RIPPING ON PRECUT FOOD
I don’t know where the hate is coming from, but when people straight up tell you that you’re being ableist, maybe stop?
"I know. I don’t care" is not the answer to give. That’s some seriously negative shizz and that’s not the hill you want to die on. For reals.
Precut fruit and vegetables are very useful for people that don’t have the dexterity to cut their own ingredients. It allows people to eat prepared food straight out of a bag, or to throw a bunch of ingredients together and, I don’t know, what’s the word? cook their food.
It’s not just ableist to mock people’s food choices. It’s also really classist.
Like, why can’t poor people have nice things?*
I’m sorry everyone can’t afford a personal Frannie to come in and prep ingredients. I’m sorry everyone doesn’t have the time available in their day to spend hours of it preparing food when it’s easier to combine readily available ingredients. I’m sorry some people have to be super judgemental about how other people are living when there’s more serious concerns taking place.
Prepared ingredients are not the Big Evil alarmists are concerned about. It’s a distraction thrown out by social media influencers and bad operators attempting to spark moral outrage to flood timelines and muffle the messages that really should be heard.
Defund the Police = They do not need 80% of a city’s budget. If it came down to it, I’d rather garbage people get more money to sort recyclables out of the mess. There should be more social workers. There should be more outreach programs for the poor and socially isolated.
The fact that police responded to Black Lives Matter and the idea of "Defund the Police" by brutalizing massive amounts of people? It’s a clear signal that the system needs fixing. And the police shouldn’t have military-grade weapons backed by protection laws that keep individual officers–murderers!–from facing justice.
It’s wrong.
As is the idea that a group of people STORMED THE CAPITOL to OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT. That shizz was fukked up.
And the fact that some of them–most of them–are out on bail right now?!?
Some kid is accused of stealing a backpack and spends years in prison. A trans woman is put in men’s prison and KEPT THERE because she couldn’t afford $500 bail. A man is accused of using a fake $20 and is executed by the police. (That’s not their job!) Persons of color and poor does NOT mean subhuman treatment.
The fact that the insurrections were rich racists doesn’t take away from the fact that they committed a horrible crime and are being let back out on the street while poor people die. The cops weren’t prepared for the insurrection because it was committed by rich people in positions of great power.
Rich people met in secret and arranged to overthrow our government.
The only thing that stopped their plan from succeeding? Stupidity.
That’s all that saved us.
They looked at the cops, they looked at the National Guard, they looked at the federal officers and assumed a shared color of skin would mean they would all band together as one race to suppress the will of the American people.
Living in their echo chambers, noshing on the same foul stew, the insurrectionists arrived in the Capitol expecting that the POLICE would help them overthrow the government.
And some of them did.
Brave officers DIED or had their lives threatened because some of their number did NOT have their backs.
I will be angry if there is no justice.
"No justice, no peace" doesn’t mean violence.
It means that as long as I look around and see this BULLSHIT going on… I’m not going to stop sounding the alarm. None of us are.
Whatever holes they want to hide in. Whatever dark corners they want to whisper in. If I catch a glimpse… I’m going to scream out "Here they are! This motherfucker is the one that ‘ruined our water’/’destroyed our economy’/’spread sedition’/’assaulted that girl’/’passed that shitty law’/’caused a pandemic that has killed over 420,000 Americans’!"
Because if we wave our hands and say "Well, they’ve learned their lesson" then yeah, it’s true. They learned that they can fukk everything up and we’re going to roll over and let them.
They’re just going to keep on keeping on–screwing up everything and destroying lives for the lulz and their own short-term benefit.
Politicians may have the pop culture reputation of being sleazebags and law breakers but, get this, THEY’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. They’re supposed to be the best of us representing the needs of the least of us so that everyone has the chance of a good and happy life.
They’re not supposed to actively be working to make things worse.
They’re not supposed to cheat, lie, steal, false represent themselves, and KILL over 420,000 people because they’re death cultists.
Like WTF?
I don’t even know what’s going on. But I’m angry. And it’s not at people buying prepared food to feed themselves.
- "Poor" people deserve food, medical care, housing, consideration as human beings. And everyone deserves a hot meal.
It’s already really gross that people on disability aren’t allowed to have above a certain amount of money in their bank accounts before they lose their benefits.
It’s like "Bitch, they’re only $100 over their monthly limit and you’re CANCELING their insurance? WTF is wrong with you?" — The whole idea of it makes me seriously heated.
To keep the disability insurance they need to live, they are forced to stay in poverty.
If there was medical for all, then it wouldn’t be a problem.
Medical costs are KILLING people.
And the big issue is precut, prepackaged food? Seriously?!?
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Because why not.
Pax,
~HarperWCK
