“As revolutionaries, we don’t have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.”

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle is a fun and cute show if you’re looking for something like that.

It seems the person in question didn’t report this income and therefore didn’t pay taxes on it.

Reminds me of the joke about a man that dies in a flood waiting for good to save him while turning down any actual rescuers.

Meat eaters: if you need a sign from God or fate or whatever to start being vegan, here’s yet another one. Try not to drown before you change your mind.

I feel like your completely glossing over the whole increased risk of rape and violence aspect that prostitution involves compared to wage labor.

I feel like you’re ignoring the reality that the prostitution industry avoids formal recognition by its very nature. Clients want to stay anonymous, pimps want to stay underground, and many prostitutes want to remain under the radar. Formal recognition is a necessary prerequisite for regulation and labor law.

Do you plan on this being a lifelong career for you? Why or why not?

This is such a lib take that it pains me to read it. The whole post is worth a read, btw.

https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-the-phrase-sex-work-is-work-bdac613eb2f0

Such a complete misunderstanding of the industry is the result of a flattening of distinctions between all work and a misunderstanding of Marxist theory. Wage labor is exploitative because of the surplus value extracted from the workers’ labor. Prostitution is sexual exploitation because it feeds off of extreme vulnerability to maintain a class of prostitutes, coerces sex through money and power, and exposes those women to high amounts of rape and violence. Not all work involves coercive sex, not all work comes with the high risk of rape and male violence in whatever legal context it operates under. Not all work puts the body and it’s component parts on the market to be bought, sold, and rented at will to the highest bidder.

I’m pretty sure that you meant the blue aliens one, but Jet was right.

I encourage you and everyone else to read this 1999 article from Palestinian activist Edward Said about why a one state solution is the only viable path to peace.

The arm rest seamlessly and senselessly blends into the rest of the couch.

Why is it so difficult for you to believe that some people might value their own lives over nationalism or the wishes of the ruling elite class? Y’all are so bloodthirsty that you would criticize any Ukranian that dare to try to live instead of wholeheartedly volunteering to be thrown into a meat grinder.

The whole idea of refusing to cede land seems so insane to me. Russian and Ukranian soil look the same from 6 feet under.

Can you join Teams meetings in Firefox? I think that’s the only real issue I’ve had with it.

The main downside being that if Kaiser doesn’t have a specialist or even PCP openings in your area, you are basically told to get fucked.

I guess that the soy yogurt I had for breakfast and the vegan mozzarella that I had on my lasagna for dinner last night were all just in my imagination.

The problem is that you’re arguing that from a position of valuing keeping your toys that go pew pew real loud and real fast over valuing the general public safe, though.

It boggles my mind that willfully hosting CSAM is (rightfully) illegal, but willfully hosting anti-vaxx content that definitely leads to the deaths of children is a-okay.

Skip the fines entirely and introduce criminal charges for executives of platforms that host anti-vaxx content. Have a complaint about the contents or safety of a vaccine? Feel free to submit your study to a peer-reviewed journal, or shut the fuck up.

It only ever was weird in the most middle class, white, liberal definition of the word.