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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I would also like to add another perspective.

    I think its important to bear in mind that there are plenty of examples of animal rights and environmental organisations that have been the target of harrasment campaigns bankrolled by corporate and political interests.

    I’m not suggesting this is what happened here. I think we have to scrutinize any possible conspiracy – I really want to make that clear. If you look through the other comments, there’s a lot to delve through here.

    But I would suggest bearing in mind that smear campaigns aimed at cultivating a kind of political nihilism is something that does happen.

    The best you can do, if you care about these causes, is to continue to support them in whatever ways you can.

    In my opinion, all animals deserve a hell of a lot better than this.













  • I recall having a conversation with a transphobe and it coming down to me going, ‘I just don’t understand why you want to be cruel to trans people.’ He tried to brush it off but it was obvious that he was simply trying to dress up his bigotry with pseudointellectual bs.

    That, and the tried and true, “I’m just concerned about women in women’s spaces. Post transition women commit the same number of crimes as men.”

    Where did you read this? Can you show me what crimes they commit? Who did the study?

    “Oh I can’t remember this now, can’t we have a debate about this.”

    That’s when I realised that this was pointless. Because, for him, this was just a game. That the rights of trans people were something we could “intellectually” parse out. All while actual, real world people are being harassed, discriminated against and killed.

    Fuck that shit. And fuck that guy.