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Reference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there's some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.

In addition to everything you mentioned it's also heavily subsidized as a baseline with >38B in subsidies vs the 170.38B meat market and 74.16B dairy market. Direct subsidies alone account for 15% of the total market.

greatest successes from lobbying governments to pass animal welfare laws and organizing protests to generate pressure and support for those laws.

It's worth noting that it's more often the 'type 1' vegan which is generally more effective at this, and why they're seen as ecoterrorists and why things like ag-gag laws "needed" to be passed.

It's important to remember that science is inherently conservative and doubly so for climate change Erring on the Side of Least Drama.

If you read any of the IPCC reports you'll note they are very careful to not really provide any death estimates or anything. However, one can attempt to extrapolate a risk model from those descriptions from that we can analyze key takeaways from the WG2 report ^1^

The report found that climate impacts are at the high end of previous estimates

3.3 billion people about 40% of the world population, now fall into the most serious category of "highly vulnerable" ___ 1 billion people face flooding.

Based on the existential risk model, that's 3.3 billion currently facing some level of existential risks. If the impacts remain "at the high end of previous estimates", which they very likely will, then that's >3.3 Billion potential deaths.

^1: using Wikipedia summary because the report is 3675 pages long and ain't nobody got time for that^

Or revive it, I don't think I've seen a James Bond movie since one of the very first ones but I would 100% watch a Goldberg Bond movie because I don't see how they could play it other than leaning hard into how inherently silly it all is.

I would push back against phrasing the mindset as:

"I want things to be worse for someone else than they are for me."

When that is just a manifestation of one of several mindsets such as

"I'm better ~smarter, stronger, faster, more evolved, less emotional, better looking, more educated, stronger morals, etc.~ than them. Why should they have it better than me?

"My life has gone bad because of their actions"

Etc.

It's an important distinction because nobody rationalizes their own decisions or reasoning in such an irrational way and phrasing it as such limits the opportunity for self reflection.

It also allows for conflating very real blame assignment IE "people are dying on the street because the ultra-wealthy are treating shelter like trading cards" with "you just hate rich people because you think you're better than them, that's just another form of discrimination".

go fuck yourself, ___ style

I'll give you props for proudly wearing your intolerance on your sleeve like that.

I'm using something we can, hopefully, both agree you're not and is problematic to demonstrate the fallicious logic. What would be a better way to communicate that?

You're miscategorizing it and anthropomorphs aren't real.

It's more closely related to objectophilia or fictosexuality which are also seen in nature.

It's to bestiality as homosexuality is to pedophilia. As in it's not related at all.

Glad we agree the irrational and emotionally driven humans are the root problem!

Guns have no use other than killing.

Yes. That doesn't give them agency or sentience or anything though.

So your advice to people who can't afford rent, work a fulltime job and have just had their tent and all their possessions thrown in a dumpster for the second time this month is what exactly?

Do you advise someone who is incarcerated that if they simply ignore the bars they will no longer be there?

Society has gotten far, far more unequal and oppressive

By what metrics?

Historically there simply wasn't physical things with which to have the modern level of inequality. Historically the average lower end was was lower, but the modern high end is incomprehensible orders of magnitude higher.

Historical acts of oppression were often far more brutal and cruel but that's because it wasn't physically possible to maintain the constant, but relatively minor oppression that is characteristic of modernity.