The Twilight Researcher

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danidrawssquids
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needsmorebirds
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redarcanacustom

Read Debord.

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Vox actually did a pretty nice article about it, and in case you were wondering what charities it is supposed to be benefiting

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https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/30/18043054/ben-jerrys-political-pecan-resist

futureimagineer843

Ben and Jerry’s isn’t making an empty advertising gesture. They company has supported Bernie Sanders, and made an ice cream flavor to raise awareness of global warming. They run progressive news stories on their websites and social media. They pay their workers a living wage. Even their brownies are sourced from a company that specializes in hiring people out of jail to help them get their lives back on track. They’re open supporters of socialism. I understand the idea of “no ethical consumption” but Ben and Jerry’s isn’t just adopting a political message for nothing.

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They’re a registered benefit corporation, and they publish a third-party Social and Environmental Assessment Report every year to be completely transparent about how they’ve been doing business and impacting the world. Ben and Jerry’s has been speaking up about Global Warming, Civil Rights, Environmental Justice, and LGBTQ Issues for literally decades, far before other companies realized they could pretend to be progressive to rake in more customers.

It’s totally fine if you don’t want to buy their ice cream, but it’s important to me as someone who has spent the last three months researching and writing about Ben and Jerry’s to state that these sentiments aren’t hollow, and your money goes towards fair trade farmers, environmentally sustainable dairy farms, and, yes, legit charities that are trying to improve the world.


TL;DR: Ben and Jerry’s is really awesome, and one of the few companies genuine in their progressive sentiments

chirasul
avi-burton-writing

every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me

quarter0master

May I add something, because I will never shut up about this book (Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark):

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Verbs are your volume (said, shouted, shrieked), but adverbs change the pitch (gruffly, hoarsely, delightedly). 

twilightresearcher

Sound advice

needsmorebirds
thehighpriestofreverseracism

Friendly reminder that the intro to Lion King….the non english bits leading up to the “circle of life” is not random yelling in *Africa voice* it is an actual language, Zulu, spoken by 10 million people, it is the most widely spoken language (out of 11) in the country of South Africa (1 out of the 54 countries in the continent of Africa, the continent home  to somewhere between 1500-2000 languages and around 3000 distinct ethnic groups)

this isn’t to say that you have to friggin learn the language to sing along with a disney film, it just means that you should be mindful, respectful, appreciative and respectful. don’t be yelling out whatever noise comes in to your head when you hear it

melancholic-pie

Ok but someone knows what does this say?

thehighpriestofreverseracism

The lyrics before the english comes in…in “circle of life”

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion]

Nants ingonyama bagithi baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it’s a lion]
Ingonyama [It’s a lion]

Siyo Nqoba [We’re going to conquer]

Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place] (repeats)

[queue English lyrics]


I would like to further add that language has there own cultural nuances so something that can sound extremely meaningful in one languages may not sound as majestic when translated to another (I know this as someone who has an understanding of 5 languages and speaks 3 of them fluently) so if you are thinking “oh it ain’t that deep they are just yelling: the lion is coming!” dial it back

saintbanglesthegazelle

Worth noting that “lion” and especially the word Ingonyama is a very respectful word to talk about a Zulu king, especially in praise. It’s so heavily associated with royalty in isiZulu that a different word is used for an animal lion - Ibhubesi. This isn’t just announcing the arrival of an animal, it’s celebrating the arrival (or coronation?) of the king

thehighpriestofreverseracism

/\ Whoop, I didn’t know this

beyoncescock

This is so informative thank you so much