#bree talks
this whole mother’s day strike is exactly why I do not enjoy commiserating with white women about women’s rights.
like white women and women of color are at fundamentally different places with their activism, and it’s obvious that you’ve never organized for anything in your life before today. which means you don’t show up for anyone aside from yourself and you don’t listen to women of color and you don’t care about other people’s rights until it directly concerns you.
like, yes, it’s not gonna work, but it’s just fucking offensive reading through the whole thing. the audacity to make a mutual aid section on your site that’s just “if you see someone struggling, maybe give them a hand.” that is not what mutual aid is, this is not what community organizing is, you’re doing a whole lotta nothing.
so basically “hey, uh, so if shit hits the fan and we can’t protect your rights, it’s gonna be on you all to elect better officials, we tried our best.”
you get to a point where one party is full of fascist extremists dead set on stripping us of our human rights, the other party is too concerned with being universally appealing that they end up sitting tight during said moments of human rights stripping.
we’re still in a pandemic, all restrictions have been stripped, inflation is at an all time high, we’re in the midst of a housing/renting crisis, we’re about to experience a massive flood of chronically disabled young people that will certainly overwhelm our already precarious healthcare system, and the planet is fucking dying.
like what actually is the fucking point? what do we do, who is going to help us, what is there to be hopeful for? im so tired of people telling me to “vote in the midterms” like we are so fully past that. it’s too late for that. we’ve been repeatedly asked to have faith in a government that has not helped us and has only proved its incompetence.
so what the fuck do we do?
PSA: given Recent Events, it’d probably be a good idea to cancel your Netflix subscription right now, if you’ve got one.
It’s looking like there’s a good chance that the company is going to crash and burn within the next few months, and a thing that often happens with subscription-based services when they become insolvent is that they stop processing cancellations, or at least start taking an unreasonably long time to do so; once that happens, the only way to stop them from taking your money is to dispute each monthly charge with your credit card provider, and y’all know what a nightmare that can be.
Fair warning!
it’s not gonna happen in a few months. a few years? maybe, but not months. the company is still profitable, it’s just that the increase in profits is slowing more than we’ve ever seen it before which investors don’t like. it’s the “when growth companies stop growing” phenomenon which is why their share price fell. with the increase in streaming providers and the fight to take up market share, it’s more realistic a streaming giant would buy up netflix rather than Netflix folding. their catalogue of content would be tempting.
the problem netflix has to figure out is how to stop their subscriber loss. right now they’re cracking down on password sharing and raising the price to keep up revenue, but that’s not actually helping. one, netflix has built up a reputation for cancelling beloved shows before they’re completed despite having heavy hitting shows like stranger things and squid game. two, when your catalogue offerings stay relatively the same and you keep raising the price anyway, eventually people are gonna stop paying bc it’s not worth the price.
if they can figure out how to actually entice viewers, rethink their content, and repair their image as a streaming provider, they’ll probably be fine. it’s just a matter of whether the leadership will follow suit. but i don’t think people need to do a mad cancellation dash for fear of the company folding if they’re content with their subscription.
writing is so hard how have you all been doing it during the pandemic i have like just enough energy everyday to cook a meal, this is exhaaaaaausting
BRO SO OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH?????????
bro packing for a move is ass, someone liberate me
fun little crowd sourcing session: is there anyone who has lived alone/does live alone and has some safety tips on doing so? im a tiny woman living alone for the first time so im wondering if im missing anything in terms of what will keep me safe and notlikely to have someone climb through my window and attack me.
