VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
No gods, no masters.
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3·1 day agoThe trees’ decline began in the 19th century when British colonizers brought in animals like rabbits and goats. The invasive species overran the island’s ecosystem, eroding the topsoil that helps hold palm trees in place. By 1994, only two trees were left; one fell during a cyclone later that year.
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The racism was used to sell to white “middle classes” the dream of becoming rich and lording it over the “not white” who were separated, segregated. In this context, white is a class, not a race, and it is most definitely not something that can just be dispelled by informing people that it’s all made up by capitalists to divide the people. You can think of this class as “honorary petite bourgeois” for those workers.
Even if it’s true what you say, you don’t get to demand that people who’ve experienced racist attacks and discrimination suddenly forget about it and reclassify that experience as just a misunderstanding.
Some reading for you:
Toward a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni A. Sheth | Goodreads
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present - Zinn Education Project
“Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist | Goodreads - this one is also an HBO documentary
61·2 days agoIt’s a type of social contract. In the traditionalist culture, being non-secular, they ascribed it to “God”, but, as you know, there is no God, so it was actually up to real people belonging to religious institutions, the clergy. Since the Enlightenment, people have tried to replace God with Nature; this has often been a bad joke with terrible consequences, but eventually secular paradigms took over and tried to reason the contracts into shape, to make them more consistent. There’s a lot of philosophy about this and I can’t summarize it as easily. But what you’re seeing today with Trump and the traditionalists, this anti-secularism, is a desire to return to the pre-Enlightenment state with its contracts and monarchy and aristocracy determined by “God”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
31·2 days agoThey look/are horrible.
35·3 days agoThis is part of some rural grift facilities which probably started with “trouble teens”. In recent years I’ve seen reports of these “farms” for “distressed” women. It’s usually a place with Ranch in the name. Example: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/18/the-christian-maternity-ranch-in-texas-is-a-disaster-in-the-making/
Permaculture farms, for example, are already well known for relying on abusive work conditions. See Joel Salatin:
https://medium.com/permaculture-3-0/fall-of-a-hero-f9ac80a08c0c
I’m vegan btw.
The Petite bourgeoisie. The service economy thrives on growth, these guys get wiped out every time. It just adds to the whole ridiculous setup of capitalism’s free market.
It’s the same class that the US saw on screen on January 6th.
2·5 days agoTrump falls well in line with the Christian tradition of leaders, so much so that he’s king material (“anointed” or a messiah).
When you let them define you, that is already control. This isn’t about “reality”, it’s about social control.
If they tell you that “only bad people demand higher wages” and you accept their definition of bad people, we have a problem.
He does seem like the nerd that gets bullied by jocks, but that doesn’t make him not fascist. His role is getting more and more like that of Ford a century ago.
What I’m saying is DO NOT PROVIDE SYMPATHY FOR MUSK. It’s a warning.
Eat more fiber for extra data
11·8 days agodeleted by creator
if we do it ourselves, they will accuse us of being what they say we are.
Stop being defined by fascists.
I know, but maybe it’s related to:
If you haven’t “accepted” the new prices, maybe you get this half-assed Premium.
It’s called being smart and using data. It’s the same reason you don’t give a box of single use diapers to everyone in a crisis such as refugees from a large fire or flood.