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Down the drain: Wisconsin dairy farmers told to dump milk because of an oversupply in the market

A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

'It's discouraging for dairy farmers:' Coronavirus' economic impact on Wisconsin

With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.

This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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the final boss

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me applying buffs & debuffs before I kill the final boss:

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my dark mage ass backstabbing you, ending the boss and stealing y’all’s loot:

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what a post 

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9.4 inch mortar shaped like a sitting tiger. India, 1770-1799 [1140x1160]

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500 followers celebration library dump! - FIXED

Thank you all so so so much, I’m so honoured to have all of you guys following me. I’d thought I’d share the book collection I’ve been building up in my Google Drive with you all. Here’s a link to the entire library, but I’ll list the books below as well.

Caveats: I’m not going to discuss the ethics of sharing these on this post, but I have tried to share, to the best of my ability, only books that are out of copyright. Nor am I going to comment on the ‘worthiness’ of each book - Murray’s ‘Witch Cult’ is on here, for example. I am sharing these for your own interest, not to promote the author’s ideas/ practices etc. 

It’s gonna get pretty darn long, so it’ll be under the cut.

Continua a leggere

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Public parks, libraries, and venues are one of the only things that I support entirely on philosophical principle. I’m sure that there’s plenty of research suggesting a data-based political or economic case to be made for them, but I don’t care about it. I just think that it’s very important for any healthy society to have easily accessible places without cost or entry requirements where people can come to relax, learn, experience new things, and be surrounded by a diverse group of people that they haven’t met yet. I strongly believe that that’s just a good thing to have for public life and civic culture.

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People need enrichment that doesn’t come with a cost

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The women of Matobo in Zimbabwe paint their huts with intricate designs using charcoal, ash, water and soil. It’s an annual ritual that replenishes the women’s cultural traditions as season after season they beautify their homesteads with continually changing imagery.

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1920s-1930s Portrait of a young woman (photo by unknown)

(Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore)

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Speaking of Mao Mao this is only the second appearance by Chamille the sorceress but every moment we’ve ever seen her has been precious

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I’m having some kind of visceral feeling about this I’m just not sure whether it’s disgust or want

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“i can’t do simple hygiene bc im depressed” that’s easy babe! just do simple hygiene

[hundondestiny]

Y’all always have to wallow in your misery instead of considering maybe, just maybe, the encouragement people like this give is just telling people to do one, easy thing instead of worrying about a whole routine. Can’t make yourself shower? That’s fine, just brush your teeth. Don’t have the energy to do your hair? Okay, just brush your teeth.

Making 1 small change that can start improving your mood leads to other small changes. When I couldn’t make myself shower I would make sure I changed underwear every day. And then I started using baby wipes to keep myself fresh. And then I worked my way back to trying to take showers every day. My record might not be perfect but I’m getting better.

It’s really unhealthy to keep the mindset that anyone who isn’t miserable and suffering under their mental illness or emotional problems doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Maybe they’ve just grown to learn how to love and care for themselves in spite of what they’re going through.

[christiangothdotcom]

I don’t know what any of you people think professional help looks like, but when you walk in and say “i’m too depressed to do anything” they don’t just nod and say “well you’re broken forever i guess”. they don’t say “here take this pill and it’ll fix everything”. they work with you one step at a time and explain to you that you CAN in fact do simple things even though you’re depressed. it isn’t easy, but it’s not impossible, it just happens in small steps, but it isn’t getting any easier when you react to every instance of someone trying to help by refusing to listen.

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The advice he gives is seriously so solid. A lot of times it’s hard to motivate yourself to do something because it seems too daunting to commit to a full routine, so doing one simple thing can help you get motivated for the next simple thing and so on and so forth. Other posters are right, therapists, at least the ones worth anything, don’t just throw pills at you and tell you you’re never going to improve oh well, they give you simple manageable tips to improve your situation.

[ghiraheeheeheem]

Recovery is about baby steps at a gentle pace, not using it as a crutch to never ever try to make your situation better. No one said recovery is easy, but it does take at least a smidgeon of willpower/effort on your part. You have to want it enough to be willing to try. I’m not saying you have to Just Do It and fix your life overnight but if you aren’t willing to try then no one can help you. 

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i would've been useless as kira

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he’s cured

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actually if you look at the heart monitor hes flat lining

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the dog is the grim reaper

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i’m not a sex worker and you should listen to sex workers themselves about this but campaigning for the criminalisation of sex work is harmful bc:

‘they wouldn’t do this if they truly had a choice”: 

a. maybe not, but neither would many retail workers, cleaning ladies, nannies, and generally people in minimum jobs/jobs that are considered “unskilled.” those people are also overwhelmingly poor women, queer women, women of colour, single moms, etc, so that’s also marginalisation-informed class-based oppression. by focusing only on sex work, you show that your issue is with sex and not with actual class-based oppression or protecting vulnerable people

b. if you actually talked to any sex workers, you’d realise that many of them chose this job over any other “unskilled” jobs, for reasons such as: they like sex; they like the human connection; it allows them to be self-employed; it allows them flexible working hours (particularly useful for disabled ppl and parents, among others); they actually feel safer than in other jobs (particularly trans sex workers who have a way of vetting clients often feel safer than in a retail job, for example); it pays well, often better than other jobs they could apply for; etc.

ofc i wish no one would ever have to do a job they didn’t want to do, but that’s a socialist fight, not an anti-sex work fight. if capitalism coerces people into sex work, universal basic income, for example, would way more efficiently prevent non-consensual sex work than any laws, and it would also prevent other types of non-consensual labour - but also don’t pretend there wouldn’t be some people who’d keep doing sex work to complement that income bc, surprise, some sex workers actually enjoy their job.

“it creates the unhealthy illusion of a sexual relationship that you should actually be getting from a loved one”

i mean, according to this logic,  let’s criminalise nannies, bc they give the illusion of a parental relationship that children should get from their actual parents. let’s criminalise psychologists, bc they create the illusion of intimacy with a person who personally cares about you, which is something you should be getting from your loved ones. let’s criminalise at-home nurses and domestic workers and cooks bc domestic work and care should really be taken care of by family.

sounds ludicrous, doesn’t it? sometimes ppl don’t have access to certain services or have no way to have certain needs met without paying for them, so they must pay for them. also, the definition of being a professional is being better at what you do than a non-professional and/or offering something a non-professional can’t or doesn’t offer, which easily explains why someone who could obtain those things elsewhere still chooses to go to a professional.

“they’re selling their body and creating the expectation of women’s bodies as commodities you can consume!!!1!!!!1!!!”

oh boy, welcome to capitalism. sex workers don’t sell their bodies: they sell their time, during which they perform sex acts. just like a cashier sells their time, during which they scan people’s purchases. just like a doctor sells their time, during which they figure out therapies for people. just like a teacher sells their time, during which they educate people. 

labour is something that’s expected from all of us under capitalism (except the very rich), and it’s disproportionately expected from marginalised ppl to do jobs they don’t like bc they should feel lucky to even have a job. if you have a problem with people doing something they wouldn’t do if they didn’t get money for it, and with marginalised people being particularly vulnerable to such a situation, you have a problem with the concept of all labour under capitalism (which, i mean, same, but this isn’t a sex work issue; it’s a socialism issue - cf above)

“it’s legalised rape/sexual assault”

hmmmm, no, it’s not. rape is sex without consent. consent is something very personal, and everyone decides for themselves what it takes for them to consent to having sex with someone. if you’d never consent to sex because someone gave you money, that’s your fullest right, and if anyone pushed that boundary, that would be rape. we all have different boundaries, though - some people won’t consent to sex just bc they think someone is hot, but others will; some people won’t consent to sex acts they have no interest in but their partner does, but others will; similarly, some people won’t consent to sex with someone who’s paying them for it, but others will. trying to apply global rules to what one can and can’t consent to makes the actual concept of consent meaningless and subsequently feeds rape culture.

this is also very, very dangerous rhetoric if you truly want to protect vulnerable people. when all sex work is considered rape, it put sex workers at a higher risk of actually being raped (i.e. having sex without their consent):

a. clients assume sex workers don’t want to have sex with any of their clients and don’t want to do any of the sex acts they perform with them, so they think forcing themselves onto a sex worker who hasn’t accepted them or forcing them to perform sex acts they haven’t consented/explicitly refused to is okay if they pay them afterwards. acting like money is this big consent-eraser erases actual consent and leads to a mindset that gets sex workers raped.

b. it becomes impossible for a sex worker to report a rape, firstly bc they’ve committed a crime themselves by being a sex worker and would as such get into legal trouble, and secondly bc the reaction they get is overwhelmingly “well yeah, all sex you have in the context of your job is technically rape, so why would we do anything about this particular instance.”

“it gives men the impression that all women are sexually available to them!!!!1!!1!!!”

can we stop blaming other women for men being shitty, jfc. also, it’s simply false: sex work is setting conditions for having sex with someone, and sex workers are far from the only ppl to do that. if me can’t respect those conditions and the fact that those conditions vary from person to person, that’s a men problem, not a sex work problem. also this argument is diametrally opposed to “sex work is not a real choice!!!” bc if you rly thought they did it against their will, you wouldn’t blame them for what it leads men to think, would you? shows the hypocrisy again - you don’t want to protect women, you just hate sex workers

sex work forces marginalised women into unsafe situations and makes them even more vulnerable

not when sex work is treated as any other job. if it’s decriminalised, sex workers could be treated like any other workers and have social security coverage, insurance coverage, workers’ rights, retirement plans, etc etc. making sex work safer makes the marginalised ppl who are more likely to do sex work safer and raises their living standard. 

“we need to protect the victims of human trafficking and people who are actively coerced into sex work”

yes!!!! very true!!! we do!!! and you create the exact opposite effect by campaigning for the criminalisation of sex work (including the criminalisation of the clients of sex workers). when sex work is criminalised or illegal, you effectively increase non-consensual sex work and the impact of human trafficking:

a. websites and online platforms used by sex workers are shut down. this has several effects:

- it makes it impossible for sex workers to vet their clients ahead of time, to see a profile, to have a conversation, etc. this makes it a lot harder for them to recognise a dangerous client and almost impossible to refuse/cancel appointments

- they lose their network of clients, and easy means of communication with them. it forces them to seek out clients in dangerous situations (such as on the streets or at truck stops etc) or to go back to a pimp, who does have the network and the means of communication, and who effectively exploits them, taking a share of their earnings and often pressuring them into non-consensual work or unsafe situations

b. when everything is considered “human trafficking,” law enforcement has it easy only arresting sex workers and calling it human traffic. they track down sex workers who are then arrested and face fines or jail time, are often the victims of assault by police officers, and generally end up way more vulnerable than they started. meanwhile, actual human trafficking rings are often much harder to find, and when sex work and human trafficking are considered on and the same, law enforcement doesn’t put in the work of rescuing actual human trafficking victims, instead basing their numbers and success on their arrest of sex workers. if you want to help human trafficking victims (which you should!), campaign for decriminalisation of sex work and for more efficient application of anti-human trafficking laws

don’t campaign against sex work or for the criminalisation of sex work or anything that pushes sex workers underground. you’ll only end up harming the people you want to help.

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Addendum: in the UK at least the majority of human trafficking victims are male and working in industries other than sex work. Criminalising sex work does absolutely nothing to help them break free of exploitation.

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Mokona

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Me trying to fit in

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