It would break the economy if people stopped buying shit they didn’t need. I really wish these numbers didn’t correlate to whether or not people had food or housing or healthcare, otherwise that sounds like a wonderful way to slow the erosion of the natural world at the hands of overconsumption

If you can believe it, it’s more to do with the commercial interests that develop these properties don’t want to pay to do things right so it ends up being cut corners and underpaid labour on anything that doesn’t help you sell it for a quick buck

Or compared to fishing, or farming, or garbage collection, or delivery drivers, anything in construction…

Stepan! :3

Interesting how this narrative keeps getting used to justify our colonialism. “These are backwards savages and we are agents of progress and feminism” and then, in the course of the conflict, women and girls are raped, killed, and bombed while women’s rights are stonewalled or even stripped away back home

Yeah I’m not going to back up church attendance as a solution but I think the point is they’re missing a real community to hold them accountable and even instill them with positive values in the first place, leaving online male echo chambers of despair to fill that void.

What’s the fucking point of it all if this is the outcome?

To shape a global racial hierarchy and make sure socialism doesn’t get too far

We’ll burn half as long, but twice as bright!

You squat

This take from adults always perplexed me. I’m surprised I made it out alive