schattenseite der hoffnung

underbelly of hope "we gotta get out of this place" arrival 1976 aspiring mushroom wind chime enthusiast technically a hermit pro equality, means it panpolyatheist-denominational aggressive hugger speaks less, thinks more

[thememedaddy]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[starcures]

new boot goofin

[thememedaddy]

[thememedaddy]

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest not letting it get this far

[thememedaddy]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a better suggestion

[titsay]

orange

[depsidase]

[cream-chantilly]

@isuggesteatingtherich

[chokemeyogi-deactivated20251001]

reassurance kink bc my brain makes me feel unlovable

[psalmicwitch]

To put it bluntly, the only way to end homelessness is to house people or kill them.

That's it. Those are your options. Homelessness doesn't go away based on "crime crackdowns." You will imprison the unhoused, and when they are free, they will be unhoused again. Or they will die in prison.

When you burn encampments or force people out without their stuff, they remain unhoused or freeze to death.

After working with the unhoused, it's become abundantly clear that those who don't want to support them instead want them dead.

There is blood on the hands of every government and organization that controls the homeless population with force instead of compassion.

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[melyzard]

Did you know that soda machines at restaurants and movie theaters spy on you? That most common new cars now record your sexual preferences and send it to the manufacturer (and also data about anyone who also gets in your car, walks by your car, and maybe happens to be within visual range of your car)? That grocery stores are trying to force customers to download an app to scan barcodes on shelves instead of putting up prices, so the app can scan the phone, decide how much that customer should be squeezed for, and adjust the price? That more and more innocent people are being sent to jail for crimes committed hundreds of miles away because an AI facial recognition algorithm spit their faces out and the cops didn't bother to do the most basic of checks?

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

And often, they are assholes, too.

[stuckinapril]

[theconcealedweapon]

Anytime a black person is found hanging from a tree and the cops rule it as a suicide, it's safe to assume that the cops did it.

[kosmogrl]

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[enerdsout]

[marzipanandminutiae]

If you've ever seen images of sweatshops in the early 20th century, in New York or the UK or other developed countries

Guess what

Your clothing is still made in a place that looks like that. The only thing that's different is the tech level of the sewing machines and the race of the workers 

[depsidase]

on capitalism…

conservatives: this is how capitalism is supposed to be. life is cruel. fuck you. you're weak if you can't deal with it.

liberals: this is NOT how capitalism is supposed to be! we must reform it! more woman ceos! more means-tested social programs!

leftists: this is how capitalism is supposed to be and dismantling capitalism and building a horizontally structured egalitarian society is the ultimate goal.

[pangur-and-grim]

wait I have one more story. there's a group of anti-abortion protesters who often set up by the Ethiopian cafe I hang out in, and when I was waiting to cross one of them held up an aborted fetus sign and said "how does this make you feel?" and I said "hungry", and then I was so satisfied by my own cleverness that I missed the lights and stepped off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic

[pangur-and-grim]

[memeuplift]