Change my meme (a replacement 'Change my mind' template) - template post - Imgur

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

can we talk about the ups strike can we PLEASE talk about the ups strike

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

the first priority of houselessness advocacy should not be housing (although this is an important option for those who want it) but the right to free movement and the right to camp. every culture in every period of human history has had itinerant individuals, and in many places those individuals made up the bulk of human beings. in our society houselessness is incredibly difficult, but it doesnt have to be. as a houseless individual my biggest concern at all times was police harassment (being told to move along or having my shit tossed for being too conspicuous), and without that i would have been able to aquire a lot more agency and self subsistence with things like a semi-permanent camp, and growing and catching my own food (meaning: existence outside of wage slavery and property ownership. this is what scares them!). the fact is that privatization of property and vagrancy laws have been making the lives of houseless individuals infinitely more difficult over the past few hundred years. and until housing is wrestled from concepts of property ownership and rental fuedalism, "housing" the homeless is effectively a matter of bringing "free elements" out of the wild and into capitalist control. besides, there will always be people who slip through the cracks bureaucratic initiatives, and these people are left out in the cold because a man in an office did not dain to imagine them when he wrote his legislation. if you actually care about quality of life for the houseless and not just unsightliness, deprivatize unused property, create more robust welfare systems that dont require documentation to access, give people the right to roam and plant and gather, and who knows- maybe in ten years the tent cities will be places of color and joy and life lived in connection with nature. and because people dont have to struggle to find a place to lay their head, instead of desperation our streets will be full of artisans and musicians and laughing people.

two sorts of responses you can get on posts that go together so well are

1. "um actually op is wrong. it's actually (several paragraphs which are in direct agreement with the sentiments expressed in your post but phrased slightly differently) actually"

and her beautiful wife,

2. "I totally agree with op! (proceeds to write long screed which directly contradicts the post you have written in either letter spirit or both in such a way that you feel immediately compelled to disavow every opinion expressed therein)"

you need both of these for a truly wretched posting ecosystem to thrive