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softness-and-shattering · 10 months ago

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16 year olds are still growing, they wont fit into whatever they wore in 2020. You cant be sustainable that way when you grow out of your clothes regularly. Thats only something adults can do.

Cool you've been wearing your boots for 6 years, 6 years ago they were ten and probably multiple shoe sizes smaller. I remember a stage of needing to buy new shoes every few months during a growth spurt. You're really not being fair to teens here.

And just steal clothes? Not everyone can get away with that, not everyone can safely risk that. Dont tell kids to endanger themselves.

You have some good points. Build community, root out nazis, figure out who you are really not who youre expected to be. (Hint: try new things and pay attention to how you feel emotionally = how your body feels. Tension? Pain? Lightness? Excitement? Want to laugh or cry? Use that to guide you. Build community = talk to people, learn to compromise. Weed out nazis is difficult to explain standing on one foot)

"I dont like that you buy clothes or where from" just isnt helpful.

This poll is an accident I cant work out how to get rid of now. Uh

Bring back posers as a term please I'm begging if ONE MORE GODDAMN 16 YEAR OLD ASKS WHERE I BOUGHT MY CLOTHES I'M GONNA LOSE. MY FUCKING. MIND.

I HAVEN'T PAID FOR SHIT SINCE 2020 BITCH THESE SPIKES ARE THE BROKEN OFF TINES OF A FORK THE THREAD IS DENTAL FLOSS FROM A PAIR OF JEANS I TOOK APART TO USE THE DENIM TO MAKE PATCHES YEAH NO SHIT I SMELL LIKE SILVER SPRAY PAINT. I'VE HAD THE SAME PAIR OF COMBAT BOOTS FOR SIX FUCKIN YEARS NOW. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY LAYERS OF PAINT AND NAIL POLISH ARE ON THEM. MY WHEELCHAIR GLOVES ARE MORE THREAD THAN LEATHER ATP BUT WHO GIVES A FUCK. THEY'RE STILL FUNCTIONAL.

"but all I can afford is clothes from SheIn and Amazon and I wanna have the punk style"

BITCH STEAL THE CLOTHES. GO TO GOODWILL. YOU KNOW WHAT WE CALL HAVING THE "STYLE" IS BUT NOT THE MINDSET???

A FUCKING POSER

And no I'm not gatekeeping. Anyone anywhere can be punk. BUT BUYING A PRE-PATCHED DENIM JACKET ON AMAZON DOES NOT A PUNK MAKE. BURN YOUR OWN CD'S, PIRATE MOVIES, GO TO PROTESTS, MAKE POSITIVE CHANGE, FORM COMMUNITY IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS. KILL THE NAZIS INFECTING PUNK COMMUNITIES LIKE A ROTTING BRANCH GETS CUT FROM THE TREE

WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING RAGE??? WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING WEIRDNESS??? WHERE'S YOUR REFUSAL TO FIT INTO THE MAIN STREAM???? WHERE'S YOUR OBSESSION WITH A SKA PUNK BAND FROM THE EARLY 2000'S?!

I saw a TikTok of a person who said they were punk but then proceeded to go on a tirade about not liking the bus because gross homeless people ride the bus

HOW DOES THE BOOT TASTE MOTHERFUCKER

#all the clothes i can afford is from shein #i can't go thrifting for multiples reasons of disability #stealing assumes i can find my size in a brick and mortsr store thats also accessible AND that I can be subtle enough to not get caught #in my wheelchair #that attracts attention #i also repair whatever I can and also thats work and its time and its energy and its pain #yeah someone grossed out by homeless people needs to do some introspection #im just done with being told im an awful person for buying from shein you think its my first or even tenth choice??#putting aside the tonnes and tonnes of fast fashion dumped in landfill without even seeing a store #and how most of pollution and shit is mega wealthy people #and some of us arent a size 6 who can wear literally anything they find anywhere #and have it be fashionable bc youre skinny #its such a shallow thing to judge people on. you think anything is actually ethical? really truly? everyones being screwed over #ok thats enough from me rn #tags #fast fashion #shein #and i know op is venting but also i think my response is relevant and not a well actually #ok im calling this post done now

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felsartdump · 4 years ago

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I know I already had my go at this but I feel the need to go for round 2 because I seriously hard on hate this fucking organization.

My older sister has dyslexia and multiple mixed learning disabilities. When she finished highschool her first 'job' was volunteer work for the Salvation Army thrift stores. She was expected to work 8hr days, 5x a week and would get lectured if she took too much time off.

She volunteered for these mother fuckers for TEN FUCKING YEARS. My dad would constantly go in and advocate for her, telling them 'hey she's been volunteering for you for a long time and has a perfect attendance for this job. When is she going to see some pay?

They strung her along. "Oh we can't afford it rn because we're redoing the store." "Oh our profits aren't high enough for that yet" and so many other bullshit reasons I can't even remember right now, WHILE HER COWORKERS WERE GETTING PAID TO DO THE EXACT SAME FUCKING JOB.

They literally extorted my sister's disabilities to keep her volunteering for them so they'd never have to pay her and even started saying shit like "you're too mentally ill to work anywhere else; we're doing you a favor." She was made to be the bell ringer at Wal-Mart for every Christmas for ten years and then not even given the fucking pennies of what she made for them standing around in the cold for 8+ hrs at times.

My father spent YEARS on their ass, short of threatening to take them to court and to this day my sister has never seen so much as a dime from them. She's started working at a fast food restaurant instead now and has spent fucking months gushing to me about how 'nice' a fucking Wendy's is for paying her fucking minimum wage.

Fuck the Salvation Army. They extort people for profits, psychologically damage the people they claim to help, campaign against gay rights, have murdered trans people and make people attend their services and 'pray' (aka beg) for food like fucking animals.

DO NOT DONATE TO THE SALVATION ARMY. BOYCOTT EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM.

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY

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