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I think songs that mention God and/or Jesus should have a little "R" tag beside them like explicit songs do :)
ALL. OF. THIS.
microdosing hell by being awake and literate
Drugs are morally neutral. Doing or not doing drugs is not an indicator of how good a person is. There are addicts whoâd give you the shirt off their back, and sober people who poison the homeless for fun.
sixpencee got less hate for straight-up admitting to owning a child slave than I do for saying children shouldn't be treated as property
like i'll say "parents should not be able to unilaterally override their child's consent" and some dipshit will see the word consent and the smoke from the hollowed-out crater that used to be their critical thinking skills will immediately coalesce into a message in my ask box calling me a pedo. no fucking hope for any of you
which I say, by the way, because one of my closest friends was able to be effectively disappeared off the face of the earth and sent into the woods to be sexually abused and tortured into being straight due to parents effectively owning their children as property. if you are a minor your consent simply does not actually matter - whether you get vaccinated, whether you get to go to school, whether people get to hug touch you, what you wear, how your hair is cut, what your hobbies are, whether you get to have friends, and yes, whether you want to be sent to a torture camp in the woods or not - your consent is entirely meaningless because your parents can simply override it, and there's fuckall you can do about it, because you aren't a person, you're just property. the family dog has more protections against being abused than children do
but! if you ever point this out you get called a rapist
today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.
reblog this post to help a child break the law
if you're an adult behaving immaturely i'm not going to "treat you like a child" about it because i have a lot of respect for children as an oppressed and vulnerable class of people. i will however treat you like an embarrassment. which you are being.
Ok so lemme get this straight the boys get advertised their body weight in protein powder and girls are told to get by on uncooked foliage and Iâm supposed to believe that the observed differences in gender are strictly because of sex chromosomes with no cultural influence at all uh huh sure hey buddy what kind of idiot
oh like how sarcopenia (muscle loss) and the associated osteoporosis effects women significantly more than men? and we dont really talk about why, we just assume its biological? like yes okay it has to do with estrogen but HAVE WE NOT COMSIDERED. THAT WOMEN ARE TOLD TO EAT SALADS. AND MEN ARE TOLD TO SUBSIST PURELY ON TOMAHAWK STEAKS. and then men are at a higher risk of cholesterol issues and heart failure in later age HMMMMMMM.
MAGA cultural arsonists.
my stance on the trans athlete debate is always and forever going to be that sports should be completely desegregated because humans have one of the smallest levels of sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom and the disparity we see between male and female performance is entirely caused by social factors rather than anything biological. âshould trans women compete against cis womenâ i think cis men and cis women could compete fairly but thatâs apparently a little too spicy for people to wrap their minds around bc theyâve been told their whole lives women are biologically inferior & never thought to question that. or wonder if itâs maybe a self fulfilling prophecy of some kind. are women biologically inferior or do they appear so because patriarchy demands that of us?
The best part of being the family fuck up is that your parents never pressure you about giving them grandchildren. Theyâre thinking âNo, do NOT create an autistic, chronically ill, unemployable mini-me.â absolutely, boss! Had no desire to do that and Iâm glad weâre on the same page!
change.org has a profit motive to deceive people into using their platform to create petitions. The profit motive is twofold: 1, the more people who sign change.org petitions, the more emails and names and data they can harvest to sell for profit, and 2, the more change.org petitions there are the more it becomes the default when people are thinking of starting a petition, feeding back into 1. Additionally, not being based in or operating within NZâs jurisdiction means they operate outside the relevant regulatory processes (not that it matters, because any petition process other than the official one is equally worthless). Change.orgâs privacy policy, in section 4, states explicitly: âWe disclose Personal Data to service providers, advertising partners, parties you authorize, the Change.org community, affiliated entities, andâas requiredâlegal authorities. Some disclosures may be considered a âsaleâ under certain state laws.â
If you use change.org, your personal information becomes a product to be sold and profited off of. It is linked closely with political causes you care about and is sold to whoever will pay for it, including advertisers and governments anywhere in the world.
In Aotearoa/New Zealand, any petition that is not created either via petitions.parliament.nz, or on paper with a parliamentary petition cover sheet, is not counted in the House.
Official petitions can:
⢠Be created by anyone, from anywhere in the world, for any cause, regardless of residency or citizenship,
⢠Be signed by anyone, from anywhere in the world, regardless of residency or citizenship,
⢠Are statutorily obligated to protect the limited personal data they are required to collect, and not share it for any reason except for those required for the official processes (especially not profit),
⢠Are easier to sign and share, and have greater transparency about the legislative and regulatory processes involved,
⢠And actually have legitimacy in NZ Parliament, and can be accepted by the Petitions Committee and MPs and presented to the House.
All of this is to say that the nearly 55 thousand signatures to stop the construction of an AI data centre in invercargill mean virtually nothing because they are on change.org rather than in an official petition.
Change.org is profiting by obfuscating the official processes for petitions in NZ, and intentionally hiding the fact that petitions on their website are not able to be considered in NZâs parliament. They collect and sell your personal dataâincluding your political views and the causes that you care aboutâand sell them to whoever will buy them, including advertisers and governments.
The more people in NZ that know about the official petitions process and who sign petitions done via that process, the more robust our public institutions become.
Sources:
1st link is the info page for parliamentary petitions.
2nd link is the parliament petitions page.
3rd link is change.orgâs privacy policy.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/have-your-say/guide-for-petitions/
https://petitions.parliament.nz/
At Change.org, PBC (âChange.orgâ), we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data.
Some affirmations for people with trauma caused by christianity:
There is no such thing as original sin
You are not inherently evil or sinful
Making mistakes doesnât make you evil or sinful. It makes you human, and all humans make mistakes
You do not deserve eternal torment for any reason
You do not deserve eternal torment for being queer
You do not deserve eternal torment for being neurodivergent
You are not a bad person for leaving the church
You deserve love
You deserve respect
You deserve freedom from the church