Highly recommend reading The Shock Doctrine. They never let a good crisis go to waste.

I’m trans in a red state so I’m certainly not in a privileged position. I still voted PSL. Your “harm reduction” wasn’t reducing harm for Gaza and I couldn’t vote for genocide to save my own ass. It was about being able to live with myself after the election.

Oh and would you look at that, there’s aid trucks entering Gaza and the bombing has stopped. I’m feeling pretty okay with my vote.

Eats insects, apparently.

There’s a lot of the world where we wouldn’t need to grow food if we didn’t waste so much land on growing animal feed. That’s why I brought up animal feed. We would need a hell of a lot less fertilizer if we stopped growing alfalfa in the desert etc. etc.

There are vegans who are against beekeeping. They don’t want bees living in artificial hives where they get gassed and their honey stolen and their limbs torn off etc. etc. No one is against bees just being allowed to live on a farm, side-by-side with us. That’s just nature! As long as beekeepers aren’t hurting the bees or stealing from them or invading their homes, it’s vegan.

Veganism is against animal exploitation. If bees just live in peace somewhere and pollinate the crops, no one is exploited.

It’s really funny watching capitalists try to squeeze blood from stone.

Straw man argument nobody said anything about growing industrial agriculture farm animals or alfalfa.

But you are? You’re implying that there isn’t enough good land to grow our food, but I’m saying that there might be if we stopped both wasting good land and wasting fertilizer on growing animal feed in the desert.

But maybe there isn’t. Maybe we absolutely need fertilizer.

Okay, let’s work with that. I’m not saying that animals have zero place in agriculture. No vegan would be against having friendly bee hives to pollinate flowers, as long as no beekeepers come around to gas them and steal their honey. Why can’t we do this with other animals? Learn to live in harmony with our animal neighbors so that their manure can fertilize our fields without killing anybody.

If we apply dialectics, the thesis and anti-thesis aren’t just in permanent harmony forever. There’s continuity and rupture - the contradiction is resolved through synthesis, creating something new with elements of the old (and creating new contradictions).

Since living is dying, we can’t live forever. In some hypothetical future where we end death we will also end life, creating a new state of being that contains elements of both while being a complete rupture from the previous contradiction. If we truly find a way to end things like ageing, disease, accidental dismemberment etc. etc. then we’ll have transcended life into some new state of being that contains elements of both.

At least, that’s my understanding of dialectics.

Cis women being harassed was always going to be the outcome of bathroom policing. It’s about policing women’s bodies.

Look I’m trying okay?

Okay, but then California becomes a smaller country bordering a much larger fascist neighbor with the largest military in the world.

In what world is that a good outcome?

And not everywhere is a good place to grow crops. 🙄

And before you say we don’t have enough good cropland, remember that we waste huge amounts of food feeding livestock. Does the amount of nutrient you get back from manure even make up for the nutrient loss from growing animal feed? We probably shouldn’t be growing alfalfa in the California desert.

Then there’s compost. If we composted everything we possibly can, rather than dumping food waste into landfills, we’d be able to reduce the amount of artificial fertilizer required to grow our crops.

There are options.

Naw, Grok is just mask-off.

Rivers are also a source of nutrients, actually. That’s why floodplains are so fertile and why they predate fertilization.

Someone needs to update the API specifically for this bit.

Trump’s nominee Russel Vought is talking about work requirements for Medicaid too. The Anglosphere is eating itself alive.

Can’t wait for AOC to vote “present” ✊

Inshallah

Fascists have an order of operations, they don’t just round up all their enemies at the same time. First they attack their greatest opposition, which in Israel’s case is the Palestinian resistance.

If they ever managed to crush the resistance they’d start going after the other enemies of the state.

Seems efficient and not at all stupid.

Yup, the melting of northern sea ice has destabilized the jet stream and is causing Arctic air to plunge deeper South at random.

Have fun!