working at a grocery store this is something i was so worried would happen, i cant stop someone from trying to feed themselves.
but it literally hasn’t happened. people steal fried chicken and pack steaks into a duffel bag. or they have me write on cakes for their coworkers birthday and run out the door with it. they eat chicken and dump the bones on a shelf they pay for the rest of their “groceries”.
i’ve never once seen anyone steal bread, or fruit, or vegetables, or cold chicken
Same
We have free purified water but no they steal soda
so you’re saying it people are trying to feed themselves
How dare poor people eat things they enjoy rather than bland staples, the only thing they deserve
A little disappointed that this didn’t become a site-wide week-long discourse topic/meme fodder because it’s a discussion we’re way overdue to have
Like, let’s set aside the practical concerns, like how “unhealthy” food has more calories while taking up less bag space, people can’t survive on nothing but bread and water, many poor communities are food deserts where fresh food isn’t even available to steal, and many people (including the explicitly unhoused man in the meme) don’t have a way to prepare frozen chicken. Let’s set all that aside, because poor people aren’t required to justify every single action to you specifically
Instead let’s talk about the sheer undisguised hatred of the poor on display here. “The fried food at the grocery store is for me, because I’m a good special boy with money, if the filthy poors want to steal they can steal the dried gruel powder because that’s all they’re good enough for. Or they can have meat, I suppose, but only if it’s frozen meat that they’ll have to go heat up themselves to prove to me that they’ve earned it. And make sure they grab some raw vegetables that they’ll have to chop and cook themselves too, that’ll be a good use of their bountiful time and energy. If they wanted not to be miserable, they should have tried not being poor, like me!”
There is literally no justification for this shit. If you believe that stealing bread from a chain grocery store is a justified act that hurts no one, why the fuck would you feel different about steak? Why are you even thinking about this shit? Why are you sitting around fuming at the thought of poor people having anything that makes life worth living? What does it fucking matter to you?
How can you be heartless enough to look at a society where people have to steal in order to feed themselves and their families, and your biggest concern is about policing what they steal?
I guess this is just an AU of Stranger Things were Steve gets turned into a naga for some dumb, bizarre reason. Maybe because of the Russia stuff in season 3? Anyway Steve has to hide out in Hopper’s cabin with El. Spending most of his day laying in the sun, watching TV, and playing board games with El. They also start collecting comic books, Steve liking Iron Man and Batman, while El likes Superman and the X-men.
-The other kids come over every weekend and sleep over. Getting Steve, Max, and El, into a new D&D campaign. Steve only agrees because he’s bored out of his skull but also because Dustin gave him the biggest puppy eyes dog he had ever seen, which he won’t EVER tell the kid because that little shit already has him wrapped around his finger enough, thank you very much.
It’s funny cause Steve can’t roleplay for shit and the kids love getting him riled up whenever he has to roll the dice, but Steve finds that he’s actually enjoys the game, mostly because it makes the kids so damn happy.
-Steve conserves most of his energy, so he doesn’t have to eat that much. When he does move it bit sluggish. However if he gets into a fight he’s ridiculous quick, using all the energy he’s conserved to deliver a prefect deadly strike. His venom is especially potent to Demogorgon’s, killing them within minutes of a bite. It’s thankfully useless on human’s.
As for the plush snake, Dustin and Max found two of them when they went out shopping for an emergency. After an awkward moment of silence Dustin says “It kinda looks like Steve.” and Max after a beat replies, “I won’t tell if you don’t tell.” Both making a silent pact of shared embarrassment as they both buy a plush and name it Steve.
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.
Oh boy I was really looking forward to crossing the river of the dead but it looks like a ferry doesn’t come for another 20 minutes, do you guys mind sending me a reminder?
Randy, it’s been 20 minutes, time to cross the river
Shame on America and shame on most of Europe for abstaining
Especially the UK, Ireland, France and Germany
“But it’s deeper than that! The resolution is an evil Russian plot to trick people into condemning nazism, so we actually have t-”*deflates like a balloon and flies around the room comedically in a way that undermines my point*
right, i’m sure everyone on this post how feels bad, and i’m not reblogging this to drag anyone, but we need to talk about propaganda in left-wing spaces, especially online spaces
when this post was first going around, i went and read the U.N.’s report on the debate, and a bunch of different articles on it, and wrote a long rebuttal, explaining that this was russian state propaganda intended to try and get international support for a proposed invasion of ukraine by claiming that ukraine was full of nazis
(this is not me telling you how clever I am, I was just repeating back information from other people who know a fuck of a lot more about international politics than me, because the people who know about that shit all knew what this was)
[the tldr for anyone who didn’t see a rebuttal is that the bill was basically just the words ‘nazis=bad’ not any kind of attempt to combat nazism, a lot of countries abstained because they thought it was stupid, the usa voted against because any condemnation of free speech is considered unconstitutional, and ukraine voted against because they were 100% aware of why russia proposed the bill in the first place]
mostly it was ignored, and the responses i did get were from people like the ones above, telling me i was shilling for capitalism or whatever
because this doesn’t look like what people in left-wing online spaces expect right-wing propaganda to look like. it says nazis are bad, how can it possibly be pro-facist? it’s reporting accurate facts, how can it be propaganda?
because it is technically accurate. this bill was proposed, it was voted on, and the usa and ukraine were the only countries to vote again. that’s all true
it’s just also only a tiny part of the picture, selected to make people who don’t like nazis (also do note it’s specifically neo-nazis not white supremecists or facists – russia has major problems wth the last 2 but historically hasn’t been a big fan of nazis, hence the very specific wording) think russia is good and ukraine is bad.
when you’re used to shit like prageru it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking right-wing propaganda is just really obvious lies, but prageru is 5 dipshits with access to powerpoint (they’re 5 dipshits being funded by oil barons, but the point still stands) of course the stuff they make is going to be obvious bullshit. the tweet at the top of this thread is propaganda by people who actually know what the fuck they’re doing and have spent a very long time getting extremely good at it.
if they just lied, people would notice. not everyone, obviously, the internet left contains people who thought wayfair was selling kidnapped children locked in overprice wardrobes ffs, but enough people
so they share what is, very technically, the truth. they edit it to fit their needs, they obsfucate the background, but they tell the truth. and it works. thousands upon thousands of people shared this. people who quite rightly view the invasion of ukraine as absolutely monstrous went to the matt for russian state propaganda over and over. they drowned out anyone trying to add the context back in
this is what effective right-wing propaganda looks like. this is why people yell about reading beyond the headlines, doing research, and most importantly, applying common sense!
I didn’t go and read up on the context of this people i’m cleverer than you. i noticed germany was on the list of people who abstained, and i know enough about germany to know they have very strong opinions on nazis, and that made me think probably it was bullshit, so i went and did some research.
if i didn’t know that about germany, i might have shared this uncritically, because it’s really fucking easy to hit reblog and a lot harder to go and read reports on united nations debates (it’s actually surprisingly easy to do that, but they’re mostly boring as shit)
but the existence of this post, and the sheer number of notes it has and the number of retweets the original had, are a reminder that doing that extra work is very very important. there are people in left-wing spaces right now loudly supporting the invasion of ukraine, because they read shit like this uncritically, and that’s really fucking bad! i hope we can all agree that the invasion of ukraine is bad, and supporting it is a sign that something has gone very wrong.
and i want to say that i’m different, i’d never drink the cool aid, and on this specific issue, no, i probably wouldn’t. but i’ve done it in the past, on less important issues, because it’s easy. the internet makes it easy. propagandists who know what they’re doing make it easy
so please, if you see this post, let this be your reminder to always look for context, to not share things you haven’t verified, and to stop and ask yourself who the imformation benefits
Shame on America and shame on most of Europe for abstaining
Especially the UK, Ireland, France and Germany
“But it’s deeper than that! The resolution is an evil Russian plot to trick people into condemning nazism, so we actually have t-”*deflates like a balloon and flies around the room comedically in a way that undermines my point*
right, i’m sure everyone on this post how feels bad, and i’m not reblogging this to drag anyone, but we need to talk about propaganda in left-wing spaces, especially online spaces
when this post was first going around, i went and read the U.N.’s report on the debate, and a bunch of different articles on it, and wrote a long rebuttal, explaining that this was russian state propaganda intended to try and get international support for a proposed invasion of ukraine by claiming that ukraine was full of nazis
(this is not me telling you how clever I am, I was just repeating back information from other people who know a fuck of a lot more about international politics than me, because the people who know about that shit all knew what this was)
[the tldr for anyone who didn’t see a rebuttal is that the bill was basically just the words ‘nazis=bad’ not any kind of attempt to combat nazism, a lot of countries abstained because they thought it was stupid, the usa voted against because any condemnation of free speech is considered unconstitutional, and ukraine voted against because they were 100% aware of why russia proposed the bill in the first place]
mostly it was ignored, and the responses i did get were from people like the ones above, telling me i was shilling for capitalism or whatever
because this doesn’t look like what people in left-wing online spaces expect right-wing propaganda to look like. it says nazis are bad, how can it possibly be pro-facist? it’s reporting accurate facts, how can it be propaganda?
because it is technically accurate. this bill was proposed, it was voted on, and the usa and ukraine were the only countries to vote again. that’s all true
it’s just also only a tiny part of the picture, selected to make people who don’t like nazis (also do note it’s specifically neo-nazis not white supremecists or facists – russia has major problems wth the last 2 but historically hasn’t been a big fan of nazis, hence the very specific wording) think russia is good and ukraine is bad.
when you’re used to shit like prageru it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking right-wing propaganda is just really obvious lies, but prageru is 5 dipshits with access to powerpoint (they’re 5 dipshits being funded by oil barons, but the point still stands) of course the stuff they make is going to be obvious bullshit. the tweet at the top of this thread is propaganda by people who actually know what the fuck they’re doing and have spent a very long time getting extremely good at it.
if they just lied, people would notice. not everyone, obviously, the internet left contains people who thought wayfair was selling kidnapped children locked in overprice wardrobes ffs, but enough people
so they share what is, very technically, the truth. they edit it to fit their needs, they obsfucate the background, but they tell the truth. and it works. thousands upon thousands of people shared this. people who quite rightly view the invasion of ukraine as absolutely monstrous went to the matt for russian state propaganda over and over. they drowned out anyone trying to add the context back in
this is what effective right-wing propaganda looks like. this is why people yell about reading beyond the headlines, doing research, and most importantly, applying common sense!
I didn’t go and read up on the context of this people i’m cleverer than you. i noticed germany was on the list of people who abstained, and i know enough about germany to know they have very strong opinions on nazis, and that made me think probably it was bullshit, so i went and did some research.
if i didn’t know that about germany, i might have shared this uncritically, because it’s really fucking easy to hit reblog and a lot harder to go and read reports on united nations debates (it’s actually surprisingly easy to do that, but they’re mostly boring as shit)
but the existence of this post, and the sheer number of notes it has and the number of retweets the original had, are a reminder that doing that extra work is very very important. there are people in left-wing spaces right now loudly supporting the invasion of ukraine, because they read shit like this uncritically, and that’s really fucking bad! i hope we can all agree that the invasion of ukraine is bad, and supporting it is a sign that something has gone very wrong.
and i want to say that i’m different, i’d never drink the cool aid, and on this specific issue, no, i probably wouldn’t. but i’ve done it in the past, on less important issues, because it’s easy. the internet makes it easy. propagandists who know what they’re doing make it easy
so please, if you see this post, let this be your reminder to always look for context, to not share things you haven’t verified, and to stop and ask yourself who the imformation benefits
I was honoured to be able to do this c0mm for the FC Ashen Enclave, featuring Milloux (right) created by the late Dani Russo, who unfortunately passed away recently. She was extremely beloved by her friends, family, and a variety of groups in the FFXIV Balmung roleplay community.
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