nostalgic for the good times

I remembered that google maps has an option to also go through the older street view footage, and while the place looks a lot different now, in 2009 this spot looking towards my childhood home looked just as I remembered it being when I was 5 years old. Painted from this streetview screenshot:

Calling this one "should've never smoked that shit, why am I in an impressionist painting". From this shot, also from 2009:

This, too, was from the way I walked to school.

Your post didn't say 'leftists should work to dismantle factory farming and work to create sustainable farming practices that respect animals, plants, and the humans that work with them' it said 'leftists should be vegans'

Your agave is making bats and other animals that rely on agave go extinct, and is overworking the agave plants themselves.

Your palm oil is destroying the bornean rainforest and directly destroying orangutans specifically, who are killed as vermin on palm oil plantations.

Your soy is a monocrop that is almost certainly picked by people not being paid their worth if they are being paid at all.

This doesn't even go into the fact that there are many, many people that cannot eat vegan sources of protein. I myself am one of them--I literally cannot eat legumes not even of any kind, and legumes are the only vegan source of protein--but the reason I can't is very common.

It is also a violation of human rights to tell people how to eat. Like I know it's a common one because of fucking Diet Culture but it very much is none of your fucking business what people eat, and it shouldn't be any political cause's business what people fucking eat, unless it's "whatever your body needs and wants to eat", because food is part of someone's body and someone's body is not anybody's fucking business but their own. That's part of bodily autonomy and fostering a culture of consent and fat liberation and disability rights.

Your food is not praxis, it's food. Your food is not medicine, it's food. You cannot Individual Choices your way out of systemic problems, and preaching that any form of Individual Choices can do this is spreading lies. You may believe them but they are still lies.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

Gatsby knew Daisy for such a short amount of time yet he spent the rest of his life obsessing over her

Nick knew Gatsby for such a short amount of time yet he keeps obsessing over that time together so much so that he wrote a book about it

White supremacists use Ancient Greece to insert themselves and their beliefs, completely erasing an accurate Ancient Greece and actual Greek people and culture from the narrative. There's a reason why when discussing the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, they only show pictures of blonde, blue-eyed, Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon women, and never actresses who are actually Greek or of Greek descent. Just like how a black woman playing Helen is an issue to them, a Greek woman playing Helen is also an issue to them.

Since the very beginning of the concept of whiteness, beginning in the 19th century, white supremacists have excluded Greek people from whiteness, like they did for other ethnicities that you may now consider white, such as the Irish and Italians. Whiteness did not exist before the 19th century. When whiteness was conceptualized, it was purposefully created to not just view people native to the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania as lesser than, but to also view other Europeans as lesser than.

she is the maid's BOSS

they are not FRIENDS

the maid probably does not DESIRE her friendship

the servants are not your confidants in this scenario. IRL, the notion of the Loyal Family Retainer was most common in sentimental literature for the employing class (which btw was like upper-working-class on up, although the lower you go, the more work the family would be doing alongside them) and sometimes weaponized by them to try and get extra emotional or physical labor out of domestic workers

did emotional intimacy develop sometimes? absolutely- and it was often encouraged for upper-class 19th-century children in the US and UK, who could spend a lot of time with their nanny and in the servants' sphere in general. was classism a factor? 100%.