5wim

No matter what anyone says, you're worth more than your productivity. And "deserves" is a "spook," as Stirner would say. Everyone deserves nothing and everything, it's always a matter of perspective. Almost everything is, meaning either almost everything is irrelevant opinion, or opinions are relevant and we can/must decide which to have.

I don't believe it is actually helpful to proselytize nonviolence. I appreciate your position and your contribution, and your experiences have value independent of the validity of your assertions about nonviolence writ large.

I've left links to full books at the bottom of this comment. Here is a quote from the introduction to the first:

Nonviolence has lost the debate. Over the last 20 years, more and more social movements and rebellions against oppression and exploitation have broken out across the world, and within these movements people have learned all over again that nonviolence does not work. They are learning that the histories of purported nonviolent victories have been falsified, that specific actions or methods that could be described as nonviolent work best when they are complemented by other actions or methods that are illegal and combative. They are learning that exclusive, dogmatic nonviolence does not stand a chance at achieving a revolutionary change in society, at getting to the roots of oppression and exploitation and bringing down those who are in power.

At best, nonviolence can oblige power to change its masks, to put a new political party on the throne and possibly expand the social sectors that are represented in the elite, without changing the fundamental fact that there is an elite that rules and benefits from the exploitation of everybody else. And if we look at all the major rebellions of the last two decades, since the end of the Cold War, it seems that nonviolence can only effect this cosmetic change if it has the support of a broad part of the elite—usually the media, the wealthy, and at least a part of the military, because nonviolent resistance has never been able to resist the full force of the State.

The Failure of Nonviolence

How Nonviolence Protects the State

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

"temporarily"

There's no such thing as rivialry, that is all

R I V I A L R Y

Not for a second did anyone believe there was "rivialry," though

Almost all chewing gum contains plastic, and as such stands to be a big source of microplastics in your body (and the environment, especially when not disposed of "properly").

In the US, companies are allowed to list "gum base" in the ingredients when the "gum base" could mean anything - but it almost always means PVA (polyvinylacetate; a plasticizer).

Some gum marketed to people who realize this uses chicle, as gum originally did, or some other non-plastic, but it needs to explicitly state this. "Gum base" = "not telling you" = undoubtedly chewing microplastics into your body.

Still assuming "me" is a woman

The problem is that the "irrelevant" culture wars (identity politics, wedge issues) that don't affect any given individuals directly are about important issues, and they're being used by the rich as hostages. We can't help but care about those issues, even if they don't impact us directly, and the rich are using them as human shields while they take our watches and wallets and force us to sign over our properties

Highly recommend. Bravo for suggesting this book.

Little princess?