitalism

[fantodsdhrit]

oh why disrobed truth people eke solemn lies as truth that's your only truth

sunshine is laughing in my balcony

you arm him about aqua sarcophagi 

i accidentally let the refrigerator die

jews are arabs are jews slew gardyloo grimy fremen at their borders

your honeycomb heart logarithmic

picks a thousand in a room of thousand

not i or moi thousand one minus one

kill or be killed pressroom briefings chinese first-class red tie

you're beautiful no one interprets you

you're gorgeous and there goes holi

a handful of halogen love potions currency speculation tipsy

sea and spring and chrysanthemums

someone drowing herself with you as you

with your reflection your planetary influence your impaired glutes

tax avoidance for coke zero coitus

someone is walking like a bazaar with russia eyes with an individualistic salt

#poetry #dhrit #spilled ink #inkskinned #politics #war #geopolitics #social #culture #economy #love #life #writerscreed #poetryriot #poeticstories #poems on tumblr #art #ideology #ethics #sociopolitical #nature #environment #light #beauty #popular #march #emotions #apology #meaning

[dipperdesperado]

One of the most important books of the past 15 years is Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. The basic idea of it is that it describes the pervasive nature of capitalism. It seeps into our hopes, dreams, and thoughts, shaping how we currently understand the world and imagine what the world can be. It’s some spooky shit. Even so, the scarier thing in my mind is hierarchical realism. To me, that feels even more fundamental to our shared worldview than capitalism. Capitalism exists atop (or within) the hierarchy. Capitalism is a relationship of hierarchy. Instead of the top of the pyramid serving the bottom-most elements like in other complex systems (think of how the sun emits energy, plants photosynthesize that energy and animals eat those plants) the base of the pyramid toils for the sake of the top. In nature, the ant colony doesn’t “serve” the queen like we tend to think. It protects the queen because that means that the population can continue to exist. There are no orders being given. The colony efficiently self-organizes into emergent forms that efficiently solve problems. Simple sets of abilities and impulses combine to create elegant solutions.

In our social systems, with capitalism being one of the clearest examples, our hierarchies exist for the opposite reason. We protect kings not because it benefits us, but because it benefits them, at our expense. They then socially engineer consent and mindsets to reinforce their position. This impoverishes our imaginations and prevents us from seeing social possibilities outside of domination and coercion. This is the negation of autonomy and abolition.

This arrangement seems to be taken for granted in most folks’ minds. In our social, political, and economic realms, there is a tacit assumption that those relationships have to be vertically integrated. Orders have to come from the queen, carried out by the colony.

Unsurprisingly, this is a very undemocratic and un-egalitarian way to organize society, but it’s been the dominating mode of organizing at least since civilization has been a thing. This is because it allows for power to be unevenly distributed, and for that distribution to be reinforced over time. Authority is king (and kings are authority). Human value isn’t intrinsic. It is proportional to class position. This also makes it difficult to change social relationships. This arrangement stifles our progression as a species, and our ability to be in community, period. Whether that’s connecting with other humans or other natural beings, this foundational relationship of domination is very toxic for us.

For us to break free from this, we have to go in a different direction. We have to reorganize society using bottom-up approaches so that we can not only have all of the benefits of being in society but are able to provide those benefits for everyone, sustainably. By taking a horizontal orientation, we can take steps to model our societies off of the ecosystems that they reside in, making them resilient, adaptable, and ecological.

Understand that we don’t need a pyramidal structure to run society. Holding all of the decision-making power at the grassroots level allows for autonomy to flourish.

If you take nothing else from this, understand that realism does not equal reality. The pervasive nature of something, especially something man-made, does not mean that it was always this way, and it always has to be this way. Know that we can do something different and really reach the ideals of equality and freedom. We just have to be willing to put in the work.

#flat #social revolution #sociopolitical #socioeconomic #sociology #socialism

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Sociopolitical/Biopolitical Genders

Flags in order: sociopolitical nonbinary (sociopolinb), sociopolitical cenilunar (sociopolife), sociopolitical cenitidal (sociopolima); (second three) biopolitical non-binary (biopolinb), biopolitical cenilunar (biopolife), biopolitical cenitidal (biopolima).

Context: sociopolitical is self-identitarianly, biopolitical is heteronomous. These are meant for those who reclaim politically (or conceptually/philosophically) manhood/masculinity, femininity/womahood, or non-binariness.

Image descriptions pending (feel free to add and I will add back in the original post crediting you). - Ap

#sociopolitical #social politics #biopolitics #man #woman #fem #masc #nb #nonbin #nbi #nby #enby #enban #pride flags #mogai #flags

[trixiedjinn]

excuse me a moment-

Nobody white in history has ever done anything.

They're actually always francophones, or Italian, or Scottish, or Irish, or something.

White people do not exist.

Not just in a, "race/ethnicity is a social construct," type of way. Literally.

"White" is akin to an empire political state, maliciously absorbing ethnicities, cultures, "races," to make itself seem strong. Explicitly, arbitrarily, created to consolidate sociopolitical power and keep poor people from organizing with each other effectively.

Like "traditional manhood" is a lie that traps people perceived as cis men into a pyramid scheme, where if they sell enough Marykay/Avalon/vitamin thing boxes(uphold patriarchal standards/perpetuate systemic misogyny), they can win a pink van or something (be a real man/respected)- Whiteness kept poor people of varied cultures from politically and socially allying with slaves at the dawn of the United States.

Black people, blackness is similarly constructed. Maliciously, as a way to artificially strip various peoples from Africa of their cultures and identities, and make them easier to them subjugate. By extension to explicitly create a lower caste of human, that couldn't then be worked with collectively with on equal footing, no matter how close our experiences may have been.

All of this together, is what fueled race science, and every piece of racist rhetoric to come out of America. Even if you're not black, this tactic's use is a very basic way to divide and conquer. If you're any kind of "non-white" it's been used on you. It's colorism, it's racism, it's orientalism, it's the basis of colonial imperialist power.

So allow me to rephrase-

White people have never done anything good in history.

They're actually always francophones, or Italian, or Scottish, or Irish, or something.

Even out of the United States, the greatest thinkers, and creators are always Minnesotan, Virginian, Idahoian, or something. If they're not part of another ethnic culture first.

Blackness is an identity that is forced upon. There is no way for the black people of the United States of America to ever cede blackness, lest white people stop labeling them as such. Lest white people cast aside their robes.

But as consequence, an inspiration to queerness, a culture rose out of it of resistance to being owned. Community, song, and scattered traditions by region, echoes of past cultural ties.

That culture trickles up through sociopolitical ranks because an artificial band made up purely to conquer, cannot create anything but itself. So they have to take, and assume ownership over new things they did not make, just as much as their roots did.

The black American community is not immune to supremacist thought, no community based on intrinsic identity is.

But whiteness is inherently supremacist, it was intentionally, explicitly, constructed that way.

"What's the takeaway from this"

I promise I'm not just shitting on white people for fun, one of my best friends is white.

But what I am saying is; I don't think it's weird that so many people perceived as white are panicked and fleeing from association with whiteness as an identity. White guilt, and white tears, are lame, but I think that this is unironically a good development.

We can talk about the problems with the destinations they're fleeing too maybe, we can talk about cultural insensitivity and appropriation, but I think those largely stem from not committing to it. But I do think it might be good to navigate something new out of all this. At least conceptually.

┐⁠(⁠‘⁠～⁠`⁠;⁠)⁠┌

#newly rich and “middle class” white people keep writing think pieces about #the “health benefits” of not washing your ass #because their roots are in the crackpot mayflower settlers who didn't wanna listen to the vatican #who was probably telling them to wash their ass #sorry that was mean #idk #let them find a different cultural background to connect to #don't trust ancestry companies #but idk #go dig up your great great irish grandma #popping political pussy poetically #sociopolitical analysis #sociopolitical #social issues #history #black history #i am black #it shouldn't matter tho- i am correct #egirl philosopher

[leftmusing]

I'm pretty avidly against cancel culture from the perspective of those mindsets reoccurring in daily interpersonal relationships and the damage it has on mental health, definitions of justice and social cohesion, but sometimes I take a step back from that and think that "wow. even against men in power, this is very counterproductive."

hear me out.

largely, cancel culture was kind of birthed as its own separated practise at the same sort of Internet time period as the #MeToo movement first gained traction, and the original intentions of this was to hold dangerous men in power accountable and to deplatform them. I could go on a whole separate ramble about accountability, justice and deplatforming, but that's not the point of this post. at its core at the beginning, cancel culture was held with good intention to hold bad, powerful, rich people accountable.

right?

but there's irony in this. because what cancel culture has degenerated into has become a much more concerning, damaging issue, mainly to friendship circles, community cohesion and minority groups. these powerful, dangerous men that this movement was originally supposed to be against, aka, the 1% of wealth, the people behind media censorship, the CEOs of social media and people in government, for example, have very cleverly over the past 5 or 6 years(ish) drip fed subtle, psychological techniques to take this notion of cancel culture and use it to pit communities against each other. they have successfully turned the collective internet's attention away from them and towards each other.

at the end of the day, these aren't left vs right issues, although that's what these people would have you believe. this should be all of us vs them. the small but dangerously powerful statistical minority.

isn't it fucked up? isn't it fucked up that we are all so caught up in these echo chambers carefully constructed by those who wish to distract us that we have forgotten the main issues? isn't it fucked up that we're more focused on digging up dirt and harassing our neighbours, our friends, our community members, instead of actually bothering to fight for the justice we claim to desire?

and the most damning of it all, is that every post, every tweet in an argumentative thread, every reblog that spreads doxxing information about a teenager who said a slur once, every comment on a post trying to cancel a minority who has simply made a human mistake, is money in the pockets of those controlling this. the evil, twisted people that we should be putting our efforts into fighting against are profiting off of the movement that was supposed to take them down.

so, above the sociopolitical and interpersonal reasons I can't abide cancel culture, this is most significant to me. how deeply counterproductive it is.

the powerful men turn us against each other over the shield of computer screens and keyboards, we fall into mass echo chamber delusion and pick fights and cancel campaigns against each other, and they sit back and watch in delight that the long term coercion they've had over the media's dynamic is finally paying off. literally paying off.

so stop wasting what you think is activism on old tweets from one of your old high school buddies where they said something shitty. stop wasting this energy on taking down the people on the same societal standing as you. stop letting yourself get so enraged over somebody having a conflicting opinion to you, and start channelling that anger into the shit that the far left actually stands for: revolution.

because cancel culture isn't left. it just isn't. it isn't activism.

that's what the powerful, dangerous people in power would like you to think.

#monad.txt #cancel culture #sociology #politics #sociopolitical #social media #corporation #capitalism #leftism #anti cancel culture #left vs right #keyboard warrior #minority groups #social justice #social commentary #critical thinking #activism

[positively--speculative]

Hey, if you call yourself a punk or goth (or any alternative) but also consider your politics conservative or neutral, you should probably be paying attention to these anti-drag bills getting pushed. Because if you consider yourself a part of a subculture that has famously challenged gender norms, especially by appearance, you are probably going to have a hard time with these proposed laws too.

I will never not find it ironic and hilarious how those of you who consider yourselves alternative will either support or ignore this stuff while patting yourselves on the back for "not conforming." Those conservatives who you vote for or don't care enough about to fight against hate your asses too.

#Sociopolitics #Sociopolitical #Punk #Goth #alternative subcultures #Drag #Drag queens #Drag kings

[amostdelectablescribbler]

Imma say a thing that i thunk:

What’s so toxic about masculinity? You get upset about something, so put it on the metaphorical shelf, finish your day at work, then open up the jar you put that upsetness in when you’re at the gym. Emotions are super powerful motivators, so hold onto them, then let ‘em all out when you need them, instead of breaking down in a fit because you put salt in your coffee.

MUTUALS i would like some opinions?

@squarebracket-trick @stesierra @silverslipstream @leisoree @tea-and-mercury @etherealatheling @forg-plushie

#masculinity #toxic masculinity #sociopolitical #why tho

[mywitchcultblr]

People need to address the rampant anti semitism in Asia. Particularly in the SEA region. i live here so I know that the topic of anti semitism are often not acknowledged especially amongst conservative muslim people (I'm a Muslim too so i know) so much focus is on the west (like the conversation about anti semitism are mostly about what happened in the west) it's allowing anti semitism to grow unchecked in my region and other regions it's awful

I literally have seen people saying "Hitler should have done his job to eradicate the Jews" and that's from people who doesn't claim themselves as Nazi but they have been told by their conservative parents or preachers or friends that Jewish people are the root of all evil so they think Hitler made sense.

It's scares me and it's so disturbing...

#asia #south eastern freeway #anti semitism #tw anti semitism #ugh #politics #sociopolitical #human rights #equality

[bpgthoughts]

Farming (2018) was a very interesting film.. so many unexpected ups and downs. It is about a Nigerian immigrant, who is being fostered by a White family.. who because of his race was picked on a lot and then started to identify or rather.. empathize more with the skinheads and joined a skinhead gang, parroting their anti immigrant, and adopted their language even referring to himself as "coon"..

I did not know it was based on the real life of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who joined a skinhead gang as a child.. and all that went with that .... It is an amazing film that you will see the ups and down as he struggles with his own identity as an immigrant in a country during a time, similar to today where they blame immigrants for the shortages or them not being able to find proper work that pays well.

I would recommend checking it out for sure

#Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje #farming #enitan #farming 2018 #Damson Idris #Kate Beckinsale #Gugu Mbatha-Raw #oz #sociopolitical #sociopolitical film #immigrant #nigerian #Genevieve Nnaji #John Dagleish

[theperplexedpoet]

one people

from the climate to Cop City and from Ukraine to the Strip mankind ain't looking too pretty as we just keep losing grip the atrocities near and far they all just keep piling on from Africa to Myanmar it seems our kindness is gone it's resource wars and greedy games wars anything but civil while other nations bank the slain profiting from the middle we are much stronger together working as one united much harder for us to weather this world when we're divided we really are one people a rich tapestry of souls our power has no equal if we use it as a whole together for one purpose so that we all may prosper think how well would that serve us it's what we need to foster from the struggles in Sudan from Taiwan and Haiti too the conflicts in Pakistan seems man's kindness is removed hate has profits and incentives long entrenched, instituted margins tank so long as peace lives in wells that we've polluted so we keep spilling the toxins to accumulate more wealth and yet we react as shocked when our poisoned presence is felt we are much stronger together hence resistance to this seed could be wings instead we're feathers the necessity of greed we really are one people a rich tapestry of souls our power has no equal if we use it as a whole from the climate to Cop City and from Ukraine to the Strip our footprint is looking shitty and our future takes the hit (10/16/23)

#poetry #sociopolitical #reflections in the glass #war #greed #Palestine #Ukraine #Sudan #Myanmar #Africa #Haiti #Cop City #one people

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℌ𝔞𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔱 - 𝔊𝔩𝔬𝔟𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔡𝔞𝔩

#Hatriot #Heroes Of Origin #Globicidal #Full-length #Release date: #January 25th #2013 #Genre: #Thrash Metal (early); Melodic Death/Thrash Metal (later) #Themes: #War #Murder #Sociopolitical #Anti-religion #USA

[dipperdesperado]

harm reduction is solarpunk

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and writing about solarpunk actions and ideas that might not be normally considered solarpunk. One of those ideas that I’ve been really interested in recently is harm reduction.

Harm reduction is a way of thinking about harmful things that people do and their repercussions. As it sounds like, it’s meant to reduce the harm that these things cause. It’s an answer to targeted responses to situations that don’t holistically address the root causes. It also thinks about ways to support people that are stigmatized for the ways they cope with these root causes. Instead of asking people to change their individual responses to systemic issues, there is a focus on how to make those responses as safe as possible.

This aligns with the systems-focus and strategically holistic approach to social change that is paramount to solarpunk. While certain things, like drug abuse, should not be a thing, we can’t respond to that issue without having an understanding of the social factors that lead to maladaptive coping mechanisms, and destigmatize existing in those social situations. This is not to say that we endorse drug abuse, but creating safe spaces for drug use and treatment, while also building toward responding to wider issues can be very powerful. This thinking allows solarpunks to have the empathy and restorative justice orientation important to bringing the futures they want to see to life.

Harm reduction also allows people to build self-sufficiency. In the context of drug use, programs like needle exchanges and overdose prevention sites allow people to engage in safer practices in self-managed ways. Giving people the tools and resources to lower risks and improve their health is super solarpunk. Instead of giving them the care, or just providing access to the care, the community can dynamically organize to do both when necessary.

Solarpunk can be enhanced by the ideas of harm reduction to usher in futures that aren’t just renewable and participatory but are compassionate, empowering, and empathetic at their roots.

#solarpunks #solarpunk #socialism #sociology #social relations #sociopolitical #total liberation #social ecology #social revolution

[lechusza]

Word to the wise?

When do I get to say, "Oops!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HLZ9jNEpNQ #politics #news #writing #writingcommunity #blogger #blog #author #law #president #election #alanlechusza

#writer #author #writerscommunity #lechusza #author life #writers on tumblr #politics #legal #president #sociopolitical #media #breaking news #alanlechusza

[misterparadigm]

One of the reasons sociopolitical tensions escalate so quickly is because people tend to embrace and embody the caricatures you build of them so that they don't have to resent themselves as much as you resent them. They take the insult and own it, and then they become the embodiment of that insult and are damaged by it.

It's a defense mechanism that perniciously breaks down your authenticity in the name of pride. And so you end up with a group identity where the truth becomes stranger than fiction.

#social commentary #psychology #stereotypes #caricature #defense mechanism #pride #sociopolitical #conflict

[positively--speculative]

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