FlyingCircus
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- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 hour ago:
I think my takeaway is that morality arguments for veganism based on subjective perceptions of sentience or suffering are not persuasive.
Many farms provide far better lives for animals than they would have in the wild. Many livestock species are far more successful and widespread because we eat them. Furthermore, if everyone was to become vegan, some livestock species would go extinct without human care. Do those who insist everyone should be vegan because animals are sentient and suffer think that we should just genocide the livestock?
Morality arguments totally depend on the perspective. I happen to agree with vegans on many points, but if your prime argument is moral, then yes I expect everyone to do wtf they want. Everyone’s morals are different.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 7 hours ago:
Damn I thought my sarcasm was obvious.
We are animals and part of the food web, there is nothing innately immoral about eating any other part of the food web to sustain ourselves.
There’s certainly stupid ways to sustain ourselves, such as practices that unsustainably harm the environment like factory farming, or practices that would spur other life forms to harm us, like eating other humans.
But my main point is that “sentience” is a really vague term that can’t be objectively measured.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 12 hours ago:
There is evidence that plants have some form of sentience. They react to their environment and stimuli, and communicate with each other. We honestly shouldn’t be eating anything that was previously alive.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 days ago:
Sancho Panza (his servant) rides the donkey.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
If you’re asking people who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, then of course the problems are insurmountable. I never claimed to have all of the answers, but I know for damn sure that it is a lie that there is no solution, as these “experts” seem to be implying.
Also, no need to be so fucking rude.
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
Retirement accounts are a real issue, but could be solved by having the top wealthiest shareholders pay out to the poorest shareholders until retirements are guaranteed. This could also be combined with Social Security reform that requires wealthy people to contribute more and extract less from the system.
Presumably many of the actual healthcare workers and some of the admin workers would still be needed in a nationalized system. The insurance agents and related admin can all get other jobs. No one dreams of being an insurance agent as a kid, these people would be free to pursue more meaningful and useful work.
None of these are insurmountable problems for a government that actually serves the people instead of money. This article is just prevarication to cover our current governments inaction.
- Comment on Heh Heh Suckers 2 weeks ago:
If history is taught correctly, they will know that Americans of today are propagandized to hell by the capitalist oligarchs who are fighting tooth and nail to maintain the hierarchy. That the coercive structure of the capitalist system left people alienated and disenfranchised and largely unable to overcome the sea of misinformation designed to isolate and divide communities.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 3 weeks ago:
A former high-up at Google has stated that they intentionally made the search engine worse a few years ago so that people would see more ads and click on more sponsored links. Now, the best result is #15 in the list, on average.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
In a sufficiently capitalist society, it is impossible to distinguish the dumb from the propagandized.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
Except not. Tell me more about how ignorant you are about political economy theory and how China actually functions.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
In the last 50 years, US sanctions killed 38 million people.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s why it’s not communist. But it is socialist, because the working class controls the government and holds the reins of the economy.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
Rapid industrialization has a cost, which anyone in any western country could have told you 150 years ago. But China is continually improving, and I would expect them to be similar to US working conditions of 20 years ago within the next decade. And I say US conditions of 20 years ago, because our conditions have backtracked since then, and will likely continue to backtrack because capitalists own the government and good working conditions are a barrier to profit.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, agreed. That’s why I said “until socialism is achieved.”
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Would you rather everyone be unemployed and destitute while you beg the capitalists to give you money?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, which is why organization and political education is so critical, and also why MLs place importance on vanguard parties. The capitalists are never going to give us the time for everyone to realize we can demand better, so those of us who already realize it need to step up and help guide those who don’t.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
That’s never going to happen under capitalism though, so until socialism is achieved, I’m going to do the best I can to ensure that my fellow workers have as much access to good paying jobs as possible.
- Comment on AI girlfriends VS Egirls 5 weeks ago:
I’m saying that the person buying is making a bad choice and is exploiting the sex worker.
- Comment on AI girlfriends VS Egirls 1 month ago:
Crazy how you think that the customer is the exploited one in a sex work situation. Loneliness doesn’t excuse contributing to a situation where someone must sell such an intimate part of their humanity to have a good life.
I feel for the lonely person, too, but I don’t excuse their bad choice to engage in prostitution.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 month ago:
Who stays at a job for 6 years? Almost everyone I know who is trying to climb the ladder changes companies at least every 3-4 years.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 2 months ago:
Not if you weren’t white.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 2 months ago:
Except capitalism literally both incentivizes and requires people to be greedy in order to be successful. Communism does the opposite.
You will still get greedy people in communism because it is a human trait, but capitalism breeds greed in the same way that shitting in your water supply breeds cholera.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 2 months ago:
And if you tell them that they don’t capitalism, they’ll just screech that you’re a tankie.
- Comment on Before the revolution 2 months ago:
The French Revolution advanced the idea that property could be owned by anybody and you didn’t have to be “nobility” to have power in society. Pretty frickin huge stuff.
As for Napoleon, his civil laws were extremely progressive for the time. There is a reason that he was beloved by basically everybody in France. In the context of chaos of the Republic, and the tyranny of the Kings before that, most people were relieved by the stability he brought, and ecstatic with the reforms enacted. He obviously wasn’t perfect (especially his abhorrent treatment of Haiti), but Napoleon was a hero of history. It’s all about context.
- Comment on Before the revolution 2 months ago:
Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 months ago:
The artist has already been payed by the time the game hits the shelf, sales only go to the people on top.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 2 months ago:
Yes, the Democrats are also conservatives by global standards.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 2 months ago:
Fascism is proof that capitalism is incompatible with democracy.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 2 months ago:
The thing is, there’s no public smoking gun evidence that would put him away for a long time. I think the fact that the unredacted Epstein files haven’t been released means that the evidence does exist, and the oligarchs are using that to manipulate policy. It’s likely policy that Trump himself already wants because he can profit off of it, but I do think there is kompromat out there that is being used.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 2 months ago:
Israel is used as a destabilizing presence in the ME to prevent the region from uniting against Western imperialism. The point is not to use Israel as a staging ground for direct US action, but to allow it to do its thing so that the region is focused on the immediate threat of Israel and less able to respond to US soft power threats.
“Let us extract your resources, or we will allow Israel to assassinate your leaders and bomb your schools.”