I think this is an important point to consider, but the emphasis is being shifted when it really shouldn’t - yes, pain is hell, and it makes life hard, even unbearable, but you know what radicalises pain patients? The brick walls we hit and slaps in the face we get at every turn when desperately seeking help and support from a system and institutions based on so many levels of bias and discrimination and exclusion (capitalism, ableism, sexism, racism, classism, queerphobia, fatphobia and on and on), designed to keep us out of sight and out of mind. Being dismissed as “hysterical”, a liar, a drug seeker, a lazy burden, a scrounger, fat, “uncooperative” (like when autistic people struggle to make eye contact, or in too much pain and trauma to communicate calmly). Being locked up, institutionalised, or just completely ignored. Being told it’s “too expensive” to provide us with quality of life, but rather encouraged to be “assisted” in disposing of ourselves instead, or doing it for us with lack of funding and support.

Yeah, being marginalised radicalises you, but not because of who you are, but because of the systems of oppression designed to marginalise you, which others simply have the privilege of not being directly impacted by (which in far too many cases results in not even believing they exist, which of course serves to maintain them).

And their work schedules office hours (because who are we kidding, they do no work).

Centring yourself, talking over, and refusing to listen to the marginalised people whose side you claim to be on - the self identified ally personified!

Theft is theft

Fucking bootlickers… 🙄

Imagine being able to successfully convince yourself that the existence of defences, and conflict, between neighbouring indigenous nations, is equivalent, to the point of nullifying, sailing around the globe genociding and enslaving its population as you go, for profit.

White supremacy is a hell of a drug.

Nowhere is it even implied that community on its own will stop capitalism, but without it you will achieve no meaningful change.

Like, who the fuck do you think you’re going to be toppling the government and doing socialism with? How the fuck do you think you get people today to understand the value of doing that? How do you gather enough human mass to enact it?

I’m all for a violent abolition of our existing establishments, but this hostility that seems to be coming out of people towards the mere suggestion of the importance of community building is really odd…

You will never get anywhere without a community.

I can see how it can be a little unclear, but knowing the artist and her work helps make it clear that she doesn’t support the cops.

Well yeah, and I think Sophie would agree.

Bonus image, for illustrative purposes:

Broken clock moment.

None of that makes seeing misery and suffering and wanting to play at it make sense to me, or makes your suggestion sound any more like a good idea in the way it seems to do for you (and by the looks of the other comments, only you).

I’m not trying to trivialize those things

Never said you were

I’m saying it could be interesting to have the option for something more real with how over the top a lot of the Sims has become.

Which reflects to me that you have never had these experiences yourself, hence what I did say - this is privilege wanting to roleplay as marginalised, which is pretty weird, to put it mildly.

I mentioned things getting whitewashed because it’s not something I’d want played off as nothing or purely positive.

But something partially positive? Any gamification of homelessness and poverty and other human suffering is whitewashing, your idea, at it’s core, is a whitewash.

I could see EA being tasteless and depicting homelessness as something like another eco living DLC.

So why would you ever want them (or any other company for that matter, that would do just as bad a job because this isn’t something anyone could do a good job at) to even try?

Yeah, I can see no redeeming qualities to this idea.

Except this post is literally the opposite of trying to trick someone in to getting pregnant.

Maybe keep your concern, and instead invest the energy in better reading comprehension?

Yeah, this feels a little like privilege wanting to roll play marginalisation, for funsies… 🙄

I’ve been homeless, I am mentally an otherwise ill, I already know I’m never going to own a home to make my own or have any financial security, why on earth would I, or anyone else who has or is living this shit want to “play” at how distressing life already is for so many of us? And much more confusing, why would someone who hasn’t lived this shit, want to “play” at it? Really odd take…

Not sure why anyone would troll about something like this, but also never trust random people on the internet, especially on medical advice, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for adding sources

Pretending something that was never stateless, classless, and moneyless but rather quite the fucking opposite (E: and was never going to end up there, either) was communism, shows you need to hit the books on how communism is actually intended to function.

Lol, you mean the state capitalists? You’re not making the (weak, “whatabout”) point you think you are, but hey, your confidence in your wilful ignorance in defence of those exploiting you for profit* is almost impressive! (but not really) 🙄😂

*E: and guess what, I don’t even need to know where you live to say this, because every working class person on the planet is currently being exploited for profit through both labour and war, but don’t let that get in the way of the bootlicking you’ve come here to do in self-destructive defence of your beloved capitalism (I threw up in my mouth a little)…

You misspelled “capitalists”.

It isn’t about what an individual’s in or out groups are, it’s about what they are in society at large, and the power imbalance between them.

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