His dad Ron was the same. Huge racist asshole, AND, horrifically often the lone voice of common sense when the bipartisan consensus passed shitty unconstitutional legislation.

Yeah, it’s a funny thing. When you fire 1500 FBI agents because the previous administration assigned them to investigate your crimes and you’re mad at them for not refusing, you bully hundreds more into quitting, and then you make it clear to the survivors they’ll be fired if the results of their investigations don’t support your political agenda… Well, the officers who stick around aren’t the most competent, that’s all.

But Lord, if there’s anything that highlights the hypocrisy of the gun-fellating right, the fact they claim to be these he man gun owners but are so unfamiliar with how a bullet is supposed to look that they claimed a manufacturer’s marks were trans propaganda…

Weird you post this criticism to attack veganism. Food is one of the most decentralized aspects of life. You’re not wrong that a member of the billionaire caste can pump out ten thousand times more CO2 than you, but it can’t actually, physically, eat more animals than you.

Your impact on the lives of animals is the same as Elon Musk’s. The stomach is the great equalizer.

One of the most underappreciated things about posting on the internet is that the most factual treatment gets the best response

Lol. They have strong feelings about what they type, they want to emphasize the strength of their feelings, and they believe ALL CAPS is SHOUTING ONLINE. No mental derangement required.

I think that, in left-wing spaces, profanity fills a similar need. It shows you care so much about your topic that you can’t or won’t follow traditional rules of civility, that you aren’t being polished and professional but you’re speaking from the heart about how you really feel instead. Conservatives think using profanity makes you look bad (they don’t consider racial slurs profane, of course) so they inject emotion into their text in other ways. Eg CAPS LOCK.

I was looking for people who were at that point of being educated about a cause, but weighed it it less then those benefits of popularity and continued on in the capitalist consumerist system. Then maybe something else pushed those scales to the other side and they chose to join the cause. What was that experience? Was it having a child? Was it an experience with death, spiritual experience, revelation, drug trip, etc. I guess that’s the question.

I think education about a cause is a continuum, not a binary. When I changed from popular lifeways to less popular ones, it wasn’t because of a road to Damascus moment that made me suddenly change my mind. It was because, as I gradually learned more about a particular topic, I ultimately reached tipping point and decided the perceived benefits of switching to the less popular option outweighed the benefits of sticking with the popular option.

(And I’m using benefits in the broadest sense - being able to feel good about myself for doing the right thing is a benefit that outweighs mere physical or financial gain in a lot of cases.)

The other major factor in my switching, when I think back on it, was the capitalist alternative getting worse. I quit using Google’s search engine, for example, both because I learned more about online privacy and because Google’s searches were providing increasingly shitty results.

All the things you list are things people choose for other reasons than just “winning”.

People choose to be socialists because it’s morally right, not because it’s popular.

People choose Linux and open source software because it benefits them, not because it’s popular.

People choose veganism because it’s morally right and it benefits them, not because it’s popular.

When you say capitalist options offer “a better value” - that’s where you’re making a mistake. These alternatives do benefit people, individually, no matter how few other people join in. And that’s why people join them.

So if you want to motivate people to join a movement, show how it’ll benefit them to join - physically, emotionally, financially, or spiritually.

I gotta wonder: how many leftist Jews would need to immigrate to Israel to kick Netanyahu out?

Sanders literally founded a third party. The Vermont Progressive Party. Which currently has six members in the Vermont State House and Senate, and is, as it happens, not controlled by oligarchs.

Sanders literally did what this meme condemns him for not doing.

I don’t agree with all his positions, but Christ. Do better, OP.

I mean, can you imagine having to pull a straight face when Mr. Jones, the 60-year-old barber-cum-snake oil salesman presents you his fresh 12-year-old bride?!

Back in the 1950s, singer Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin. The media did not keep a straight face. It was technically legal but still trashed his reputation for decades.

This is such a weird complaint to me. Because I follow solarpunk stuff on Tumblr, and when solarpunk artists draw cities and buildings they often show the people who live and work in them. Because buildings are habitat for people, and if you’re not showing the community that inhabits the building, your habitat is incomplete. For example.

Or this collection of solarpunk art I just came across, which is roughly 90% humans front and center.

That solarpunky yogurt commercial from a few years back, which that thread mentions as an example? Is set on a farm. And shows a dozen people working on the farm. I mean, it literally shows a farm worker wiping the sweat from her brow.

The AI generated images of giant green skyscrapers, and the empty airport garden in Singapore, and so on, which I can only guess is what the OP is thinking of, are more green capitalism than solarpunk.

So my answer to “what percent of solarpunk art shows the people that live and work in it” is “pretty fucking high”, tbh.

https://lemmy.ml/post/33042520