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health isn't a virtue.

people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.

drethelin

Ignoring luck is dumb, but claiming that health is entirely based on sheer luck is an extremely corrosive worldview. There are dozens of choices you make every day, every week, every month that contribute to your overall health and functioning. It's good to be healthy and it's good to make healthy choices and you do in fact have a lot of control over whether you are able bodied.

#If you are in a hopeless situation then please keep trying #No matter your job or condition #Keep going

twofingerswhiskey

"oh food now has so much added to it, past food was so pure and untainted" victorians used to cut bread with chalk and aluminum powder. romans put lead in the wine, which was made from dirty feet mushing unwashed grapes covered in horse shit and road dust. i think our species will survive a few additives in food. our food systems have never been cleaner and safer. it has room for improvement, but we're not putting fucking plaster of paris in the milk

#Humans have been around for more than a couple thousand years lol #just because a food won’t wipe us off the face of the earth doesn’t mean it can’t take a couple years off your life

depsidase

dialecticality

You have to hate factory animal farming too

gothhabiba

somebody says that they refuse to sell out to a corporate sponsor, so instead they make merch. they assert that said merch was "made by a real human person." by "made" they actually just meant the design of the print. any day now I am going to start killing

#I LOVE THIRD WORLD LABOUR 🌎🌎🌎🌎FUCK THE PLANET FICK POOR PEOPLE #INLOVE BEING S YOUTUBER🤩🤩🤩I AM THE MOST IMPORTSNT PERSON IN THE WORLD (AMERICA)

spiderbitesandvampirevenom

settlers are always so enthusiastic about ''foraging'' and then you'll start talking to them about indigenous horticulture & sustainable harvesting practices and they quickly reveal that they're more interested in the aesthetic of being a Crunchy Woodland Creature than like reducing their reliance on exploitative industrial agriculture or rebuilding their local foodshed

dialecticality

Additionally, when you tell them there’s no way for the planet to sustain billions of people eating meat three times a day, they talk about “sustainable farming practices”. SAD !

wutheringheightsfilm

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

wutheringheightsfilm

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

nourishedbytime

grindrbooks

dialecticality

Unironically read blood meridian recently

probuccalfat

people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother

cyberpunkpavlichenko

Tumblrinas really think criticism is at the same level as an armed unaccountable death squad busting down your door and forcing you into a tiny hole for years to decades or outright killing you and I can’t imagine a more sheltered perspective.

beingharsh

you can't kill yourself girl i already bought us tickets to do everything ever

beingharsh

oh no i accidentally bought us tickets to the jenny holzer roller coaster experience😦

fluoresensitives

(smoking a cigarette) the average american is afraid of what is new and what is foreign, and especially of what is adult. they are trapped forever in daycares of their own design, reading books and watching shows made for children. And while there are interesting things made for children, by and large, they tend to stick to inoffensive, intensely juvenile things that won't challenge them much. And worst of all, if you suggest to your Average American that they should try to step outside of their narrow box, especially if they're trying to become artists, animators, film makers, novelists, etc, everyone acts as if you've just bombed the daycare. Wow.

anarchistmemedistro

hey as long as discourse on whether joining the military is bad or not (it is) is doing the rounds again, i’d like to remind everyone that people who were in the military but are not any longer are not ontologically incapable of being leftists or good people. many of the military’s harshest critics are vets. they’ve seen what the military can do. they’ve personally been chewed up and spat. so have their friends. they know first hand the horrors the military has inflicted on the world.

obviously many vets never stop drinking the kool-aid. but many others do. and we shouldn’t reject them as comrades. chelsea manning was in the army before becoming a whistleblower. edward snowden was in the nsa. etc. yes call out people for joining, keep pointing out it’s wrong to kill people for money. even if you’re poor. even if you’re ignorant. but don’t condemn someone solely for their past if they’ve done the hard work of learning and growing. i think it’s pretty easy to walk and chew gum on this one. but it’s easy for some of us to forget that we have to.

anarchistmemedistro

dialecticality

You neglected to mention that not only have people in the US military seen what the military can do, they’re the ones who’ve done it. They’ve participated in murdering, committing war crimes, hurting women and girls, tearing apart families. That’s in addition to or at the very least supporting those who do these acts- providing them care, feeding them, working for them, supporting them. The violence they inflict is part of their brainwashing. Soldiers are not drafted anymore, they join voluntarily. They choose to kill instead of live as civilians.

Think carefully about what you consider “learning and growing”. Is there a way to learn and grow from being part of some of the worst atrocities on the planet? When a person does it out of their own free will for their own personal gain? Redemption is possible, sure. Whatever. People change their hearts and minds. But being so enthusiastic about the idea of a colonial murderer criminal becoming an ally of an anti-America socialist movement is strange and the phenomenon is so unlikely. Why not focus on people without connections to the military and government who start from a slightly higher level of ideological competence? Being part of the US military is one of the most effective brainwashing experiences out there. It’s laughable to consider the US military a radicalising experience for the average soldier- people are propagandised through it. Why does leftism in the US need to let the most intensely trained and brainwashed persons into the complete opposite group? That sounds a little dangerous if you let people in and they hijacked your movement a little.