MelissaRose

It’s not even just about fair wages. It’s literally about the fact that you can’t dump industrial waste in a river here anymore.

Our cheap goods are so cheap because South American and Asians environments are being destroyed so you can buy a $40 pair of shoes every 3 months.

Cutting granite countertops has lead to a rapid increase in silicosis in the lungs out in California. All the working men and women in my family have died from pulmonary fibrosis. They were carpet layers, Post office workers, floor tilers. Staying safe in manufacturing jobs is annoying but also very, very expensive. Real manufacturing factories belch smoke and dust and grime that causes asthma and birth defects in surrounding communities. Everyone wants their manufacturing jobs back until they realize their kids are living directly under the Asthma Plant.

There will come a time when the workers in these countries rise up and demand better and things will start to even out, but if you want to honestly “do your part,” you gotta stop buying cheap shit for no reason.

This interaction is so fucking funny because superheroes by nature are like this and the people who started the stink up about Captain Marvel were currently far right grifter

So many male superheros are essentially 'boy power' fantasies and have no personality outside of that, but it's beyond to do the same for little girls ? The fact is she does have a personality and life outside her power.

I've watched the first Captain Marvel and being someone who doesn't watch Marvel too often, i can watch a Marvel movie and not feel bogged down the oversaturation of Marvel films. It felt pretty normal for a Marvel film, was enjoyable, and had a normal superhero story. Literally nothing about the film was like that. In what world is a superhero not fucking strong? Is that not the point ? Even in fantasty, women need to be weak. It's funny because she's not even perfect or overpowered in the movie. She had to do some self-discovery and then learned to handle her power plus learned the truth

There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true, it can conjure spirits from the past…and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune. But it also can pierce the veil between life and death.

Person 1: "Landlords are leeches." Okay, why don't you move out then. Where you gonna go?

Person 2: You made a video making fun of people saying landlords are leeches by saying they have no other option but to rent.

That is literally why landlords are leeches. In the U.S. we have a surplus of housing. We have seventeen million empty homes, and six hundred thousand homeless people. So why aren't those homes being filled?

It's because 80 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck. 80 percent of the American populous can't save money, and even if they can save a little they definitely can't save enough for a downpayment.

Most of them probably don't have great credit, so when they apply for a monthly payment for a mortgage that's cheaper than their rent, they're gonna get rejected. But people who have a lot of money can get those loans easily! And they can buy hundreds of houses if they want to.

They don't need the houses, but if they buy them and rent them out to someone much poorer than them? Then the person they're renting to will pay off their mortgage while they do no work. You know, leeching off of the people's income. And that's why landlords are leeches.

Understandably, the discussion was about the invasion of Ukraine. This man - visibly moved by the plight of Ukrainians forced to flee their homes - asked if it wasn't 'dehumanising' to refer to them as 'refugees' (after all, they were just like him with families, communities, jobs, hopes etc).

To give him the benefit of the doubt, he was reflecting on how reductive it can be to just see a person (or group of people) as one thing, rather than as a whole, with complex lives etc

But, on the other hand, I know how much media in the UK (esp the daily fail, express, & telegraph) has reported on numerous refugee crises over the years. I know how the UK often views immigrants and their descendants.

The dehumanisation is palpable. It's why attempts to show the 'humanity' of refugees are often tactless and exploitative. It's why so many people apparently think it reasonable to question how desperate people are if they've got mobile phones/travelled with young children/paid off people smugglers. Refugees become 'non-people', rather than people seeking refuge

And then when someone says something like 'they're people, not just refugees', it's seen as completely wholesome