axont [she/her, comrade/them]

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  • I hear stuff like this so often as a vegan. I get asked why I don’t wear leather, since the animal was already killed for its meat, so I might as well make use of its skin. Just yesterday I got asked why I won’t consume dairy because “the cows like being milked. It hurts the cow if they’re not milked.”

    God forbid I try my best to reduce animal suffering. I know it’s not going to amount to a lot if I’m just an individual making consumer decisions, which is why I don’t treat veganism like that. It’s not a diet or a clothing style, it’s a demand for the end of animal suffering. And to that end I’ll try my best even if it makes my life personally difficult or annoying.

    The only way I’ve been able to explain veganism to carnists is to ask them if they’d eat a dead baby, or wear their dead mother’s skin. But even that’s not very effective. I don’t know how to explain that animals are living beings who deserve life and dignity, same as humans. Because part of the problem I run into is needing to explain that humans deserve life and dignity. It’s hard explaining to a typical American carnist that cows shouldn’t be forcefully bred or used as a milk production factory when the same person believes homeless people all deserve to die.


  • The greatest measurable increase in life expectancy and quality of life happened in China during the second half of the 20th century, during which it developed from backwater feudalism to centrally planned socialism.

    The greatest measurable reduction in life expectancy and quality of life occured in former Soviet countries in the 1990s, where they devolved from centrally planned socialism to internationally financed capitalism.


  • This is why liberals claim capitalism isn’t a specific material circumstance, but an abstract set of values, or simply when trade exists. They want to make it seem like capitalism is an intractable part of human existence that’s existed for as long as we have. One time I was talking to a guy who didn’t seem to be joking who told me capitalism began when the universe did, because chemicals trade electrons.



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    9 months ago

    ???

    25 years ago the Democrats won the election against Bush and then Gore gave up. They personally handed the presidency over to the republicans. Democrats like to lose even when they win. Then 21 years ago the Dems ran on a platform of “we’ll kill Muslims more efficiently than the Republicans.”

    Democrats don’t want to win. Their primary purpose is to prevent a left from existing.

    Also don’t forget Nancy Pelosi’s statement about the country needing a “strong republican party” last year. These people are ghouls and aren’t to be trusted.








  • He hasn’t stopped being one of Israel’s staunchest supporters. Cory Booker voted to approve Trump’s nomination for CIA head, John Ratcliffe, a former US house representative. Ratcliffe has also been one of Israel’s staunchest allies, such as supporting Israeli strikes on Iranian territory. Booker also voted to confirm Marco Rubio, Trump’s appointee to Secretary of State. Why can’t you see this? Booker is a snake and can’t be trusted if this is how he conducts himself.

    Booker is a clown, that’s what this has to do with what he’s doing right now. He isn’t sincere and any supposed problems he has with “demagoguery” pales in comparison to Booker’s own ghoulish support of continued genocide. You’re asking us to respond positively to a proponent of genocide yelling at another proponent of genocide. Ok, Booker is telling people to resist Trump. By doing what exactly? Voting? Throwing molotovs?

    Oh I know something you can do to protest Trump and it’s even peaceful. You can support the BDS movement, where you boycott Israeli goods. That would make sense given the Trump administration’s unwavering support of Israel.

    Oh except Booker has repeatedly attempted to criminalize BDS, he’s in full support of defining anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and I can’t even find any evidence Booker has mentioned Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student who was thrown into federal detention for the supposed crime of being pro-Palestine.




  • This guy is a fucking Zionist clown and a stooge for venture capital. I’m old enough to remember when Obama would take shots at Romney in the 2012 election for Romney’s founder status at Bain Capital. Booker, perhaps simply for love of the game, defended Bain Capital for seemingly no reason other than to get pats on the shoulders from Republicans

    And what is this doofus doing now? Wagging his finger at Trump for theatrical reasons. This keeps getting called a filibuster but there’s not specific legislation Booker is trying to kill. There’s no bill he’s trying to stop.

    All this fire and gusto to stand around while he eagerly votes for bills to send yet another billion dollars to the Zionist Entity. Fuck this guy. I hope he enjoys hell.