THIS is why Portland’s still THE BEST.
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we put the meat on the pole
Gross
Yeah, it has an awful "animals are not products, but our dancers are" feel to it
Someone should tell them that's worse. They know that's worse, right?
: I can excuse human sexual exploitation, but I draw the line at the exploitation and killing of animals.
: You can excuse human sexual exploitation?
Wait, what's worse? For who? I'm not totally sure what you're saying here but as someone who has survived by doing sex work, who has been repeatedly sexually exploited*, and who has also been more than what I think most would just call exploited, I would not say that any of that was worse for me than being murdered on a factory farm. Can we just agree that exploitation and the objectification or commodification of sentient life is very bad and needs to be abolished?
*(Side note to make clear that sex work is not inherently exploitational either but that's a different ball of wax.)
Precisely what I was trying to get at, thank you for putting it into clearer words.
Friendly reminder that humans are animals too. Unnecessary exploitation of people is not vegan
A misogynist looks at a woman like she's a piece of meat. But what does a vegan misogynist look at her like? Hunk of tofu? Bean burrito?
Bad answers only.
well the one on the sign is seitan obviously 
A large bag of rice
Fantastic. This thread isn’t going to inevitably make me super uncomfortable at all.
All moral considerations aside, am I the only one who thinks it is weird to go to a strip club to eat?
I mean, what else is there to do?
ma'am please stop pointing your ass at my face, i'm trying to enjoy my jumbo mashed potatoes and corn
What's y'all's cognitive dissonance for not viewing the sex trade as inherently exploitative? What did Lenin, Castro, and Sankara have to say about it?
It's part of the western left cognitive dissonance. They reject the policies of every AES (actually existing socialist) state, refuse to understand or engage with them, and think that they know better. Pretty much every AES state has placed legal limits on sex work/prostitution and drugs, as well as other excesses and hedonistic behaviour. This was not done because of "authoritarianism", but because of the material conditions that occur during the long walk from capitalism to socialism,
For example, prostitution, pornography, and almost all recreational drugs are currently illegal in China today. Same with Vietnam. Same with Cuba. Same with Laos. Same with the DPRK. Literally every actually existing socialist state has policies restricting these activities, even those with socially progressive policies like Cuba.
Yeah I was 99.99999999999999999% sure this would be Portland https://casadiablo.com/
I wonder what it’s like there now, 15 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hShMEk1Ew
This city has way too many strip clubs and idk why. Is it a cultural thing, or does the city make it particularly easy to open one?
Pretty gross.
a lot of critics in the comments but this COULD be a sex worker owned co-op, just sayin', not necessarily a den of exploitation
i want to believe
I don't think it's owned by the workers, but it does seem like they set their own schedules (the dancers at least). Most only go on a few days a month.
Honestly it's not any worse than OnlyFans and it seems like a lot of them have those too.
As a vegan, I'm so not into this
I may be an Angel, but if opposites attract, I should have no problems with the demons
I'm so proud of half of y'all
o7
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