Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world

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Why does the universe need to be known?

What makes 'us' so special that the worth of a whole universe is determined by our existence, inspite of the brevity of human history? Written history has only been around for 5,000. The oldest homo sapiens has only been around for 300,000 years. Was the universe insignificant for the rest of its 13,799,700,000 years?

Tape doesn't always refer to adhesive backed banding.

Think of all the non-adhesive tapes in modern day, like measuring tape, plumbing tape, video tape, cassette tape, binding tape, bias tape, Velcro tape, caution tape, seam tape, magnetic tape, etc.

Not having consciousness might be the best thing that could happen to a universe. Just everything existing, without desire or suffering.

With a universe that peaceful, there might as well not be us.

Levels of whataboutism that would make conservatives proud. Truly quality Lemmy content.

Jesus Christ was a real person. That's not a religious belief, it's a historical claim based on multiple independent authors writing about this person in the 1st century BC.

Same with Siddartha Gautama and Muhammad. Atheism has no bearing on the existence of humans as religious figures, only on their divine nature.

Religion is not fiction. It's a man-made institution and system of beliefs and practices. It exists regardless if gods exist.

Excuse me, I think you mean their boundaries. One does not own their own boundaries in the presence of cats.

It's so easy to romanticize the 'violent overthrow of the ruling class' as if social collapse doesn't bring upon starvation, armed conflict, destitution, and mass instability.

Please stop with the armchair progressivism. The vast majority of American liberals aren't protecting the ruling class, they're working three jobs to feed a family for four while people like you treat them like a moral failure for making a realistic attempt against deep rooted conservatism.

How about you treat liberals like humans who have kids, family, and friends to think about, and not objects of sacrifice in your grandiose 'theories' that conveniently leaves out the mass casualties involved in the process?

Liberalism is a stepping stone to socialism.

You cannot institute change by expecting people to radically change their ideologies overnight. It happens bit by bit, through actionable steps, not condescension and anger.

Ask yourself this, do you truly want people to become more progressive, or do you just want to feel morally superior by yelling at people who don't meet your standards?

American liberals are just trying to do the bare minimum of fighting fascism, and even that is a monumental task. Political infighting in the American left only helps conservatives. By the time you are done yelling at liberals, there will no longer be a country that has any shot at adopting 'real leftist' ideologies.

The idea that eating IUDs causes pain is a myth and any frog who says otherwise is just being hysterical.

Are you a 'real leftist' who would rather attack liberals for not being not left enough before attacking conservatives?

Or are you a right wing plant here to sow political division among the American left?

Horseshoe theory strikes again.

The worst kind of misogyny isn't the kind that is easy to point out, it's the kind that is hard to explain to the person who said it without them feeling offended about it. It's the kind that you can't explain it to them without seeming petty, because one comment alone isn't a big deal, but it adds up over time and cuts just as deep.

No one is immune to implicit bias. Sometimes, even feminist men say things they don't mean in an attempt at humor. Women are putting up with this far more than you can imagine because you simply don't notice the emotional labor that goes into processing what they said and accepting that this is their best attempt at being an ally which is worth something in a time when there is far worse misogyny out there.

If you read the back of the bag of 'effort' it says 'Not included: access to quality education, parental availability, food security, stable environment, absence of abuse, and low ACE score.'

Fibromyalgia sufferer here. People have seriously said 'god made you like this for a reason' and I've never wanted to punch someone's face more.

I don't remember what painlessness feels like anymore. Sometimes I look at look at the ends of my hair because it doesn't have nerve endings, and that is the best reference for a body part that doesn't experience pain.

High rises give way to urban density and walkable neighborhoods. Any costs in maintenance is easily offset by freeing hundreds of people from the costs of car ownership, medical costs due to sedentary lifestyles in unwalkable suburbs, provide more affordable and accessible community funded childcare, better access to healthy foods than in food deserts enforced by zoning, and reduction in homelessness related crimes.

Nothing is more socially isolating than car-centric suburban hell where anyone too young or too old to drive are deemed ineligible to leave their house independently and participate in society. Nothing creates anti-social behavior like forcing homelessness and desperation onto people who cannot afford to live in cities that are lacking in affordable public housing.

Speaking as someone who has lived in both urban highrise public housing and suburban hells in different parts of the world, the most socially isolating experience by far has been living in car-depedent suburbs with piss poor public transit, especially as someone who cannot drive often. Every will eventually become disabled and cannot drive. It's just a matter of when. When that time comes, you better hope you can afford a retirement home or to have someone drive you, because if you can't, you're stuck right where you are. And that times sooner the less walking you find the time to do in a day.

High density housing bad and dystopian. Homelessness good. Now build more single family homes with lawns pls. /s

It's clear from the moment you called anti-natalism fascism that words don't mean anything to regressive fuckwits like you anymore.

How about you "go join q-anon and suck Charlie Kirk's decomposing dick while you tout your 'family values' and pump out kids with room temperature IQ."? See? I can also use words the same way you use 'fascism' to make a meaningless word salad.

Just because you can't handle valid criticism it doesn't make others fascist for calling you out. Go sit down and think of something original to write instead of copying everything I said with a flimsy ass 'no u'. Everything you deflect is just another projection of yours.

Lmao complaining about my reading comprehension when you confused 'sterilize' with 'euthanize' is a whole other level of hypocrisy.

Keeps complaining after claiming after you're 'done responding to this thread'.

Words just don't mean anything to you. You like to say whatever soothes your precious little ego and then backtrack when you get called out on it.

Can we cut it with the veganism bad boomer humor?

I'm not even vegetarian but this shit is getting old.

Removing humans? Again, shows how little you understand about anti-natalism. There is no 'removing humans' involved if they aren't born in the first place.

I love how you substituted 'sterilize' with 'euthanize' as if they were the same thing, and then claim that I was the one who didn't try to engage.

If you don't care to learn you should have said so earlier. Anti-intellectuallism, bad faith arguments, pronatalism, false attribution, deflection, and projection are all hallmarks of conservatism. Go and take your conversative shit somewhere else.

That's wild of you to think that not wanting kids is facism. Read up on the Cross of the Honour of the German Mother.

Anti-natalism is pro-working class because it goes against pronatalist ideologies. Working class women without affordable access to birth control are often trapped in a cycle of poverty, lack of higher education access, and financial dependency. Pronatalism is often presented under the guise of family values but actually aims to encourage the birth of more minimum wage workers and cannon fodder for the military industrial complex.

I'm not the one advocating the Great Man theory here, I'm merely emphasizing the ridiculous of your claim that one can only improve the world by birthing kids and raising them to do good. You don't have to birth kids to do that, just fuckin do it yourself.

Your arguments are not written in good faith because to go as far as claiming that anti-natalism is facist shows how little you care to learn about the topic. You don't actually care about anti-natalism, you care about being called out because you can't emotionally handle the idea of being wrong.