kleenbhole @ kleenbhole @lemy.lol

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I just don't know why we're not making better legislation about single-use plastics rather than just arbitrarily banning plastic straws. It's so weird. One fucking turtle video. This isn't even picking low hanging fruit, this is legislators picking an apple off the ground and holding it up like they harvested a whole crop.

Meanwhile, I'm getting served a paper straw in a plastic cup with a plastic lid, neither of which I can recycle because it has food residue, and there are no public recycling bins anywhere anyway, and even if there were we don't recycle that plastic in my district we just dump it directly from the recycling center to the landfill. That's lip service, not progress. I'm throwing away garbage cans full of plastic every week without scrutiny, but the package of plastic straws that would have lasted me years is the focus of attention? Not biodegradable plastic? Not reusable packaging? Not paper packaging for consumer goods? Not analyzing the weight savings in fuel vs the increased weight of reusable packaging made of wood, glass, metal, cardboard, etc? No, just choose the smallest thing possible that still feels conspicuous enough for voters to think progress is still happening. With Amazon orders I'm throwing away as much bubble wrap these days as a retail store.

The topic is so big that any real progress is beyond the capabilities of our current government. The Democrats can't generate political will, the Republicans are obstructionist, and both sides simply report to their corporate overlords anyway. The only levers progressives can pull are hoping that enough moralizing, intersectionality, and virtue-signalling will offset overconsumption. It's the plenary indulgences of capitalism--we can still wastefully overconsume if we only buy fair trade products made out of recycled materials made by a diverse indegenous non-hierarchical employee owned collective of secular humanist queer amputees with developmental disabilities who donate a percentage of profits to protecting charismatic megafauna in developing nations. I can't even afford regular groceries, fuck that.

This is the logic I use to defend Jonathan Majors

Wikipedia isn't without bias, either.

I have no evidence that he does

South Park

Second season was nearly unwatchable

clearly not

Also, I'm never looking for a fight. I'm looking for people to say "yes sir" and do what I say

Regarding public safety restrictions? Or are you just making the mistake that anything the EU does is progress that we will catch up to eventually?

Fearmongering ain't freedom. This is America. We don't trade freedom for safety like bitch ass Europeans, we ride rockets like bucking broncos for fun. Life is cheap, freedom is priceless.

But genuinely, sometimes the EU is just overly cautious. And in the case of the point I was making, again, just because the EU made a regulatory decision doesn't mean they were right to do so.

You can't use MOST of our candy flavorings in the EU. Do you genuinely think our candy is poisoning just because it's artificial, or is that just the naturalistic fallacy talkin

Just because the EU does something first doesn't mean they were right to

No, I got called other words. Not banning them either. The R word is our word.

I don't buy into the concept of hate speech.

Lol, being shitty to religion is VERY needed.

And yes, you are straw-manning. You are arguing against a point nobody made. Which is you arguing with yourself.

No such thing as "deserve". You get what you can.

Also, yeah man, every weak animal gets preyed upon. It's not a tragedy. I say grind up the homeless and feed them to vegans.

So?

Why is faggot censored?

did I say anywhere that I think religion is why we're tribal?

did I? or are you fighting a straw man right now?

What if I told you all of nature was a system where if you lack resources you die.

hierarchies and competition and the weak dying off while the strong oppress them...thats all a feature not a bug