Y
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler i suspect part of it is that people default to fighting the easier enemy, even if it's no enemy at all. why bother fighting the state? you know you can't win, but you sure can bully the vulnerable. maybe that'll make you feel better
it's part of why heirarchical systems are so resiliant. the people in the middle care more about preserving their relative power than they do toppling their oppressors
@WeirdWriter well, that's part of the brutality of the system, right? it empowers random bigots in their employ to ruin your life on a whim. if they really want to hurt you they can try to manufacture you failure to comply, just as Karen from Compliance did. it's so easy for them, because they hold allthe power and you hold all the responsibility. if they fuck up it's an oopsie-daisy and you'll be lucky if they make up for the harm cause, but god forbid you're late by a minute,
@WeirdWriter no screams are loud enough
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler means testing is so damn expensive. how can our governments afford this extravagant luxury?
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler there's a reason nazis began their project of human extermination with the disabled. a drain on society, right? the cost of empathy is one that you, the hardworking voter must bear. and isn't that unfair? your life sucks and these people don't contribute anything and live off your paychecks! blame them, not the state.
but please, never question how much it costs the state to harrass disabled people over and over for information they already have on record
@WeirdWriter @whangdoodler disabled people are scapegoats, but more than that, disabled people demand something abhorent to capitalist systems and conservative values: empathy.
the powers that be wish to destroy empathy so that people won't fight for each other, won't stand in unity, will just accept cruelty inflicted on an 'other'. get people to hate enough and they'lll even willingly, eagerly, give up their own rights and protections.
and aren't disabled people such a useful target?
@WeirdWriter
but to keep expecting someone in your situation to prove again and again the obvious fact that, yes, you're still disabled, is absurd. absurd and cruel. our culture hate the idea of disabled people not working so much that it seeks to make existing in society a full time job in itself (as if it weren't already).
despicable.
fantastic job striking back, even if it was just at some low level bigotted tool. I hope her distress was gratifying.
a fantasticly told story as always.
@WeirdWriter i'm in the UK and I simply don't bother trying to get benefts, because I know my country considers ME/CFS a non-disability and because getting an official autism diagnosis feels way too dangerous in the current climate, especially for a trans woman. people really love stripping the right of agency and presumption of basic competance from autistic people, especially when they see you being trans as evidence enough that your brain is broken
@WeirdWriter I'm so angry disabled people are put through this. It's so dehumanizing. you can tell it's meant to be dehumanizing.
and wow what a shock that the people who accept this job and stick around the longest tend to be the ones willing and eager to hurt disabled people. imagine the psychic burden of having empathy in a job like that, of listening to disabled people day after day, desperate to not lose a critical lifeline, and having to gatekeep them from support on behalf of the state
@mynameistillian without reservation: yes
@rysiek these days any time some tech thing breaks on me i blame AI. I'm probabably not right every time, but it'll be more and more likely to be true as things continue down this road
@mensrea @futurebird it's a complex listen. oprah is at times very sympathetic, doing the right thing and all, but the harm she caused is still clearly immense
somehoe even here she's comparible to candice. candice used to position herself as a progressive. she fought for actually good things. i can't remember what exactly, but her far-right turn was substantial. guess when a charismatic and influential person gets sucked down a rabbit hole they make it everyone's problem
