Congratulations my guy

Because you won’t do anything to hurt their bottom line, basically.

Stop eating at Taco Bell and make your own damn tacos at home. Better yet, go buy some from a family-owned taco truck instead.

Mosquitos. Also bedbugs. Any insect that feeds on blood really

That would either be fire or a smoldering pile of shit.

I remember reading that when I was little; it was so fire :D

They don’t make those little golden books for kids anymore, do they?

Three Body Problem/ Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest goodness

I wonder what it would take to completely erase the practice from the human condition.

Then we need a PR campaign to motivate adults to break out of the spiral of fear they’ve fallen into.

Make Halloween a left or a right wing thing. Frame it in terms that celebrating Halloween follows and honors the values of each political tribe, and not celebrating it violates those core values.

Age limitation on trick-or-treaters is an inherently fascist concept and will be trashed when the revolution happens.

Isn’t slavery universally panned, though?

“I accept your right to be what you want to be and don’t care about it anymore. I am sorry for all of the damage I caused by getting so invested in an issue that has nothing to do with me.”

People regain the ability to agree to disagree, and stop hating each other over political issues.

Almost everything in society.

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Oh Jesus Christ 🤦

No, Karen, someone telling you no, we actually are making the choice to live this way is not evidence that we are addicts and have no agency. It’s evidence that we do.

But it is not surprising at all you would flat-out disrespect the very same people you’re trying to justify stripping of their autonomy because the truth is, you’re just a fatphobic authoritarian and for people like you, one of your core principles is a lack of respect for other people’s rights, boundaries and choices.

Because if I wasn’t an addict, I would not still be eating donuts and drinking Cokes, right?

It couldn’t possibly be a personal choice or anything.

The world is black and white and only sane people do the correct things and anyone who deviates from that is defective – a drug addict, mentally ill – and therefore needs their choices made for them by others to live the correct lifestyle.

And fuck our rights. Fuck our autonomy. Fuck our happiness.

Those numbers on the surgeon general’s charts need to come down and you don’t give a fuck who you have to trample over to make that happen.

That is you and how you think, and it is why obese people like myself just dismiss you, and go back to drinking Cokes and eating donuts. Those of us who are foolish enough to listen to you are the ones who suffer self-esteem problems. Those who aren’t just laugh you off, or shake their heads at witnessing the further degradation of lack of respect for human rights you are putting wildly on display right now.

So, until you’re willing to accept what I tell you at face value because I am the authority on my own choices and not you, there’s no point in furthering this discussion.

You need to dominate and assert control over other people and you’ll prove it by taking the last word like you desperately need to, so go ahead. I’m not gonna waste any more time with you.

I’m literally obese and you don’t want to listen? That’s 100% a you problem. Go look for a real addict to save.

I disagree with the assumption.

And I am an obese person who is telling you your beliefs are not true, and to no surprise to anyone, here you are not listening and instead choosing to override my authority on the subject and you trying to impose your will on me to protect your cherished personal worldview in the face of the truth.

An enabler demonstrating for all of us this is only about you and your need to have someone to save to feel needed, to the extent you are denying fully grown adults the respect of their personal experiences and their own agency as human beings? Well, knock me over with a feather.

And it’s not insulin insensitivity, it’s insulin resistance, and you know what stops that? Choosing to cut out sugar. Know how I know that? Because diabetes runs in my family and that’s exactly what I did earlier in the year.

You know how it is people do that? By being open and honest about their own choices and exercising their own agency, which you don’t allow people to do because you wouldn’t feel needed without invalids to care for.

And who cares if your behavior is making the problem worse? That’s not a bug for you, that’s a feature.

It’s wrong to deny obese people agency or to stop others from holding them responsible for their choices and the consequences.

That’s exactly what does NOT help people.

What does help people is openly saying they are the ones making the choice about their own bodies and, most importantly, respecting the fact that they’re making that choice instead of infantilizing obese people by labeling them drug addicts.

The only way we lose the weight permanently is either a drastic lifestyle change usually spurred by tragedy or hormone altering drugs like Ozempic, which themselves become something obese people become dependent on.

And that is true because we choose to live this way.

If you would like to give us the right vocabulary so that we can speak about it with you please I will use your vocabulary.

Here’s the right thing to say:

“I respect your choices and your right to live as you please.”

And that’s all. Stop talking about it and accept them as they are, and stop trying to manipulate other people by equating us with drug addicts.

It’s not even anyone’s business whether someone is obese or not anyway so the whole discussion is moot.

I’m gonna assume you’re here in good faith and I hope you don’t prove that assumption wrong.

Don’t get me wrong, I know all about the ins and outs of the biochemistry of the matter. I lost 20 pounds eating Mediterranean earlier in the year and it has been coming back because I went back to eating my favorite foods. It is 100% the added sugars in the processed food that put on weight for me, and I give not one single fuck, because I am honest enough to come out and say that I chose obesity because I simply wasn’t happy restricting the foods I eat.

I eat what I want to eat and I just so happen to like donuts and Coke. And it’s as simple as that, not just for me but for everyone else who lives this way. Eating junk food isn’t an addiction, it’s a lifestyle choice.

Much of our happiness in life comes from the food we eat and I simply wasn’t happy drinking nothing but water and the occasional wine and swallowing down stale Pita bread. I just don’t like that kind of food.

Some Mediterranean food (and I use the Mediterranean diet as my de jure example because that’s what I did as opposed to keto) is good but nothing beats a Coke once in a while. And I am very particular about which kind of Coke I drink, because I don’t drink it out of some addiction, I drink it for taste and because it is what I like.

And the sooner enabling assholes like the ones insinuating that eating sugar is akin to drug addiction shut the fuck up and stop muddying the waters so everyone else can be honest about the fact that they’re the same way, the better off we’ll be.

That’s my perspective on the situation and I believe it is the correct one.

I am pretty some people here have been addicted to cocaine (truly no judgement, I hope you are sober now), so what say you?

Cocaine is completely different than sugar in every conceivable way and I have NO fucking idea how the hell everyone got it in their heads that the two are comparable. They simply are not.

Then you should not speak for those of us who actually are obese and for whom this discussion is relevant, should you?

Think before you open your mouth. I do it before I swallow down a Coke; you can do it before arrogantly presuming to speak for a situation that is not even yours.

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