I got a soda stream with glass bottles. You can make soda from fruit (lemons and oranges are especially delicious - plus I can control whatever sweetener I use). Also, if you really want cola, then you can get concentrated syrup so there's less plastic and liquid transport overall.
One American to another, we need to recognize that most of our country either voted for this or enabled it by not voting. Most if us either support this malicious behavior or are apathetic to it. Sure. If you take a poll, most Americans don't want the us to mess with Canada. But if people won't even vote, then how do you expect them to take up arms to save Canada?
It definitely is! But why? Such a weird little edit that makes the picture uncanny valley. An older tech filter would have been less weird even. There used to be one on Snapchat I used on my cats years ago that was hilarious.
Countries already have lax immigration laws for scientists. I immigrated to Europe and where I am scientists are fast tracked to the nice residency and aren't made to learn the local language.
Those specific types of leftists want accelerationism the us. They will encourage you not to vote even. They want trump because they think that Trump will crash the government and the US will either be crippled and unable to exert imperialism or the people will become so disenfranchised they'll experience class consciousness and there will be a glorious socialist revolution. What they don't realize is that companies will gobble up power and the US will become corporate feudalism that's even more awful on the global stage and few citizens will fight back as long as they feel personally safe and can eat.
The people related to immigrants are often voting constituents interested in their and their families rights if that's what you mean. Immigrant do have constitutional rights. For example, you can't just deny them freedom of speech or enslave them just because they're non citizens. That would be wild.
Non domesticated potatoes have high levels of toxic glycoalkaloids. Original potato recipes actually included clay to make them less toxic. I doubt these potatoes are toxic, but they may have been eaten with clay which people who aren't used to it would find unpalatable.
Alternatively, a lot of foods in their center of origin (the Andes for potatoes) have a lot of genetic diversity and can taste very different to the potatoes that have been hyper bred for flavor and shipped worldwide. There's some pretty awful tasting apples out there that are so astringent they make your mouth seize up.
Forcing a people to be part of your system against their wishes is subjugation. The Ukrainians wanted independence. They literally fought for it and lost. Excusing genocide because there was some bonus education is disgusting. Excusing imperialism because you like the perks makes you an imperialist.
Its honestly disgusting how much you try to explain away disproportionate grain quotas so much that you mass starve the very people producing your food and are conveniently also trying to subjugate as unintentional. I'm sure you have lovely things to say about the Irish potato famine as not being genocide too. It's only genocide when checks notes the imperialists I don't like do it.
Genocide doesn't have to be sophisticated, systematic, and performed with guns to be effective. I didn't compare this situation to the holocaust for a reason.
Intent is a wishy washy excuse when the reality is targeted death of a specific subjugated people. It's how everyone tries to weasel out of being accused of genocide. Israel doesn't want to kill all of the Palestinians. Its not their intent. They just want the land and mass Palestinian death is just an unintended side effect. If I roll my eyes any harder I'll lose them to the back of my head.
but lets look to Raphael Lemkin who is the one credited with coming up with the term genocide:
What I want to speak about is perhaps the classic example of Soviet genocide, its longest and broadest experiment in Russification — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation
Non intentional genocides and sad truths are lame excuses for an authoritarian regime that took away the autonomy of other nations and caused disproportional death of those they were trying to control.
Sweden made rapid advances in social welfare and programs under Olof. Sorry he didn't subjugate enough people for you to feel like it was good socialism. Enjoy the boot but be careful because it doesn't just stomp on the people you think deserve it.
My friend Ukrainian friends should be grateful the the USSR? Barf. Clever you never mention to holodomor. But i bet that is very conveniently not genocide for you. Maybe you should tell African countries to be grateful for their imperialism next since it brought them boarders and some modernization while you're at it.
Look, you accuse me of not reading. But you seem high on only reading the propaganda you've gobbled up. You're so biased it's invalidated most of what you'd consider an argument. Though its hard to consider it much if an argument when in this very thread you've contradict yourself and offer up fallacies left and right.
I'm not comparing Russia to the USSR. I'm saying that authoritarian capitalism never ended there.
Enjoy your personal cult flavor of imperialism while doing mental gymnastics to call it something else. When a government forceful controls others, its imperialism. Just because you think they were good imperialists doesn't mean they weren't imperialists.
Things can do good and still be bad. America helped fight the Nazis (and also paved the way at certain points in a few things you list including free education for children) and they're still bad. Thing can be better than other systems and still be bad. Capitalism was better than feudalism. I still don't want it. Also its laughable to say it fought hardest against imperialism. I dare you to tell that to many of the countries it used to control, both directly and indirectly, through military power. I dare you to tell that to a Ukrainian friend. Russia/USSR was/is still an imperial power that's caused a lot of harm.
Also, even doing all that, it was still authoritarian state own capitalism at best in the end. That's what you're defending as the bastion of lefty success?
Enjoy your bad logic and your boot. We don't see eye to eye.
AI comic?