Capitalism only values nature by how it can be exploited.
Case in point.
People in my replies be like “bUt wHaT aBoUt fRuIt TrEes and CaMpInG GrOuNdS”. Yes that’s pretty much my point. Trees are only valuable if you can make money off them or hijack them for human activities, rather than because they literally sustain life on earth.
In capitalism’s eyes, everything is but a tool or resource to make profit. Workers and nature alike. A forest is not inherently “valuable” to a capitalist; individual people are treated as “human resources” and labour for 8 - 13 hours per day, most days of their life, until they’re physically too old to continue.
We will only attain a better world when nature and people become inherently valuable, rather than something to exploit.
Forests help stabilize the climate of the whole PLANET and that should be ENOUGH but also there should not BE an enough because LIFE SIMPLY IS ALIVE FOR NO REASON AND THIS IS SACRED thank you
Things should be inherently valuable. All things. All people. Not just people who work, not just things that can do things. Rocks are valuable as they are, trees are valuable as they are, you are valuable as you are.
reminder for everyone to stop treating the harry potter issue as one that is only about trans people, please do not forget to listen to and stand up for jewish voices speaking out against this franchise and its creator.
Not to mention how many red flags were getting pointed out *before* her obsession with trans people began. The Jewish-coded goblins for one (that nerds loved to debate about and pretend had nothing to do with antisemitism), the way she evoked the trope of gay HIV+ men preying on children to spread AIDS around, the slaves that wanted to be slaves, and the misogyny of the Umbridge storyline and Snape’s redemption. We can’t downplay how transphobic she is but we need to remember it didn’t start here
TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.
Imagine being one of only twelve guys ever to have the honour of walking on the moon and then when you get there you’re allergic to it.
NASA scientist: you’re back early
Jack Schmidt: moon’s an allergen
NASA scientist: …what?
Jack Schmidt, loading an epipen and climbing back into the shuttle: moon’s an allergen
if one in twelve humans who have been on the moon was allergic to moon dust, that’s either a one-in-a-million chance or a VERY common allergy
The fact that it’s such a statistically useless sample is DEFINITELY driving a handful of very specialized scientists absolutely crazy
oh this one i know! he’s not actually allergic and he’s not a statistical outlier. all twelve astronauts reported symptoms after stepping on the moon because lunar soil is fucking nasty to human (and presumably most complex life) biology. moon dust is like inhaling asbestos. it’s very fine, chemically reactive, and will hang around in your lungs for months, like a shitty inhaled cloud of glass. which, as it’s mostly silicon, it kind of is. glass powder that is ripping up your airways and possibly your dna. see again: like asbestos
& that 1% regret rate is almost entirely “Yes I’m still trans but the surgery was bad, or the transphobia i encounter is so much worse than anticipated, or I was pushed towards a specific treatment by my binary-oriented doctor when I wanted a non-binary transition” etc.
Actual ‘whoops, I don’t identify as trans anymore” cases are closer to 0,02%.
people absolutely get to detransition and retransition and whatever (I personally know about six people who “detransitioned” from being binary trans people, and then transitioned again later as nonbinary people, for example) but the idea that a small number of people going “oops got this wrong” somehow justifies gatekeeping everyone else is criminal, and mostly a deliberate ploy to block us from getting what we need
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
