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Oh did everyone know that election funding is given ONLY to whoever you pick as first? Even when your vote trickles down to whoever wins, that $3-5(or so?) is only provided to your first choice?

I'll still be putting the Animal Justice Party number 1, but it's good to know.

Make hay, this year's harvest festival will be bountiful with the largest strawman we've ever seen!

Don't buy an electric car. Bike to work. Take the train. Don't eat animals products, they're destroying the planet. Use a Fair phone, buy second hand, install solar.

Us lefties are weak, dependant on creature comforts. Cheap plastic clothing, $3 beef burgers, voting for cheap petrol at the pump.

Your initial conceit of not affording consumers blame is a big driver of that weakness. Consumers wasting food IS a problem. Consumers buying food from big food wasters is a problem. But if you aren't living clean green, how can you hold some lady running a business to any account?

Inb4: "it's all too hard, everyone is too busy to be that ethical, capitalism has locked me into being a bad person". Be better, be ethical.

The other person says "you CAN'T buy your way out of problems caused by capitalism", I'm arguing you can, and that pretending you can't is a scapegoat for lazy consumers. They're destroying my planet for their own convenience, whilst taking the high ground of "but an oil company once tried to suggest consumers were to blame". Consumers literally buy the product.

And tone policing is cringe, who tf cares if I use capitals??

You're saying two different things. On one hand "I support people making better purchasing decisions", then on the other hand, "but it's meaningless".

God I can't stand people who argue for a systemic change of capitalism, but who are so defeatist to go "but my widdle purchasing power is meaningless uwu".

You LITERALLY CAN BUY YOUR WAY OUT OF CAPITALISM. What a moronic argument, if we all stop buying product A, companies have to stop selling product A. Except you're out here going "oh guys keep buying product A if you want, it's doesn't make a difference 😔"

"Blame shifting" feels like a way to offset consumer guilt and permit bad habits.

If everyone bought food from places that don't waste food products, the big chains that DO would go out of business.

If everyone drove electric, oil companies would hugely reduce oil extraction.

If everyone went vegan, 20% of the entire planets greenhouse gases would immediately cut.

YOU are the enabler of these companies. YOU have the power to stop them.

Men want women like this because it eases their insecurities.

Insecure men see women as a rare commodity (because they're not confident in their abilities with women), and a clingy jealous gf is (in theory) less likely to leave them.

It's another reason why men want younger women, they're more likely to look up to you than an equal, easier to ensure the commodity is secure.

Boy I wish this ire could be directed at the animal farming industry, who also take the babies from the mother (but this time to kill and eat the babies), whilst also keeping the mother perpetually pregnant to rinse and repeat the process.

All the while contributing 15-20% of the entire planets greenhouse gas emissions.

Boy I sure do wish.

PedophilAI

This episode originally aired in 1999. The N64 was still current gen hardware, google was only a year old, Bill Clinton was the US President, the first iPod was still 2 years away.

The problem is, being petty is against lefty values. Take King Charles and his fat fingers. When lefty's were making of him, there were probably a few fat fingered innocents out there with the same condition who felt self conscious. And that's unfair. Making fun of appearances is untargeted and hurts those in the crossfire. But the problem is IT'S SO EFFECTIVE FOR OPTICS AND MORALE.

So either we give up that effective campaign for ethical reasons, or we just collectively let some people take the L for the advancement of leftist morale and publicity. It's a doozy!

Not me! Crispr will save me and I'll live forever actually SORRY

I think he had a good grasp on consumer desires. Which seems to be really tough for the majority of people, perhaps business people in particular.