Akje Majdanek

When something's so visible even I can see it, there's something wrong. So there's no hiding it anymore; emaciation is becoming trendy in a big way. I'm seeing people's bones in photos and videos, and it strikes me as class related. Like the billionaires who can afford Ozempic are body shaming the rest of us who can't afford weight drugs or healthcare or healthy food, so the only way the poor can lose weight is the old school method: starvation, thinspo, Skinnytok thinfluencers, pro-ana/pro-mia Tumblr, etc. Gotta get that heroin chic body! (-᷅_-᷄๑)

Argh.

Yeah, eating disorders are back. (⊙.⊙(-̶●̃ₒ●̶̃)⊙.⊙)

Seriously, wtf are we doing, people.

Been pondering late stage capitalism lately. But does America even have capitalism anymore? Under capitalism, companies compete by improving their products and services while lowering costs to remain competitive. What we have in America now is a handful of multinationals buying up all their competition so the consumers have no choice but to purchase from them─there is no competition anymore. We just have a collection of monopolies. Products and services degrade as a result, while prices increase for the consumer so the executives can make a larger profit for themselves.

We need to make it illegal for any entity to own more than one business or company. These corporations shouldn't be allowed to diversify the way they do. The consumer suffers because of it. If only we had a government of the people, by the people and for the people, that looks out for the flipping people... (ง︡'-'︠)ง