#peta is terrible

[lizard-sheningans]

*monches on rex leg and chicken wing already*

Sorry, PETA, I would 100% eat a T-Rex.

[god-offical]

Man. Fuck PETA

[judas-isariot]

Can we do one of thoses really bad Flash game like Peta has done, but instead of showing J. LO has a crazy animal evil thing, we put J.K Rowling instead.

[ceasarslegion]

I told my friend about a terrible tinder date I had once where the guy called me a "speciesist human supremacist supporter of animal genocide" over my order of beef ramen and he told me about how a peta vegan once told him that it's okay if he eats meat to keep from dying of his chronic iron deficiency as long as he only eats lab grown meat.

I think peta vegans might be the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet

[aniseandspearmint]

Mkay, i think i need to make this clear, but i am very against militant veganism here. Also eco terrorism, and people who cal hunting and raising food animals 'murder'.

Wool is the best fiber, and sherp will literally DIE if they don't get their hair cuts often enough.

Angora rabbits are NOT killed for their wool, they are gently brushed.

Neither animal is treated poorly, generally speaking, because poorly treated animals lead to poor quality wool.

Bees are not killed for their honey. Bees are infact fully unionized and can and will LEAVE if they don't like the conditions they are living under.

Many vegan sweeteners are actually VERY bad for the environment, like Agave. And Stevia tastes like old rubber to many people, myself included.

YES the modern meat industry is terrible. Thats because of capitalism though, not because it exists at all.

Humans are omnivores, and it is impossible for many people (including myself) to ever be able to switch to a vegan diet.

Humanity switching to all plant based protein is, at the current stage, completely and totally impossible. I fully doubt this will EVER happen.

Also the 'plans' some vegans have for converting predatory animals to a vegan diet are all delusional, cruelty, and complete fantasy.

PETA are monsters, that kill people's pets. They have done this, there is proof. They're terrible, and liars, please don't give them your money.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The growing popularity of the idea that “animals and humans shouldn’t interact ever” is super scary tbh. It hurts conservation in so many ways, but organization like PETA have so much money to lobby for these laws that I feel hopeless about stopping it tbh

Mood. All we can do is point out the obvious - things like the truly amazing impact of zoos for conservation, the mutual benefits of human-animal bonding (forgive the term), the long history of animal husbandry - and hope people start to listen.

Also, fuck PETA and their terrible understanding of nature.

[nezumithewriter]

magnus archives season 1 was pretty good

ep 15: "This is my [sister's] hole! It was made for m[y sister]!"

ep 16: "fuck this guy in particular" - the spider

ep 17: Bone Hurting Book ouch oooo my bones ouch oooo

ep 18: Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer

ep 19: "please, G- just let me have one good day"

ep 20: the demon "ugh, you again? tear off that guy's face, buddy!"

ep 21: mr blue sky please tell us-- "MARTIN WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT???"

ep 22: "open the noor" KNOCK KNOCK SQUELCHING SOUND KNOCK KNOCK "open na noor"

ep 23: "damn can't kill you rn sorry" disappears

ep 24: cheater gets what he deserves from angry grandpa's evil calliope

ep 25: "my roommate loud as fuck god damn. also there might be a cult involved" kathy probably

ep 26: "whoops you missed one" cuts skin open and grabs silly little worm

ep 27: evil's #1 enemy; locks on doors that may or may not exist

ep 28: GOING TO CAMBRIDGE MILITARY HOSPITAL AT 3AM!! (GONE WRONG) (SOUND GIRL TORE OFF HER SKIN AND GOT LUNG CANCER)

ep 29: "Fallout 76 bug has made a player invincible and they just want to die" - vg247

ep 30: "maybe PETA has a point"

ep 31: mfw the guy i tried to hunt for sport had air force military training and two guns

ep 32: The episode where Jon really makes it really known he wanted to be a voice actor

ep 33: "hey jon maybe you should redo some of these statements--" "FUCK OFF TIM I NEED TO READ THIS STORY ABOUT A BOAT"

ep 34: "oh THAT'S how you do it!" sound of writhing flesh and cracking bone from inside student

ep 35: "oi oi oi got a package 'ere for Jon sims" "you're-- you're standing in a pile of worms" "i don't get paid enuff to care"

ep 36: terrible managing director causes nursing home to go under after not paying cleaning staff and then it explodes

ep 37: this is why you don't fuck with ritual grounds dumbass

ep 38: Mandelbrot Hall Pot, oh and also THE WORMS ARE COMING

ep 39: Prentiss really, really hates academia. also worms. also the weirdest date i've ever seen. also GRAHHHHHHH SASHA NOOOO

ep 40: "gertrude got lit up by someone in the archives, so everyone around me is probably going to kill me next. i can feel it. also OW THESE HOLES REALLY FUCKING HURT."

[ventbloglite]

The sad thing is - I think it's actually very terribly easy if you're trans femme to believe that trans masc people are out to get you.

We've been raised on 'woman vs man' all of our lives. We've all internalised it as sacred truth.

Why disbelieve it now? Even as trans people it's so very difficult to not see 'woman' and 'man' as directly opposites with no overlap, natural enemies with 'men' as the villain (because there must be a villain, right?). Doing so is so much easier than actually wrapping your mind around and thus trying to dismantle the many systems which exist to enforce the patriarchy and it's narrow definition of 'acceptable manhood' to boot.

And it's not like feminists have never or don't understand that there's many little systems that need to be tackled. We fight for gender neutrality in job titles 'fire fighter not fireman' for example even though it seems petty because we understand that man=default is one of those systems. This is before we even get to the glass ceiling, pay gap, the misogyny of many medical systems etc.

It's just that for many it's easier to see all men as equally privleged and evil and therefore unable to have any issues, so surely faking it for attention or to speak over women if they do.

There used to be such a thing as 'mens liberation'. This involved undoing the misogynistic beliefs men had grown up with and tackling toxic masculinity etc. Basically trying to create healthier, happier and more informed men who would happily defend a feminist cause because they realise the cause benefits all.

It is the direct opposite of 'MRAs' who seek to believe much like radfems that the 'opposite sex' is the root cause of all of their suffering and should be completely wiped out or placed under subservience at best without actually (again) looking at or trying to grasp the many systems of oppression with exist and how to genuinely tackle the issues they're facing.

MRAs = animal rights/PETA types if that helps MensLib = animal welfare (actually caring about animals)

But in that same way trans masc (and even a good amount of trans femme and trans neu people who understand transandrophobia) who speak about the oppression they face FROM CIS PEOPLE AND CISNORMATIVE SOCIETY (with maybe a sprinkling of lamentation about lack of intercommunity support or specific things a specific trans femme has said which isn't any more ok than any trans masc being openly transmisogynistic) are 'animal welfare' types. They know what they're going through and just want a word to describe it.

But like I said, it's so easy, I know, as a trans femme to just believe when people tell you that this is another wave of men oppressing you. That they must be the same as MRAs because men are inherently privleged. That these anons claiming to be trans mascs targetting trans women for hate must be actual trans mascs because ofc men hate women, even though it could be literally anyone on anon including troll shit-stirrers.

It's honestly not a blameable offence to believe it when it's all we've known and been told. Men hate women, so obviously trans men hate trans women, right?

Cishet men are privleged, so obviously all kinds of men are privileged, right?

The hard part is going to be undoing that. Men and women are not opposites. Trans men and trans women are not opposites. We are not enemies with trans neu people being forced to pick sides or stay away and be called ignorant. It's not fun or good to relish in the suffering of another group, and it's not feminist to think that somebodies gender automatically gives them x, y or z negative traits.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

in retrospect it's funny that PETA was the only sizeable organization willing to draw attention to the horror that is industrialized meat production, but so terribly unequipped to meaningfully critique it that the meat industry was able to take control of the narrative and spin every factory farm being run like a silent hill public restroom glory hole as necessary for the survival of the human race. for years the default response to any shock video or photo showing you where your food comes from was "well, yeah".

[funishment-time]

Sad(?) to announce that I have become just as addicted to 17 as you are. You know the drill.

But also, I forgot which question number this is, but which fantasy creature would Rantaro be

WOO

17. List five headcanons for your favorite characters!

Junko was a highly successful streamer for about ten minutes before she became Bored of it. she's very good at it, but, you know. Junko

similarly, after she starts to "age out" of being an idol, Sayaka pivots into being an idol-style corporate VTuber and finds a new, magnificent life there. oddly, her character is an assassin...but corporations don't let you choose your character, right?

Mahiru may be judgemental about a lot of things, but she is a Great Teacher and supportive Friend when it comes to photography. she loves the pictures other people take, even the most Amateurish ones, because they reflect the photographer just as much as the subject(s). some of her most prized possessions are blurry critter photos from Gundham, Olympics behind-the-scenes shots from Hina, pics of lesser-known exotic locales from Rantaro on his terrible iPhone, etc

Makoto is ADHD, horribly. (much like myself.) dude is only ever "with it" like 20% of the day tops. half of Kyoko encouraging him is really just telling him to pay attention

Hiyoko sometimes pretends to be a part of PETA just to piss Gundham off. then Kokichi joins in and Hiyoko stops because it's "lame now"

BONUS: it's required for all HPA students to spend some time at the orbit schools to graduate. in a non-despair AU, this is how our main cast meets Monaca, Kotoko, etc.

19. What kind of fantasy creature would you make Rantaro?

satyr. wandering womanizer. fuzzy

[veganymph]

peta is not a good representation of veganism or vegans and is a terrible organisation pushing terrible ideas. that being said, it’s also helped shed light on so many awful and disgusting practices done in slaughterhouses and dairy factories. it’s helped show the general public why we avoid makeup and skincare with animals products and why we don’t wear fur and leather and wool. peta itself is bad, the message they attempt to send is not and if carnists could just understand that an organisation does not define a movement that’s existed for centuries then the world would be a much better place

[davekat-sucks]

"OH my god, Anon! [Feferi]'s PETA!"

spot on on, because if meenah is more like caliborn, feferi is more like calliope. and thats how you get beforus, a nanny state planet that pretends to be an utopia. tumblr. speaking of which.

I'm cool with whatever people do in their spare time, you know, you do you. But what ticks me off is when they start acting all authoritarian with their headcanons, insisting they are canon and claiming others are clueless, ignorant, illiterate, tone-deaf, every internalized or externalized -ist and -phobic under the sun etc for not seeing it that way. Treating fictional characters with more decency than they do with real people essentially. So because I dont give a single iota of a fuck anymore, let me call out this retarded fandom that butterfly effected all western fandoms turning into warzones and hussies lazy hack ass really quick.

Here's the deal: Some people really just wanna show off how "woke" they are to others, so they slap labels like they're trendy accessories and project onto characters without giving a damn about their background or personality. That usually backfires and ends up with pretty darn terrible results. We all know this, we've heard the HS2 horror stories. And that's exactly what went down here again.

Because, lately, there's this, as I said let's call it headcanon, floating around insisting that the Vantases, Kankri in particular, are canonically aromantic asexual (aroace). The Vantases are the worst possible candidates in the whole webcomic for this. Why?

1: celibacy ≠ aroace. first one is not an orientation, but a choice to abstain from acting on attraction. and the other IS a orientation, not a choice, where you feel little to no romantic or sexual attraction. so much for respecting some people's identities and values. If the vantases HAVE to be assigned a human label despite being fucking aliens, why not demisexual???? kankri even asks karkat if he might be "panquadrantic demiromantic", doesnt that fit how the signless took time to open his heart to the disciple and had a love that went beyond all quadrants with her?

they are both HORNY and THIRSTY as hell for the pyropes, the captors, the leijons, john egbert, i dont fucking know, take your pick. make them fuck a clown. That's why Karkat is obsessed with romance and Kankri panders so hard, they are both that pathetically desperate for someone to connect and care for them back as obsessively intense as they are with everything.

3: Some previous anon pointed out how HIC, besides being an authoritarian tyrant that wanted galaxy-wide conquest, is an eugenicist fascist. Yes. She genocided limebloods. So did Beforan Feferi actually. And you know Karkat's handle? carcinogeneticist? How he inherited the Signless's burden? These things are all related, and let me use a comparison to explain how or why. Imposing this label onto them would be as perplexing as suggesting that Aang from THE LAST AIRBENDER, being a monk, should also be aroace. Right after all the airbenders were wiped out by firebenders, also authoritarian tyrants that wanted world conquest. Do you see the parallels? Karkat and Kankri have significant self-esteem issues, stemming from their mutant blood, from which bloodcaste they mutated from? Limebloods. The caste that has faced intense persecution, to the extent of genocide, on BOTH planets, resulting in their GENETIC LINEAGE being wiped out from the troll GENE POOL. Limebloods are EXTINCT. That's why their mutancy is their burden, it saved them from being killed, but condemned both to a lifetime of suffering and hiding under the same culling regime that killed their kin. And that's why the burden is the responsibility of revitalizing their bloodcaste BY PROCREATING. ADDING THEIR GENES TO THE TROLL GENE POOL. But because both Karkat and Kankri are fucking idiots with crippling self-esteem issues and Hussie wrote with his asscheeks, what did these two chucklefucks do instead? One praised the Empress that wanted to kill him and wanted to become her thresecutioner, and out of desperation did the devil's tango with the worst and most disgusting vile living being available, a hussie self-insert. And the other became fucking CELIBATE to focus on what was truly important to oppose the regime he disagreed with… performative bullshit that nobody asked him to care about, overcorrecting to the point of being even more offensive than the start, and not actually solving any problems but creating more. To make "progress as a civilization" with trigger warnings, HE DIDN'T PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF HIS OWN BLOODCASTE. NEITHER DID KARKAT WHO WAS TOO BUSY WATCHING MOVIES. And that was actually clever writing, because if you are a fandom activist who hates kankri, and also think hes unironically aroace because he's celibate, congratulations! You fell for the trap, youre exactly the kind of person Kankri is satirizing, he also missed the point by hyperfocusing on labels and hating himself, and like a self fulfilling prophecy, became the same thing that he was fighting against without realizing because he unwittingly ended up aiding troll eugenics by doing the hard work and taking himself out of the dating pool!

So next time you see a pretentious writer vagueposting about you or your interpretation of a character or guilt tripping you because you dont adhere to their offensive stereotypes, check if they headcanon Kankri as aroace, and if they do, you can simply smile and rest assured knowing that nothing you do will ever be as disconnected from reality or as far off the mark regarding character interpretation as that. Why would you listen to these evil people? Are you like Hussie?

That is truly why Davekat really fucking sucks and always fucking will,

Because not only did it ruin everything with their nonexistant chemistry-less relationship but because thanks to it and pandering to its stans, Sea Hitler won and both muties are out of the gene pool and limebloods remain extinct. That IS actually canon.

And while Johnkat and Jadekat are excellent, Karkat and Kankri's harem of trolls is better than davekat. Suck my dick.

PD: What's that? Baby HIC married Karkat? Doesn't surprise me. Grooming kids is her whole thing. There really was no excuse for not making Karkat fuck Sollux or Terezi instead.

Karkat and Kankri's Harem are better than Davekat. Meenah, Porrim, and Aranea sprites from @befriendus Damara sprite by @magua-vida

Condesce, Disciple, Redglare Neophyte, and the Dolorosa by elanor-pam

[bisexualchrissycunningham]

Joining a discord dedicated to hating on terrible booktok books was one of the best and worst decisions I've made (but I keep the Casey McQuiston channel muted cause I could never hate them, idc). I am now aware of the term "traumance" AND a book about a vegan PETA activist who rescues a turkey, which then turns into a half-Turkey half-man and she fucks him on top of the vegan Thanksgiving meal she was making.

These things exist. I know about them, and now you have to as well.

[animeraider]

Rounding up brown people, day one.

So the rounding up of Brown-skinned people began yesterday in Southern Kern County, around the town of Bakersfield and the various farms that surrounds it. As a result, 75% of the agriculture workforce has stopped showing up for work, afraid of deportation, mis-identification and worse. There is already rampant racial profiling going on; rounding up people at Home Depot and at Gas Stations. Brown-skinned people. Even cars driving down the 99 Highway, which is the major highway through the valley, are being pulled over and detained. 

The people of Bakersfield, an overwhelmingly Right-wing populace (the new/old guy got 60% of the vote), have noticed it and are concerned. So should you, because this is going to impact your groceries.

Right now it's Citrus picking season. In this part of the state that's mostly Oranges. People tend to think of Florida when it comes to Oranges but the truth is that about 40% of the crop is in the Central Valley of California. And right now, that's work that's not getting done.

This time of year evenings get very very cold in the low desert. Not snow-storm cold, but destroy your crops cold. a workforce reduction this big at this crucial time means that the amount of Oranges available to consumers is going to drop dramatically. As per supply and demand rules, that means the price is going up. Way up.

Hang on tight friends, because Lettuce and spinach harvest start in a couple of weeks. Grapes just finished but maintenance time is underway now and that's not getting done.

Kern County has been rated one of the top three agricultural counties in terms of production in the nation, and the workforce is being rounded up to be sent to camps. Right. Fucking. Now.

A couple of things to point out here. I find it interesting that the first roundups, which everyone said would be in Chicago, are happening in California and specifically in the district that used to be represented by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and current head of Truth Social Devin Nunes. Nunes used to brag about his dairy operation in the area, which is actually in Iowa.

Everyone knows that the big dairy operation in Bakersfield is Larsen's (home of Sam the Hippo! who dies years and years ago). Side note: I remember that poor Hippo, which had been abandoned by some carnival that came through town. It was kept in conditions that would have Peta protesting for miles today. But when I was a little kid, the sheer novelty of there being a Hippo at the local Dairy was kind of amazing. 

Nobody has yet said where these people are being kept.

So how does a lefty blogger from San Francisco know all of this? Welp, I haven't always been from here. I grew up and spent a sizeable chunk of my childhood right where these raids have been happening, and while I don't go there anymore there are people in this world who think I should still know what's going on. I haven't lived there in 43 years, but still it happens.

The white middle class neighborhood I grew up in is mostly Latino now, I've been told. I don't keep in touch with anyone who still lives there. I remember book burnings when I was a kid. Nazi rallies. Fuck them. I am proud to say I escaped all that bullshit, and got most of my close friends and all of my family out of there. Okay, I mostly just shouted words of encouragement but it still happened.

But there was always a migrant worker population. I went to school with many of them. Many were allowed to come to school late because they worked on farms in the mornings. A few even got school credit for it.

None of these people were adding to the crime rate. None of these people were taking jobs other people wanted. Try farming sometime. I quit after 2 hours. It's hard work, and occasionally brutal work and I don't recommend it (I was terrible at it) yet they do it day after day after day because they want to feed their own families. Because what they had before was even worse.

A New York (now Florida) real estate developer is never going to understand the balance of migrant workers necessary to keep the food chain running. Neither is the former leader of a hedge fund, or someone whose whole farm (and/or political) experience has been talking about it on television. Neither is the white and nearly translucent Nazi fuckhead who is the new/old guy's closest advisor on brown people. Neither are the Billionaires of DOGE.

We need to let people know where the people rounded up are being kept. That's where the protests need to be. 

[shadria-anarchy]

I remember each Night Mission I saw @essbei do, he'd leave Oatchi to guard the Luminknoll alone while he grinded Glowmin numbers. Only times he came back was if Oatchi hit low health or if a Smoky Progg hatched (which is usually how Oatchi hit low health). Such a good boy, Oatchi! (I forgot how that hairstyle looks to the side so it's probably very wrong)

I struggled a bit at first till Essbei suggested Cooking Mama lol. I went a step further and did the terrible PETA parody- Mama Kills Animals. Louie is so happy, finally doing his dream job ♥️ (PETA sucks btw, I do not support!)

[christmasintheloonybin]

obviously I support animal rights and everything I think factory farming is terrible, but you see these PETA types online and it's like, this is really what you're concerned about in the world? there aren't any bigger issues that trouble you? I mean come on.