ElcaineVolta

if people decide they don’t want to sit around to see how bad it gets, I think that should be up to them. I know this is what I’m considering.

TIL I’m a fucking historian, apparantly

this is so naive

a fair question

if they say they’re christian, they are

we’ve built the world we think we deserve.

you’re right, but there sure seems to be a lot of morons in the electorate, so…

we have no right to the bodies or bodily excretions of other individuals. being vegan has never been easier and it’s past time to align your morals with your lifestyle.

so getting impeached is a bad thing?

the corporations will not save us. be very wary of any “solution” that allows you to continue unchanged and to shift all responsibility to someone else, there’s a reason that perspective is so pervasive

lol

its amazing what the most moral army on the planet can get away with

it’s odd that they used “holiday present” in the headline, but the article says-

One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present.

it’s like they didn’t want christmas in the same headline as the mass shooting or something?

how can a country ‘have a right to defend itself’ if it can’t even stay within its own borders?

someone pointing out the obvious isn’t a ‘gotcha’ and it says a lot that you think it is

there are literal entire countries (including Canada off the top of my head) who have told other countries and their resettlement orgs ‘we see you have a humanitarian crisis, but we’re only accepting refugees if they work in our slaughterhouses’ I recognize you’re completely entrenched in this baffling perspective and it’s kinda hard to look at, honestly. you’ve got that “when sea levels rise, everyone living on the coasts should just sell their houses and move” kind of energy.

the first step would be to shut down animal agriculture, as a huge part of plant farming and it’s inherent exploitation is in growing food to feed to the animals before they get to the slaughterhouse; we grow more than enough food to feed the planet as it is, but we waste so much of it trying to sustain animal ag, which is a failing enterprise and a massive driver of climate change

just more obliviousness

literally the first article that came up searching for slaughterhouses https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/11/489468205/working-the-chain-slaughterhouse-workers-face-lifelong-injuries

The workers, most often immigrants and resettled refugees, slaughter and process hundreds of animals an hour, forced to work at high speeds in cold conditions, doing thousands of the same repetitions over and over, with few breaks.

not that I expect evidence to change your mind

wow, you haven’t looked into this, like, at all