Urging all my followers and even random passerbys to donate what you can. Feeling guilty does nothing. Act on this feeling of hopelessness and donate something, anything. Please.
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West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”
West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.
“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.
“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.
“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”
okay for real does anyone know what the fuck is going on in that trailer for sinners
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i find that a startlingly large amount of mental health advice boils down to "talk to yourself like you're a stupid baby incapable of reasoning out falsehoods" and "live in a world of delusion" instead of actually confronting an issue
i.e. "no one in public spaces cares if you look or smell bad, so who cares" or "the best way to deal with aging is to pretend you just woke up from a coma and now have the chance to do whatever you want". maybe these ideas are short-term beneficial or even wholesale adaptive, but to me they strike me as avoiding the root cause of the harmful paradigm. ykwim like you should be saying things like "yeah someone might be rude to you in public, you should learn how to cope with that" and "aging is normal and you still have time to do what you want"
another one that came to mind: "just fake self-confidence until you really love yourself". i know this works for a lot of people, but, for me, it rang as "root yourself into a lie until ignoring it is fatal to your self-concept". it's much better to go from "you're a stupid shitty ugly loser but no one else needs to know that" to "you have value and observable positive qualities that make you a person people want to know and be around".
Okay class what did you all fucking think?
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I was in the shower and All 4 U came on by Janet Jackson and I immediately started crying. Then I got worried because why would that song make me cry….i forgot I did an edible.
hi btw
i screencap someone and don't block out their url and icon, i get accused of trying to start a dogpile. i do, and i'm accused of censoring their name or whatever. you cannot win sometimes
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the fact that it's controversial on here to say incest is bad and it is bad to fetishize it
oh fuck you I'll own up to this to the day I die. don't censor my name and cut off my words
okay
this is completely tangential to my last few posts but does anyone get the feeling that "trump is so mad about [thing]!! he's really mad and fuming!!" and "musk is a little cuckold who wants to impress a father figure and is emasculated and feels insecure" type shit you see in the cultural periphery lately is some very extremely delusional coping? like i say this as someone who wants both those men murdered: making up fantasy stories about how actually even though they're in power they're secretly in shambles is like. well there's really no other word for it beyond coping. it's kind of sad. like we don't have to lie to ourselves just to get by, do we?
i think one of the most pernicious parts of social media is this idea that you need to be willing to talk at any time about anything you've ever posted. like that post i made is over a month old at this point and is about an immutable belief i have, i am not really interested in debating it at any length. just because i made a post about it doesn't mean there's a perpetual open channel of back-and-forth for you to seek out, especially if you are only just finding me from that post. is it not enough to just say to yourself "maybe this stranger doesn't want or value intense conversations with other strangers at the drop of a hat" or "maybe this post isn't an invitation for a conversation, especially because it was untagged and didn't ask any open-ended questions"? like sometimes i feel as though we lose all sense of socializing on the internet that would be extremely basic and intuitive shit that we would get in-person. or maybe all social media is evil forever. who's to say
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i find that a startlingly large amount of mental health advice boils down to "talk to yourself like you're a stupid baby incapable of reasoning out falsehoods" and "live in a world of delusion" instead of actually confronting an issue
i.e. "no one in public spaces cares if you look or smell bad, so who cares" or "the best way to deal with aging is to pretend you just woke up from a coma and now have the chance to do whatever you want". maybe these ideas are short-term beneficial or even wholesale adaptive, but to me they strike me as avoiding the root cause of the harmful paradigm. ykwim like you should be saying things like "yeah someone might be rude to you in public, you should learn how to cope with that" and "aging is normal and you still have time to do what you want"
i find that a startlingly large amount of mental health advice boils down to "talk to yourself like you're a stupid baby incapable of reasoning out falsehoods" and "live in a world of delusion" instead of actually confronting an issue
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the fact that it's controversial on here to say incest is bad and it is bad to fetishize it
really awful that "barely legal" is a phrase that some people get horny reading