Quill7513

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Thanos, PhD.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t actually (at least not in full). the empires of the global north have already shifted their population standards, decreasing birthrates and experiencing longer lives. the issue is that the global north is also the part of the world that’s doing all the polluting and preventing the global south from gaining access to the education and resources that we enjoy. if we decolonize the earth, people will naturally make better decisions about their local environments and be more empowered to make better decisions about how to be and how to live.

  additionally the land management techniques employed by the colonial powers are ATROCIOUS. the majority of north american farm lands that can produce food are used to grow feed for cattle. the cattle are then raised not in rangelands that could not otherwise support horticultural agriculture, but instead in small feedlots. you will note, i am not calling for universal veganism. ecoterianism usually shies away from going this far due to the question of rangelands. but do you know what most rangelands in north america are used for today? single family homes and golf courses. these are not sustainable patterns of behavior. if we shifted our diets to more grains, more ruffage, less meat, and abolished the institution of the HOA so more people could grow more of their own food, our current population could be sustained.

  additionally, for all the technological advances we have made of late in the energy sector, even finding that land with solar panels on it can produce more agricultural output, much of the world still relies on coal fired electric plants. many of the hydroelectric dams that have been built and have already destroyed indigenous communities sit dormant. why? because global economic policy is largely determined by who owns what minerals beneath the earth. this is being exacerbated by placing data centers for high energy cost AI computations in inappropriate locations, driving people who are already struggling deeper into poverty.

  there is so much waste in this economic system that is made simply because it makes the speculation markets grow. we can live without that waste. the reason we don’t is pure, simple, greed. and what it will take to undo is the power of the people gathering together to say “you may own the factories, the machines, and the land, but without our brains and muscles not a single wheel can turn.” We the people are capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for and there’s so much room for improvement in this world that ecofascism seeks to ignore by reducing the problem down to just “there’s too many of us, and i can’t fathom adjusting how i live, so that’s it, that’s the end of it”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Thanos, PhD.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yup!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Thanos, PhD.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is an ecofascist position. our planet can be balanced if we adjust the way we live, the way we eat, and the way we treat eachother

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Malone comes in all sorts of ways⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think the most important thing to understand about Post Malone is that the absurdity is representative of a rejection of Malone’s eurocentric projection of universal truth. Post Malone is more interested in the fact that while the reality we exist in may have aspects of objectivity, all of our individual perspectives within the greater gestalt are ultimately subjective, no matter how much we try to unearth an objective truth. Personally, I’m interested in the ongoing turn towards Meta Malone which seeks to critique, comment on, and ultimately combine both Malone and Post Malone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  by the time the cybertruck started delivering, all pretense of who its maker really was was gone. no longer could you think of him as “just the electric car guy who was in the MCU that time and likes posting memes.” It was ABUNDANTLY obvious that he was a fascist boot heel. i can see any tesla on the road but the cybertuck and the model Y and rationalize that someone bought it without knowing, or sold it at a steep loss to someone who just needed a car. but the two newest models in the lineup? those directly funded fascism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spherical Bastard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks. i get these things mixed up some

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spherical Bastard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so the other comment reply does nothing to explain, but there’s too much mis- and disinformation that people consume and too much prideful ignorance to just let a comment sit like this as the top of the “hot” algorithm to not give people an entry point to enlighten themselves.

  dark matter is not named for its undetectibility within the visible light spectrum. you are correct that we cannot detect much matter within the universe based on the visible light spectrum. dark matter is named based on that we cannot detect it at all. dark matter is more the answer to a question we don’t yet know how to answer. there are a lot of behaviors out there in the cosmos that cannot be explained through the simple interactions between matter that we are able to observe, leading many scientists to theorize that much of the universe, around 70% of it, is made of a form of matter that interacts with the kind of matter we are by just kinda… pushing it away (not like anti matter which causes waveform collapses when interacting with the kind of matter we are).

  a competing theory for why the cosmos acts the way it does is because space time itself is expanding as a result of our observable universe existing on the inside of a black hole. my estimation is probably that both explanations contain part of the truth and that the whole truth is that both dark matter exists and our universe is inside a blackhole. if you want a real mind trip, i suspect our universe is inside a blackhole inside our universe, and that every blackhole in the universe contains a universe. filled with blackholes with universes, including the very same universe that contains that blackhole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the worst thing about the second klan was it gave the founders of the third klan an opportunity to meet each other and go “oh! you’re a HUGE bigot, too?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just be ready for what rises from the ashes. because it was from that collapse that the Indiana Klan reorganized into the group we know today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “the least problematic klan was the second klan, and other confusing things you don’t want anyone to say to you”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my great grandad was though. from the side of the family i never really much talked to because my dad wanted nothing to do with them after what they did to him in his upbringing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  first of all:

  1. i would kiss this Vegeta
  2. i would kiss channing tatum
  3. also i’d kiss original recipe vegeta, but only after he got his life right. so like not original recipe but like… several arcs in
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a coverup is considerably cheaper and less painful than a removal. also, a removal often comes with a lot of visible scarring so a coverup can end up being less noticable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vegeta⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hey at least he wasn’t a founding member of the third iteration of the klan (the current one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (Bob Vylan is two dudes whose stage names are Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ding ding ding! the existence of a jewish state is not just anti-semitic in the broad sense, it is anti-jewish in a narrow sense.

  • antisemitism: the political position that jews have no place in this society
  • zionism: the political position that jews have no place in this society
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how fascism operates. it innundates you with the most insane bullshit until eventually you throw up your hands and leave the table, giving the fascist power over the narrative.

  never think the anti-semites don’t know exactly what they’re doing and all the rest of that quote

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dream big kid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i wonder how many of their customers forgot to unsubscribe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  which was either 7 or 4 years ago now (can’t remember)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m east coast bi west coast pan, because what the words mean are different on opposite sides of the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the key ingredient is they don’t only sing about Jesus. See also: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Mainstream audiences don’t generally mind christian themes so long as that band is being true to themselves rather than making common denominator slop.

  i mean… look at all the music that came from Motown records before 1985. not all of those musicians and acts were devoutly christian, but a lot of them were

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  okay. so. ecofascism ignores, or is ignorant of, the role that indigenous people played maintaining ecosystems and the overall climate of this world. they frame the tragedy of the commons as that a commonly shared resource will be overutilized by the community leading to the degredation and loss of that resource. given this, they believe that a top level force is required to protect that resource.

  the flaw with this framing is that anthropologically, there is no evidence that the tragedy of the commons works this way. we have much more evidence of an ownership class overexploiting a resource than we do collaborative communities. the people, left to their own devices, will largely find solutions that will best fit all their needs, where as an ecofascist route will generally only allow the person commanding the economy to assess needs and they will do so with their set of biases and blindspots, leading to things like the famines of the 5 year plans and the great leap forward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ecofascism is an authoritarian approach to addressing global climate change. they believe that poor people are a strain upon the land and that left to their own devices humanity would destroy the planet out of spite.

  often, they ignore the top heavy causes of climate change. i can elaborate now but i need to go to the store

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh no⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yup! waaay to may r/atheist types replaced their religious upbringing with hero worship of dawkins and iefused to see what a problematic figure he really was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  everything in nature has analagous structures. if you don’t see them you’re either looking too close or too far and you need to shift your perspective. a coral reef is a forest and the corals are the trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't need any job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: no

  Long answer: Kind of, but not in any kind of a way to where a desire to unite is a position with mass popular support. A unified India as a political entity has been historically a rare thing, and mostly exists currently as a unified entity as a direct result of the British Raj. There are several territories and Tribes that seek independence from the Indian Republic. Two of those territories were Pakistan and Bangladesh (FKA Pakistan). There likely are residents of Pakistan who wish for re-unification with India, however per my understanding the prevalent notion is that Pakistan’s time within the unified India were not preferred. Ultimately this is a function of that borders can never be drawn with respect for the people who live on the land. There is no line you can draw between any two national cores where everyone who wants to be on one side of the line is on the side they want to be on. To use Poland as an example, in 1931, Lwow had a population of 312,000 people, making it the 4th largest city in Poland. Of those 312,000 people, ~20% self identified as Ukrainian. How do you draw a boundary line between Ukraine and Poland where all Ukrainians are in Ukraine and all Poles are in Poland when a city on their border is so blended?

  Countering your example: It’s less like Pakistanis are like the Germans in Austria who can’t unite with Germany and more like Pakistanis are like the Austrians in Austria who found themselves in Germany after Germany declared them German.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net always out here saying what i’m trying to say, but better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personalized Political Spectrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anarchists are a genre of libertarians though. It’s just that who dominates the landscape of “libertarian” is ancaps, who are just fascists with a weirder set of steps to implement a fascist nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not what i’m saying, but whatever