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        We let the few dominate and exploit the many. Our relationship with nature is refelective of our relationship with ourself.

        But the cultural focuson domination and exploitation is not biological. It’s not in our nature. The potential to dominate is. But so is the potential of cooperation and mutual aid.

        Let’s try to rethink our society and behaviour to nature and each other and aim for the latter. For all our sake.

        #GoogleBookchin

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        That’s what billionaires who are exploiting the planet and the people want you to believe. They want you to think you are the problem. But if that were true, you could also fix it. Can you? No. Can the billionaires? YES.

        They are the fucking monsters! Leeching off of others and giving nothing back. Fucking parasites that need to die in order to save the planet. Humans can live in peace with nature and have been for eons, until capitalism took rise.

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          Those billionaires didn’t portal into this world from another reality. Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

          I’d guess fewer than 1/3 of people are “good” (even after being educated). The rest are just dangerously intelligent animals.

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            Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

            Power corrupts. Our mistake is allowing power to be concentrated.

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            Food is not some luxury. People need to eat. If they don’t eat fish they will eat something else.

            You are implying that farming is more sustainable, but it’s not. Over farming, over fishing, over anything is bad. And the only reason it happens is billionaire greed.

            Stop blaming people who are barely making ends meet, living wage to wage and buying whatever food they can afford.

            Most people can’t afford to think about this kind of shit, but rich folk can.

            Go kill a billionaire and make the world a better place for everyone.

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          I’ll admit that I am not clean, but I’ll also say that this is a consumerist framing which is benefitting might and machine. We are all sinners in one shape or another under the machine because we rely on the machine.

          We live under planned economies governed by the eternal hunger of the machine. They sell us shit on stick through advertisements, media control and machine collaboration.

          We loken these monstrocities through the dissolvement of the machine through making oppositional societies that by grounds embrace the meaningful, and being opposed to might and machine.

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            How about you just try to minimise the hold the machine has on you instead of ranting poetically? And don’t start with the old ‘no ethical consumption under capitalism’ because you don’t need to actively make the world a worse place by choosing the most destructive means of consumption available to you.

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              Ranting poetically is how we change the world, mate. Its called getting the message accross instead of using language that only highly educated people understands.

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              I tried to go vegan once. Didnt go well. Probably easy for you, but I couldnt do it. Probably sais something about how pathetic I am as a human being.

              Thanks, I feel like shit now.

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      Slightly?

      As the dominant species we should take better care of the world.

      But, I guess shareholder value is more important.

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        This is your daily reminder to carry a knife with you. Or a multitool, a Leatherman would do the trick.

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          Yeah, I’ll be 30 meters deep in a trawling net half a kilometer long, manoeuver my way past the piling realize to the outer boundary, reach into my pocket and start sawing my way through inch thick reinforced cord until I make a hole big enough to wriggle through and swim to safety!

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            If you are 30 meters deep in the open ocean without a diving suit, diving knife (presumably sharpened), and an oxygen tank, idk what to tell you — don’t do that in the first place?

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              I mean 30 meters laterally. End of net, 30 meters of fish & marine mammals & whatever else is caught in the net, me in the middle several meters from the edges, incoming tons of marine life to pack on top.

              Honestly, having oxygen would make the terror of a prolonged death worse.

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                I don’t think this would play out the way you’re thinking. Regardless of the incorrect perception of the 30 meter depth, you would still need to be considerably deep to get caught in one of these nets. Again, if you’re there without any tools and you’re that deep, fuck man the only thing I can say is do not do that lol. There’s a reason saws are very common on a variety of vessels, ocean or otherwise. Divers are definitely trained to carry cutting tools on them, I know I was taught to carry a dive knife and wire cutters — to be honest a saw doesn’t sound ridiculous.

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    @A404 As an American, I can’t understand any of these measurements without Statues of Liberty, football fields, or hamburgers