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Jai. 26. they/them. local annoying asexual lesbian

listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that's why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have

urban leftists who've never so much as raised a chicken will be like "umm think about the politics of your diet???" because they can't conceive of the fact that domestication is an incredibly sweet gig for most livestock where they don't have to look for their own food or shelter or water are protected from predators and also get free healthcare and a quick clean death

100%

The actual issues with our current livestock system are because of capitalism and industrialization. Can we please focus our energy on the global paradigm being cruel and unsustainable to us, the planet, AND livestock instead of getting lost in virtue signaling

This.

Also, veganism as a widespread cultural fad without serious thought put into it is actually much worse for the environment than sustainable livestock farming. In fact large scale monocultures (necessary to support the veganism fad) such as almonds are quantifiably doing more damage than current livestock practices. Converting everyone to veganism would be horrible for the environment.

The entire premise that it’s wrong for humans to raise livestock (or any other animals) is fundamentally thoughtless, unsustainable, and ethically backward and ignorant.

Not to mention it’s incredibly classist, in that veganism is prohibitively expensive for many people, and it relies on the exploitation of migrant farm workers.

Humans are also animals so if your version of “animal rights” requires exploitation of farm workers, it just makes you a classist, racist, hypocritical ass.

Dismantling systems of exploitation has to be a universal endeavor. We can’t solve one injustice by perpetuating another and expect it to make a real difference.

You can pry my steak from my cold dead claws but I will advocate for the cow, the farm worker, the butcher, and the grocer to all have happy healthy lives until my dying breath.

i get the sentiment behind "you already have a gender neutral bathroom in your own home," but i also find it really naively hilarious that people don't know that middle-class and upper-class american conservatives do, in fact, frequently have one bathroom for the girls and one for the boys in their own homes.

someone reblogged this begging me to tell them i was lying so i just want to clarify: i am deadass. they don't usually outright call them the boys room and the girls room, but there is a crystal clear unspoken divide between the two. as best i can tell, they do this so that the women have somewhere to keep their tampons and makeup where the men won't see them. because seeing menstrual products and "girly" shampoo while you're pissing is an affront to your masculinity.

No way. No nope no no no I can't believe that as reality

No way. No nope no

no no I can’t believe that

as reality

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

People really underuse Kenny’s potential as a Weird Guy. I think he’s just a little freak. He is always silent. No one understands what he’s saying. He has a cemetery at his backyard for all dead animals he finds. Somehow he always has needed things in his parka that physically cannot be there. He just passes out sometimes and and speaks prophecies in a frightening voice. He domesticated 20 rabid rats. People say they saw him at different places at the same time. He looks at you from the other side of the street and when you blink he’s gone.

I need english speakers who call Irish, or Gaelic script complicated or incomprehensible to take a long and hard look at the fact that there isn’t a single vowel in english that isn’t context dependent and letter combinations work in ways that allow “tion” to make a “shen” sound. English is full of arbitrary bullshit and learning spelling means you spend a week learning the alphabet and where many other languages would be done, now you gotta learn every fucking individual word until you pick out some of the recurring combination sounds only to find all the words that still work unintuitively because nothing actually makes sense.

Ya’ll have the gull to make fun of indigenous languages being wiped out by the english, while having one of the most fucked up languages to actually learn how to write and read.

I love the "glasses are disability" thing because it applies to basically every complaint abled people have about disability

  • "You're not even that bad, why would you get that?" Have you ever used a magnifying glass for small details or zoomed in on a picture
  • "Why do you have that accommodation TODAY?" Why do you wear reading glasses when you're reading
  • "It seems like your 'needs' are inconsistent." Yeah and you wear sunglasses when it's sunny and not all the time
  • "But you can technically walk without that." Yeah and if I put the page really close to your face you could read it, it would just hurt and be hugely impractical, inconvenient, and limiting
  • "But you COULD go without it all the time, you don't NEED it to live." And maybe you could technically see without your glasses, doesn't mean it's comfortable or practical day to day
  • "If you REALLY had a hard time seeing you would have glasses." Have you ever known someone who couldn't afford a new pair of glasses? Or eye appointments? Someone who needed vision therapy or special prism glasses? Someone whose vision only gets bad during migraines or seizures? Someone with astigmatism that glasses can't help? Someone who didn't qualify for LASIK?
  • "You only use it when you're out in public." Have you ever gotten up to use the bathroom at night without putting on your glasses
  • "Decorating it is just trying to get attention, and it's a medical device so stop glamorizing it." Do you hate any patterned or colorful glasses frames too? Art with characters who wear glasses? People who make OCs with glasses? Glasses chains, prescription sunglasses, aesthetic fake glasses with tinted lenses?
  • "There are secretly lots of people just using aids for fun and attention." There are secretly lots of people wearing fake glasses or colored contacts for fun and attention, it does not affect you
  • "We need to find fakers, they're stealing disabled resources!" Someone pretending to need glasses is "taking" a seat in the front from someone who might need it more. That sucks and they shouldn't do that. But I'm not going to scrutinize every person who wears glasses to see if I think they really need that seat. You personally are not the arbiter of who is (based on the random times you've seen them) secretly not disabled
  • "My friend has that and doesn't act like that." Does every pair of glasses in production, or even every pair close to your prescription, work for you? Is your vision identical to every other nearsighted person?
  • "If you can do X why can't you do Y? Some people with that can do Y."/"But if you have that how can you do X? People with that can't usually do X." Some people are nearsighted and some people are farsighted and some people are both. Some farsighted people can read some without glasses and some can't. And good distance vision doesn't mean you don't ever need glasses, it's just an entirely different reason you'd need glasses
  • "You're too young to need that." And there are young people who need bifocal lenses
  • "Why don't you use this DIFFERENT aid though, it would look like you didn't even have an aid." Why doesn't everyone in the world wear contacts
  • "Why can't I/my friend/my kid play with it?" Do you let random strangers and children try on your glasses at the grocery store
  • "I was just trying to help, I thought you'd need a push/you were in the way." Are you cool with me suddenly pulling your glasses off your face to clean them, or because the glare was distracting me
  • "You'll eventually stop using it though right?" Are you planning on no longer needing glasses someday

Disabled people are free to add

I am aware this is not a 1-to-1 perfectly accurate post. Do not come into the notes trying to "um actually this isn't a perfect comparison." I know. Just don't

my partner literally won't even acknowledge that poor unassisted vision is a type of disability... bruh i do not have the ability to see without my seeing device. if i lost access to my seeing device for some reason, my capacity to accomplish tasks would be critically diminished. i think it is emblematic of the erroneous attitude that a "disability" is somehow necessarily uncommon or completely insurmountable or something. I don't really think so; what is a disability if not something that restricts one's abilities? in the case of corrective lenses, that would be the ability to see.

My penny's worth

What did you mean you prefer legible clear text in bullet points you have glasses isn't that enough. Im so sick of people and their accommodations its just more work for me!