degrowth understander

@ohterrysogross

She/her. Professional dog lady (clicker trainer 15+yrs). Eco socialist. Pro-science. Decolonize. PHIMBY. Retire all police attack dogs. Abolish poverty.

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degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jun 3

*over poverty alleviation, not of.

Poverty, by America written by Matthew Desmond

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Mar 29

Yes, please. 🙏

Small senior black and tan chihuahua mix sitting on a couch facing the back of it, looking up with a soft expression

Close-up, overhead image of a brown and white senior Italian greyhound mix standing on a field of grass. One ear is sticking up, the other is slightly flopped. His expression is one of gentle attention.

A large orange senior pitbull with an almost all white face and mauve colored nose laying on a couch, facing the camera, head up with both eyes closed and a ridiculously pouty mouth with big saggy lips. It looks as if he was just sleeping and rudely awakened.

An eye level image of a gorgeous tri-colored rough collie, ears slightly flopped at the tip with his mouth open and a bright expression standing in a field. He looks like a lovely dog.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Mar 18

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Increase pet-inclusive emergency and affordable housing

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 29

Such a precious, precious breed.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 17

Technically this sassy girl is adoptable, but I’d still like compensation.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 14

Somebody, anybody, please save Tyler from the puppy apartment! He cannot get out!

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 12

When you’re overdressed for yoga.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 11

My beautiful son.

Seal and white colored Italian greyhound sleeping with his tongue sticking out.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 9

Our resident ballerina, Mims. This graceful good girl is ✨available✨ for adoption or fospice. If you’ve ever dreamt of seeing The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in person, well, Mims can’t help with that, but she can do this and it’s basically the same! www.instagram.com/scarletheartsanctuary

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 5

One onesie, four seniors.

Dilute brindle pitty standing facing the camera in a purple tie dye onesie

Chocolate pitty walking in a church parking lot at sunset in a purple tie dye onesie

Brindle pitty walking on a path in a purple tie dye onesie

White pitty walking in snow covered grass in a purple tie dyed onesie

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Jan 1

Grateful to ring in the new year with these beautiful baby nerds.

Dilute brindle pitty mix, black and tan chihuahua mix and a mostly hairless who knows what staring at the photo taker (me) begging.

Mim’s Poop Hole. A white pitbull in a baby blue sweater with bananas on it squatting to poop on top of a small pile of leaves that have collected in a depression in the ground.

Seal colored Italian greyhound with an expression of determination, playing tug with a red toy.

Adorable chocolate pitbull laying on top of a partially deflated pillow, stuffing surrounding her.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Dec 31

Our little bonded pair, Lady (15) & Tramp (13). Could not love this pair more! Can’t wait to make their golden years truly golden!

A grey faced, brindle dog laying down next to a seated small framed, grey faced black dog. Both looking at the camera.

A grey faced, brindle dog laying down next to a seated small framed, grey faced black dog. Both looking in the distance.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Dec 25

I took up sewing to make my awkward shaped son custom clothing.

Italian Greyhound in a quilted jacket and sweater

Italian greyhound in a grey and green raglan sweater

Italian greyhound in plaid suspenders and a sweater

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Dec 14

Mims from August of this year to this week. Love love my job! 🥰 💖🎶Sanctuary for Mims 🎶💖 🥰

White pit bull with a sunken face standing on a porch

Thick and juicy white pit bull wearing plaid holiday jammies looking incredibly healthy and good

Chunky white pit bull in a sweater, laying on the floor, mid-back scratch, eyes closed looking healthy and content.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Dec 8

Sanctuary swag.

Dawn brindle whippet laying on a bed half wearing a jacket

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Dec 7

Just senior dog sanctuary things.

Close up of a small black and tan dog sitting on a couch looking directly into the camera

Chocolate and white itty bitty pittie sitting on a Christmas themed blanket looking up sweetly at the camera

White pittie standing on her hind legs propped up on a bed with a soft expression

Chinese crested mix looking dog with an emo hairstyle

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Dec 7

Sighthounds are the best!

Fawn brindle tripod whippet in a black and grey sweater

Seal colored Italian greyhound in a red, blue and purple fleece onesie

Seal colored Italian greyhound in a bomber style doggie jacket

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Nov 24

Newest arrivals at the sanctuary! Safe and warm, safe and warm! 🥰

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Nov 5

She hatesin’ this. *snoring sounds*

A small dogs head poking out the top of a fleece pullover, eyes open.

A small dogs head poking out the top of a fleece pullover, expression sleepy. Eyes almost completely closed.

A small dogs head poking out the top of a fleece pullover, eyes barely open.

A small dogs head poking out the top of a fleece pullover, eyes closed with a restful expression.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Oct 27

I have a whole collection of those!

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Oct 5

My son is precious as heck. Too cute. Can’t get anything done with this beloved little man just hanging around all the time.

Seal and white colored Italian greyhound standing in anticipation outside.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 25

I think most modern day “libertarians”are actually just neoliberals or illiberal libertarians. This book by historian Quinn Slobodian delves into it.

Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. By Quinn Slobodian

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 23

Image of people flying in the sky being raptured while one person labeled “me” stands on the ground saying “go on git!”

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 21

Super normal stuff going on. “Death is a promotion,” said the ghost of Charlie Kirk.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 12

Hey Pete. Here you go.

American Masculinity at the End of an Era. Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 12

I’m ok not giving neo-fascists the benefit of the doubt. You go ahead & suspend judgment. Maybe it is a radical antifa! A real thing that is happening. In places other than your mind. Just ignore the stats, the environment, the context, our own eyes - maybe it’s antifa! A joke.

According to Utah officials + police interviews with his family, Tyler Robinson hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk wasn’t conservative enough. (Robinson reportedly admired Nick Fuentes). GOPer’s now scrubbing X posts about dems faster than DOJ erases Trump name in Epstein files.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 11

Fascists want a stage. They want an audience. They do not deal in the truth. They are never arguing in good faith. By being on the stage at all, they demonstrate their power & like flies to shit, reactionaries flock to the strongman boldly lying his ass off. You are not playing the same f’in game.

This is why refusing fascists the legitimization of a platform and violently countering their rallies has worked so well historically. The authoritarian base that fascists recruit from, don't share the instincts of proponents of liberty, they aren't attracted to underdogs with no hope, they aren't compelled to self-sacrifice in defense of the weak, they're attracted to supermen on the rise. When a nazi gets up on a stage to call for genocide his arguments don't matter, it's the potency of the act, the very fact that he was able to get on that stage and say such things in the first place, that recruits.

Fascists make a mockery of debate intentionally, in the authoritarian mind it's inherently just positioning and only fools take ideas seriously. From such a perspective the fascist that discards the existing norms, that dances around in a flagrantly bad faith way, demonstrates a kind of strength in honesty.
The only honesty, in their mind, being that truth and ideas don't matter. Power matters, power through deception and manipulation - the capacity to get someone to put you on a stage, in a position of respect, despite your flagrant dishonesty - and power through physical strength - the capacity to march in the open, in great numbers, with weapons, with muscles, trappings of masculinity, displays of wealth, etc. Widespread mockery can hurt fascists by demonstrating their unpopularity, but so long as they have other sorts of power to fall back on the fascist can simply tell himself "this is the real power, this is the only thing that actually matters, what those people have is fake and hollow, that they will be overthrown."

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Sep 11

The second paragraph here I think is salient. How many people have history’s dictators actually killed? More often than not, none. It’s shameful, embarrassing, myopic if not malevolent, to pretend fascist rhetoric can be debated & defeated in the market place of ideas. Fucking baby brain bullshit.

I do not accept selective empathy. I do not accept that the right gets to revel in violence against immigrants, trans people, Nancy Pelosi's husband, whoever; but then gets to switch on the humanity all of a sudden if and only if someone they see as human has been killed. I have empathy for all living creatures and I am on the far low end of the spectrum in terms of wishing for or enjoying violence being carried out on anyone. It's horrific and genuinely disturbing. So, I'm not cheering and I'm not gleeful, at all. But I sure as shit am not sad or mournful. And I am immune from any lectures on why I should be. I truly don't care. The violence Charlie Kirk did to others far and away exceeded the violence done to him.

There are people who think there is a bright line distinction between words and violence and I think those people are philosophically incorrect. I honestly don't know how many people history's worst dictators actually killed, personally, themselves. The answer for many of them could very well have been 0. But does that mean they were never violent and therefore violence against them wouldn't be justified? Obviously not. Words can be violence.

Making millions stirring up nothing but hate against marginalized people is violence. And it is violence at a large scale. People die because of it. A lot. And it feels like no one cares, and it doesn't count because: words. I think that's wrong, morally. I think words do count, though it's obviously a complex calculation and not always clear cut.

But sometimes, it is clear cut.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Aug 31

It’s just fascism. “When a nazi gets up on a stage to call for genocide his arguments don’t matter, it’s the potency of the act, the very fact that he was able to get on that stage and say such things in the first place, that recruits.”

Nothing could be less the case with a nazi. An actual fascist is well aware that some proposed policy may not have much of a leg to stand on. They are prepared for objective reality to line up against them. They know at heart that their race statistics are often false, misrepresented, or actually evidence for the reverse of their claims and insinuations. Not only does this not matter to them, they strategize from the beginning with it in mind. A fascist cares only about the landscape of power and how they can shift it to make them “win”. I want to be clear here: the problem isn’t merely that they’re arguing in conscious bad faith, fascists have no monopoly on that — nor even do authoritarians — the problem is what this arises from: a hunger for social power, and how fundamental it is to their position. Fascist recruitment doesn’t function in terms of persuasion, it functions in terms of promises of power.

Authoritarian personalities flock to movements that promise them comfortably easy solutions, but more self-aware authoritarians flock to movements that promise them power.

The primary recruitment tool of the fascist is the appearance of power.

This is why fascists — and those other self-aware authoritarians in their general orbit including Stalinists and Maoists — focus so strongly on aesthetics and rituals that reinforce perceptions of broad popularity, community, strength-by-association and general social standing. Those movements that only whine, offering victimization narratives and promises of power without any tangible content to them, rarely recruit any lasting base of self-aware authoritarians (although a few will surreptitiously set up shop to prey upon the few true believers and deadenders). Appearance of strength and legitimacy is everything, without it fascist movements dry up. No self-aware authoritarian wants to back a loser cause.

degrowth understander@ohterrysogross· Aug 12

From his testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee. Took a minute to get the alt text together.