I actually lol’d and then kind of gagged mid lol? I thought you should know. 💚

I agree it’s often used because white people are afraid of using the term Black even when individuals indicate they prefer it, but I believe part of the reason it came to be was to refer specifically to people who descended from enslaved people. They were kidnapped and their descendants don’t know exactly from where, so the term is very broad.

For what it’s worth when I clap back at the “ADHD is a you problem” I’m not saying the meds don’t help. You can pry these drugs from my cold dead hands!

If life was more accommodating maybe I could use them to be the person I want to be and not to enable me to suppress burnout symptoms so that I can participate in capitalism.

The meds are required to function in a society that only makes room for a narrow band of people and behavior. We could improve society somewhat and our brains might not be such a barrier to having our needs met.

Two examples: My home is very ADHD friendly. We do chores at weird times, don’t panic if we stop in the middle of something, get things done in burst when we need to, give each other space when we are having deregulation issues and know that we have each others back. My workplace is also pretty neurodivergent friendly. We get up and walk around in meetings, I keep snacks and toys around for people who need a little boost or just a little something different to do for a few mins, we have layers of safety and redundancy so there is no single point of failure, human or otherwise. And we’re engineers who operate major utility infrastructure.

We can do better, or we can decide we love the taste or boot so much we just bend ourselves into something we’re not.

Army recruiters should be shunned at best.

Lol what makes you think they want to undo it

Weird how chronically underfunding a critical service causes issues

(Sorry to hear about this comrades, I hope things get turned around)

All these heinous acts are committed by people. People who go home to their friends and family and community. Fuck everybody who turns a blind eye and accepts them, who thinks respecting “both sides” is neutral or even positive.

Same, comrade. This advice applies pretty widely.

Literally just be mean to a military recruiter. Hell just point and laugh or roll your eyes. Pull your kids from cadets. Shun ROTC participants. Refuse sponsorships from military contractors. Don’t take internships at them. Tell them they can’t have a float at your local parade.

All this talk about revolt and it doesn’t really feel like most folks have even considered how impactful being mildly annoying can be.

Making it seem so complicated is part of the calculated effort to reduce resistance. I invite folks to study how domestic resistance to the US invasion of Vietnam helped end US involvement.

I know it wasn’t bloodless but a good solid first step is not feeding your (collective your) babies to the war machine and making involvement in the military industrial complex an unforgivable social sin.

Lol right? Utopia for whom?

I agree, you can’t go around telling people to watch their language as a complete stranger on the internet and not expect to get dunked on.

I can’t wait to hear the americans say “Well, I didn’t vote for him. And I voted for obama, twice!” as I’m being invaded. Very reassuring.

Democrats hate America?? I guess a broken clock is right twice a day

Honestly I wish I had this much free time 😔

The op didn’t mention it tho?

My comment is meant as a potential add on to the meme, clowning on people who are (negatively) obsessed with lemmy.ml and bring it up even though the op did not. There are a few such examples in the comments here, for example.

What would you like to discuss?

Lmao

“It’s got nothing to do with the post but I’m going to mention lemmy.ml for some reason”