Overpopulation is a myth that leads to genocide. If you’re Irish you should know this.
The famine was allowed to happen because the Brits thought Ireland was overpopulated. It was seen as a good thing that a million people died, because there were already too many wretched Irish
We humans have become so incredibly efficient at producing food. We could feed everyone in the world if we tried.
The issue is capitalism.
The reason people are starving. The reason people are homeless, choking in toxic city air, unable to drink clean water. IT’S CAPITALISM.
And Irish meme page has recently infiltrated an Irish American Pride page and the trolling is glorious. I don’t know if I’ve seen any real plastic paddies yet but I’m enjoying the mischief alone.
Something that is entirely unsurprising from the terf crowd is their total silence on intersex babies and kids, who are *actually* given surgeries and hormones that they cannot consent to (some surgeries are even undertaken without the parents’ knowledge and records expunged)
@2Taurean2U
Okay but when people don’t actually answer kid’s questions (easy ones) it really annoys me. When I was like 8 I asked my mum what a latte was cos I heard it in monsters inc and she was like “I dunno”. She did know!
If Infinity War had been a better movie it would have focused more on Thanos being wrong about his ecofascism. But the writers thought he had a point, they were already bought in on the myth and so they essentially spread ecofascist ideas
It’s so fucking sickening to see this overpopulation bullshit come back up again and again. China had the OCP for years and now they have a wildly unbalanced population. Studies overwhelmingly show that education and economic development cause population to plateau naturally
@GreatCheshire
Irish people with any kind of success start being called British by British media, so you need to push back if you get a chance. It’s happened to Saoirse Ronan, Ruth Nega, Paul Mascal…
Honestly, I’d *like* if we could be friends, unfortunately my autism REALLY hates your autism and in the interest of both of our well-being and safety we shouldn’t hang out.
@ohJuliatweets
Sports guys are really interesting theatrical performers, they’re very connected to their bodies and in the moment because that’s how they have to be on the pitch or field or whatever
The idea that countries “should be” one race or ethnicity is pure myth too, btw. And attempts to “preserve culture” by keeping a country ethnically “pure” ALWAYS does harm, to individuals and the nation as a whole. Diversity being strength is not just “wokeness” +
Right well, I’m about to mute this whole thread so I can sleep. Just some closing points:
Gender equality and comprehensive Sex Ed are the most effective and ethical way to control population. Gender equality and Sex Ed are good.
This has happened with “Trigger” and “Gaslighting” and it is super frustrating. I have lasting trauma from being love bombed and manipulated in an intimate relationship and it is very much not just “talking to someone you’re dating casually a lot”
Lovebombing is a real thing, even if people are using the term incorrectly!!! Please don't throw away a useful term for domestic violence victims bc you learned about it on Twitter and can't be bothered to do your research.
It’s literally mathematically necessary. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Populations grow and change. Trying to freeze human cultures in amber means death.
And external factors cause problems. Countries like Japan and Germany have aging populations, due to economic development causing a decrease in family sizes overall combined with protectionist immigration policies. Both are former fascist states with focuses on racial purity.
Anyone talking about their “overpopulation concerns” who doesn’t talk about education and gender equality in their proposed solutions, is arguing in bad faith or ignorance. That, and arguing for gender equality without acknowledging how capitalism perpetuates patriarchy.
When “controlling population” starts being discussed I’m always reminded of a policy introduced in Delhi during British colonial rule. The Brits were concerned about venomous cobras, so they offered a reward for people killing cobras.
So people started farming cobras.
@YuckyTom
No or stop ARE literally safe words. They are the default safe words. If you watch a movie and someone says no or stop and the other person keeps going, that is the screenwriter saying “this is a rape scene now”. But obviously having a conversation about safe words means you-
Similarly, when China introduced their one child policy, they didn’t realise it would massively fuck them over down the line, since if a family could only have one child people wanted a son instead of a daughter. Under the age of 25 Chinese men outnumber women by about 20%
Isn’t it kind of wild that the first two and the most prominent vampire stories are written by Irish authors (Sheridan La Fanu and Bram Stoker) and yet the vampire is not really considered Irish or connected to Ireland in any way?
@dullahkhan_
Apparently some social media sites (Facebook, namely) suspend accounts for calling out racism so using yt instead of white made it harder for algorithms to detect “anti-white racism” 🙄🙄🙄 Ludicrous reason but apparently it’s a thing
@YuckyTom
-want to explore potentially unsafe scenarios. Which is your right as long as your partner is also enthusiastic about playing in that space, and is able to draw their own boundaries and limits. Some people on the internet simply don’t understand playing with taboo huh?
@accidental_left
Conservatives and libs always seem to forget the “from each according to their ability” and focuse on the “scarier” “to each according to their need”.
@EmmaTolkin
Partition, Ain’t it Fun, Drunk in Love, Blank Space, Rather Be, Boom Clap… there were good songs but this list is way overcrowded with mid to trash songs
Many of these surgeries are genital and entirely aesthetic, to make the kids look “more normal” and “allow” the parents to assign them “boy” or “girl” “without complication”. There are some intersex conditions that are treated with hormones at young age. It is rarely adequately
Explained to the child what is happening to them, what will happen to them as a result, and the question of consent is entirely given to the parents. The thing that TERFs are afraid of DOES happen, but it is not transgender people or our allies perpetrating it, and we should ALL
Damn, this is still going 😅 it’s not super related to stopping the spread of ecofascist lies but check out my podcast, where I and other trans friends of mine talk about movies that are actually trans, and why:
@AskAQueerChick
It was more likely Pixar execs being like “we can’t have 90% of the speaking roles in this film be women! How will people care about these sentient feelings if they’re all lady feelings? Everyone knows only men get angry and scared!” but I also stan the genderqueer theory
Something that constantly astounds me about transition is how much easier it is to live inexpensively as a masculine person. It is objectively cheaper to live as a man, which is the other side of the wage gap that gets talked about far less.
@joffeorama
God I wish 2014/5 had ACTUALLY had a movement pushing for more ethical games journalism, instead of a targeted harassment campaign against about 5 women and 1 non-binary person who made cogent points about sexism 😓
They have their ideas about transness backwards. Instead of thinking “as a man, I can’t imagine wanting to be a woman” they should imagine and empathise with how trans men feel (and the inverse for cis women). Deciding to transition is taking OFF a disguise, not putting one on.
I was giving a talk to some medical students back when I was chair of the LGBT society, mostly covering things to be aware of when treating trans people like “trans women can get breast cancer” and “trans men are at higher risk for heart disease than cos women” and I had one