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Kent State University

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I will refrain from bringing children into a world that coerces them into servitude and labor in order to avoid a life that looks like this.

"i just don't think i can bring a child into this world" said person in a developed country whose child would have a greater life expectancy and more resources than 99% of humans throughout history

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

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replace all instances of "cateye sharp enough to kill a man" -> "sandwich so tasty he stopped being a misogynist" there would be no functional difference in meaning.

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Anna Fusco

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no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

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drives me up a wall living in a very very red district, like “no democrat is ever going to win any local election, let alone a real leftist” district, like “our school board members ran on who was the most anti-mask” red, like “I pass white supremacist signs on the way to buy weed” red

and being in the local leftist community and the guy who runs the anarchist book club and the lady who helps keep the warming shelters open and the people who marched on city hall when a local business was getting death threats for having a drag show are all members of a discord and we get on this discord and have frank discussions about how best to vote

the people who do the protests and the mutual aid and all the real work

going “okay, they’re both fascists, but this one lacks ambition and seems happy to just glide in the position” or “they both suck, but this one can be reasoned with if you frame it patriotically enough” like we don’t even have a democrat to vote for. we know what a vote is. we know what we hope accomplish with it. we know what it can do, and we know what it can’t.

and going from those discussions to here where people think that your vote is some kind of fucking??? enabling maneuver??? as if someone isn’t going to end up in that seat regardless of what you do???

we didn’t build this system, we just live in it. we’re just trying to survive. a vote isn’t a statement of your values, it’s not an endorsement, it’s not a marriage contract, it’s a strategic play you make to keep alive.

the biggest mistake I see leftists making is overestimating their own popularity. “well but everyone would be leftist if they just-“ no, stop, 1) you can’t possibly know that 2) everyone will not just

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Do you think there shouldn’t be a Jewish state at all? Not even in a different continent?

You might need to sit down for this one but ethnostates shoud not exist, regardless of what continent they might be on lmao

The existence of an ethnostate by default means the subjugation and violence committed against other groups of people and you cannot name anywhere, definitely not a continent, where a homogenous ethostate can be established without displacing the people already living there who are not part of the ethnic group.

The only way this can ever be achieved is through ethnic cleansing and you're literally asking me if I'm in favour of that and the answer is fuck no

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You don't have to imagine.

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

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Domestic Tension Wafaa Bilal 2007

For Domestic Tension, a networked durational performance, Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal confined himself to a gallery space. He broadcasted over the internet 24/7, inviting viewers to watch and chat with him at all hours. The audience was also given the option of shooting Bilal with a robotically controlled paintball gun.

Domestic Tension was one of a number of efforts by Bilal to highlight the violence and racism of US culture after 9/11, and to raise awareness about the suffering that Iraqis have faced for years. Through the performance, he grappled with the trauma of his own experiences under Saddam Hussein’s regime, during the Gulf War attacks, and surviving years of Sunni-Shia brutalities.

In addition to foregrounding the lived experience of war, Domestic Tension also engaged with the mediation of violence through digital technology, and the gamification that this allows. With the click of a mouse, online participants could become soldiers, firing a paintball gun that could cause real (if non-lethal) harm to Bilal. Under the constant line of fire of internet users drawn by the promise of “shooting an Iraqi,” the artist’s living quarters became a war zone for a remote cyber milita, while the chatroom filled with arguments between Bilal’s unseen assailants, and his allies and defenders.

This sensational approach to the war was meant to engage people who may not be willing to engage in political dialogue through conventional means. Domestic Tension depicted the suffering of war not through human displays of dramatic emotion, but rather through engaging people in the sort of playful interactive video game with which they are familiar.

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Absolutely wild that this is presented as something the drug companies are doing and not a law that the Biden admin passed.