Notices by Mother Bones (_l1vy_@mstdn.social)

@DecaturNature
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Reposting with alt text! ☺️

I have had a number of sessions lately where I'm having to spell out "Listen, you are stressed and sick because your capitalistic employer is choosing to pay the CEO twenty times your salary, squeezing you literally to death, instead of having adequate staffing. This is not about 'time management' or 'coping techniques.' "

Citizens are reporting the royal family for having no visible means of support 😂

#Yorkshire

http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/south-yorkshire-police-inundated-after-asking-people-to-report-anyone-living-a-lavish-lifestyle-without-having-a-job-381758/

"...I recommend this job to anyone who is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced work environment."

OK listen. Doll.

NO ONE is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced work environment in 2024. We are exhausted. Get in your DeLorean and take that attitude back to 1984.

Feels sickening to check the map for hate groups as I'm looking up community colleges.

Mother on the Alaska Airlines flight who held onto her teenage son to keep him from being sucked out of the hole after his shirt and phone:

#AlaskaAirlines

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/when-hole-opened-on-alaska-flight-1282-a-mom-held-tight-to-her-son/

@feditips Shoot I'm going to have to do this with my work blog aren't I

#HappyMothersDay #MothersDay

What I want people to see is that these are three ways of saying the same thing.

Fascism will always attack the most marginalized first, but it won't stop there.

No one is safe in a fascist system. The only way for everyone to be safe, is whatever will safeguard the most #marginalized.

Three reminders:

"Handmaid's Tale" has already been here the whole time, it was pointed at racialized women.

#Racism is fascism that hasn't yet come for the white people.

The #future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed.

(end quote of myself!)

Just as #privilege accrues the older you get, ALSO #marginalization and deprivation accrue. If you start out on the downside, you can end up much much worse off as you age.

Thank you to @mattalhonte for the following related link:

[Title: "Seniors Are More #Conservative Because the #Poor Don’t Survive to Become #Seniors, By Ed Kilgore"]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-people-often-dont-survive-to-become-seniors-who-vote.html
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This is also related to the myth that "racism will die out" or "homophobia will die out" as older people die.

No, bigotry and fascistic attitudes *don't* just die out, they must be actively fought and defeated on an ongoing basis.

Because sometimes we make the mistake of thinking "Oh, the youth must not be bigoted like their forebears" but guess what.

If that were true we wouldn't have had the tiki torches or the terf explosion.

Allies and enemies in every generation.

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There is a TON of research on this, I'm not just spitballing.

I've been in this field for decades. And I've watched the statistics I studied play out IRL over and over and over for myself and everyone I've known. (Including hundreds of clients.)

This is one of the reasons I'm so annoyed with the intergenerational divisiveness being pushed down all our throats. It's bullsht.

We have allies and enemies across every generation.

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"Let's get something straight. Growing old doesn't make people #conservative. In fact the more marginalized identity statuses a person has, the LESS conservative they grow over time.
The reason we equate "old" with "conservative" is that #marginalization kills people off younger.

Some of the most radical people you know are old.

It's just a lot of others died before they could get there, so there's a diminishing proportion. (2/5)

Okay, I am sorry to quote myself but this a topic I've picked over and embodied for years, both personally and professionally.

When I shot off a bird thread about it in the grocery store parking lot in October of 2021, it resonated with a lot of people so I'm going to reproduce my words here, where there may be a different or more nuanced discussion about it.

Here goes: getting older does not make people conservative, that's a myth made by conservatives. (1/5)