In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.
Contemporary research indicates that, "Alongside lived experience testimonies, robust and peer-reviewed research exists to challenge a categorical anti-FC position, although, strikingly, the presence of such research has rarely been acknowledged by those who adhere to an anti-FC stance." 13/
ABA Harms.
More evidence:
"ABA therapy was associated with a greater use of acute mental health services; autistic youth in the ABA group had an overall risk that was 30% higher for mental health hospitalizations"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
"We believe that Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) & Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) are inherently flawed approaches, & that ND people (including people with learning disabilities), along with their families & carers, deserve better." @ndconnection.bsky.social:
ndconnection.co.uk/against-pbs-...
IYKYK: From now on, whenever someone willfully misunderstands and/ or misrepresents LRE or the continuum of alternative placements, I will respond with “Are you Fuchsing with me?”
Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC.
Nazism has officially taken over the GOP.
The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.
Having your Alexa play ‘Hostile Government Takeover’ by A Gift From Todd and Vinny Markey on repeat will make you feel better. Promise.
Self-care like a mother.
The man who got rich off of his family money, other’s inventions and hard work, and benefits from misery of those most vulnerable (what else can a dude who sees a cybertruck and goes “that seems like a thing to own” be but a needs-to-be-sheltered individual) calls *us* parasites. Excuse me. Leech.
ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.
It is a *wild* ride reading Keith Boykin’s ‘Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? 25 Arguments That Won’t Go Away’ in today’s political bomb cyclone of a deadly dumpster fire, but it’s worth it.
"How privileged are you if you first require hope in order to act? What about those where hope was a luxury they couldn't afford and still they wrote books, they made music, they sang. They keep singing."
Johanna Hedva in 'How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom'
Some of the works we need right now, 3rd part:
‘Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement’ by Ashley Shew
‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism’ by Naomi Klein
‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ by Jacqueline Harpman
‘Poverty, by America’ by Matthew Desmond
Some of the works we need right now, 2nd part:
‘Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics’ by Marc Lamont Hill
‘Freedom is A Constant Struggle’ by Angela Davis
‘Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis’ by Dean Spade
‘Hope in the Dark’ by Rebecca Solnit
Some of the works we need right now, 1st part:
‘Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World’ by Rutger Bregman
‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’ by Annie Jacobsen
‘Humankind: A Hopeful History’ by Rutger Bregman
‘Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers’ by Deborah Tuerkheimer
