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This blog changes every time I acquire a new hyperfixation He/they https://autistic-echo.carrd.co/

[paternobuchimechanism]

shoutout to the lego star wars creators for loving gay people

[emphasisonthehomo]

Imho the idea of ‘cruelty free’ products or food shouldn’t mean that nothing died to create it, but rather that anything and anyone involved in the creation process hasn’t been exploited or harmed.

Leather is good actually. Veganism isn’t the end all be all to morality and consumption. The issue isn’t that a chicken died for those nuggets, but that while the chicken was alive, it’s life fucking sucked. Vegan chocolate means little if the cocoa that made it was gathered by child slave labor.

Factory farms, abuses of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables we eat, the focus profit and productivity over all else - that’s the fucking issue here. It’s capitalism folks.

[jvgsjeff]

[yahenni]

[doctor-wormm]

please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

[mytearsrricochet]

no more complaining about gas prices. There is a solution

[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[best-of-memes]

[wokeleftistmob]

[ID: Text reading “Reblog if your first or last name is always spelled or pronounced wrong” /End ID]

[deathstars]

what sucks about having star wars brainrot is how ubiquitous it is in everyday pop culture. most people are casual star wars fans so if they mention the franchise you have to smile and pretend you’re normal about it like they are

[deathstars]

me every time one of the biggest franchises in the world is mentioned in casual conversation

[rigelmoonshine-deactivated20220]

If people can be mad that the Grand Inquisitor and the Fifth Brother don't look like their animated counterparts, you'd best believe it's valid to call out whitewashing the other way around.

Animated and live action should look the same? Okay. Darken the clones' skin and give them the right features.

[kiran]

Dni if you:

carrd pro, don’t have a carrd, have a black and white manga panel icon, use twitter regularly, have twitter on dark mode, are 14, are 24, watched a ghibli film for the first time after the age of 10, have those 3D clackity keyboards, played persona 5, have ever reblogged a picture of goro akechi, own a fujifilm camera, wrote fanfiction any time in high school, have participated in discord server roleplay channels, bought any form of apparel off redbubble, redbubble sellers, plural urls, watched nge over quarantine, cosplayed at any point from 2013-2017, watched arcane, like talking heads, ever listened to death grips unironically, bought a clothing item that’s not a tshirt from hot topic, use tumblr rave theme, think any ramune flavor aside from original or lychee are good, use copics, watched rwby in 2014, carrd pic sourses from pixiv, drive a civic or a prius, have ever put akutagawa on my dash, csm fans, shipped those two guys from saw, stem majors, art majors, business majors, use chrome, use firefox, listen to tally hall, have shopped on depop, one page carrd

[dateamonster]

you cannot be putting two white guys with the same haircolor in the same movie how am i fuckin supposed to tell whos who what is this spot the difference

[rockleeappreciator]

url change rockleeappreciator -> autistic-echo

[beetl3s-moved]

YES wolverine is trans NO this is not up for debate

[striders]

me staring at my calculator app for 45 seconds before i remember i was trying to open my clock app to set an alarm

[farmside-deactivated20251226]

my proposal for humans 2.0

wings

detachable tits

better knees

ears that you can turn on and off

[omaaoc]

The queen is taking too long to die. I think we should send Christopher Eccleston in

[thoriffix]

liking a character but lacking the brainpower to have any real coherent thought or clever analysis of them so your brain just kind of says their name over and over like a teen girl in a cheesy romance writing her crushes name over and over in glittery gel pen surrounded by hearts

[aleshakills]

I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about politics until you’re able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month don’t exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year don’t exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesn’t exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands don’t exist in a just world. 

All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldn’t trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I don’t know what to tell you. 

[captain-acab]

Man, this post makes me feel conflicted, because on the one hand, of the things listed, next-day delivery is the only one that DOES actually exist in the world today. The others are exaggerations, and while I understand the point being made, they do detract from it.

I understand—and agree with—that sentiment of, “I want slower deliveries by drivers who are paid better,” as one recent tumblr post put it. I absolutely agree with the idea that we need to produce and consume less as a culture, and that an actual substantive conversation about politics should involve willingness to relinquish the many modern luxuries that are built on exploitation.

I don’t think these are good examples of those luxuries, though.

Large budget movies are possible because consumers (and investors) are willing to pay for them. A large budget is actually a necessary component in making sure workers are being adequately compensated; the fact that they currently are often exploited by studios is a result of deliberate misallocation of resources, not anything intrinsic to the size of the production. Same thing goes with high-quality video games. As for releasing a new film/game every month/year, that’s only unsustainable because there’s only a handful of monopolistic studios doing it. In a well-regulated industry that encourages growth and competition, we could see tens, if not hundreds of studios producing big-budget films and games. And, with a well-compensated and socially-supported citizenry, consumers would have enough disposable income to support it.

Similarly, the problem with soda isn’t that we have 80 brands; it’s that we have two. And those two brands each own 800 different labels. In a healthy economy, these monopolies would be dissolved, and we could support well over 80 moderately-sized independent beverage companies producing their own sodas.

Same-day delivery, again, could be easily supported with proper allocation of resources. Currently, we have huge centralized distributors like Amazon exploiting gig-workers with slave-wages to ferry cheap mass-produced crap to people, and that’s what makes it bad, not the speed at which they do it. If instead, we had something like a super-robust USPS, with well-compensated deliverypeople working reasonable hours within a decentralized network of independent-but-cooperative suppliers, there would be absolutely no reason why you couldn’t get something delivered to you from the distro ten miles down the road within a day.

When we critique capitalism, and they respond, “Yeah, well capitalism made the cell phone you’re using!” our response shouldn’t be, “Oh shit u right,” it should be, “No, capitalism made the cell phone I’m using break after a year so I’ll buy a new one, and they use slave labor to do it while they pocket the rest.”

There are luxuries, and there are artificially-valued, mass-produced, built-to-break trash that are marketed as luxuries. But we don’t solve the problems of fast-fashion by saying, “Welp I guess I shouldn’t wear clothes.”