Too bad about the bok choy, but this aloe in the picture is looking grea… GOOD LORD!

He doesn’t need to imo, these things have plenty of inertia right now. It wouldn’t take a lot to get Americans fighting even harder against eachother than we are now even.

I think the only reason states have not truly waged war on each other is that we are part of a union. That’s just my opinion, but many states would simply begin to fail without the feds redistributing wages from states that have good industry and gdp.

Once they don’t get, they will start to try to take, and that fire would spread faster than it could be put out. Again all imo. But us Americans are “a bit shit” to eachother already, to borrow a British phrase.

Yeah, fair point.

The level of hyperbole in this thread is incredible. I can’t imagine getting this geeked over something this trivial. People are still talking about horse armor in this thread, it’s like referencing Leroy Jenkins, I can tell when you stopped paying attention to games. Like, it’s OK to move on too, but major “Stop having fun!” energy here.

Sealarious! Paint me in any outgroup you want. Sea lions always try to prove they aren’t with more sea lioning.

You sneaky little dumpling, you won’t get me with that!

My favorite part about watching you talk to people is how you just ignore the parts you don’t wanna talk about, I honestly love it!

They censor by closing off, ya’ll censor with aggressive modding of dissenting opinions, ya’ll are both the same. I’m surprised both instances don’t get along more.

Yes, world blue magas weirdos are just as closed off and strange as ya’ll, that’s true!

We’re all trapped in the zoo, my friend. The illusion is that none of us are caged.

Lmao, did I get you so bad with that last one you quit for the day to prove me wrong? You are replying to a modded comment, proves my point internally, which is all I need.

Or maybe ya’ll just mod off the word everyone calls you based on how you think and act online, for me it’s asshole, for you it’s tankies. Ya’ll just hate the label but don’t realize how much everyone has you clocked because of the small, highly censored, walled garden. ML is a tankie zoo.

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Honestly the only difference between the quibbling you do with language and those blue maga weirdos on world is that you rep a different politics.

The chronically online weirdos on world don’t like the chronically online weirdos on ml. They are both chronically online weirdos and I try to view these really active communities or names I recognize like a zoo. These people are throwing shit at eachother for our amusement. Keep it separate.

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I know this is the argument people think is the most compelling. But in reality, this is not hitting with the electorate. Calling him weird was much more effective. Even post Jan 6th!

Trump bad, Trump fascist, for some reason that’s preaching to the choir; the urgency is already felt with the people who are gonna feel it. The campaign could realize this, and could pivot and focus entirely on abortion and economy, because they won’t touch the war. But Kamala is currently stumping with Republicans on a “Trump Bad” ticket. Fuck the Cheneys.

Basically Trump = fascist, even if true, is ineffective, and is losing the election as Trump picks up immigration votes from minorities and protest votes from Muslims.

That’s not the definition of a strawman. We can discuss this philosophy from outside of it. That’s a thing that’s ok to do!

But you did construct a strawman which I addressed. Anecdotally the bit about pets for vegans being “companions” came directly from the person who posted the initial thread calling out rookie (which by the way, rookie seems like kinda of a jerk and probably shouldn’t be making decisions like these).

An animal is incapable of providing any consent, they are incapable of understanding the ethical choices a vegan may make, or the reasons behind it. The fact that instead of many viable alternatives, they selfishly choosing to keep an animal that would need to have those choices made for them is an ethical problem in their own philosophy.

These vegans choose to keep a cute kitty or puppy, even old and sick kitties and puppies are cute and rewarding, for selfish reasons. If you truly need to keep an animal, keep a vegan pet. Then you don’t need to participate in the food system, and a non-vegan pet owner can provide for the animal best suited to their lifestyle.

Like there is an understanding that engaging in the meat industry, even on the fringes, perpetuates that industry hurting animals. The same is true for pets, even good pet owners engage and support a system where by animals are exploited and hurt, even if it’s not THEIR animal. I don’t see why this is so hard, honestly.