There will always be a portion of the population that goes fascist during economic decay, the sort of decay that is inevitable with capitalism. They will be throughly propagandized and may never wake up and see the light of reason. A liberal democracy cannot stop a determined fascist movement with capitalist backing with conventional means. They will use and abuse existing political levers to gain total power.

The only thing that will stop them is turning the tables on them via mass resistance of those who have gained class consciousness. They will need to be defeated and suppressed, and barred from having any further political power or platform to spread their toxic ideas.

Socialism is the antidote to capitalism. And he hasn’t even wandered that far into socialist territory yet.

There is no vegan god. There’s only the animals that have no voice, and you exploit them as if you’re entitled to their bodies. You treat living beings like property. Not even our distant hunter gatherer ancestors did that, in a context where they had no choice in order to survive. Animals were respected for the nutrition they provided.

There is zero respect to the autonomy of an animal in an modern context where we have zero need for animal exploitation.

You don’t need cheese to survive. Those who don’t see the intersectionality between human and non-human exploitation; I question whether they really understand anti-exploitation at all.

So in the end you answer only to your own conscience. And yes, how we treat non-human animals reflects how we treat one another. We can evolve beyond violent simians, or we can stay stuck in our base impulses.

You can do want you want, but at least pause on a daily basis and reflect you were fortunate enough not to be born an animal destined for human exploitation.

Lol this one’s been in the making since the GOP starting letting these kooks dictate policy in the 1960s.

ICE’s torture tactics look like torture.

Water looks wet.

Give ‘em screens, weed/booze, football games and social media, keep them distracted!

I don’t think it’s off his own intellect, at all. He doesn’t have much intellect to speak of.

He’s a stooge for the Heritage Foundation, Bibi and Putin. He works off Roy Cohn’s playbook. These guys are great thieves, I’ll concede, but actually running legitimate businesses and succeeding? Nah.

Trump on his own would be just a narcissistic, dumb, rejected NYC tycoon who bankrupt casinos. Don’t give him that much credit.

Cows are forcibly brought into this world to suffer as much for dairy farming as they are for meat production.

https://www.earthsave.ca/blog/dairy-or-beef/

https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

And like beef production, the environmental impacts of the dairy industry are significant, although not quite as bad as beef. But totally unnecessary for human beings to consume.

Some people would apparently be dragged in front of a firing squad than learn to like tofu, seitan, beans and other nutritious sources of plant-based protein.

As a vegan, I’m finding I enjoy food way more than I did as a carnist. It’s an adventure.

Peak capitalism. Billions of exploited, unidentified animals suffering for profit. Corpse flesh of an unknown species.

How we treat other creatures seems to be a reflection of how we treat one another as a species.

This is just Part Two of what was started in 2016. The nail in the coffin for SCOTUS was Trump’s first term.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson makes an excellent point about owning responsibility for your personal truths while honoring personal freedoms.

In essence, he’s saying keep your Abrahamic bullshit cult nonsense to yourself.

Sadly, I think his faith in rationality underestimates the capacity for people to be propagandized towards right-wing authoritarianism, while the rational democratic folks are too busy squabbling with one another to resist.

I mean, he points this out in the video, but has too much hope that scientific thought can save us from this. Our education system is too far gone to overcome a problem that’s been decades in the making.

Democratic societies seem to sadly degenerate into autocratic regimes, as history has demonstrated.

We also run into the problem of the paradox of tolerance. If you tolerate the intolerant, then society will eventually become victims to regimes that scapegoat marginalized groups to consolidate power and form fascist theocracies. So ironically, at some point, we might have to go full Bolshevik in order to suppress this from happening.

If we’re going to have authoritarianism, I guess I’d rather have the left-flavor variety, to squash out the Christofascist right-wingers. China seems to be headed in a better direction than the United States at this point.

Quite the opposite. In my neck of the woods (the Bible Belt), there are tons of porn shops. They’ll just be going after the “wrong kinds” of porn and sexual exploitation.

“Porn should be only between a man and a woman, to be shared within the bounds of a loving, God-sanctioned Christian marriage where birth control is forbidden, anything other than vaginal sex is punishable by law and pulling out is banned.”

Their blockbuster porn hit will be, “Jesus, I can feel you inside me.”

Yes, but only the “good kind,” where cis-women are treated like property by men.

Clarence “The Fondler” Thomas.

This creep should’ve been rejected by the Senate a long time ago. Of course the GOP was in power, and they LOVE rapists and pedos.

If my experience using AI tools to generate python script to separate audio into AI-generated stems means anything, then you absolutely DON’T want to do that. It fucks up all the time and the results are rarely good.

The ultimate destiny of capitalism is where we’re at now, and the rest of the world is experiencing it, too. It only deteriorates further from here.

The political class will be living high off the hog with superior federal benefits, while singing off and enabling anything the Heritage Foundation and the Christofacists want. Sure the establishment dems will make some performative grumblings, but it’s all an act to placate their old voting base and give an illusion of democracy, right?

I think you’re right about that, Tim Walz is more principled and has more backbone than Gavin “AIPAC” Newsom.

JFC just throw this asshole in prison already and demand Riverside County immediately start their election proceedings from scratch. You’re supposed to be the bluest of blue states.