[THREAD] I'm an artist. Every time I see a new donation towards the legal fund to save @crippledcommie's disabled relative from an abusive guardianship, I add an update to my drawing. The urgent goal to secure an attorney is $10,000. Donate here: gofundme.com/f/23zgqzzd00
For an idea of the potential of this new drawing, here's the what my previous fundraiser drawing looked like in the end. 😁 Let's do this thing!
Can you please make a succession of donations to save @crippledcommie's disabled relative, even if they're teensy, because this pic is at the annoyingly ugly stage, and I need to move it out of there! Will probably take at least five nudges before it starts looking pretty cool.
Yaaaaay! An anonymous donor has broken the spell! Please keep donating to save @crippledcommie's disabled relative from an abusive guardianship! Donate here to see the next update: gofundme.com/f/23zgqzzd00
Just $6 short of $9,300. Lemme give you an ant's eye view of the next update, which is ready to post after the next donation...
Just noticed something cool. There have been 200 donors, but 230 donations, which means some people have donated more than once. I think people realise that there is just no way, given how society is (badly) designed for disabled people, that this could be addessed without money.
Yeaaaah! Another donation! Thank you, O Mysterious Person!
“We left the meeting very disappointed because Netanyahu talked about dismantling Hamas as the goal of the war.”
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“We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.”
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“There is no doubt that Netanyahu is preventing a deal. Netanyahu knows that if he goes to elections at this time he won’t be able to form a new government, and he is motivated by cold political considerations.”
To all these UK people who are puzzled about why there's sooo much pneumonia going around in your country, lemme tell you a short story about TB (tuberculosis) in South Africa to help you understand what's going on.
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Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases were a problem we needed to prevent anyway.
But then came a new illness. The new illness had an acute infection stage, after which a person would feel better—kind of like flu.
Man, this is an interesting exchange. Many people are disadvantaged in this kind of situation: most of us don't have the full set of weapons and skills—body language, posture, tone, eye contact, reading the other guy's responses, quick thinking. This guy has… a lot.
The argument wasn't won entirely on logic and words. The squeaky guy was discombobulated and allowed himself to be overpowered. The use of the chair was masterful. This whole scene could be analysed by students in a drama class.
Squeaky was like, “OK, I am not getting a chance to come in with a considered response, so let me just allow this person to go off on a tirade and end up looking stupid”—except his tactic backfired, as the big guy ended up spouting a whole lot of good points—
What these people are advocating is child abuse. I know the way they put it doesn't sound bad, but this is about a very controlled, clinically callous form of manipulation. I'll drop some more links below so you can understand the context.
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Why is it so hard for people in the field of ABA to improve the field, even with the support of autistic activists? One of the reasons is this:
Powerful people in the industry will try to destroy you for listening to autistic people, for trying to do a job compassionately, and for calling out the abuse.
I'm going to ask Jennilee Sunshine, a BCBA, whether I might tell her story here verbatim. It's already public on Facebook.