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cour5t

i don't like the framing of benefiting from imperialism here because then to be anti-imperialist implies the loss of these "benefits"

average consumers in the first world are structurally dependent on imperialism and trained to demand it. It's not a benefit to us to have to purchase food produced by imperial systems, but we do because 1) we have no land rights 2) we have no means of subsistence 3) we can only buy what the market offers and 4) we can only buy what's cheap enough to afford

so then to be anti-imperialist means to end our dependency on imperialism by 1) securing all of us common rights to land 2) securing the means for subsistence as a minimum 3) create market spaces of local, seasonal produce and 4) ensuring equal access to said produce. We gain more from losing the $2 Dole banana by dismantling imperialism at our local economic scale

svinto

it sounds obvious when writing it down but it took me a while to figure out: getting old enough to see the fashion trends of my childhood and teens come back has killed the excitement around fashion for me. like i’ve already lived it so there’s no thrill in doing it again the exact same way. idk if i necessarily need to see something completely new to be excited about it but there have been so many good things happening in fashion since the early 00s i can’t believe we’re going back to shit like stick thinness again just like that.