I am with you when it comes to industrialized animal farming. The companies that run that show value profit over the treatment of the animals, and that really doesn't feel right to me. I don't support like the idea of industrialized agriculture either, though I do see its merits. The whole system for how a lot of people get their food is kinda messed up right now.
I actually bought a chunk of land a year or so ago, and have been working on turning into a permaculture food-forest. Hopefully I'll be able to supply my community with an alternative here in a few years, and encourage my neighbors to do the same.
I also very much agree with you that it is nearly impossible to change someone's opinion about something on the internet. Ya never know though, sometimes it just takes being exposed to an idea enough times in a positive light for someone to dig into it themselves.
I never understood "bloodmouth". Like, who is out here eating animals while they still have blood in them? The butchering process includes bleeding the animal out; there ain't no blood when it gets to the table.
Also, I think its less about the name that is being used, and the fact that you're intent is shame someone using the name. Name calling is what children do, and acting like a child doesn't often earn respect. If the vegan movement wanted to ever get global traction, they'd have to actually respect the people they are trying to convert.
Same problem with a lot of Christians trying to convert people. A lot of Christians just do not have respect for secular people, and try to shame them into converting. Makes a bad rap for Christians and Vegans both :/
I don't think intellectually challenged individuals deserve cruelty, nor do I believe anyone does. However, this is the first argument that popped into my head, and I want to genuinely discuss this. Again, I do NOT agree that the intellectually challenged are deserving of discrimination. This is for the purpose of discussion.
If being intellectually challenged isn't worthy of discrimination, why feel insulted when called retarded?
Ya wtf is up with eevery Meme sublemmy just being politics? That shit should STAY in a politics sublemmy. I don't go to Memes to be sad and angry, I go to Memes to ESCAPE and ENJOY myself.
I had such hope for Lemmy, but its just a cesspool of hateful extremists with a handful of people trying to genuinely enjoy themselves.
Either they were always in on it(because the DNC and GOP have the same investments), they were bribed with the coming oil money from this whole venture, or they were threatened.
Regardless, they should all be fired for not representing the interests of the party. The actual party, not their corpo handlers.
I have no faith in the justice of the USA anymore. His whole base could turn against him and he'd wiggle his way out of any punishment the same way he has before as acting president. Immunity.
Just RUNNING for second term had courts dropping cases from him.
There are too many people in power that want him in power for anything to happen. Even if all those people are on the list, which duh of course they are, those people have enough influence that they could feasibly keep power.
One, they aren't fantasy units— this is real life, son.
Two, the country was built on imperial, so the trades use imperial to maintain the country. Everyone in the US grows up learning in imperial, and then learns metric when they get into physics and chemistry.
Three, I addressed the fact that WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO SWITCH. It does not matter if it is going to be more expensive in the future. We can't afford it NOW.
I understand the spirit of your reply. This is just the reality of what having 50 different states, who can't agree on anything and are loosely tied together by an over-arching government, is like.
There are 27 counties in the European Union, and they are filled with reasonable people in government(for the most part).
We have 50 states that are filled with greedy little assholes who will do everything in their power to gain more power to leverage in a bid to destroy what they deem "the enemy", so they can make even more money and gain more power.
We are never going to convert wholesale to metric. We can't even agree, as a country, that poor people are people, at a government scale. That is entirely motivated by profit and nothing more.
Everytime I see one of these posts I have to make the same comment.
The US is metric, everywhere that it matters. In the military, in the medical field, and in the scientific field.
The ONLY reason we haven't converted every other part of our lives to metric is that our country is 50 times the size of the average European country. Do you know how expensive it would be to replace the infrastructure we've built and maintained over the past 200 years? The tax payers could not handle that burden, and it would require every state to agree to the terms of the change for a total conversion.
At this point, it is just part of our identity. It would be like asking the French to eat day old bread. They could, but why?
Right? The two words used in the bible that are translated, by tradition, into "carpenter" actually translate as "craftsman" and "builder".
Jesus helped build houses, which at the time and in that region were made of stone. So there is some strong evidence that Jesus was a stone mason. To back that up, a lot of his parables used house-building as an aid.
We can't know for sure, but yeah! Kinda neat, huh?
Hmm, that's interesting. I can't find that definition for fascism anywhere, but I'm not going to dismiss it just because a few dictionaries don't align perfectly. I'll do some digging and see if I can find the historical context and first-use cases.
I am curious what parts of China are your friends from? I mostly hang out with people from Sichuan, with one friend from a village called Urumqi(I have no idea where that is though). China is a big place, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a different regard for the government region-to-region.
That is such a shoddy argument. Communism leads to fascism, we have examples. Socialism leads to fascism, we have examples. Monarchy leads to fascism, we have examples. ALL political schemes can lead to fascism, and it has everything to do with the pursuit of power by a few and very little to do with the system of governance itself. Of course Capitalism can lead to fascism; where ever there is fair compromise to be exploited there will be an opportunity for fascism.
Also, I didn't see any other replies to my comment. Unless you think I'm going to stalk the person I replied to and nag them to reply to me directly, I don't think that counts :/
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I am with you when it comes to industrialized animal farming. The companies that run that show value profit over the treatment of the animals, and that really doesn't feel right to me. I don't support like the idea of industrialized agriculture either, though I do see its merits. The whole system for how a lot of people get their food is kinda messed up right now.
I actually bought a chunk of land a year or so ago, and have been working on turning into a permaculture food-forest. Hopefully I'll be able to supply my community with an alternative here in a few years, and encourage my neighbors to do the same.
I also very much agree with you that it is nearly impossible to change someone's opinion about something on the internet. Ya never know though, sometimes it just takes being exposed to an idea enough times in a positive light for someone to dig into it themselves.