Hello disabled comrades! I can’t believe we’re entering a new year… which is year six of the pandemic, hooray. I’m a firm believer that we must always have revolutionary optimism, but I can’t say it hasn’t been hard for the past few years as more and more leftists have abandoned COVID precautions. But as disabled people, we keep agitating, we keep organizing, and we keep going. Solidarity in the face of pandemic eugenics, always.
As always, we ask that in order to participate in the weekly megathread, one self-identifies as some form of disabled, which is broadly defined in the community sidebar:
“Disability” is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.
Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
genuinely do not know what i expected out of a site with roots in dirtbag left shit. i never interacted with this nonsense a decade ago for this reason. every time i keep hoping things are different and I guess they are a little bit compared to, like, 2014 or whatever but it’s just not worth the effort anymore
it’s the people like you that make this place bearable (no apologies). i will never blame you or anyone for leaving but i hope you know that there are people in your corner and they would rather lose a thousand debatebro assholes over even a single one of you
Ivy, you’re the first person here to take my complaints seriously and didn’t just reply with a bs “stiff upper lip” comment. That means so much more than any struggle session ever could. I’ve come out of lurking too over the recent weeks (got a new account as well for a “fresh start”) and would hate to see the people leave who made me feel brave enough to talk to the others here.