Yep, my reaction to all of this has been: why is it permissible for the 3 oil companies in a trench coat running and polluting the world and causing uncountable deaths and harm to humanity a "cost of doing business" - but two people throwing soup at a painting to raise awareness of that cartel is a "category 1 harm to society" that deserves years of prison time?

I know it's because of how modern legal systems are set up and the whole concept of corporations having personhood without a corporeal body to be imprisoned - but I still don't understand how people (even leftists on lemmy) see this is a personal moral failing of the protestors and not a systematic issue with the way we organize our state laws..

What about vegans that don't have pets on the grounds of not keeping animals at all?

We can play this whataboutism game all day long but at least vegans get to sleep at night knowing they're not directly contributing to animal suffering, mass emissions and antibiotic resistance just to be able to eat some le bacon made from poorly treated, tumor ridden, "fed back" pigs..

I'll have uhh.. reducing women to dick sucking machines? How original.. With a sprinkle of men only think with their penis? Daring today, aren't we?

You know I've been thinking about loss and it's usage on the internet and at this point I think we've jumped the shark - what started as a way to express dissatisfaction with the way an issue was handled - has now turned into a "haha loss funny" meme - which kinda takes the piss out miscarriage - a very real issue that affects a lot of people. Maybe I'm just getting old but I feel we should bring this meme to greener pastures..

1 year exposure period is too low - wake me up when they do a study on 10-20 year exposure.

gross.

I mean the whole 1972 rape fantasy essay he wrote was potentially progressive at the the time but feels quite tone-deaf and ham fisted nowadays..

Ah yes, the holy father trump goes to heaven by molesting children - how can we religious heathens bask in the same glory if our morals and care for other people prevent us from doing the same 😢

damn the free market works! it came up with commie blocks just based on space and energy efficiency! if only we could apply this on a larger scale 🙈

"Women are you still not sure if you want to be a woman" egg_irl much..

Is this the most fuckcars poster ever? NGL I lowkey love the implication that the only purpose for cars is to kill people 🥰

look folks, it's the high credibility left of center genocide newspaper!

As per the graph - that IQ score goes above 150 so it doesn't directly correlate to % of population

Interesting - as the article notes the first amendment was specifically implemented to protect unpopular view points - which is tricky because it does mean that white supremacists have the same right to voice their ideas as critical race theorists - but how do we balance that hate speech should have the same footing as voicing concerns around oppression?

even more so when those that are oppressed will have a harder time of being heard in the first place? should the law (as the 1st amendment specifically says that a view not held by society is still protected) tolerate hate and bigotry? it appears the nazi bar is guarded by the first amendment :/

"Animal husbandry, health, welfare and adherence to established biosecurity protocols are the most important factors for good on-farm practice, not the size or type of farm system."

uuhhuum - I'm sure the cows love being crammed into a pen where they can't turn around and all they can do is eat, shit and get milked

“If you are not treating your animals right they are not going to perform. They are not going to produce enough milk. It’s as simple as that.” - aaah there we go - it's always about "performing" and "producing" and never about actual animal welfare..

Under MMT taxation is just a tool to reduce inflation - why not introduce a yearly maximum income and collect everything else above as tax to manage inflation?

Does trapping Palestinians in Gaza, advocating for the war crime of collective punishment by stopping their water and food supply in favour of bombing civilians ("not a gram of humanitarian aid, but hundreds of tons of explosives from the Air Force") a mistake as well? What about Ben-Ari's comments that Palestinian children have brought this upon themselves? What about when Israel directly funded Hamas to undermine more peace oriented groups like the PLO (even after they recognized Israel's sovereignty), was that a mistake too? At what point do these "mistakes" become genocidal intent in your opinion?

So you're saying Kamala is running off Agenda 47 - the same manifesto that promises to ban critical race theory from schools? But I agree Agenda 47 is fucked up enough that more effort should be spent in outlining why entrenching systematic racism more and more is not only morally abhorrent but also an awful long term strategy.

you have to cook plant based proteins - unlike animal based ones that people consume raw? I feel a doctor shouldn't be encouraging people to eat raw meat yet here we are...