truly can not comprehend the mindset of people who grew up with Money. imagine knowing that it’s a given that youre going to have a car and a college education and a good career and a nice place to live and beautiful trips to beautiful locations and well-developed hobbies and expensive clothing and whatever else you could ever need or want. imagine your world being that enriched. imagine not even ever really questioning it and that just being your reality
so yeah that fire in Lahaina, Maui? That was what indigenous activists were trying to prevent. That is why Land Back movements wants indigenous people to be the stewards of the land that was once theirs. Not kick out white people and settlers. But to prevent shit like that where a bunch of tourists/settlers won’t destroy the planet in their ruthless pursuit of productivity and profit. So yeah, think on that.
People are asking how was this white people fault?
Power lines, in Hawaii they are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard, keep catching on fire because they forget to turn off their shitty electricity. So when they eventually topple over, white people forgot to cut the Guinea grass planted by colonizers 200 years to feed cows which changed Lahaina from a a swampland to the fucking tinderbox that it is today.
But hey, grass is grass and no need to mow an invasive species, right colonizers? Oh shit, that global warming that these fucking oil companies spent decades telling us wasn’t real is real and that dried up the land in Maui?
Now motherfuckers are trying to buy land off of the indigenous people in Maui because colonizers just love having part time homes, right?
But yay let’s celebrate the fucking billionaires who own homes in Lahaina because they are donating. Nope, no fucking correlation there right?
Indigenous Hawaiians have been saying how tourism is killing their islands for over a decade yet you fucking assholes keep mentioning how Tourism is the point of Hawaii as if that culture wasn’t just about living instead of living for profit.
They don’t want you there but you fuckheads insist of making it your timeshare goal. So yeah. It’s absolutely settler’s fault that this shit happening.
“damn I’m crying over an insect” “why am I having such strong feelings over how the sky looks” “it’s weird how happy this small thing made me feel” THAT’S BECAUSE YOU LIVE HERE!!!! you live on this earth. everything all the time is an experience, no matter how common or mundane. this world is unique. so are its small moments. it is good to enjoy a tiny thing. you love the world even at its smallest scale.
just by the way, forced rehab is not harm reduction, it is a step below sending an addict to prison, forced rehab causes deaths, what you should be advocating for if you actually want to help addicts is needle exchanges, supervised consumption sites, affordable housing, universal basic income, support in escaping abusive relationships, disability payments that dont keep people below the poverty line, and free mental health resources. forced rehab kills and that is not an exaggeration, that is something i have witnessed firsthand.
Can women be twinks? Can men be butch? Instead of asking these incredibly niche questions ask yourself this, if they weren’t allowed to do so, who would you have enforcing that ruling?
and then, I hope this kind of re-framing opens your eyes about how silly that would be, to enforce as such. But really, this is what they mean when they say “kill the cop in your head.”
What good does it do you to try and police people more?
I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, “It was all such fun. I just had so much fun.” I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.
St Francis Fountain (As in soda fountain) has been on my list to paint for probably two years and I finally made it today! I am so excited about the light in this one, and proud of my progress with including figures.
misogyny has never gone away but people are being extremely bold-faced for no reason about it now. some random comment under a video that’s got absolutely nothing to do with gender will be like ‘this is a regular interaction with females 🤣🤣’ and it’ll have 40k likes and everyone laughing in the replies. i hope you all drive off a cliff
