[chazkuangshi]

I think there's something to be said that saying the words "Deny, Defend, Depose, you're next" to an insurance sales rep can get you arrested for 'threats of mass homicide' or whatever with a threat of 15 years in prison

But when I was a manager in a fast food restaurant I've had customers throw food at me, demand for my personal phone number with an added threat of "Well I'll just have to FIND it", customers charging past the front counter to physically intimidate me and my coworkers, screaming and swearing, demands to know what time I get out of work, demands to know when my manager would be at work as a threat, people sitting in their car waiting for me to finish closing because they were angry at me, causing me to stay in the office watching the camera waiting for them to drive away...

But none of those incidents are arrest-able offenses, not one, any time I called the cops on any customer I would just hear excuses like " "there isn't anything illegal about calling a restaurant", that nothing physical happened and therefore there's nothing they could do, to call back and let them know if anything else happens

Idk, just think it's A TEENY TINY BIT ODD

Cop in the news goes "words have consequences" as if people don't berate and threaten fast food and retail workers every day

[depsidase]

[poopgurl69]

just learned that the CDC lists covid (coronavirus) as a tier 3 pathogen risk alongside tuberculosis and the plague. our immune systems are fucked forever

[covid-safer-hotties]

"Mild" BSL-3 disease. "Just a cold."

[emiko-matsui]

the goat says

[livesinruins]

[ID: photograph of the Gävle Goat, a giant Yule goat figure made of straw. three people are holding a banner in front of it that reads, in all caps, "end genocide." one of them is also holding a Palestinian flag.]

[elbiotipo]

Usamericans should be more anti-war actually. They should be straight up insulting marines and shutting down weapon factories, 60s anti-war protests kind of shit. I'm sorry for pontificating from down here but the US military-industrial complex is currently supplying a genocide, and this is not a new thing, the US has sold weapons to Saudi Arabia to starve millions of Yemenis. And though some people think it's not the point, it Is also true that there are trillions upon trillions of dollars that could be spent in anything else that go to the black hole of corruption (and call it for what it is, corruption) that is the Pentagon. Any of those resources could be destined to literally any other activity and be better spent.

I'm talking full contempt here. You should outright be HATING the military. Instead of lining up to watch Top Gun you should see it as a glorification of a fucking killing machine that serves imperial interests, enriches megacorporations and supports genocided. For the love of God be more angry about it. Goddamn.

[tamamita]

How are you gonna avoid the nazi allegations when you utilize the exact same policies

[sadhoc]

"neurodivergent" means disabled. it means disabled in some way involving cognition/emotion/sociability/mental abilities. it is a call to solidarity between the person with adhd, the autistic person, the depressed person, the dyslexic person, the schizophrenic person, the ocd haver, the intellectually disabled person, the person with dementia, the epileptic person, the stroke survivor, anyone who has a mental disability. it's a call to each of us to be more than ourselves, to be in solidarity against the ableism that affects all of us.

it isn't a quirky fashion statement. it has always been about disability

[oldmanpusspuss]

there really is a weird trend on here where people want to dunk on vegans so hard they become like. capitalism bootlickers like. Theres no ethical consumption under capitalism!!! Unless it's about animal welfare or environmentalism then OF COURSE profit-driven mega farms are the exception they would NEVER EVER abuse animals or migrant workers or cause environmental harm 😌

[becauseits]

people love to hate on capitalism and colonialism and accelerationism until there's something tasty on their plate, and then they'll bend over bavkwards to defend it.

And mark my words, capitalism takes full advantage of this fact, it will use every smidgen of leverage to justify its continued existence and destruction.

[thatveganwhiterose]

This is what I’ve been saying the whole time.

Many leftists claim to be leftists until veganism or animal rights is breathed in their general direction and then they have to defend the poor an-ag industry that doesn’t even give a shit about them lol.

All companies and capitalism bad until it’s the uwu meat or daiwy or eggie-weggie industry. Or the itty bitty leather industwy and omg those mean lying vegans are ATTACKING these POOR INDUSTWIEZ OOWOOOOO.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[goldcrescent]

I’d best be seeing that anti JKR energy for this twilight show too bc Smeyer continuing to profit off the Quileute tribe is not cute

[guccimedusa]

I keep seeing people on Twitter being all "I'm sure they'll be more respectful and mindful of the Quileute tribe this time around."

Except, they won't be. Even if they get actual Native American actors to play these characters, even if they bring on a Native American to serve as a cultural advisor, it wont matter. Why? Because Smeyer appropriated a real Native American tribe and twisted their culture and history in her fantasy books for her own profit.

This fictional Quileute Tribe is and always will be disrespectful to the real life Quileute tribe.

[commonstarguy]

The Quileute Tribe is still taking donations to move out of the immediate tsunami zone as of April 2023. Instead of directing attention to this TV series if/when comes out (and even if it doesn't honestly), please consider supporting the tribe financially here if you can afford it.

[identityarchitect]

it's still jarring to see people not get like, genuinely scared for someones wellbeing when they say they have covid. one of my classmates has covid and i am so worried about them and everyone else is just like get better soon and i get that most people don't get it but GOD.

[rhyelm]

Its because the lethality level of covid went down over time thanks to vaccines and actual exposure to the virus increasing people's immunity to it. At this point covid has the same effect as a common cold for most people.

[identityarchitect]

the common cold didn't permanently disable 1.9 MILLION people in the uk alone. the common cold doesn't fuck with your immune system. the common cold doesn't cause cognitive decline, changes in brain size and structure, depression and suicidal thinking due to the consequences of infection, tremors, seizures, and memory loss, even in mild infections. the common cold doesn't DAMAGE YOUR ORGANS. the common cold doesn't remain in your body up to a year after infection. the common cold doesn't damage your nervous system. and because of new mutations, infection does not equal immunity.

you should be scared of covid. if covid doesn't kill you it will permanently disable you. it isn't even slightly comparable to the common cold.

[identityarchitect]

and also like... what vaccines?? what measures are we even taking to avoid infection at this point??? nobody masks - not even in HOSPITALS - covid sparked a massive wave of anti-vax ideology that's still going strong today, nobody does air filtering or wears gloves or wipes down surfaces or tries to do stuff outside. i don't even remember the last time i got a covid vax or booster despite the fact that there are STILL new variants emerging.

you think anyone gives a shit about preventing covid anymore? i mean, it's just like the common cold, right?

[scramratz]

[renthony]

There's a difference between "disabled" and "legally recognized as disabled," and I just want to give a shout-out to all the other disabled people who don't have formal diagnoses, who don't have access to benefits of any kind, who don't have the ability to use even the shittiest and least-helpful resources, because the process of getting legal recognition for disability sucks ass.

And another shout-out to all the disabled people who purposely avoid getting diagnosed, because official diagnoses can be used against you, and you're unable or unwilling to risk it.

[boyquet]

I just want to remind people that it’s 2024 and we didn’t “go thru a pandemic” we are “going thru a pandemic” present tense. It is still happening. People are still get sick, still becoming disabled, and still dying. Covid hasn’t gone away and I beg people to not normalize getting sick with it.

[genderkoolaid]

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE TRANS RIGHTS. ABORTION RIGHTS ARE TRANS RIGHTS. THESE ARE NOT SEPARATE ISSUES. PLEASE IM BEGGING CIS WOMEN TO THINK ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE FOR LONGER THAN FIVE SECONDS

[genderkoolaid]

also while this post is targeted towards exclusion of trans people from discussion around gynecological injustice, this is also true of forced sterilization of trans people with penises. no one should be forced to give up their right to reproduce in order to medically or legally transition.

[shamebats]

If T makes you gain weight and E and antidepressants do it too, and do does enjoying good food and not being hungry all the time, then perhaps maybe sometimes joy & weight gain come hand in hand and that's good

[shamebats]

I've met people who started smoking again after successfully quitting because they gained weight :/ diet culture is so messed up

[edwordsmyth]

"Most people don’t think about the fact they’re eating animals. When they’re eating a steak or eating chicken, most people don’t think about the tremendous suffering that those animals endure simply to become food products to be consumed by human beings.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity-form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world. We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object. We don’t think about the relations that the object embodies, and were important to the production of that object. Whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads. That would really be revolutionary, to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underlie the commodities that we use on a daily basis.

I think there is a connection between the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals. So there are a lot of ways we can talk about this." -Angela Davis