No. Killing and hurting animals is not bad for humans. Rather, killing and hurting animals with improper methods and ethics will invariably encourage harmful outcomes. These outcomes will not manifest with even distribution across humanity, other animals, and other life forms. It’s sad you are so disconnected from reality that you are so confident making infantile statements that are easily dismissed. You may as well start a religion that condemns the climate itself instead of addressing the causes and dangers of climate change.

And while I’m here I’ll just add … stop separating humanity from the rest of the biosphere so casually. Are you so arrogant to believe other life forms are blameless or even without ethics? Vegans treat “animals” the same way Mormons treat Indigenous Peoples as “Lamanites” that are simultaneously purer than but still lessor than and in need of “salvation.” You use other life forms as tokens just as all colonial religions do.

Stop making imperialists out to be bumbling fools. Are you Venezuelan? Why don’t you risk YOUR life, why don’t I risk MINE, and we both stop worrying about Latam? It’s always some other calf on the alter while we typetypetype online as if there are no stakes for us.

Why did you leave out the Yemeni death toll? Probably because Venezuelans have nothing to worry about, right?

Honestly it makes me so fucking depressed when I hear people saying something as fundamentally disconnected from reality, something so needless and unthinking, something so flavorless and insipid as even ironically implying Gates is one of the “better” ones, that “as a person” he may be fine and that no one is “defending him.”

Doom is certainly not our inevitable future but it is where we are going given our direction. Perpetual deterioration is its own doom. Drowning in discourse is its own doom.

I don’t believe people actually think we are fucked. I don’t think they believe we are doomed. No one even knows what that means. I think denial is far more palpable than any other sentiment. And I would say helplessness is more potent than doom as well. People that understand the problem are drowned out by denial, not doom. Far too many still hold faith in traditional avenues for me to believe doomerism is anything but disingenuous.

My issue with the fantasy (civil war/ww3) is that it can not mean anything positive. These are ungrounded fantastic scenarios where we can’t hope to take a meaningful victory. We can only hope to continue our cause and protect our communities to the degree we can prepare and organize ourselves.

My faith is shaken. I wouldn’t involve myself with a big tent unless I wanted to torture myself further. I don’t care about the interests of imperial parasites and those are the ones that are protected by a big tent. We need to take our gloves off.

We have stopped believing in self criticism.

Exactly! And things are only getting more dire. I remember at one point years back it became taboo to even discuss his wealth.

I don’t know but your question does add to my skepticism of what streamers, even the less toxic and ostensibly revolutionary ones, are actually doing for us. Discourse feels so hopeless right now. A lot of people are in denial about the severity of what’s happening and when I see folks caught up in streamer drama it makes me feel a deep sense of impending doom.

The opportunity cost is that we waste time on streamers, corporate discourses, and it often centers imperial actions instead of the futures we actually need to figure out how to make. But I agree that if we are going to basically give people pacifiers that they should had least not be laced with poison.

I agree. I am just skeptical of the whole streaming complex. I’m skeptical you can really learn revolutionary things primarily from a screen and even though we know there has to be more there often isn’t. But in the meantime I suppose it doesn’t salt the soil the way the neo fascists obviously can.

Something about autism

I stay away from relationship and health advice because it is usually nonsense.

Honestly I’m fine with it. I need people to tell the truth about who they are. Most of the time this is done with sanctimonious grandstanding on one caliber or another. Yesteryear it was crocodile tears for children they never cared about. Now it’s pearl clutching about nationalism for their beloved empire, or at least their understanding of it.

At least I can rest assured that I’m not just paranoid about what is happening in the world. That is an invaluable gift.

Deeply unserious people are dangerous to me and I’m not going to allow that. I’m not going to disrespect myself by silencing my gut. I’ve been trained my entire life to sense ableism because it is the only way to ever be safe. Make yourself clear and known. If you are going to use autism in that way, what choice do I have than to see you as an unserious agitator? No games. I don’t care what you think is “autistic” only that you know autistic people aren’t going to tolerate being in danger. Either admit you don’t have any respect for autistic people or their experiences so we can all draw lines and hash out what happens next. Or, move and speak with serious intentions and make known that eugenicists and ableists are your sworn enemies and that the cause of destroying ableism is a cause you are deeply enfranchised in.

I’ve been permabanned since the oct 7 thing happened and voiced my opinions to some zionists. I’ve been frothing at the mouth ever since. I like it here and have been here since well before, but there are few opportunities to insult the zionists and I greatly desire to do so.

Not sure really why anyone cares about Hasan at all. You can’t be led by the mouth if you don’t keep a horse bit.

It makes it hard to say Trump is following the law and the Dems are just Trump haters when he literally said he was an authoritarian live on TV. =)

This is embarrassingly and radically false. It remains just as easy as it always was. Have we learned even a single thing in the last 10 years?

Capitalism isn’t what’s crashing out the United States, it’s these fucking monopolies and mergers.

Incoherent slop

I agree. I never want to hear it and more than anything I definitely don’t want to hear it as a joke. There is no safety with someone whose ontology can hold the meaning of that word.

But likewise I resent those who would refrain from saying the r-word but would express and enforce ableism regardless. If I ever use that word it would be in private to make their ableism more clear and ironically shock such people out of their ableist stupor. But even this is just a discursive risk that I would never advocate for such a tactic in good conscience.

This seems exhausting and pointless at best and sheer bigotry otherwise.