Fat Acceptance Movement / Fat Girlcows

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Falcon Sebben said:
How could $50K pay for everything they need? It's beyond crazy and part of me is hoping that the people that have actually looked at this have said, "Yeah, try $50 million if they honestly want this to work" and that's why they're not throwing money at these people.
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The 50k is a fundraiser to get things ready for their actual fundraising kickstarter later down the line and to try and get venture capital if you look at their timeline.

Basically you're paying her wage for a year to do research on possibly opening the spa.
 
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Thomas Eugene Paris said:
Apologies, but does "flexible goal" mean that Ash et al. get to keep whatever money they raise even if they don't meet their stated $50,000 goal?
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Yep thats how Ash works.
Falcon Sebben said:
How could $50K pay for everything they need? It's beyond crazy and part of me is hoping that the people that have actually looked at this have said, "Yeah, try $50 million if they honestly want this to work" and that's why they're not throwing money at these people.
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It is to get $50k to show investors there is interest and maybe get a business advisor its not to do anything but line their pockets.
 
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Yaks said:
The 50k is a fundraiser to get things ready for their actual fundraising kickstarter later down the line and to try and get venture capital if you look at their timeline.

Basically you're paying her wage for a year to do research on possibly opening the spa.
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Yeah, Laura Burns needs to prove that there is genuine demand for and interest in this project, and figured that getting a large number of donors to her crowdfunding campaign would help. This initial round of crowdfunding is only meant to gauge interest, and provide enough funding to keep the project alive and moving forward.

In the Zoom call posted earlier in this thread, Burns says that while she's looking for investors, she expects much of the money for land purchase and construction to come from corporate donations—big corporations have deep pockets, and do have lots of money earmarked for donation to DEI-related causes. But, wahat she didn't say, is that the Appalachian isn't set up as a non-profit, which means those corporate gibs won't be tax deductible, so until she pays attorneys to successfully get her through that process, she has no chance of getting any of that money.

She also needs to come up with a detailed plan for the project, that proves she knows what she's doing and that has some grounding in reality—which she doesn't, on either count. She'll need to hire experts to help her prove its feasibility, write that plan, and create funding proposals, but, given the underwhelming response to her crowdfunding attempt so far, that's not going to happen.
 
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Yaks said:
The 50k is a fundraiser to get things ready for their actual fundraising kickstarter later down the line and to try and get venture capital if you look at their timeline.

Basically you're paying her wage for a year to do research on possibly opening the spa.
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I wish I had a job that essentially paid me a huge amount of money to effectively do nothing and just pretend like I'm doing something.
 
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LonesomeDud said:
While I appreciate the director's vision, I feel this short film has been sorely miscast.
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That's kind of funny, because the Tweet I stole it from said it was Power Rangers re-imagined by Netflix.
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Brye is such a weird case because she does legitimately have an eating disorder background and she is trying to get better, so I understand her exploring that through her music, and the value it brings to people experiencing the same struggle.
...but then she turns around and posts shit like this.

Fucking hell, Brye.

Meanwhile in Marissaland.



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That looks legitimately painful.
How awful.
 
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davids877 said:
Good news everyone, being unhealthy has nothing to do with weight.
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Posted, of course, by someone who has been disabled due to her weight for many years.
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Ha ha ha. Tell them you’ll leave if they persist talking about your weight and eating habits…then leave. Training people to stay out of your personal business in this way, is the way to ensure you never get invited anywhere, and that the people who actually care enough about you to have the tough conversations, will just walk away from you for good. What a fucking tosser.

As for “there’s no health issue that happens to fat people that doesn’t happen to thin people” I’ll beg to differ. Obesity and Morbid Obesity only happen to fat people, and that is deemed a chronic disease, so that definitely makes it a health issue of fat fucks. Once thin people become obese, they are no longer thin people, they are fat people.
 
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I call shenanigans said:
As for “there’s no health issue that happens to fat people that doesn’t happen to thin people” I’ll beg to differ. Obesity and Morbid Obesity only happen to fat people, and that is deemed a chronic disease, so that definitely makes it a health issue of fat fucks. Once thin people become obese, they are no longer thin people, they are fat people.
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I find interesting that while they says that no health issues happens to fat people, they asked to be considered disabled and in need of accommodation. Which one is it?
 
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glass_houses said:
I'm actually wondering if this is from a country where leblouh is a thing.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Africans tend to be into the larger ladies so it's evolved into a practice in a lot of places where they force feed young women to plump them up.

But that video? OMG! It's almost enough to make me want to vomit.

davids877 said:
Good news everyone, being unhealthy has nothing to do with weight.
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And there is a small amount of truth to it. Being overweight doesn't mean you're unhealthy just like being thin doesn't mean you are.

But there's a difference being a woman in your 50's and weighing 175 pounds when you're only 5'3" and being 35, weighing 500 pounds and insisting that you're healthy.

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I find interesting that while they says that no health issues happens to fat people, they asked to be considered disabled and in need of accommodation. Which one is it?
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Yeah but they never say those things at the same time so they don't count.
 
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Turd Fergusson said:
I find interesting that while they says that no health issues happens to fat people, they asked to be considered disabled and in need of accommodation. Which one is it?
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You cut the quote off. They say that all the health issues that happen to fat people also can happen to thin people. Mind you let’s not look at the statistics of how much more prevalent those health issues are in the fat population. As long as one thin person has T2D, that means it’s not an obesity commorbity. Same with sleep apnoea, CHF, NAFLD, PCOS, the list goes on.
 
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Well, sure. Anyone can get cirrhosis of the liver. It just happens to happen in alcoholics that drink a ton of alcohol. Anyone can become a different gender, it just happens that it happens to mentally ill weirdos with victim complexes.

Fat happens, guys! That it happens to happen to people who eat too much food is irrelevant.
 
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