elven meat grinder

Moomin professional wrestling deathmatch chairs and tables match

[pseudopenicular]

Flea Circus Comic

[pseudopenicular]

[scoliosisrick]

[girlmostlikely]

ENOUGH WITH THE PROTEIN MARKETING! PROTEIN POPCORN THIS PROTEIN WATER THAT NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS 50G OF PROTEIN OK. WHERE IS THE FIBER. WHERE IS IT. WHERE IS IT?????

[deepseasmetro]

help a disabled trans person pay their bills!

hi everyone. i started a new job! which is awesome, but that means 2 weeks of no unemployment payments AND 2 weeks of no checks from my job either.

in the meantime, i have maybe $30 total to my name. I have bills due rn and I just need a little more help to get them paid until i get my first paycheck.

$0/70

venmo and cashapp are deepseametro and my paypal is paypal.me/cirow

thank you guys!!!!!!

[catsonjas]

The most attractive trait a Man can have is the willingness to directly challenge and dismantle systemic & behavioral misogyny among other men. also being Communist.

[ahmedaldani333]

We write to you from the heart of Gaza, where death has lost its meaning, and where the ultimate dream of every family is simply to die together, so that no one will mourn another.

[ahmedaldani333]

My family and I, like thousands of families here, no longer count our days by calendar, but by the number of friends we have lost, and by the number of times we have miraculously escaped death. We live in tents that offer no protection from the cold or solace from our pain. We sleep on the bare ground, wrapped in worry, and subsist on scraps of bread and a few legumes that are detrimental to our health.

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[ahmedaldani333]

Please, friends, help us by donating so that we can repair our tent before it is completely destroyed, so that we can buy blankets to protect us from the cold, and so that we can buy healthy food to stave off hunger. Please donate to us and don't leave us to suffer. Please donate.

[sizhens-reborn-deletedonpurpose]

the problem is not "gigantic corporations" it is not "late capitalism" it is not "corporate interests" it is not "big business"

the problem is Capitalism and the problem is Bourgeois Class Interests and the problem is Bourgeois Class Rule. the solution is not Support Small Businesses or Destroy Megacorporations or Regulate Business or Tax The Rich or Kill This Specific Rich Guy. the problem is systemic and the solution is systemic. it requires the dismantling of imperialist capitalism and the development of the global economy into socialism utilizing the guiding analytical frame of Marxism-Leninism.

[omnivorescookbook]

Hand-Pulled Noodles I love making these freshly made hand pulled noodles because they are springy and satisfying, with a chewy texture that you will never get from dried noodles. I provide a complete guide with authentic Chinese tips so you can make them at home without fail using only three ingredients.

Recipe: https://omnivorescookbook.com/hand-pulled-noodles/

[chongoblog]

Jotaro: You know gramps, I love hearing you tell me about how you beat the Pillar Men. But something confuses me. You mentioned you met a cyborg. Who exactly was he?

Joseph: Oh No Need To Worry About That Jotaro

[dragongirlsweetie]

"vibes", also known as "internal biases",

[txttletale]

usamericans really need to understand that if you have ever received a paycheck in USD and then used it to purchase items priced in USD then you have benefitted from the privilege of living in the imperial core, no matter what sort of brutal poverty and oppression you are otherwise facing

[geeseareassholes]

can you please explain what you mean by this? i'm confused, are other countries' paychecks not in the local currency?

[txttletale]

sure. people in other countries do get their paychecks in their local currency, which is in fact the source of this inequality -- for multiple reasons that all boil down to 'usamerican imperial hegemony', the dollar is the primary accepted currency of international trade. for some commodities, like oil, it is for all intents and purposes the only accepted currency of international trade. that means that imported items and items produced for export across the third world are priced primarily in dollar terms, and will see their prices fluctuate with the value of the dollar. this can cause the prices of goods to spiral completely out of control as the dollar that controls the underlying logic of commodities pricing changes in value relative to the local currency most people are receiving wages in. acquiring dollars themselves, of course, can only be done with steep exchange rates at prices many people can't afford.

so while people people across, e.g.,latin america will routinely try to keep as much of their savings as they can manage in dollars because their local currencies are subject to hyperinflation, none of this is a concern for even the poorest usamerican, because the dollar is comparatively stable and everything in their lives is priced and costed in dollars. which obviously does not mean 'all usamericans are rich' or 'usamericans never suffer from inflation or economic instability' or even 'the usamerican financial system doesn't systemically disenfranchise Black and native communities' -- just that imperialism is baked into every aspect of daily life for people who live underneath or within it.

[txttletale]

you can see this most obviously in the ability of usamerican 'expats' to retire to the global south (typically central america or SEA) to live comparatively comfortable lifestyles because their savings are in dollars but just because it is most obvious there do not mean that its underlying logics do not apply more broadly

[txttletale]

this is also why migrant workers from central america will risk coming to the USA illegally, facing legal consequences and intense racism, to do agricultural work for slave wages -- having their paycheck in USD means that money reaches a long further when they send it back to their families in their home countries.

[blubodhi]

This simply isn't the case for people in poverty and food insecurity, whose paychecks below a living wage would solely be used for the necessities of life which have high costs matching the high value of the dollar. Like, yeah, maybe the $540 a week a 7/11 worker makes (10 hrs, 6 days a week, $9/hr to assume) is comfortable within Mexico's cost of living, but in the US that's not enough to survive in most cities. Maybe you have a bigger market with a wider variety of goods available, but ur not spending ur $2000 a month on that, ur spending it on survival.

The only part that fully applies is what u say about remittances. People who expat are *not* the same as those who face brutal poverty. More people die of hunger in the US (over 20,000 per year since 2019), or lack of healthcare, than several dozen poorer countries. Consider Cuba, whose peso has hardly any value compared to the dollar, but whose cost of living is low, with a high "social wage" to compensate. Nobody in Cuba benefits from imperialism (quite the opposite), and p much nobody dies of hunger either (a relatively "privileged" life imo).

I'm not saying there isn't a relative "labor aristocracy" for certain sections of the USian working class, but dollarization doesn't really benefit USians who make less than a living wage. It doesn't automatically guarantee high standards of living and actually contributes to the decay in real wage.

[txttletale]

right, but usamericans living with poverty and food insecurity can still have the basic assurance that the dollars they are paid in will be useful to buy food when they go to the grocery store. the point is not just 'dollars are worth more than other currencies' but 'dollars are stable, can reliably be used to purchase things, and imported and export-bound goods are both priced in dollars'. usamericans earning poverty wages and being brutalized by capitalism don't have to worry about finding ways to convert those wages into a currency that won't be worthless tomorrow. that doesn't mean they're not being brutalized by domestic capitalism, it just means that they're not suffering the effects of imperialism.

the idea that usamericans are somehow uniquely or primarily victims of hunger is also just not backed up by any data i can find. very unsurprisingly, it is a much bigger problem in africa, south asia, and latin america [x][x]. but like nobody is denying that the benefits of imperialism are not a lot of use to someone when they are dying because they can't afford insulin -- but that fact doesn't mean it's wrong to point out that usameicans as a class do in fact experience the benefits of imperialism. arguing that it does is just as specious as the old MRA 'wow, so you're saying a HOMELESS MAN has MALE PRIVILEGE?' routine.

[pseudopenicular]

Macavity after downloading music without paying and displaying a red cross symbol without being affiliated with the Red Cross: okay that's all of them back to smashing windowpanes and drinking milk

[pseudopenicular]

Cringe animal lore: Cringe Animal was created in a lab as a hobby by Marius the mad scientist out of "a proprietary blend of exotic meats and gelatins, joyful curiosity, lots of GMOs, and a pinch of love and kindness." Cringe animal has the body of a seal and the face of a baby monkey. That his base form but he can perform slight shape shifting like making his flippers more hand like or growing fur. At first Marius did normal things with Cringe Animal like teaching him to cook or celebrating holidays or playing. Eventually people fell in love with his sweet and helpless attitude and slightly ugly appearance. Eventually there were hints that Cringe Animal had great power. He can sometimes predict what people are going to say, and his tastebuds are psychic linked to Marius so they can taste each other's food. Cringe animal also once won a fight against an Orca. The true reveal of his powers happened when two guys were trying to save the loch ness monster from black helicopters and cringe animal suddenly appeared and took down the helicopters with purple lightning. Marius saw it on the news and resolved to protect Cringe Animal and support him through his hero arc. The international agencies suspected him, but when they saw how cute and sweet he was they took him off the suspect list.

Cringe Animal's normal interests: Santa Claus, pickled herrings, scat singing, French cuisine, playing, spa days

Also in the Cringe Animal extended universe (not canon to main timeline): Cool Animal: Cringe Animal's evil nemesis. Looks like him but with black fur, red eyes, and fangs. Mrs. Cringe Animal: Cringe Animal's wife. pink Baby Cringe Animals: self explanatory Wild Cringe Animals: a wild subspecies. Has whiskers and cat-like snouts as well as chubbier necks. Very good at swimming and may have existed in prehistoric times Everybody Loves Cringe Animal: a sitcom about Cringe Animal. Actually just ab advertising venue for a hot wings restaurant. They recast Marius The Quirks: a boy band comprised of four Cringe Animals in different wigs. Went on tour as the opening act for Old Man Ku (an elderly farmer who dresses like Hatsune Miku)

[seobot]

[catgirlwerewolf]

no i dont ride my horse into battle what the hell is wrong with you she could get hurt. she drops me off and then she stands on the sidelines with a gun

[stonefemmesiren]

the 'penises taint women' line is at the crux of transmisogyny, biphobia and whorephobia and so trans women bi women and women who do sex work ought to be getting together and beating people to death with hammers

[stonefemmesiren]

and we should be praising women who tick all three boxes like living goddesses and laying the heads of their foes at their feet btw

[sylestial]

Spring Truther Affirmations

spring is real

spring has happened before

spring will happen again

spring is coming

spring is on its way

it’s going to be spring soon

spring is not a myth

spring is not a false memory