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My monthly reminder to Tumblr that Black people exist all over the world. This implication that whenever a Black person's experience is brought up it "must be US centric" is ridiculous and low-key a dogwhistle atp. Black people are global. Antiblackness is global. I assure you that even if the Black people in your country don't deal with race the same exact way they do in the US, does not mean there aren't similarities in experience. Perhaps look for them in your spaces and LISTEN.

republicansaredomesticterrorists

Learn our history so you can be even more appalled. Life wasn’t the struggle it is now before Reagan began the Republikkkan reign of terror. Although the oligarchs were already beginning to outsource jobs in the 70’s just before Reagan. First they closed their factories in the North to avoid unions and re-opened them in the South where there were no unions and poorly educated racists were happy to work for minimum wage. Shortly after that they left the country.

Today a few companies are realizing that China isn’t worth the savings. The workforce (slaves, convicts, or the oppressed) are not producing quality merchandise. The workers are apathetic and quality control is virtually non-existent as a cost cutting measure-even if the western companies are paying for it. Further the Chinese government is erratic and menacing. Theft of intellectual property is rampant as is the knock-off industry.

Some American, and other western, companies are moving to India where the workforce speaks English, is better educated, and is not forced labor. India is a democracy and the government doesn’t threaten or jail business people or steal their intellectual property. Other companies are starting to trickle back to the states while the Western Europeans are shifting gradually from Asia to Eastern and Southern Europe.

Since the days of the clipper ships American business people have believed the future of their prosperity was in trade with China. Historians call this “The China Myth” because it has never fully panned out. Most of you probably know pseudo-intellectual M.B.As that still crow about this. You will never have secure dealings or guaranteed wealth when dealing with a totalitarian communist dictatorship. China’s goals are regional domination by military force and global domination through trade and force. President Xi is one of the greatest threats to global stability in our world. He is making massive inroads into Africa and South America while we are focused on the Middle East, Russia, and North Korea.

katelyn-danger

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

katelyn-danger

Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.

prismatic-bell

You are brave as FUCK for saying this, and it’s 100% true.

Wool farming, if done with an eye on animal welfare*, does absolutely nothing to harm a sheep or alpaca. It’s no different than a haircut. And just like a haircut, it’ll grow right back. If your argument is that sheep may be cut in this process—very occasionally a sheep may be nicked. To be clear, I say NICKED, not cut. Think about shaving your legs or face and hitting a bump, and ow, you bleed a couple drops. That is what may, rarely, happen. But RARELY, because farmers are going to take damn good care of the animals who keep them in funds. Should it happen, it’s as much an accident as you finding that bump while shaving.

Likewise y’all should be promoting ethical beekeeping and honey farming. Bees are unique among livestock in that if they don’t like their keeper, if they think the hive is shitty, they can, and will, just…leave. You can’t put a collar or ear tag on a bee. Bee populations are declining and they’re incredibly important in our biodiversity (as pollinators, yes, but also in other ways). And bees do, indeed, make too much honey for themselves. That’s why they swarm. A nest gets too full of comb, or they outgrow it, and they just dip. Swarming is dangerous because it leaves the bees vulnerable—the queen is mostly unprotected, they have only as much food as they could carry with them so if it’s late in the season they’re dead meat, humans spot swarms and freak out and send exterminators because they don’t realize swarms aren’t dangerous as long as you’re calm….it is, BY FAR, better to have bees in a hive that never overfills, where they can be checked for parasites and diseases that would destroy the colony or even an entire apiary and can receive honey substitute rather than starving to death if winter should be particularly harsh or long, and where an excess of their natural product and instincts can be siphoned off for the benefit of humans with no detriment to the bees.

Honey is less harmful to us and to the planet we live on than agave syrup, stevia, or cane sugar. It does not rely on any kind of slave labor (again: if the bees weren’t happy, they’d leave). It does not upset entire economies. And by its nature there are more independent keepers than there are giant conglomerates, which is better all the way around! (Although the conglomerates are trying to change that, so like. Support your local beekeepers.) Plus, old no-longer-needed honeycomb is made of beeswax, which can be used in all manner of things in lieu of more harmful chemicals like phthalates. There is no downside here!

“Never do anything involving an animal ever” should not be the goal. That completely ignores that we are animals that grew up in a complete ecosystem. “Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us” should be the goal.

Wool and honey. We can argue another time about eggs. For right now let’s agree that sheep, goats, alpacas, and bees make far more of these products than they will ever need, that in some cases an excess can even be detrimental to them, and that it is a GOOD THING to find a way to live in balance rather than poisoning our world with “vegan leather.”

*to wit: animals should have plenty of space, shelter, food, and clean water. I love meat and I fucking hate factory farming.

findingfeather

“Never do anything involving an animal ever” should not be the goal. That completely ignores that we are animals that grew up in a complete ecosystem. “Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us” should be the goal.

Emphasis mine. But.

dreamilypurpleoutcast

elierlick

Your annual reminder to not donate to Salvation Army!

jellycreamjammedart

“be quiet” i think the f not

palipunk-deactivated20260328

The Middle East is not a continent. It is a transcontinental region that was coined by the British. It’s not a race or ethnicity. Not all Middle Easterns are Arabs or Muslims and different Middle Eastern Arabs aren’t interchangeable and have their own cultures and dialects. Cultures in the Middle Eastern are diverse. We are not homogenous. There is no one Middle Eastern culture. Okay? Okay.

xiaoguiwang

The terms "middle east" and "far east" were both coined as orientalist homogenized localities in relation to the west/europe. yet while "far east" has (rightly) fallen out of favor as a racist descriptor for east, south-east, and to a certain degree south asia, "middle east" persists as an orientalist term and yall have got to start asking questions about Why That Is.

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ginger-ale-official

Oh they’re going to need salvation.

socialistexan

Not just making it illegal, but making being gay punishable with death.

unified-multiversal-theory

This is one of the many reasons why I walk by every single red bucket in the run-up to Christmas. They’re not getting my money, I don’t care how nice the people ringing bells are.

auntiewanda

Ever since the time they threatened to close all their soup kitchens in NYC if a law that did something as simple as allow companies to extend spousal benefits to their employee’s same-sex domestic partners I have refused to buy from them or donate to them.

willowofthehearth

It’s that time of year again! In case people don’t know… the Salvation Army is shitty peoples.

Also, the married women are not paid (and therefore can’t qualify for assistance if they should ever divorce, etc). And worth “of course” less than a man.

“ In the Army’s case, the agreement for compensation is that the officer allowance be paid jointly to the husband—the check is written in his name. Officially, the wife is a “worker without expectation of remuneration,” and her husband receives 40 percent more of an allowance as a married man than he would as a single man. “

source

radioactive-dingo

hey since that season is coming up again!

fluffy-raccoon-artist

To my American followers. Don’t support Salvation Army. Not only are they homophobic as shit, but I’ve also heard that they abuse a lot f homeless people. They only care about money, please don’t donate to them and give your money to charities that actually help people

ourmissallison

Never don’t reblog.

whitmerule

To be clear: this is specific to America. It is not necessarily going to be true for all countries. Please don’t boycott your own salvos without proper investigation: in many countries they do good work.

colorsofsocialjustice

Sorry but no, the Salvation Army was founded in the UK and even there still are homophobic as hell, to the point that they still refuse to let out gay people hold positions of power in the organisation. This is a callout for the whole group, not just the US. - Purple

loverrrbearrr-deactivated202204

AND Canadian salvation army is just as bad! the whole organization is rotten from the core! Canadians are not immune to bad organizations!

massacre-girlypop

Reblog to continue the violent hate against the Salvation Army.

thechanelmuse

“Mother” Lessie Benningfield Randle (Nov 10) 🥳🌹💐

She is still awaiting with two other survivors —Viola Fletcher, 108, and Hughes “Uncle Red” Vann Ellis, 101— to succeed in receiving beyond overdo reparations for the Oklahoma state-sanctioned domestic terrorism with bomb dropping, gun-toting, fire setting, bat swinging racial violence against Black Americans of the 35-block area in Greenwood District (aka Negro Wall Street or Black Wall Street) and their businesses in 1921, as well as awaiting for the federal (and state) debt owed for U.S. Freedmen reparations for chattel slavery, genocide, stolen wealth, land theft, medical experimentations, domestic terrorism, redlining. I can go on and on, but I’ll stop there.