“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage
I hope Indonesians here have:
1. Radicalised themselves enough to argue against the fallacy of NGO's and the folly of western aid.
2. Know the character of Prabowo as a CIA-puppet that's being pressured, just like Soeharto during the late 80's.
3. Are competent enough to-
I just realized my parents never compared me to other kids when i was a kid because i was the kid other parents compared their children to #formergiftedkid
Y'a des peuples sous les bombes mais c'est inhumain de rester quelques semaines nourri logé sur un bateau de croisière pour pas refiler un virus de merde a l’entièreté de la population mondiale
Its genuinely insane how many people from certain countries will be like "oh yeah we had our driver take us to the market" and "our maid got injured so we fired her" like its completely normal to have economic serfs do you bidding
Indo is technically classified as upper middle income country, but the metric used to calculate this doesn’t take into account wealth disparity meaning international students aren’t eligible for most grants reserved for lower middle income countries:) am so mad
the cashew industry is as exploited as the meat industry but instead of it harming and abusing animals it abuses and exploits human beings.
a lot of vegan influencers and vegan outlets push cashews to be an alternative to dairy for making vegan cheese, milk, etc.
I genuinely cannot recommend to young queer people enough: get the hell out of intracommunity discourse. Literally read anything else all day. Read history, any history, not just queer history, anything really. This endless identity powerscaling is a poison.
probably one of the reasons why people engage in self sabotage is a desire to return to a state where you possess nothing and are nothing, and therefore nothing can be expected of you... like a return to childhood
One of the weirdest inversions of the 21st century is that organisations "try to appeal to the youth" by presenting themselves as unserious and childish rather than creating a serious, prestigious image that the youth can hope to attain if they join.
You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
There shouldn’t be a global food system. Food systems should be regional. That’s the only proven way for them to be sustainable. The same problems would exist even if a global food system relied on a different fuel.
Folks need to accept that the entire system is exploitative.
im against sex work not in a “sex workers are sluts and degenerates” way but in a “we should live in a society in which exploiting our bodies is not necessary for survival” type of way