This happens all over the world, because the US government (like other empires before it) rewards charities whose "food aid" involves shipping American crops and food to a country, rather than helping that countries agriculture sector grow so it can sustain itself. In fact, the large amounts of "free" food donated by charities can destroy local agriculture because they cannot sell their crops, forcing them to find new jobs or start growing cash crops to sell instead.

Empires actively work against trying to "teach people how to fish," because they want countries dependent on "charity" from the empire and exploitative international trade. Bill and Hillary Clinton's actions in Haiti are despicable, but not unique.

"Charity" under capitalism is rarely done for the long-term benefit of those given "aid," and that is by design.

Thomas Sankara

Mr. Fluffypants is real!

btw if you tell me something and i reply with “oh???” that’s the equivalent of a dog’s ears perking up

If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing

sorry the formatting is so dumb but i was tagged by @shonencasualty to do 9 characters like me and by @newar to do my url in songs so i’m doing two in one

d - days gone by - day6

e - EVITA! - DeVita

c - colorblind - maddox

o - on a ride - red velvet

l - l’bareh - astrovalk

o - one of those nights -key and crush

n - northern lights - kennie

i - interstellar soundtrack lol

s - sushi for breakfast - bayli

e - emo emo - sid sriram

r - running in the night - fm-84

s - sincerity - wonpil

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pushing 20

Yeah you say this, except there's a good chance you were chronically dehydrated as a kid. The reason you didn't think you were is because a) no one was talking about dehydration at the time, and b) the effects weren't immediately obvious.

But when my grown-up massage clients get on my table and I have to keep reapplying lotion because their skin absorbs the first layer immediately? When they have a million "knots" because their soft tissue fibers got dried out, lost their elasticity and became sticky, basically glued themselves together, and now it hurts when you move your arm like this, or your neck is always achey?

Yeah, that's chronic dehydration. That's shit that builds up over years of not drinking enough water (and/or not stretching, and/or having shitty posture, and/or not healthily processing your difficult emotions, and/or...)

Health is mostly maintenance. You have to act in "healing" ways consistently if you don't want to spend your life in a cycle of pain -> fix -> same pain again. And the younger you start, the better your results will be.

So yeah, treat the youth and yourself like beached orcas and drink that water.

funny and silly are definitely related but not syynonyms. like silly is if funny and cute built a car together

people will still love you despite it all!! they will love you with some pimples on your face. they will love you if your stomach is bloated. they will love you if your legs aren’t shaved. they will love you even if you stutter or if you’re weight has fluctuated or if you aren’t the best version of yourself. they will love you despite it all.

okay lemme rephrase this by saying people will love you with this stuff. not really despite - this suggests "ppl will overlook your flaws and love you".

all of these things are naturally occurring. whether you think they are opponents of beauty or not is your own personal opinion but I believe that to fully denounce capitalist & patriarchal constructions of beauty we need to accept things like pimples and bloating* and body hair and weight fluctuation** as neutral. we have no business demonising these things nor trying to completely subvert norms and saying these are marks of beauty.

physical and superficial beauty is wholly entirely a construct, a fake construct. and i think the use of the phrase "best version of yourself", while used lovingly here, can be very dangerous bc it does still insinuate that these things - pimples and body hair - are obstacles to 'achieving' a better, more beautiful self. and this is simply not true.

*bloating: its also time we move away from conflating bloating to a visual mark of anything. bloating is an internal sensation... we have just come to use it synonymously with visible 'fat' or weight on the belly which it isn't

**weight fluctuation: again, weight is a morally neutral metric of mass and heaviness, and the same weight measurement can look entirely different on 2 ppl of the same height because fat is not the only thing that comprises weight. so we really really need to stop referring to or thinking of weight and its fluctuations as a measure of our beauty and/or self worth bc this is literally scientifically impossible. if you mean body image or visible "fat" then those clear terms need to be used (which again, you can't always be sure if a larger part of ur body is due to an increase in fat or muscle just by looking at it)

i know that when u are battling deep rooted insecurities and hatreds for things like these, the concept of "ppl will love me in spite of this" is a stepping stone to "ppl will love me with this bc they will love all of me equally". but i just felt the need to pick this apart because language and connotations are so so important in self love

it is not normal for grown men to find teenage girls sexually attractive. in fact, the older you get, the less attractive teenagers should become. i cannot believe people are arguing about this

humans are not “wired” to find younger people attractive. you are just poisoned by the normalization of pedophilia and capitalist ideals of beauty. your tastes are supposed to age with you.

i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

Need it to be easier?

Need it in something?

Can't see it:

Can see but disguised flavor (can usually be found store bought or done at home and use different veggies):

Texture problems:

Need it soft:

Needs to be crunchy:

Veggies google says stay crunchy after lightly cooking:

Broad texture tips:

It also really helps to think about why you dislike a vegetable. I found that I am scared of green foods so I like to use those veggies for ingredients in things they are well hidden for. I've also learned that watching something while eating helps because then I'm not looking at the gross green things. When possible, I also like to get help hiding it (ie using cream of celery soup in my chicken and dumplings).

the cure to self-sabotage is to anchor yourself to the universal truth that you are worth it. you are worth the effort. you are worth the difficulty, you are worth the time, you are worth the consideration. there is never a point in your life, in time itself, that you are not worth it. return to this truth when you feel yourself slipping. do not let it go.

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it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it