Here's another good example of this type of Mental Environmentalism crap:
So, The Kid I've been looking after has barely any clothes in decent condition, so I took him shopping today to start getting him a wardrobe together.
He didn't really know where to buy clothes, or what the difference was. I just shrugged and said "There's no difference. It's all made in third world sweatshops anyway." In the end I said we'd just walk around the shopping district and try the different places we came across.
We were in a store called 'Cotton On' that seemed to sell stuff for young people. I don't really know or care about such chains, they're a dime a dozen, but it seemed a safer bet after going to 'Jay Jays' and seeing 'Rocko's Modern Life' and 'Rick and Morty' T-Shirts everywhere. We left quickly, with me saying: "Here's a life tip: don't dress like a Loser."
It was a stinking hot day my end, and I'd been working hard shoveling gravel all morning, and then had to run him around after lunch, and I was thinking to myself as he tried on clothes that I should really get us hydrated somewhere. That's when I noticed a fridge by the counter, containing bottles of water.
I looked closer: they had no brand. They were just labelled in that 'Apple Aspirational Style' I loathe - bright primary colours, stupid large font, simple art - that suggests less a cool, technological future and more a Dick Bruna book for twenty-somethings.
The label: "Saving the world is thirsty work."
I rolled my eyes. Fuck off: they'd be selling cheaply-made clothes from countries known for their cheap labour whilst virtue signalling that they care.
On the counter was a television screen, on it, a constant display of what I saw at Centrelink last week - what I think of the McDonaldization of Immigration. It's the same sort of feelgood imagery, warm natural light and quick cutting of smiles and intimacy McDonalds uses when it's trying to pretend that Weekend Dad takes Junior you to McDonalds because he loves you so much and this is about building lasting memories, rather than he can't be arsed cooking, and your slut mother is costing him a fortune in alimony anyway. It's just the smiles are now Sub-Saharan. Note that it's the same crap style you see in Oprah's Globalist Propaganda Efforts.
When The Kid came out of the change room, I said we'd try somewhere else. He was alright with that, he said the clothes didn't look great when he tried them on. "It's like they're cut wrong." I explained that cuts have varied greatly ever since every chain and department store started globalising their production of their clothes in the mid-to-late 90's, so you always have to try
everything on, because, well, I guess sometimes people being paid cents per hour don't care if they cut across the bolt of fabric so the clothes end up stretching sideways.
Everything was globalised, and it made everything bad quality. Hell, I remember you when you could buy socks in your exact size in any department store.
Note that The Kid has the perfect male model frame: tall and rake thin, and the clothes still didn't fit correctly.
I spent 30 minutes or so wondering about this tonight, so did some research into the CEO, Peter Johnson, who came from the (((banking))) world, and the rest of the board.
I immediately noticed the combined Female Creep / Male Gayface Soy vibe of everyone involved. There's no-one there I'd trust around a Kid.
http://cottonongroup.com.au/our-leaders/
And good thing too, because they were selling children's clothing that was highly-flammable a few years ago.
All their clothes are designed in Australia, and, as expected, outsourced to poor shitholes across the world to exploit their third world economies. Meanwhile, the company signals their commitment to Ethics and Sustainability and all the other Reform Judaism Buzzwords that are about being
seen to be doing the right thing whilst, being frank, always fucking people over for profit, such as the death of 1100 people in a garment factory in Bangladesh.
They have a whole stupid section on 'Sustainability' on their website:
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As a global retailer, we know our responsibility goes far beyond just selling clothes. We’re determined to use our business to have a positive impact on people, communities and the planet.
Reform Judaism again.
Or they could just shut up and sell your cheaply-made, shitty clothes without pretending they're doing anything other than exploiting these people.
They even have their own foundation.
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The Cotton On Foundation is the Cotton On Group’s philanthropic arm, dedicated to empowering youth globally.
Those that don't burn to death wearing their flammable sleepwear, I guess.
Now, do you see how predictable this is, that, knowing they were Mental Environmentalists selling Reform Judaism / Globalist Propaganda that their foundation would be
Youth Focused, particularly
third world youth.
Notice I said before that I didn't 'trust' any of the faces on that board of directors to want to leave a kid around them.
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We believe that quality education is critical to ending extreme global poverty. Today, approximately 59 million primary aged children are not currently attending school worldwide. This is a statistic we’re doing everything we can to change. We work directly with communities in need, delivering quality education projects in Southern Uganda, South Africa, Thailand and Australia. Throughout the work of the Cotton On Foundation we educate our customers and team members on our mission; to create 20,000 educational places by the year 2020.
I looked into Tim Diamond, Cotton On's Foundation Head. Here he is doing the standard "I am the sun around which black people orbit" picture beloved of Virtue-Signaling Leftists, from a puff piece from the Huffington Post.
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The aim is to mobilise entire communities across the Foundation’s four pillars of Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure and Sustainability –...delivering on the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.
No surprise there either, which just left one obvious link that I just knew i'd find, even before I looked.
From 2013:
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AFTER working in Africa for the good of so many highly disadvantaged communities, Australian architect Ross Langdon and his heavily pregnant girlfriend Elif Yavuz made a decision for themselves and for the health of their unborn child.
Mr Langdon, 33, and Ms Yavuz, a Harvard PhD who worked to help battle malarial disease on the continent, travelled from Uganda to Nairobi, because they believed there was "no safer place" in Africa to have their baby, which was due in weeks.
It was a simple decision that unwittingly intertwined their fates with those of hundreds of innocent people in a mall where days of gunfire and lobbed grenades would leave 69 people dead.
The couple were among the slain, their unborn child, due in two weeks, also lost in the assault but not included in the official toll.
White Leftists Fantasy meets Harsh Reality again.
This is where it gets predictably-interesting.
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Just one day earlier, Mr Langdon had phoned colleague Tim Diamond, with whom he was designing an HIV clinic in Uganda, to talk giddily about how "beautiful and amazing" his partner had become at the end of her pregnancy.
In February, Mr Langdon travelled to Mannya in southeastern Uganda to present the master plan for an HIV Education Centre and Health Clinic to Uganda's President, Yoweri Museveni. He was due to turn the first sod after the birth of his child.
Mr Diamond, Cotton On Foundation's general manager, underwrote the project.
"He was telling me about how this child was one of the best things to have happened," Mr Diamond said of the phone call with Mr Langdon three days ago.
Why a HIV Clinic?
Who exactly is Cotton On working with in Africa?
A statement by the Clintons:
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"We were shocked and terribly saddened to learn of the death of Elif Yavuz in the senseless attacks in Nairobi.
"Elif devoted her life to helping others, particularly people in developing countries suffering from malaria and HIV/AIDS.
"She had originally worked with our Health Access Initiative during her doctoral studies, and we were so pleased that she had recently rejoined us as a senior vaccines researcher based in Tanzania.
"Elif was brilliant, dedicated, and deeply admired by her colleagues, who will miss her terribly. On behalf of the entire Clinton Foundation, we send our heartfelt condolences and prayers to Elif’s family and her many friends throughout the world."
Sure, maybe it's just people dying in a violent country, but given how people around the Clintons and their Foundation of the Damned have a habit of dying violently, I wonder what exactly this couple might have found about
how exactly the Foundation worked with Children.
Predictably, Cotton On has some
interesting products aimed at children, as well as something for 40 year old creeps:
https://cottonon.com/AU/search/?q=pizza&lang=en_AU
There's also a shirt I saw in there today saying "Wanna Pizza Me?"
Know exactly what your dollar is supporting. They're also Factorie, Supre, Typo, T-Bar & Free (Tween Apparel).