Trump isn’t going to see this, but people who are self-conscious about their dick size will.

Who are you really hurting here?

It does, to the average Floridian and to Ron DeSantis.

Advocating for veterans is one of few things that has the chance of appealing to Republicans.

I’d argue that saving some people from the death penalty is better than saving none at all. It will open the door in the future to fully ending the death penalty.

They really aren’t.

Try speaking to anyone with a chronic and incurable illness. Try speaking to countless women and PoC who were denied treatment at the ER. Try speaking to people who had their medications denied by pharmacist because they didn’t ‘look like they’re in pain’.

Modern medicine is rife with systemic misogyny and racism. The privilege of being heard by your doctor isn’t a universal experience. The rest of us are forced to choose between suffering and dying or educating ourselves and self-advocating.

Not saying what she did was okay at all, but postpartum depression affects 17% of mothers worldwide. Even in developed countries, less than half have the privilege of getting diagnosed. It is severely under-recognized and often goes untreated.

Not to mention that not every pregnancy is wanted and not every mother has the resources, support, or even the human right to follow through with an abortion.

Combine these two and you get woefully unprepared mothers who just went through the most excruciating experience in her life and is still expected to smile at the sight of her newborn. Ever heard of a perineal tear? It’s exactly what it sounds like and it affects 90% of first time mothers. And that’s only a fraction of the pain involved in childbirth. It’s kind of disgusting how women are expected to gracefully hide one of the most traumatic experiences in their life and package it neatly into social expectations of motherhood.

As someone with a chronic incurable disability, I’m tired of abled bodied people deciding for us which of our experiences count as ‘evidence’ and which do not.

People have this perception of modern medicine as an infallible cure-all that isn’t saddled with systemic discrimination and neglect of women and minorities.

It doesn’t matter how effective a medication is for a certain condition or for off label use. The only thing that matters is that that clinical trials are worth the investment to pharmaceutical companies, and the people most worth investing into are those with money and the privilege of being heard by their doctors.

The rest of us can continue screaming into the void as our symptoms are dismissed and as we are treated like unreliable witnesses to our own bodies. ‘Have you tried yoga?’ ‘You just need to lose weight.’ ‘Abdominal pain? It’s just your period.’ We are treated like we aren’t trying our hardest to live with every symptom. And then when we find something that works, we are told that ‘it’s not covered by insurance’ or ‘there is no evidence that it works’ or ‘it’s just placebo’. It’s like nothing we feel in our body is true and everything we say is treated as a drugseeking lie.

Fuck the cherry picked ‘evidence’. The system is broken and chronically ill people are left to suffer.

Yes, rat experimentation is the cornerstone of modern medicone, but that doesn’t make it any less fucked up.

Something can be equally good for people yet completely inhumane. It doesn’t cancel each other out.

Do I think we should stop experimenting on rats? Absolutely not. But we can try to at least improve the general well-being of these rats and stop deliberately torture them. Peopes have done sleep deprivation experiments where a rat is forced to stay awake or fall in the water and start to drown.

The fucked up part are the experiments, not the euthanasia.

Rats have to be killed because we don’t know if they will continue to suffer after the painful experiments done on them. They can’t be let out either because it can harm the general rat population. Companies don’t give enough of a shit about keeping rats alive in rat retirement homes either.

ITT: Removing urine from your body? That’s just called peeing, not some quirky disorder.

What’s that? You pee every hour? I told you it’s normal to pee. Stop pretending you have health issues just to get attention.

^This is what people sound like every time they say something isn’t a disorder simply because it doesn’t affect them to the point of impacting quality of life.

You didn’t even read paper that you linked.

The only credible source that is well cited is the paper about the Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods, and it explicitly states that recreational hunting (aka trophy hunting) is NOT subsistence or commercial hunting.

This paper’s focus is on evaluating the dubious claims about conservation that recreational hunters uses to justify themselves. It is criticizing the same that I was criticizing, which is that there is no justifiable excuse for trophy hunting.

You linked a bunch of random vegan sites, so I assume you’re vegan. Look, I get it. Eating and killing animals is fucked up. But you’re barking up the wrong tree here. Subsistence hunters, which most deer hunters are, are causing far less animal suffering than the vast majority of people who eat factory farmed animals.

I’m not going to pretend I’m vegan because I’m not, but I have cut down meat consumption by 75%. If you want to make a real difference, you’ll find that telling everyone to eat 10% less meat is far easier than telling 10% of the world to become vegan. If you actually give a shit about animals, do what works, not what feels good to yourself. Remember that humans grow up in an environment that culturally enforced and prizes meat consumption. Remember that not everywhere and everyone has good access to vegan alternatives.

While trophy hunting is fucked up, I’d like to remind people that hunting as done by regular people and not this millionaire bozo is a critical aspect of conservation.

Hunting keeps deer and elk from overpopulating and stressing the habitats of other wild life. It is the only thing that keeps prion diseases in these populations in check. Hunters are a necessity because humans have displaced and culled apex predators who played the same role.

If you do, I recommend visiting the more residential areas to get a feel of what old Hong Kong was like. Places like Sham Shui Po, Kennedy Town, West of Sai Wan Ho, northern parts of the New Territories. Everywhere else has been stripped and redeveloped to accommodate mostly to Chinese tourists as a last ditch to survive in the tourism industry.

Tiananmen Square? This would be dead obvious to Hong Kongers. Hell, even just ‘1989’ is enough.

You don’t see people wear shirts that openly criticize the CCP these days. Not after all the arbitrary arrests where even wearing plain black clothing was enough to incriminate you.

I don’t recommend going to Hong Kong anymore. It’s a husk of its former self. The streets are far emptier, and every other storefront is closed because people and business have packed up and left in droves. If you do, certainly don’t wear this shirt there.

Walk? In this suburban hell?

Let me introduce you to the concept of girl dinner.

Calling all cats psychopathic is like saying ‘all my exes are crazy’. It’s probably you, not them. Cats are very sensitive to body language, and like to have their boundaries respected as though they are 20x their size.

My cats bring me their favorite toy springs and meow at me until I accept their gift. They follow me everywhere I go, sleep by my side, and huddle up to me when I cry.

What you described was people liking cats as an ornament, not as a companion. Not to mention, dogs are far easier to train. Someone who enjoys authoritative control would likely prefer dogs over cats.

Smh can’t even spell gellapinnose right.

That’s not an excuse. That’s a reason to help you understand that systemic change isn’t instituted from yelling at a wall of dumb kids.

Systemic change is instituted from policies that incentivize people to do the right thing, not by lazily dismissing problems as a product moral failure.

Think about a country with subsidized access to higher education, healthcare, and social safety nets to prevent destitution and homelessness. High school kids wouldn’t be as desperate to join the military in large droves.

You can be angry at people who are the product of a system working as intended, or you can step back and hold people in power accountable.

The whole ‘duh, everything is made of chemicals’ argument is a corporate attempt at downplaying the prevalence of unnecessary and even harmful additives in US foods that have long been banned in the EU.

Next time you see a meme about a woman asking ‘is this ham processed?’ with a response ridiculing her about it, look up Ractopmine.

Most veterans started out as exploitable highschool kids and end up exploitated, handicapped, homeless, and without physical or mental healthcare.

Don’t let political interests redirect your anger towards veterans. It’s a distraction that absolves the US government of responsibility for foreign policies rooted in American exceptionalism.

Why be a misandrist when you clearly know the boy isn’t being given a choice because people like you and the mom don’t give a damn about what boys as long as the toy ‘matches’ the kid’s penis?

Yeah I’m calling you out for being a creep.