Frenchie: Do you care if I take the skin off this Furby?
Frenchie: I want to make him a god. Once he is free of his sinful flesh, he can begin a path towards enlightenment. He will take care of us.
Frenchie: I also want to softhack his circuits.
Izzy: I literally could not care less but never say anything as frightening as that ever again.
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Izzy, handing out popsicles: Which flavor do you want?
Frenchie: Blue flavor!
Izzy: Uh, you mean Blue Raspberry?
Frenchie: Blue flavor! Blue flavor!
Izzy: Blue is not a flavor!
Frenchie: BLUE FLAVOR!
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Frenchie: I want a trip down memory lane.
Izzy: proceeds to grab every warrior cats book they have and sets them in Frenchie's lap
Izzy: I heard you needed these?
Frenchie: YES! ALL OF THEM!
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Izzy: holding a salt packet It’s just a little sodium chloride.
Frenchie: Actually Izzy, it’s salt.
Izzy: That’s what I said, sodium chloride.
Frenchie: Uh Izzy, that would be salt.
Frenchie: takes salt packer from Izzy This is iodized table salt, which in addition to sodium chloride contains anti-caking agents and potassium iodate, which is added to prevent iodine deficiency. So not only are you being overly pretentious by insisting on using scientific terminology for everyday items, you are factually wrong. Your arrogance is your downfall, you annoying little shit.
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Frenchie: Why's it called an oven when you of in the cold food and you of out hot eat the food?
Izzy: ...What???
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Frenchie: You're violent.
Izzy: Yeah but I'm also short and that's adorable.
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Izzy: The joy of hanging out with Frenchie. You look away for 5 seconds to make sure something is set up correctly, and they bite the tip of a marker off.
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Frenchie: Okay happy campers! If you were a fruit what would you be and why?
Izzy: I'd be a tomato because no one accepts me as part of the group.
Frenchie: ...
Izzy: ...
Frenchie: OKAY HAPPY CAMPERS-
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Izzy: I'm not mean. Name one mean thing I’ve ever done.
Frenchie: When we were younger, you convinced me eggs weren't real.
Izzy: They're not.
Frenchie: Haha, very funny.
Izzy: I'm serious. Didn't you hear?
Frenchie: No… what happened?
Izzy: …Why would you fall for this again-
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Frenchie: Are pigeons drones?
Izzy: What? No, I'm trying to sleep.
Frenchie: Think about it. How come you've never seen a baby pigeon? And why do you never actually see a pigeon nest? Because they're DRONES!
Izzy: *Crying* Please let me sleep...
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Frenchie: Don’t worry, I have a permit.
Izzy: …This just says “I can do what I want”.
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Frenchie: shoves their hand in the slot of a toaster
Izzy: …
Frenchie: …I get confused sometimes.
Izzy: Me too.
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Frenchie: Advice of the day kids, if you ever meet someone who calls Gatorade flavors the actual name of the flavor instead of just the color then they are a certified nerd.
Izzy: Yeah but you have to specify, frost glacier or cool blue? You can’t just say blue because there’s more than one blue.
Frenchie: Blue and light blue, nice try nerd.
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Izzy, hungover: Please tell me I'm imagining that I claimed I was king of the ducks.
Frenchie: I would, but then I would be lying to the King of All Ducks.
i love you
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the average person doesn't expect you to be a perfect ethical consumer, that's not possible for the vast majority of us. but what youre saying is it's better to do nothing at all and choose the worst possible options (sweat shops, overseas shipping waste, idea/product theft, all wrapped up in SHEIN) than to put even the tiniest effort in where you can.
[they are referring to this post]
What I said was "some people are doing literally everything they can to survive and have no extra bandwidth to spend extra time and money on their purchases, and it is cruel and therefore un-punk to gatekeep punkness and add additional shame to these people's lives based on that fact."
I think it's still a good thing to try to ethically consume; I literally never said it wasn't. I had never even heard of SHEIN before. Rather, I am much more concerned about what I saw as arbitrary gatekeeping based on ability and income.
And frankly how dare you claim that I am supporting sweatshops and abuse by saying that this additional work you are demanding (in this case, presumably, vetting every clothing company you buy from) is not always possible for people. It is not a light accusation to accuse me of supporting abuse.
"How dare you say we piss on the poor", Etc. 🙄 this isn't Twitter. You are determined to enforce moral purity, but you are failing to see the nuance.
Because when I say "no extra bandwidth," I mean no extra bandwidth. This is not the "car shows it's on E but actually secretly it has a lot of gas left" situation that abled people constantly assume disabled people mean when they say they are at their limit.
This is "the car has stopped moving, and to move it I'd have to break my body pushing it." This is "at a certain point, people will hit a wall in terms of money and time and energy, and any energy spent after that comes directly out of their life force."
So the argument "okay but just spend a little more time money and energy actually" is not a valid one.
And the argument "if you are not able to do this specific task, then it means you're not doing anything else to make the world a better place" doesn't exactly impress me either. You said yourself that it is impossible to be a perfectly ethical consumer for most people.
How do you know what else people are doing to resist oppression? How many hours per week until your standards are met?What if someone works 3 jobs? Does that mean it's harder to be a good person if you're poor?? Why do you get to decide what specific avenue of bettering the world is the most morally repugnant or acceptable? What kind of proof of goodness and effort would make you satisfied enough to lay off on the shame?? Who are you helping??
Clothing is a fundamental human need, and some of us have to buy cheap fucking clothes quickly. Billionaires are buying their seventh yacht this month. The people who own fast fashion companies are abusing their workers and putting local affordable clothing stores out of business - and this applies for basically every company with price points that low because governments are failing to regulate corporations to enforce basic human rights.
I have $300 to spend on a new wardrobe as my old clothes have fallen apart or become too small. Do you have a way for me to get a new winter coat, 3 flannels, 10 shirts, 3 dress shirts, new sandals, 10 pairs of pants, 5 bras, 12 pairs of socks, and 10 pairs of underwear within that budget and also definitely 100% ethically sourced, with free returns in case it doesn't fit? Or will I simply have to use the cheap stores?
I have about an hour to spend on this per week. Many mainstream stores doesn't make clothes in my size, and I am now in *year 5* of needing an electric wheelchair and being unable to get one; plus I live up a flight of stairs, so I can't even bring my walker out with me - so thrift shopping is not gonna cover this. Should I continue to wear small and tattered clothing until I have the time, money, and energy to meet your standards?
Did you know there are more empty homes in this country than homeless people? If I decide to splurge on only 100% ethically-produced products, and I can't make rent, and I become homeless, are YOU going to be there for me?? Or are you too busy litigating the endless tiny shames of poverty in your own community?
So I ask you again, are you SURE this is where you want to direct your punk energy?
Because there are a whole lot of rich people relying on people like us punching down and to the side instead of looking up to see where the money is going.
Because energy and time, as it turns out, are limited resources. And I would never expect you to secretly have more than you claim to have.
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#imagine being lonely and making it worse for yourself instead of just loving the people around u
is this a joke? or are you serious. either im being stupid or you are
Idk what's not to get about my tags on that post. If you're going to be lonely and become a shittier person to others because of it you are making it worse for yourself. If you decide your loneliness is a means to hate on others you're going to stay just as lonely as you've been. So, instead of being a shitty human being, try learning how to love who you may still have in your life. Hope this helps. And if it doesn't? That's on you man.
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