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new pinned post :]
basic info about me:
- i go by klepto generally unless you know me otherwise
- he/it/heart pronouns
- this is a discourse blog but im not that active on it
- i hate internet discourse so much since literally none of it matter irl but sometimes i have an opinion on it which is why we're here
- go follow my slightly less based then me husband @no-steppy-snek
general opinions:
What the hell does " pro-veteran anti-military " mean?
it means i can oppose war, american imperialism, the military industrial complex, and the cult of male violence without discounting the myriad factors that contribute to someone enlisting, including but not limited to millions of dollars spent annually to recruit children.Ā
also means iām disgusted with a culture that superficially venerates veterans for nationalist and capitalist purposes while simultaneously fucking them over re: housing and healthcare and suppressing veteran voices should their experience as a vet happen to inform anything resembling anti-military sentimentĀ
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Some of you need to realize that a woman doing something kind for a male partner is not always a sign of her own oppression wtf
Me: hey babe I picked up coffee for us on my way home
Someone who has literally never touched grass: QUEEN HE DOESNT DESERVE IT - YOU ARE NOT HIS SLAVE - THE FACT YOU CANT SEE THIS MAKES YOU A TRADWIFE - GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN
Some of you are falling for the radfem rhetoric that because the patriarchy exists no individual man could be a decent human being or deserving of kindness
The same way that housewives who CHOOSE to be housewives while their husbands work DO exist and are NOT traitors or opppressed
This is actually really important to me so Iām going to keep talking about it. My mom was a stay-at-home mom for my entire childhood. She chose to drop out of her masterās program to raise me, even though my father and her entire family had offered to come together and raise the baby so she could finish out her degree.
After I was born, she talked to a close friend about if sheād made the right choice - she felt like she was relegating herself to a life without importance - she felt that society had told her that to be important she has to go get her degree and āchange the world.ā Her friend told her that if she is raising her children to be good people, sheās changing the world by being present for them and helping them live their fullest potential.
My mom believed in this principle so strongly that she followed it for most of my life and dedicated long hours to schooling us at home (at least 3 of us kids were neurodivergent - I can confidently say I wouldnāt have survived as my authentic self in a public school).
My mom and dad have one of the best relationships Iāve ever seen - itās one I aspire to and admire all the time. My father has overwhelming respect and love for my mom, which she has for him as well. They like to sit on the patio or in the living room and have a drink while they just talk for long hours alone together. They miss each other when theyāre gone. I once found a love note from my dad to my mom the day he left on a business trip and at the time I was embarrassed but in retrospect who doesnāt want the kind of partner who writes love notes after being together 10, 15, 25 years?
To assume my mom was oppressed, conservative, didnāt make her own choice, didnāt think about the implications of her choice, or didnāt have a relationship that was both equal and loving makes you look stupid and to a certain degree sexist yourself.
People will be rude as hell to stay-at-home moms for no damn reason. Even if you havenāt seen it happen I guarantee itās happened.
It's also a form of misogyny to devalue what is seen as traditionally feminine work ā the raising of kids, housework, cooking, etc. Any feminism that places value only on women occupying typically masculine roles ā having careers, etc ā is actually just perpetuating this misogynist tradition While it's important to give women options, it's also important to remember that there's a reason why we look down on this kind of typical "woman's work", and it's not (just) because we're afraid of oppression ā it's because patriarchy has devalued and minimised it to the point of poisoning it in our minds. We don't see it as important, and yet it is one of the most important roles you will ever perform. And its one that should be enthusiastically performed regardless of gender. Otherwise all we're going to do is raise children who will perpetuate these patriarchal ideas
wacky idea here but maybe we should be focusing our efforts on securing accessible healthcare and a decent standard of living for disabled people and everyone else instead of micromanaging people's vocab
Inuits in the Arctic can survive perfectly on a plant based diet š¤
Vegans: We care about all life! Weāre all equal!
Also vegans: I think Inuit people should starve :)
Animals in nature: *kill and eat each other all the time.*
vegans:
Commercial agriculture: *develops certain GMOs and pesticides that kill keystone bug species, which disrupts the environment and kills many different animals up the food chain as a result*
Vegans:
Commercial agriculture: *destroys local ecosystems by ripping out native species and replacing them with massive farms of exotic monocultures, resulting in the deaths and endangerment of millions of species*
Vegans:
Inuit people: *live in an environment where growing plant based food is extremely difficult, and where grocery prices are inflated past affordability so they hunt a few large animals every year which feed their entire community*
Vegans: thatās immoral and evil, actually.
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MY PEOPLE! MY PEOPLE ARE ALREADY STARVING! We are NOT the reason animals are going extinct. We have kept the EXACT SAME HUNTING PRACTICES FOR CENTURIES! CENTURIES! Before cars we hunted this way, before light bulbs we hunted this way, BEFORE AMERICA OR AUSTRALIA WAS COLONIZED WE HAVE HUNTED THIS WAY!
Orange juice in my home town is 25$ minimum! We buy bread for special occasions! Something Southern people have on their dinner table 24/7 is something I would see only a few times a year!
Not to mention, we use AS MUCH OF THE ANIMAL AS POSSIBLE! Bones become plates, and silverware (or in some cases jewlery), fur and blubber becomes homes and clothing and beds. Teeth become combs. And we eat EVERYTHING! Iāve had brains, and eyeballs, and intestines. Anything that can be eaten, will be eaten. We DONT throw ANYTHING away. And if we have too much (which is rare but has happened before) we leave it for the suffering wild life!
Polar bears will come and gouge themselves on a whale we donāt finish, wolves will feast on some left over seal tails, foxes will devour caribou carcases!
Even now, we are curbing our hunting ideas. We DONT hunt as many whales as we used too, we used to hunt maybe five a year, but now we hunt one to three! Seals are also taken care of but use only hunting males, and older males at that! Caribou was my familyās main meal, and lemmings when they would come around.
If you are vegan, cool! More power too you! But you probably live in a place that can grow more than lichen, and grass. You live in an industrialized place, where everyone has a car, and house.
Some of my people still donāt own these things. We are so far north, cars are hard to maintain, electricity for my childhood home came from a car battery we would buy from the soldiers and sailors, we didnāt have wifi, or even phones.
(#sorryĀ i had to go offĀ #because my neice is that little girlĀ #i was there for that picture)
new theme :] ill probs change my pinned and bio too later
Prison populations of developed countries.
wonder why all of netflixs documentaries (and even some of their movies) on animals are all heavily animal rights vegan bs propagandaĀ Ā
I wonder why, as in who is continuing to fund and approve within netflix, the constant stream ofĀ āpro-vegan animal rightsā propaganda (cowspiracy, what the health, forks over knives, okja (although not a documentary it does try to push the agenda of a animal rights terrorist group as āthe good-guysā)).
I call all theseĀ ādocumentariesā propaganda because theyāre just that. Theyāre not based on fact, scientific, statistical and otherwise but based on twisting truths and just straight up lies.Ā
So my question is why netflix continues to fund these.Ā
#local man thinks animal rights is propaganda more at 6
Animal rights is propaganda and is overall awful. And all the vegan documentaries on netflix are propaganda by definition (which is bias or misleading information) and have been debunked many times.
Animal welfare is what everyone should really be focused on, considering animal welfare organisations are often non-for profit and actually you know, improve the quality of care and treatment towards animals.
But what do I know, I only have a degree and am studying a postgraduate course on this.
Iām with you for the most part, Iām just curious as to how animal rights is propaganda, but animal welfare is not? Or I guess, more accurately, how youāre differentiating between the two.
Animal welfare is based on scientific research and understanding of animal behavior. Animal rights is based on projecting human thoughts, desires, and needs onto animals
Animal rights ultimate goal is to prevent any interaction between humans and animals and view, incorrectly, that animals have the same thoughts, dreams, and desires as humans. They think that having a pet is literally the same as slavery. They view being dead as the ultimate worst thing that can befall an animal.
Animal welfare focuses on taking care of animals and bettering their lives. Animal welfare is encouraging local farmers who do things like raise their chickens and pigs on pasture instead of small cages. Animal welfare is encouraging appropriate medical care no matter the species, including pain relief. Animal welfare is things like not docking tails and ears just for the appearance of it instead of as an actual medically necessary procedure. Itās advocating for changing the breed standards of brachycephalic dogs and cats.
Animal welfare actually helps. āAnimal Rightsā actually causes animal suffering, such as keeping calves that are paralyzed or too deformed to walk alive and unable to perform any natural behavior except eat.
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[also why cant you send asks from sideblogs, i hate this, and i cant send pictures on anon so lets all pretend this ask is from anarchoarmageddons
Beloved, normally I love your takes, but unfortunately I do care. I can't just stop caring when biphobia and transphobia run rampant (though I really, really wish I could). It affects me personally.
To clarify, its not like I'm going to attack individual people identifying as pan--most don't understand how its harmful. But I do want to educate & eventually dismantle pansexuality as a label. Not because I hate the people identifying with it, or anything about their attraction, but because the label is harmful.
ive never had any instance of the biphobia present in the creation of the label pansexual effect me, ever. i am pretty open about being bi and the most ive ever gotten is people saying i should identify as pan instead which is rude but not physically harmful to me in any way. as far as forms of biphobia goes, i dont find it that bad. so i dont find myself really caring. if, of course, you have any experiences of it effecting you directly id love to hear it as that is the sort of stuff that changes my opinion.
im an egoist cause i just dont care. just do what makes ya happy, man. live your life. and ill do the same.
individualism isnt capitalist, its rightist and/or anarchist
Males make up 50% of the population and commit 98% of violent rapes and murders. Most murdered men are killed by other men, and most murdered women are killed by men, as well. Imagine being that insane, lmao.
Actually, given females make up 51%, males make up 49%.
And mind backing up the 98% claim? Nevermind that the percentage doesnāt matter given how many rapes go unreported, back up your bullshit.
Imagine being insane enough to villainize an entire sex over statistics. Especially statistics that largely donāt count female rapists. :P
Hmmm....it's as if many rape laws on the books say you can't be a rapist if you don't have a dick...however is that ever going to be accurate as to who is actually forcing who into unwanted sexual contact? I wonder because it's not like it's sexist or anything...Hmmm...
I wonder when people are going to realize that the logic used to justify misandry over crime statistics is the exact same logic used to villainize black people. Statistics are higher for those communities because of court bias, you idiots. (And also probably societal issues, like a lack of mental health help for men, stuff like that)
If you donāt feel any need to reblog this unfollow me.
Seriously what the fuck you spent money on those donate to a homeless shelter instead you fucking demons
This is more common than you may think. Many urban areas that have high homeless populations are using ādefensive architectureā more and more. Sloped and divided benches to keep the homeless from sleeping on them. Spikes placed in sheltered areas where they tend to stay. City planners argue they are only trying to relocate the homeless, pushing them to see out shelters and homeless centers. But that rings hollow. They just want them out of sight. I donāt have a simple, easy solution. But this isnāt it. Making things harder for the homeless does not help them.
All these corporations have so much money to spend it on putting spikes on places where homeless people sleep yet absolutely NOTHING goes to those who are homeless. This country really doesnāt give a fuck about the well being of homeless people at all
this is heartbreaking fr .
By the way you can remove these spikes with wither a sledgehammer and a heavy metal spike (sharpened crowbar with a downwards slant and the handle removed or something similar) or a concrete saw if youāve got one of those. Itās illegal to do but it also only takes about an hour if there arenāt too many spikes.
Alternatively, if you put a mattress over them they become useless, although you do risk having the city take the mattress. Normally they donāt reinstall the spikes if you keep removing them.
As for the benches, a concrete or hand held circular saw can cut off the arm rests of the benches with too many arm rests to sleep on. Just remember: Wear protective goggles and practice proper safety if using power tools. All of this stuff can be bought at Home Depot or your local variant of Home Depot.
For legal purposes I have to advise you that this is illegal and Iām not advising you to do this.
remember: they canāt catch you if youāre faster than they are!
Also!! If you wear a hard hat- orange construction vest and carry a clipboard people are more likely to believe your legit and not call the cops on you
ok, that last one is pretty good advice
everyday i wake up and get closer to political extremism
Iām just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got itās 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and itās not just lead! itās coliform bacteria! itās THMs! itās all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising andĀ petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and itās only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children canāt stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years.Ā
The people of Flint are trapped by the legal system. And it is only the most high profile case out many cities with a similar problem.Ā
Because the government has abandoned them, they are dependant on help from the outside. Donate here
https://www.instagram.com/p/COEluXKHRXo/?igshid=18sqz34fzhshs
My name is Mari Copeny, Iām a 12 year old from Flint, Michigan. You may know me as Liā¦ LuLu Brezzell needs your support for Little Miss Flin
Mari Copeny has taken the initiative to create a water filter. Iāve linked her GoFundMe thatās she using to raise money for it. Sheās been able to raise $50k in donations but her next goal is $1 million
So recently the mayor of my city placed a bunch of sharp stones under a bridge commonly used by homeless people to escape the harsh tropical storms we experience during the summer
A priest decided that was an utterly anti humanitarian course of action (rightfully so) and so his solution.. was to destroy those rocks with a hammer.
I'm not Catholic (in fact, I grew up Jewish and am now atheist) but I feel this is what religion is supposed to be about. Using the divine to help humans behave a little more... human.
can we please bring back āin poor tasteā as a concept
Because at some point it got folded in under āproblematic,ā and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebodyās sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express āthis deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but itās not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creatorās sense of tact.ā
I think this really an important post. Weāve fallen into such a rut of āeverything is right or wrong, no inbetweenā that stuff thatās merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.
this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you
Damn. This is the thing.
I also kinda dislike that people started saying āproblematicā when they could be specific about what someone did wrong. It becomes this vague scary thing that someone āsaid something problematicā and you donāt know whether they passionately defended nazis or made a clumsy joke about retail workers. And because we donāt know what someone means but we do want to be safe a lot of us just assume to worst and avoid people labelledĀ āproblematicā. This makes is a very effective tool to bully out people for minor flaws and to reinforce purity culture and disposability culture.Ā
