People with #privilege will always choose #money over #principle.
Until principles are so abused they realize money is worthless without them.
Economies run on trust.
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If anyone, anyone at all (?) was confused, the speaker has his nose well into the trough, a man who disregards parliamentary conventions (pretty much all they have In the place of rules) to suit whoever is in power.
Commons Speaker’s £180k bill for first-class flights and hotels. One trip to a luxury Cayman Islands resort by Lindsay Hoyle cost the taxpayer nearly £23,000
How did you use your privilege today? How are you planning to leverage it tomorrow? It's a cold hard rain pummeling us; maybe think about sharing your umbrella with someone who doesn't have one.
I kind of hate when people post comments assuming domain-specific knowledge from laymen such as "the fact people need to be told this is a little troubling to say the least".
It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.
In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).
It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
It shows those people have not tried to even see how hard bootstrapping the knowledge they're assuming of others actually is, especially now that search engines have enshittified into uselessness and the hardware their comment pertains to no longer comes with useful manuals for their operation.
In a lot of cases, the knowledge also pertains to hacks for patching over design flaws & botched work that should've been done properly to start with (which would make said knowledge entirely obsolete as anything other than a curiosity).
It reeks of unacknowledged #privilege (and a heaping of normalization of deviance).
Source: therapywithmaggielpc
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFQbgQou4Fo/
2/2 also recognising now how my previous ability to post and engage so much more here was really rooted in immense privilege: as a university lecturer, i had a steady income, control over my time, confidence, freedom, identity: all this is now gone, all making me unable to post. Just wanted to really acknowledge this. #Privilege
And remember.
This is everyone's #history.
#Black people are #oppressed when #white people act out the #oppression. Oppression isn't something that just happens to people. My forebears built some hefty #systems of oppression, but these systems still need buy-in to keep going.
In computer systems, we use the word #privilege to describe the level of #access a user has. Whether they can #read a file. Whether they can #update a file.
Our #government is updated by #elections. By #voters. For most of #USA history, Black people did not have update access to government. This is not Black history, this is #USHistory.
When you research Black history, remember this is our shared history.
These are the stories about our #nation. Many of these are like the #family stories that are told in whispers. Bad things that were done by people that we're related to.
When people say that they don't want this taught because it will make their #children feel bad about themselves, they usually mean one of two things:
- /they/ feel bad about this #evil themselves, and they feel the kind of #guilt that they want to hide from. They want their kids to remain #innocent about the evil in the world, especially this kind
or
- they /don't/ feel bad about these #evils and they do /not/ want to be #judged by their children
@jamesjoelrussell @CosmickTrigger
Are you really this clueless?
You can't temper your #ecstasy with even a wee bit of #empathy?
Your glee is more important than our suffering?
@jamesjoelrussell @CosmickTrigger
log off
touch grass
blow some sunshine...
You musta missed the memo. #Harris got more votes in #TX than she did in #NY. She won my precinct. I'm a #volunteer voter registrar, and an #election worker.
If you really /want/ to be that asshat who thinks I deserve to live in #MAGA hell because I can't afford to move out of #Texas, at least man up and own it.
#Trump repeatedly called for the elimination of the #Education Department during his presidential campaign. On Wednesday he called it a "con job" & said he wants it closed. [says a guy who never went to a #PublicSchool ever]
About 100 probationary employees received termination letters on Wednesday at the #GSA, according to two people familiar with the firings.
On Call S01E01 released in 2025.
A pig of color is killed on duty. I feel no sympathy
The female protagonist has African ancestry but is white passing.
A white pig threatens to taser a white suspect.
Had the latter been Black, he'd be murdered.
This is today's code-generated texture, right after I read about these endangered words. I don't know what to do about it, so I'll continue creating things.
@GuyDudeman@beige.partyWe must limit executive overreach.
# 
The current administration has made it clear: profits over people. We refuse to stand by while they dismantle our rights, our communities, and our #future.
We are not just numbers. We are not just #consumers. We are the #People.
We reject #fascism. We reject the #oligarchy. We reject any system that places #profit, #power, or #privilege over human #dignity.
50501 is not just a movement—it’s a national call for justice that’s already making waves. On February 5th, thousands of you showed up, proving that when we rise together, we are unstoppable.
Now, we need you again.
***This is our next moment. Our next stand. Our next show of strength.***
On February 17th, we unite nationwide for a Day of #Action.
A day to #resist. A day to #disrupt. A day to #reclaim our power.
We are asking YOU to take 5 Steps of #Resistance:
**
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1im6q10/no_kings_on_presidents_day_limit_executive/
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#Anti-Racism
#Racism
#Allyship
#Bias
#DEI
#Diversity
#Diverse
#ConfirmationBias
#Equality
#Equity
#Equitableness
#Feminism
#Gender
#GenderIdentity
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#All-Inclusive
#Inclusivity
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I have a work social media persona. My "worksona". It's who I represent as on LinkedIn and also on here.
I also have an authentic social media persona. It's another account on another server under an alias. An anonymous alias.
Why does this discrepancy exist? Because I talk about lived experiences, values, and positions on my second account that are stigmatized by society. Mental health. Neurodivergence. Gender. #FuckTheSystem.
My "worksona" is not me. It's a construct I shaped to maximize my chances by allowing me to harness conditional privilege: mainly that I'm _read_ as a white assumed cisgender, neurotypical, heterosexual, able-bodied man. But it's a mask. It means I'm keenly aware of the discrepancy in privilege that is granted based on how one is perceived.
I've been slowly incorporating more authenticity into my "worksona" but the sad truth is that there's still a wide chasm between who I really am around the people I trust and who I am in a professional context. There is literally only a single person who knows the full me and also knows me in real life. Everyone else gets a filtered version. Why? Stigma. Stigma that's assigned to layers of my identity I have no control over.
This is what privilege is about. Chances are that if your "public persona" aligns closely with your authentic self that you benefit from a whole lot of privilege (or that you're a #neuroqueer rebel; I see you and applaud you). And to the white men in my followers: this is what people talk about when they say you have privilege. The insidious truth is that it's _invisible_ to you because you probably don't know anything else. But there are many people around you who just _pretend_ to look and act like you.
I am one of the people who pretend.
What the USA are observing is people, #Trump, #Musk, #GOP, who have always lived in #TheBubbleOfPrivilege finally #GettingWhatTheySaidTheyWanted #BlowingGovernmentUP and coming to the realization that #WhenTheBubblePops their #Privilege pops with the bubble. #Chaos
re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(6/?) And I am coming at this from a place with a lot of #privilege. I have a job that pays me enough to live decently (until inflation catches up to me and #Trump crashes the #economy). I'm educated. I'm white. I am looking for something to plug into (this is not the time or place to try to sell me on your group or whatever you're doing though and if you try, you're missing the point of this thread and I will block you). I do have little things, here and there, that I could give, even now after all the exhaustion and #trauma. There are a lot of people who are stretched even thinner than me, people who don't have the privilege that I have.
A lot of people in the US were already overwhelmed with the demands of daily life even before Trump came into office
I should not have to say this....
Those of you who have the #privilege to not buy specific groceries ...
It. Doesn't. Matter.
People who need to eat will buy what they can afford. They are looking at prices, not sources.