I love how everyone has one characteristic that they use to explain their extra and unnecessary behavior like oh don’t mind me the Jersey jumped out. The 1/8th Portuguese Azorean jumped out I can’t help it. I ate all my meals on ZooPals plates every day as a youngin I can’t keep calm
“I’m bout to get real Kirksville Missouri population 11,352 on yo ass”
reblog this and tag your personal scapegoat characteristic
“When Puerto Rico experienced the effects of Maria,” Resilient Power Puerto Rico, a grassroots relief effort that began hours after Maria hit the island, promotes energy democracy in post-Maria Puerto Rico by distributing solar-powered generators to remote parts of the island. The Just Transition Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, and Greenpeace have also sent brigades to install solar panels across the island.
Solar energy reduces the carbon emissions that fueled Maria’s intensity and makes Puerto Rico more resilient against the next climate-charged storm. A decentralized, renewable energy grid—which allows solar users to plug into or remain independent of the larger grid as necessary—combats Puerto Rico’s dependence on mainland fossil fuels. It also democratizes Puerto Rico’s energy supply, placing power (literally and metaphorically) in the hands of Puerto Ricans rather than fossil-fuel corporations.
This is what solarpunk means. Environmentalism as grassroots. Environmentalism as anit-colonialism. Environmentalism as rebellion. Environmentalism as survival, when your very life is being threatened by capitalism, imperialism, racism, and man-made poverty and economic independence.
People are so mad at this post for calling militant veganism “a vestige of colonialism” but it’s totally correct
Settler colonialism is literally the idea that you can come into a place and totally destroy all the indigenous knowledges about the land and how to live there, and replace it with your lofty intellectual ideal of What Everyone Everywhere Should Eat.
The point of the post is that what kind of food local farmers produce should be informed by the land they live on and what makes sense to grow there. Farmers should make decisions based on what is environmentally sustainable and ecologically sound.
So if you’re farming land that is naturally suited to producing rich, lush vegetation, by all means! Grow plants! Grow fruits and vegetables!
But if you’re somewhere that is hilly, arid, with scant, rocky, or saline soil, it makes more sense to farm livestock. In those places, producing meat is the ecologically sound choice.
Oddly enough, a farmer’s choice of what to grow, much like a person’s choice of what to eat, is incredibly complex and idiosyncratic and informed by so many variables that NO one-size-fits-all solution could possibly work!
But militant vegans take agricultural analyses that work in California and nowhere else, and ignore the role of water and irrigation to boot, and then claim they know what EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD should eat.
fandoms act like pedophiles don’t watch tv, read books, or use the internet. “fiction vs reality” all you want but predators consume content that aligns with their interests. real, actual predators ship adults with minors, possess child porn of both real kids and fictional ones, read stories that show csa in a positive light, etc.
like I can see a predator watching how y’all justify minor / adult ships and feeling validated. they don’t just enact violence outside of the internet. they are real people who consume media just like you and me. those of you who ship children with adults share a space with actual predators
it’s also wild to me that y’all don’t think a pedophile could ever be an artist or writer. I guarantee you they are content creators you enjoy on social media. you’re giving them a space to safely express their interests and you validate their inclination to hurt real children when you promote “hebephilia” as healthy. every time you say “the technical definition of pedophilia is 13 years old and younger”, some adult freak feels better about being attracted to a 14 year old. saved by the bell huh!
you’re harboring actual predators, making them feel great about themselves, giving them a platform in fandom & the ability to harass minors into silence with that platform. it isn’t just desensitizing kids, it’s also desensitizing predators
just like white people felt justified in thinking of black people as all sorts of stereotypes (monkeys, mammies, pickanninies, unintelligent, biologically predisposed to being enslaved, etc) thanks to racist cartoons, justifying pedophilia in fiction is a gateway to them excusing harmful behavior in real life and actually doing it. if that should bother you
76% of people arrested for child porn (cp) which legally includes simulated cp (that’s digitally drawn art,or CGI), have molested actual children. in the late 20th century cp had almost been completely wiped out, but the creation of the internet caused a resurgence and now it’s uncontrollable. but people think enjoying these things in internet fandom are unrelated phenomenon
y’all really surround yourself with people who spend hours drawing cp, writing about it, making headcanons for it, creating communities & organizing celebration weeks for it, discussing it on social media and skype, but then you’re surprised when people who spend their days indulging in the fantasy of adults fucking children… are outed as adults who fuck children. like
thanks for the sources! I didn’t have enough spoons to look it up
there are some really vile people trying to interact with this post, claiming that “fiction and reality are two different things.” i’d like to add a source that suggests that the brain is more susceptible to thoughts vs. actions than we think it is, and i hope OP finds it as important as i do.
this is an article about Alvaro Pascual-Leone’s neurology study at Harvard Medical. it’s actually almost a decade old at this point. in this study, he had a group play a simple piano exercise for one week, and he had another group only imagine playing the piano exercise for one week. in group one – the piano-practicing group – a new network of neurons blossomed in the brain to accompany the repetitive motion practiced on the piano. in the group that only imagined playing, the same thing happened.
the brain can and does form new neural connections when you only imagine something, even if you take no action. it doesn’t mean that everyone who’s ever had a bad thought is now a criminal, but this is a legitimate study that suggests that a concentrated, sustained effort – like a hobby, or writing, or shipping – results in real, measurable structural changes in your brain. you shouldn’t even need a study like this to prove “you resemble what you surround yourself with,” but here it is.
as a survivor of CSA, i am 100% not okay with anyone engaging with this topic in their leisure time*, and i think that “shipping” is the lamest excuse i’ve ever fucking heard to engage in real, damaging behavior. an abuse survivor who ships “because they’re traumatized” doesn’t get a pass, nor should they consume or create this content. i hate it when this gets brought up because it’s victim-blaming, using severely mentally ill people you don’t even care about as props, and describes a tragic method by which a victim grows into a perpetrator.
nobody’s fucking shippy feels or orgasm is above scrutiny and condemnation, nor are these things above the well-being of other people.
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*telling people to knock it off is not leisure time, trust me. i’m speaking about people who enjoy their interactions around child abuse.
summed up:
IF YOU MAKE CONTENT ABOUT CHILDREN IN SEXUAL SITUATIONS YOU’RE GOING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO SEE CHILDREN IN SEXUAL SITUATIONS
