i've fucking had it. you guys collectively need to stop spreading misinfo wrt the boycott /&/ putting virtue signaling in your arguments. using a source that obfuscates its authors/credibility and is unsupported by BDS makes the collective argument to boycott HARDER!!!! 🧵
1. MOUNTAIN DEW IS NOT ON THE BDS BOYCOTT LIST. PEPSICO IS NOT ON THE BDS BOYCOTT LIST.
bds "[focuses] boycotts on a small number of companies and products for maximum impact." several threads have phrased it as though bds is targeting mtd or pepsico. PLEASE USE THE /BDS SITE/
☝🤓erm actually the line is from final fantasy xiv: stormblood. the phrase "my first friend, my enemy" is from hamilton and was a direct reference made by the localizers, but a. hamilton (hamilton) (2015) never said farewell in the same breath, so this is actually an ffxiv quote
when you are boycotting under bds, you are targeting the SPECIFIC COMPANIES listed, not their parent and sister companies. the point of a boycott, and especially BDS, is to TARGET SPECIFIC COMPANIES FOR "CLEAR AND DIRECT" IMPACT.
guys if we’re going to warn people about the ffxiv collab it should be less about mountain dew’s owner (see below graphic) and more about puma being on the rewards 😭
pepsico’s stocks are worth noting but they also own So Much so mtdew isn’t actually a boycott item
in the last months we've had several graphics, apps (No! Thanks), websites ( in op) and threads encourage boycotting large corporations AND their products. this is both unsupported by BDS /and/ ineffective to an actual protest, ESPECIALLY with pepsico
when you try to extend the boycott of sabra and sodastream out to the entirety of pepsico, you dilute the effectiveness of those boycotts. pepsico won't notice that money is SPECIFICALLY NOT GOING to targeted israeli companies. it'll see it's just losing money overall
1b. PUMAA!!!!!! IS ON THE BDS BOYCOTT LIST.
if you are going to boycott the collab to support BDS, you NEED to target /puma/, whose products are included in the potential rewards. puma is /still/ on the BDS list. you need to be boycotting /THOSE/ REWARDS.
ANY site which tells you to "boycott" large corporations like pepsico takes away from the boycott. pepsico is a MASSIVE corporation that owns hundreds of products on an /international/ scale (this link str8 up says mexico)
pepsico has shares in and has bought smaller israeli companies such as sabra and sodastream BECAUSE of this. but the smaller brands directly addressed in BDS are the ones you should actually be boycotting: sabra and sodastream. NOT pepsico. NOT pepsico's other owned companies
this means: if you want to participate in the collab, that's /fine/. but you Need to go out of your way to avoid buying the puma x ffxiv clothes, and you Need to be vocal about puma's inclusion in the collab. NOT pepsico or their products, who are not economically connected
2. THIS COLLABORATION IS NOT A PSY-OP TO SUPPORT ISRAEL.
yes, this collaboration is exclusive to the US region. it is not to con US players into giving israel money. remember that the primary brand is mountain dew, which is NOT an israeli-owned company.
and you CAN'T attribute that solely to them being in support of israeli. there are many other reasons why people would not buy non-israeli-owned brand products under pepsico (the fact that it's a huge corporation alone is one reason!)
so you HAVE to target the specific companies
3. WHERE ARE WE EVEN GETTING OUR SOURCES FROM???
no, i'm serious. this is the THIRD thread i've seeen which cites . if we want to efficiently support BDS, we need to be looking into our sources and their credibility.
friends who have looked further into The Witness UK with me have found genuinely questionable matter. there are no sources or names associated with the newspaper, and its associated twitter account @/WitnessNewsUK follows both Israeli and openly antisemitic accounts
i know that twitter is not a place for nuance and communication here is fleeting, but when people tend to take tweets at face value and don't look further (lord knows i do it all the time), we risk rapidfire spreading misinformation like this. we can't keep rehashing these errors
the simple rationale for the collaboration is so mountain dew and ffxiv make more money now and in the future. mountain dew specifically seeks out games to collaborate. this is literally part of an established marketing program. it's not bc of israel.
i could see money possibly going towards puma if those rewards were redeemed, but i am not studying econ and that is conjecture. either way, the majority of the money is going to mountain dew and ffxiv.
please instead focus your efforts and your research towards websites and associations supported by BDS, including BDS themselves. we are in a harrowing age of misinformation, and maintaining awareness during an international boycott is /critical/.
The Witness appears to be no older than july 2023, when its first article as well as its twitter account was created. this source, which is connected to the boycott site, but has no actual authors or credibility, is genuinely concerning. stop citing it.
4. stop using fallacies and pathos rhetoric to convince people to boycott. stop using ad populum (if you're as supportive and trying to be vigilant as op, boycott and spread awareness) to trip people into boycotting a collaboration with non-credible information.
the contention about pepsico's involvement has led to a rehashing of issues seen last fall when large, impossible boycott graphics were spread on Twitter. we've even assumed an ethnocentrist take about the "true" motives of the collaboration itself. this HARMS the BDS movement.
this harms the specificity and directness of BDS. this HARMS your ability to support palestine liberation and to disrupt israeli occupation. /please/ be careful with the information you spread, the sources you cite, and how you phrase your campaigns to boycott.
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@hyolks
for an au/idea i had with terukane and they really said terukane rights !!! 。:゚(⌯˃̶᷄ ﹏ ˂̶᷄⌯=)゚:。
i'm still basically speechless, thank you /so/ much !!!!
genuinely if you boycott the collab you are trying to target the six fucking puma clothes being offered in the collab for likely tens of usd, not mountain dew or pepsico itself
Just wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS (p8s was harder in 6.20) on the ABYSSOS: THE EIGHTH CIRCLE (SAVAGE) (it was harder in august) CLEAR. I know you've been working really hard (p8s used to be harder) at it, and I'm happy that you've (p8s used to be harder) achieved your goal of co
What is it with twitter lesbians and never putting the effort into sapphic work then raging when people suggest actually making the content they’re seeking? Open up google docs and get to work mamas.
Finally finished this comic!! Took me a while, but it was SUCH a bizarre incident that I just HAD draw it out~
I Learned so much about comic making in the process!!
This actually happened at LAX before I took off to FE >.>
#furryart
#furryartwork
#furry
#ComicArt
#comic
oh even better there is an actual website maintained by them showing how much they own or share stocks in. avoiding buying excess is good for various reasons but you cannot actually boycott pepsico
@delanohealy
hi i'm also a transboy! which is neat! but please don't use that to preface this.
i'd like to say:
- pronouns aren't gendered
- he/him lesbians exist + are valid
- while there are things that harm the lgbt and specific trans community today, neopronouns aren't one of those!
you+
they're the youngest of our enemies of the state group AND the rgb color scheme i don't see why they can't interact 🥺
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#RWBY
— ruby rose, whitley schnee, oscar pine (rp shenanigans edition)
what if we were both teens in chalcedony and marcavilla and we were both from the hit series rwby. what then
[ 🜁 🜃 ] ( anamnese — whitley schnee and oscar pine )
@ATARTSHORIZON_
not even doing recolors when i’ve seen people do that shit in the ts4cc commu and immediately put it up for free is so fucking funny. we need to recirculate the guides on ts4 vanilla ports rn
the fruit of 1 hour and 45 minutes:
the law meme, but with maplestory 1 classes/class leaders
(arranged as cygnus knights/explorers or misc/heroes/resistance/grandis)
hiiii in light of recent announcements i just wanted to say i'm going to retcon any interaction whitley has had with winter in the verge!! please don't reference any past events to my portrayal, thanks guys
OH MY GOD HE'S HOME !!!!!!!!!!!! ;;; thank you
@asteraws
for the charm + drawing, i'm So happy the package came !!
(+ pic with some other charms/pins because if i didn't put it on immediately i'd have lost it)
you can’t even escape misogyny even when you think you’re winning over it. this isn’t a case of nuance lost in a 240-character tweet on the worst site for critical discussion, this is a cheap insult that highlights your actual mindset
@BiNetUSA
@JayneBShea
- Can we see proof that he disagreed?
- Is a license on the flag that affects /everyone/ not going to make money off of LGBTQ, or specifically in this case bi creators who use the flag for their work?
- Are you not asking a bi creator for license fees right now?
dawntrail
even though it’s intended as a parent-child tease, when she calls him her clever mallard, he asks her not to call him that, but he lets her call him by his other name. he very much had the opportunity to tell her to call him by a different name and did not all of msq
dawntrail
she told him he could travel with her when he found it, not that he could come back once he did. and not only does he come back, he was already planning to come back before he actually got dragged into the rite and found the city. stop
happy candy night !!!1 or halloween, sure
i went to school (ballet soon, too) as pit kid icarus!! it was really cold esp at 6 am (jacket) and mom n i had to make a lot of substitutions but im very happy overall✨
oh right while i'm speaking like i'm doing announcements hi hi! anam whitley is dropping he/him pronouns since my portrayal of her is now a she/her trans girl! i won't ask you to edit past posts with pronouns but i do request any posts from now onward use she/her only. ty!! 💙💙
hiii for the evening crew did you know anamnese verge is a discord mfrp with four free slots that allow your muse to grow alongside canons and ocs in an open fantasy setting? it includes monthly updates and expansive events and might only be open until tomorrow's inbox !!!! 🙀 🔺
started moving. had a breakdown. held hands with my bf (platonic). bone appetite
[ 💙❄️ ] anamnese verge — whitley schnee, oscar pine (rank 4 fighting in marcavilla edition)
will be a bit /serious here when i was a kid i never expected i would get this far age-wise let alone really have anything good to say about the months leading up to it but i will say the last months of being 18 have been some of the darkest and most shining moments so far
#anamartists
[twirls hair] haha, hii! i'm lucent 💜 the story here is that redrawing lucius as the "how to make jorts" video broke my artblock and it's only gone up from there! i'm in love with vibrant colors, contrasts and foils, redesigned outfits, and above all else, my gf 💞
feeling brave time to cross post non-rp related doodles on twitter for once (redraw / unfinished sketch of a sundress flavors)
[❄️☀️] whitley schnee —
#RWBY
#RWBYFanart
let hamilton being on disney+ remind you all that people have the option of making theater and live performances more accessible to mass audiences; it’s the elitism ingrained into the art and a capitalistic desire for profit that prevents that
okay. hardblock me if you're defending august (@/hyperballistic) or adri (@/cybershoujo). i don't have anything new to add except i'm incredibly angry and disappointed today at learning this information twice in several days and i don't have any tolerance for it happening again
millions will never genuinely see these performances for a variety of reasons—this, alongside every company that chose to stream live performances for a limited time on youtube, is an example of how easily we could make art accessible to them, and how we choose not to on a whim
“machinations is a horrible track” “the voice actors are horrible” “i hate (character) and i hope they phase them out like (past character)” it sucks! it really sucks! theres criticism and then theres things like this and its just demoralizing always seeing it on my feed
💙for the sake of my whole tl here's a lu goes through ffxiv msq thread! i'm just now starting this bc i'm restarting msq on my aether main expect i'll get through the story a lot faster than on my crystal main.
( but also bc it's funny w whitley's wol )
wait wait help me while i'm doing homework if you like this post i'll give you a fact about anamnese fugo and if i somehow run out you can have another anam lu muse fact 💕❤️ (art @/erikensa!!)