archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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If it's free then throwing it out costs nothing though, right? Or are you talking about the cost of the state subsidy?

Wouldn't it be cheaper to the state to subsidize a plant-based diet instead?

Lol, ok so you're including labor cost?

A couple years of a dear 'gathering nutrients', vs a summer of cultivating a garden and harvesting? Or do I need to include the energy expenditure (energy ingested by the dear minus energy lost to biological processes, vs solar energy collected minus energy expended on building plant mass and energy expended in harvest)?

I was really just pointing out the absurdity of your complaint about the study but you're making this into a fun little digression.

or who catches, raises, or hunts their own.

How does catching, raising, or hunting meat compare to planting or gathering their own plant-based food?

Or how does 'free or subsidized meat' compare with free or subsidized plant based food?

It isn't just that libs will find another reason to complain about protests after the election, it's that libs won't care anymore because they already got what they wanted.

You protest during election cycles because that's when policy is being negotiated. You don't go on a labor strike after the union has signed the contract, you go on strike to get them to agree to concessions while the contract is being negotiated

Lmao. Supplying arms to israel while they are currently using them for genocide is participating in genocide.

Kamala Harris says she does not support withholding lethal aid to Israel

No but I can hear them say "we will"

"May not" meaning, definitely will and currently is? Lol fuck off already

Lol "You can just tell"

"Sure, participating in a genocide is bad, but the other candidate would participate more"

Jesus christ.

If one candidate said they'd kill the jews, but the other said they'd just send them to camps (to appease that popular fascist voter), liberals would end up voting to send the jews to concentration camps.

This is how liberals end up siding with fascism

If only those long term health impacts were limited to the people who were deciding their livelihood was more important.

Well, they both make bubbles, so....

It's ridiculous how many times I've had to quote this recently.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

I'm not calling you transpbobic, I'm calling your rhetoric transphobic apilogia. Trans rights 'not being popular' is not a valid reason against defending trans rights. It's not simply a matter of legislation: by avoiding the topic it gives legitimacy to its controversial nature that was completely manufactured to begin with. The longer it goes unchallenged the more states will continue passing anti-trans legislation and further disenfranchise

You're not helping by telling people to shut up about it, you're making things way worse.

Lmao you think Bernie Sanders, AOC or Ilhan Omar are representative of the democratic party? Sanders was quite famously fucked by the party (twice), and Ilhan Omar is currently getting fucked, too. AOC is only barely more friendly with the party, but not until after she walked back her open support for Palestinan liberation and did a livestream with a Zionist AIPAC rep to explain why Israel has a right to defend itself.

The democratic party relies on the support of capitalist and reactionary interests. It's why they fund primary challenges to progressive congressmen and their extremist reactionary opponents. They're happy to include progressives in their caucus as long as they maintain their ability to govern with a center-right lean.

Yes, open support by a politician for your right to exist alienates part of the electorate even on the Democrat’s side, open your eyes buddy, the trans right cause is controversial!

Trans rights aren't up for debate you spineless chud. How could anyone suggest the democrats are a left-wing party (or expect 'progress') if the democrats can't even acknowledge that trans people have the right to exist? Why should anyone vote for them if they abandon civil liberties as soon as they become politically inconvenient?

Fuck off with your transphobic apologia. Democrats can fuck off, too, if they think they can abandon minority rights in exchange for political power.

cater the minority of the 1% of the population that is tens and doesn’t understand that open support for their cause might lead to a Republican instead

I'm sorry, their ""cause""? Is "we have a right to exist" the 'cause' you consider to be the thing alienating 'a big part of the electorate'?

Why are you here? Go back to reddit, jesus christ.

New Trump voters go back to Trump: dems fault for alienating them (or worse, progressives fault for pushing dems to be progressive)

Progressive voters staying home or voting green: progressive voters fault for not being ethically flexible

This is why leftists acknowledge liberals as being adversarial, bud. Dems aren't interested in progress, they're interested in maintaining their centrist consensus.

If democrats didn't utilize this electoral 'strategy', maybe we wouldn't have been taking steps backwards on women's and LGBTQ rights.

If democrats can't run on protecting minorities, and they can't pass popular legislation (after they've won because they didn't run on protecting minorities) because of congressional posturing, then maybe their electoral strategy is broken.