Idk how to tell you this but unless you're exclusively wearing like, canvas, your shoes are also made of plastic. All this dunking on vegan leather isn't what you think it is.
Ummm my shoes are 100% plastic-free- leather and wool; even the soles are pure silk
Plus who could even afford non-leather shoes?? Classist much 🙄
Errrm my 100% leather shoes have been passed down in my family since 1764
and despite them lasting over 200 years they're actually biodegradable
Part of the reason I'm so exhausted with this platform and have been mostly focusing on others is because the way information spreads is either through "irony guy who will make statements but never defend them" type posts or long, drawn out essays with no citations and completely bogus assertions peppered throughout. Most of these posts have tons and tons of notes and are spread around constantly but any dissent is buried due to the way threads work on this website.
Another reason is that every single community that I see on this website is infested with radfems/terfs (a lot of whom try to be covert and end up recruiting impressionable young people into bigotry while associating the feminist movement with essentialist ideas about sex and gender), climate change deniers/social reactionaries (If you see the word "discourse" and their name or bio, run), overt white supremacists (most of the people who have statues of philosophers as their profile picture) or people using spiritual justifications for actions in the physical world (from people defending Qatar's homophobia and slavery to people defending infant and child circumcision both male and female to people defending the fucking crusades).
Maybe it'll get better and maybe it'll get worse. Either way, the smaller size of this platform means that whatever is posted won't reach as many people. I'm going to try to find a method of conveying ideas that's more effective going forward.
Will never get over this idea of a nebulous “food chain” that seems to justify every act committed against animals. Yes, that crab this person found alive outside then deep-fried whole over funny music for internet clout was definitely engaging in their naturally evolved biological processes.
A protest causes someone to die because emergency vehicles cannot get to the hospital in time. The protest is considered evil.
A strike causes someone to die because medical supplies don't make it to the hospital. The strike is considered evil.
Price gouging causes someone to die because they can't afford the medication they need. The price gouging is considered normal business.
Marginalized people are held to perfect standards of ethics. The ruling class are held to practically none.
Always funny when people are like "pfft what is veganism going to do? We need to focus on REAL problems like deforestation in the Amazon!!" my guy, it would take you a 2 second google search to learn that the Amazon is being cleared for cattle.
Yep, soya that is being grown to feed livestock.
imagine if vegans could read
imagine actually reading the linked source
“fish fear me” I went to the lake and none of them knew you.
people on tumblr love to talk about how tiktok proliferates misinformation and anti-science movements but this is the website with a sizeable chunk of it's userbase that's spent the last decade making increasingly bizarre posts about animal agriculture to the point they have convinced each other that veganism is somehow worse for the environment than eating meat, and all for what? to alleviate their own feelings of guilt? project it elsewhere?
the cult of climate science denialism on this website is one of the worst misinformation circlejerks on the internet, partially because it is so often shrouded in the language of 'social justice' which many of us are often apprehensive to argue against
I still don't understand, as someone who has spent the past ten years of my life working in the field as an environmental scientist, why people in the US still want to eat honey. It's produced by an invasive insect. Why would I pay to support that?
"The bees can leave if they want to" and I'm supposed to see that as a benefit? Honeybees are not native to the US. The fact that they can leave when they want is a problem.
I have met honey farmers, and the number of them who hate our native pollinators because "wasps kill the honeybees" is so incredibly scary. It's not all of them, of course, but it's so weird that I'm meant to give a damn about honey farming when there's actual issues for native pollinators that get completely ignored because "honeybees good."
"Vegans don't understand the circle of life, but all wasps should die because they impact my ability to eat and sell honey."
You and I probably disagree on some of this, because I don't have a problem with honey production in places where honeybees are native, but it's so ridiculous how many times the people defending honey are in the US, buying honey from the US. Or, they're someplace honeybees are native, but they see that as the conclusion to how much thought they should put into buying honey.
As one of my old professors once told me: "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into." `It's not about conservation or this bizarre concept of bees consenting to labour in return for accomodation, it's just that people like the way honey tastes and will look for just about anything to justify it. It does not matter that none of it is true because they're not actually trying to convince us when they launch these arguments, they're convincing themselves and patting each other on the back.
Honey and cereal corporations know this very well, that's why all they had to do was market on 'save the bees - eat honey!" They knew they didn't need to back it up with anything other than a tagline because they were telling consumers exactly what they wanted to hear. It's pure confirmation bias.
also forever going to be wary of any those is-the-x-video-cute blogs, because literally none of them will acknowledge the hypocrisy of recognizing worth, beauty and respect of their animal of interest while simultaneously contributing to the mass suffering of any other animal they arbitrarily deem moral to exploit and kill
some people on this site love to accuse veganism of being an ecofascist ideology or lifestyle
but actually, isn't it much closer to ecofascism to look at a piece of a dismembered corpse and ask: is this local? was this creature killed close to me? how much CO2 did breeding this animal only to kill them create? how sustainable was this murder?
how can accusations of ecofascism make sense while the first response to the cruel killing and betrayal of a vulnerable victim is: how green is this? rather than: why am i so comfortable purchasing the flesh of a living creature who didn't want to die?
Crazy how…you could just be a regular guy at work…but you come home and have a kooky sense of humor and play the elite video games and listen to secret music
go girl give us nothing
If you’re buying Apple shit in the 2020s you totally deserve the ripoff that you get
The fucking option that includes an Ethernet port just puts it on the external power supply, like it’s a fucking MacBook.
People keep saying that this is how computer adaptability works and comparing it to the decrease in the lack of CD-ROM drives and Floppy Disk readers.
But this is completely different! And do you want to know why? Because, previous changes were consumer led. They came AFTER the technology had run its course, had viable alternatives, and didn’t force a majority of customers to adapt for profit. Also, Apple is lying. This isn’t innovation, it’s a purposeful manipulation of the market that makes physical ownership of content more difficult.
The Floppy Disk wasn’t just abandoned. It was replaced by CD-ROM in the 90s as a more portable & less expensive alternative. And even then, CDs had existed for more than a decade before computer manufacturers made the permanent switch in 2003. And despite the switch, the production of the floppy disks themselves continued until 2011. By the time floppy disks truly faded from production, most ppl didn’t even own one. And when CD-ROM became “obsolete,” they weren’t ripped from the market and even today it’s fairly easy to find readers that are cheap and/or included with desktops or laptops.
But here’s the thing? CD’s aren’t obsolete. Neither are DVDs, USB, and Ethernet and SDs. Not really. What is there to replace them? You could say cloud, streaming, etc. But those aren’t actually replacements, they are just different forms of consuming materials. And a majority of consumers will be inconvenienced without those things. Like how would you even connect a wired mechanical keyboard? That’s not adaptation, it’s inconveniencing consumers until they get used to it.
But it’s more than inconvenience. What all of these exclusions do is get rid of physical data. It slowly ostracizes consumers from the very concept of physical data and that is incredibly dangerous. All softwares, ad-ons, recordings, and medias being relegated to downloadable accessibility makes these things harder to pirate or share. It also encourages monopolies as it makes smaller, independent production and sharing much more difficult. It also makes the distribution of softwares tied to research & employment more easily controlled by corporations rather than people. And most of all, it takes away consumer control of the things that they use.
Like even PlayStation did this with the PS5? Do you really think not having a physical drive is an innovation? With physical games you can reuse, share, and save. I can play Spider-Man, give to my cousin, and then let any friend borrow it. And unless I bought the physical game online, neither google or Amazon can add that to their algorithmic perception of me. But without that…you have content strictly defined on individual basis and algorithms.
It’s just that all of the growing exclusions aren’t adapting. They are willful manipulations for the sake of changing how large scale consumers ingage with technology and the internet.
The headphone jack was not obsolete. It was purposefully left out to sway the market towards $100 Bluetooth. Physical gaming disk drives aren’t growing obsolete. They are being purposefully phased out so that the consumer begins to rely on individual downloads and algorithm rather than sharing and saving. And USB/Ethernet/SD/HDMI are not obsolete either. They are just being ignored so as to get consumers to change their perception of tech and accessibility. As if having a computer that’s only compatible with apple tech that’s less than 5 years old is reasonable. As if any use of physical content is a paid luxury rather than the standard
No wired internet makes it practically useless for video conferencing, online gaming, and half a dozen other things. This is just a cheap hunk of plastic that you could probably snap in half with your hands, but they put a sticker on it that looks like a fruit so now they can sell it for $1700. Give me a fucking break
The future of counterculture is going to be multi-racial groups of friends all calling each other slurs and making fun of their parents' neo-pronouns and it's going to be glorious.
Making fun of more esoteric gender-related terms is already ingrained in most cultures... the idea that counterculture is going to be more reactionary than before is ridiculous
rb to explode a terf ^_^ nonrefundable ^_^
Link to original tweet: https://twitter.com/aidanctweets/status/1131864744690900993?s=21
What the shit did I just read?
A parody of a conversation that every trans person faces when coming across bigoted arseholes.
All five of the nation's largest producers of jet fuel are on that list of 100 corporations. This is the single most abused statistic on the internet, like do people really think companies are just running Pollution Machines that have nothing to do with anyone's consumption patterns?
The history of corporate propaganda.
'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.
Reframe the narrative: Capitalists refuse to pay thriving wages.
