Are they trying to look scared shitless to undermine the whole farce, or do they actively want to create a martyr? Those are the only two options that don’t require a room temperature IQ.

“And they’re almost all brown, right? Can we do better than just 1.2?”

Inb4 people come here to defend their self-righteousness. No, nephews. You made a stupid choice for stupid reasons, and it’s time to accept your core values are obnoxious and self-centered, and then shape up.

Of course, of course. And are the dumbfucks from America in the room with us right now?

Also it’s going to be a cold day in Hell before a woman wins.

Yeah, that’s really funny.

“Source: my ass”

Histrionics aren’t helpful even when they’re factual, let alone when they aren’t.

That helps too many people. It doesn’t serve the purpose of getting to laugh at the little people running around afraid and crying over dead loved ones. It doesn’t cull people who disgust you, like the disabled. It doesn’t beat people down — so, to a conservative, what good is it?

Thinking of activism as ritual magic is exactly what people think of when they criticize performative slacktivism. Holding working class people’s livelihoods hostage is nothing more than hooliganism in practice, and because ends actually don’t justify means to the people that get the ends, it just results in the people you pissed off hating you. The rhetoric around it is nothing short of religious, and the commitment to Orthodoxy is absolute. Slacktivists have a deep and abiding faith in the idea that blocking streets and screeching at fellow wageslaves is how Real Activism happens, and that it alone produces real change and should therefore never, ever be questioned.

I think it’s because effective action is scary and risky: making wealthy people and policymakers literally fear for their lives. Unions didn’t win rights like a 40 hour work week because they blocked roads. They won their rights on the remains of burned-down factories and the corpses of bosses and cops. People in positions of power generally are only capable of understanding violence or the threat of violence, reasoning with them or disrupting the society they live in is like trying to reason with an attack dog or trashing the back yard it lives in. Attack dogs don’t understand rhetoric, they understand the choke chain. A few weeks ago, Luigi Mangione gave it a yank, and the health insurance industry whimpered and heeled the same day, and only returned to form when they realized it wasn’t the opening of a class war.

Note: this is something the far right does understand. Just look at the Bundy Standoff in 2014. Were they in the wrong? Yes. Were they making empty threats when they pointed guns at federal agents? No. It’s not a coincidence that they got told “we’ll return your cattle within 30 minutes”.

They disparagingly refer to it as “the cult of ‘science’” so that’s a foregone conclusion. Complex issues as interpreted by people whose only ideology is “fuck all that pansy ass shit, man up!!!”

Respect the law to the same extent that the opposition does. Direct Action included.

It won’t be government-mandated, it’ll just be illegal to buy or sell anything without one in your head or your hand.

Is that what I said?

That was highly manipulated by people who are completely lost in the sauce on diet culture. No need to make veganism into an eating disorder.

“DAE le memes? LOL EPIC!”

Obviously there are exceptions

Do you know what “absolute” means? If so, why say it?

There are valid reasons for veganism, but it’s folderol to claim it’s absolutely cheaper. For one example, sardines are fished sustainably and are very low in mercury, both because they’re basically ocean mice. They’re also all but impossible to nutritionally outperform for the price.

That was cool as hell

PugJesus resigned!