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honestly I think no child deserves to get bullied, and I hate the trend of people going "the bullies were just normal actually" or "I deserved it." I know I didn't. was I a little shit? yeah. did I deserve it? no. like, imagine the most annoying kid you can imagine. they wouldn't deserve it either.

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does treating women like idiots bring you joy?

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healthcare should not have a weight limit.

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Jockey Micheal Nolan, Celebre d'Allen's rider, was handed a 10-day suspension on Saturday after Aintree stewards ruled he had "continued in the race when the horse appeared to have no more to give and was clearly losing ground after the second-last fence".

BBC Sport has been told Nolan will not face any further punishment from the British Horseracing Authority.

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"Most people don’t think about the fact they’re eating animals. When they’re eating a steak or eating chicken, most people don’t think about the tremendous suffering that those animals endure simply to become food products to be consumed by human beings.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity-form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world. We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object. We don’t think about the relations that the object embodies, and were important to the production of that object. Whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads. That would really be revolutionary, to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underlie the commodities that we use on a daily basis.

I think there is a connection between the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals. So there are a lot of ways we can talk about this." -Angela Davis

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I think that fellow vegans should be trying to buy more things second hand and avoid buying new electronics, seriously.

Our whole ideology is about avoiding harm through our purchases, why would we do that for other species but not our fellow humans? And I think we need a law that says products that were made with unethical human labour are plant based, not vegan.

We can change our habits to align with our values, we’ve already done it just by being vegan! We can do it for this too ��️

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there is so much intellectual cowardice in feminist critique of media right now. whenever people say something neutral or negative about a work that is openly attempting to be feminist and/or appeal to women in its marketing and messaging, there's always someone who says "it's not that deep! can't women just have casual interests? why does everything have to be a scathing satire or radical thinkpiece? why can't you let people like things? why can't you watch another movie?"

shutting down every criticism of a film, show, or book by saying it's not that deep is not the winning argument you think it is. women artists and art about women deserve to be taken seriously. when the directors and writers are dropping quotes about their show or movie invoking imagery of the bible or evil queens or whatever they are implicitly telling us to take them seriously. they position their work as worthy of literary examination. so give them the decency of that.

to glorify symbolism and metaphors and other storytelling techniques when they succeed and then say "it's not that serious" in response to any negative criticism is peak hypocrisy. there's nothing wrong with liking a movie or appreciating the craft of it. and some movies really are just made for shits and gigs. but you as a consumer should at least be consistent in your analysis of what you think the work is trying to do, understanding the context of how it positions itself and how it's received, and not being surprised or offended when people come at it with a strong opinion.

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"Ao3 is a priority" i hate white people.

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stonewall uprising, 2010

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“Detainee under 18”

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me when i see ppl being surprised ao3 is censoring any support for palestine: NEWSFLASH, ao3 has always been racist!