Remember, EM POC only!
I still don't have power, so I spent a lot of time at this cafe that is open late just to ensure that I have a full battery. I stayed there until they closed.
As utterly fucking frustrating as this is, it seems as if Tuesday/tomorrow is the latest I can expect to have power. So many houses around me already seem to have it.
I might be able to actually sleep with ease again as my room won't be disgustingly hot anymore. I could complain about it for ages, and I could get a lot more vulgar too, especially considering the whole fucked up context of the American government being more invested in putting in billions to fund fascist operations in Isn'trael and UKKKraine instead of providing relief to their own citizens that just endured the wrath of a very rough, cheek-clapping hurricane.
Ay, ay, ay...
How are you all doing?
I love my people to the core but I hate when Black folk use Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, or lite Pan-Africanism as inspiration and aren't even at least a socialist. Like what are you even doing?
Anyone sometimes feel like you forget how
this site can be until you see something that makes you go like 
and other HBs are just giving it a pass?I don't know how to phrase it, but...
Shit, I'm like that with almost every leftist space I'm in save the organization I'm in
I think we discussed it on one of these threads before, but some of Kelly's comics stray uncomfortably into heavy sterotyping territory and no one seems to really say anything. And I get its satire, but you can be satirical without leaning on stereotypes.
https://hexbear.net/post/3696232
Yeah, something something a wee bit of a Freudian xenophobic slip comes out of em...
Now of Hexbear, I've prolly been too used to the
to notice it but I think the only one that slightly irks me is when it came to c/vegan making a meme against POC? carnists who claim their diet is part of their non-west cultureIt's not bad on its own, but it kinda rubs the wrong way with me (admittedly I'm not a vegan so I'm not qualified to constructively criticize it)
As a POC mod of c/vegan, I approve of it because I'm wholly aware of the angle of where this kind of comment regarding carnist takes on culture comes from. It comes from people refuting a red herring that vegans inevitably end up having to address due to some carnists on the left having bad faith complaints about vegan advocacy.
Vegans are not, unprompted, going after any particular culture for being carnistic. It wouldn't make any sense because every single culture throughout history, including Western European ones, has been carnistic to some degree. However, some people from cultures in Africa, India, etc., on average, consume fewer animal products than those in western countries, but there has never been a society that has upheld veganism as a universal, strong core tenet that's practically inherent to their society, in which they see animal exploitation as unequivocally wrong and to be condemned at all times.
For this reason, a lot of carnists who divert to takes such as "What about this culture that's heavy on meat consumption?" and the like are being entirely disingenuous. Many of these carnists, but not all of them, are white people, so they're literally exploiting a non-white culture as their own excuse for not going vegan. In addition, speaking from my own experience, a lot of carnists who do this neglect the voices of principled vegans of color, and they are just going for an extreme reach at painting veganism as reactionary so they can feel as if it's not at odds with their leftism for them to be carnists.
Ultimately, being historically marginalized does not justify oppressing others yourself. Just as one would say Zionism isn't justified due to antisemitism, TERFism isn't justified due to misogyny, and transmedicalism isn't justified due to transphobia, human supremacy isn't justified just because a group of people has endured colonialism. There are also literal Indigenous people and people in post-colonialist states who agree with this, but they often get neglected.
I'm not critical of identity politics inherently obviously, but when you have a subject that gets as much disingenuous concern trolling as veganism, it seems like people redirect to these absurd accusations of racism and colonialism just for the sake of making veganism baselessly sound more malevolent than it actually is. For this reason, I do not give it a pass as a valid complaint.
That being said, it absolutely is possible for a vegan to be culturally insensitive, racist, or have a colonialist mindset, but I do not believe that saying "Culture does not justify carnism" is what necessarily indulges in such a mindset at all.
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Vegans are not, unprompted, going after any particular culture for being carnistic. It wouldn't make any sense because every single culture throughout history, including Western European ones, has been carnistic to some degree. However, some people from cultures in Africa, India, etc., on average, consume fewer animal products than those in western countries, but there has never been a society that has upheld veganism as a universal, strong core tenet that's practically inherent to their society, in which they see animal exploitation as unequivocally wrong and to be condemned at all times.
As should be known
For this reason, a lot of carnists who divert to takes such as "What about this culture that's heavy on meat consumption?" and the like are being entirely disingenuous. Many of these carnists, but not all of them, are white people, so they're literally exploiting a non-white culture as their own excuse for not going vegan.
Huh, I forget to remember that such posts are not without provocation from the carnist side, usually of the west and other supporting reactionaries
but I do not believe that saying "Culture does not justify carnism" is what necessarily indulges in such a mindset at all.
Well... I stand corrected... I guess I had a gut reaction to the post... there's alotta
in my head to remove...I salute you for acknowledging the brainworms and the incentive to self crit!
No I get it. Some post make me pause. I like to give the benefit of the doubt but that's so hard to do with wypipo
best of luck learning spanish, it's such a beautiful language and i love the r trill
i liked using duolingo for a bit of spanish, in conjunction with latin. it's so cool i can kinda guess at the history of a word and not be too off.
e.g. guessed virile came from vir cuz of werewolf (literally man-wolf) and middle/old english had wifman (literally woman) and cuz i learned of the phrase vir letterarum (man of letters) and was suspicious of 'vir' being a masc coded term but yeah it seems to be. did a cursory search of notable women thinkers but they seemed to have special titles instead of the term 'man of letters'
me when the local communist party are trots:
they called china state capitalist and imperialist
tho at least i got a chance to talk to a chinese guy after who tagged along and we had a good conversation abt china and the global south
reading war of the flea and I reached the part about isr*el, cognitive dissonance
So sorry you're going through this Angel, hope the power comes back on for you soon.
Well, I'm busy being disabled I guess. I'm pondering whether or not I can go to my school's communist theory meeting today or if I'm still too crashed out to do anything.
In tiktok i saw a drama from dragon's den that was about some
s trying to sell gentrified boba tea saying all others were unhealthy or had unknown stuff in them.Crakkkers love to steal stuff and then say the original is bad
Typical shit. Best boba I’ve ever had was in Canada in a random viet mini mall food court stall, it was cheap and delicious and they gave me free ice cream too :)
I've been seeing this around too. My question is, literally what makes their tea more special than going to a shop and getting it fresh? It's literally tea, why do they act like they're inventing something new.
its only because its canned and bottled its not even the first company to do it, they implied that all other boba tea has strange and unknown contents and theirs is safe because its bottled
also they said "its not an ethnical product anymore" as a positive
You know what's funny? I partially become more aware of this issue because a former coworker commented on the story, on LinkedIn nonetheless, saying something along the lines of free speech, first ammendment, and he eats at chipotle and is Mexican. A completely obtuse and reactionary response. But I guess every minority group has them so what can you do.
nine sols is such a good game but the ppl around it saying it’s based on taiwanese mythology are so annoying lol. no, it’s chinese mythology that han chinese people brought over, not indigenous Taiwanese mythology from any of the indigenous Taiwanese peoples. it’s literally just mainland Chinese mythology and people are insistently calling it “Taiwanese”. that’s erasing indigenous Taiwanese people and also just plain wrong.
"Taiwanese", huh from that rogue province?
"Taiwanese" to me, strikes me as a broad term for provincial self-identification in Taiwan
Could refer to waishengren (usually pro-unity), benshengren (usually it's separatist proponents) or indigenous people (yuanzhumin)?
im looking at getting it for the steam deck, i had it on my wishliat forever. if you played hollow knight and the controls were tight, i didn't get that feeling in dead souls. how are the controls in nine sols, does it feel responsive?
i'll be honest, i haven't played it myself, i've just watched playthroughs of it and hollow knight fans generally seem pleased with it.
Taiwanese Han culture is just Fujianese culture. The "patron goddess of Taiwan" has more temples dedicated to her in Fujian. Xiamen and Kinmen are identical in culture even though one is administered by the PRC while the other is administered by the ROC.
Looking at how the climate will end up, even in the best case scenario my country and many others in Africa are fucked in the long term. This being caused by the same nations that have exploited us for fuck knows how long, dehumanised us to the point of lunacy and so much so that they have fucking pseudoscience dedicated to it, have been behind a fuck ton of destabilisation in the government, benefitted from the brain drain of some of the best and brightest yet still treat em like shit. Not to mention the same groups wiping out entire continents of indigenous people.
All this for most of the wealth go into the hands of bloodsucking execs, pedos, genocidal kleptomaniacs, racist manchildren. The more I think about it the more puzzling it gets.
I've been so busy with the bus agency
Lots of paperwork and the most intense part of training hasn't started yet. I'm excited but nervous. Mostly nervous because I haven't driven any vehicle larger than a panel van.
But we had a bus driver meet and greet today and lots of them have never driven a large vehicle before they started.
So it was reassuring, this change of career will bring the best out of me.
