Robert Bliss, Seated Young Male (oval), 1960?

Henry Scott Tuke (British, 1858-1929), The Lighthouse, 1919. Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 14 in.

Robert Bliss, Kneeling boy in green, 1964

Boys Bathing, 1908, Henry Scott Tuke

Robert Bliss, White shorts, undated

Robert Bliss, Kneeling acrobat, 1960

Robert Bliss, Provincetown beach, 1962

Henry Scott Tuke, Summer dreams (painting)

What sort of numbskull thinks that garbage collection is superfluous activity? You couldn't make this nonsense up!

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)