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divorce VS the pacific ocean

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elise; 25, gay jew, not at all valid(header art)(sidebar art)
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questbedhead

“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)

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metamatar

one last thing is that it is very easy to love animals, because they cannot speak back to you. the global south knows this, we know that pets matter more to usamericans than human lives, i remember that a flight was chartered for dogs while afghanis waited desperately as the taliban bore down, palestinians joke that animal charities in gaza are more popular than their pleas are, tribal communities in india are subject to the establishment of no go sanctuaries that destroy their access to subsistence to protect endangered animals. behind the mask of animal liberation sometimes hides the hatred of liberation.

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bunabi

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

Also, a lot of the so called harmless examples used for peaceful protests were specifically supposed to be disruptive as all hell. Like, take sit-ins, for example. What you were probably told is that black people just refused to leave white only establishments to make a point.

But how they actually worked was manipulating racist policies to cause as much of a delay as possible. They'd sit down at the bar to order (that's how those restaurants worked, you had to sit down to order and there weren't many tables) and when the waiter said they couldn't serve them, they'd respond that they would wait until they could be served. And then all their friends who they organized this with would do the same, and they would sit there at every seat until they're holding up the whole line. Then nobody could order and the restaurant was forced to either close, serve them, or try and fail to work around them. It wasn't just to make a point, it was to cost them money and time.

Even what was framed as "quiet peaceful protest" was actually very disruptive both socially and economically.

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