"you cant get married platonically, marriage is about LOVE and COMMITMENT" yeah love for the bit commitment to the bit
its been an hour and a half and this has 800 notes can you understand my pain
"do you take this person to be your partner, to have and to hold, in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"
"yes, and..."
one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired
i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said "i feel good because i did the right thing". and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.
my babaji (grandfather) who observed kesh (unshorn hair) wasn't being gender nonconforming for having extremely long hair, that's not something that's gendered in sikhism but me having long hair is read as gnc or feminine by white people when it's got nothing to do with subverting gender at all actually. and then you get self loathing "anti-transtrender" white tboys on here who have nothing better to do than harass other trans people who aren't performing their white supremacist bullshit ideas about gender to their personal satisfaction. absolute loser behaviour
iceland’s two seasons: hibernation and mania
the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭
Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have
“well. plays the cards i’m given” has profoundly changed something in me. litany against wallowing in an unsatisfactory situation
jpgs that radically altered my worldview
“You dumb leftists don’t understand that it’s actually good for workers in the global south to be shackled indefinitely to American consumption needs, because otherwise they’d be out of a job!”
"but if you're pro-union, why are you anti-cop-union?" because cops are not laborers. what cops do is not labor. they are enforcers of the laws that oppress laborers and exist solely to protect capital. don't bother me with stupid questions.
I think this era of "transandrophobia"posting has made people's perception of what transmisogyny is shift. Transmisogyny is not just "transphobia against trans women", it's "the intersection of transphobia and misogyny as experienced by trans women". I see people separate misogyny and transmisogyny pretty often as if they're separate, but they're really, really not. If you know stuff about feminism, you notice many of the same misogynistic tropes and ideas used against cis women being used against trans women, because transmisogyny is misogyny
prev post but sun protection is beauty industry propaganda too. SPF makeup powders and sprays have been loudly touted as "makeup safe" ways to apply SPF to your face but upon testing have proved to be largely ineffective and misleading about their coverage, even as a top-up. not all sunscreens were formulated equally
hey, does anyone want to lock antlers and drown together in a cold lake? it has to be weird.
cannibalism as a stand against rot and decay. fearing the thought of your loved one rotting so cold and lonely in the ground, like some common animal, that you HAVE to forge a better home for them. keep them warm. keep them with you. carry them inside of you so you can always protect them. like snails carrying their homes on their backs you carry your family inside your stomach.
a lot of self professed socialists and left wing people have absolutely no consciousness on imperialism and when it comes down to it could easily be convinced of being fascists
seriously when the reaction to people making very realistic observations on how the structure of the global economy is unsustainable, especially for the first world, is “great way to make people support socialism by telling them their lives are gonna be worse under it”…
if you define quality of life and freedom in terms of access to cheap commodities and convenience at the cost of others, you might not be a socialist!!
Happy birthday, Frantz Fanon! (July 20, 1925)
One of the most enduring and influential anti-colonial theorists of all time, Frantz Fanon became acquainted with racist colonial violence growing up on the French Caribbean colony of Martinique. During World War II, Fanon enlisted with the Free French forces, and experienced further racism from Europeans during his time fighting fascists on the continent. After the war, he studied psychiatry as his political consciousness continued to grow, and in 1952 he published Black Skin, White Masks, which discussed the psychological impact of colonialism on Black people. He worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria for a time before deciding that he could no longer support the French colonial project in Africa and defected to join Algeria's National Liberation Front in its struggle for freedom. He continued to put out a number of influential texts, including his last and most famous, The Wretched of the Earth. In poor health, Fanon died in 1961 at the tragically young age of 36, but his legacy is outsized for his age, having influenced a bevy of revolutionary figures, including Che Guevara, Malcom X, Kwame Ture, and Huey P. Newton.
“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”