“National Security” is the new lebensraum

I’ve stopped eating red meat entirely and only have white meat on rare occasions (working on cutting that out entirely). The thing about grass fed beef instead of feed lot beef hasn’t anything to do with the environment, and it never has. It has to do with the quality of life of the animals and how much they enjoy the days of their life as they navigate the world. I hadn’t really realized until this moment that anyone thought this was about the environment, though I reckon I shouldn’t be surprised. People tend to think any certification or more expensive process is better for the environment regardless of why the farmer is doing it.

So… I guess what I’m getting at is if you currently eat red meat, please cut back. Ideally cut it out entirely. That’s personally what I think is best. But if you keep eating red meat, please select lower cruelty options like grass fed beef because you are not the center of the universe and the animal lives that we take from granted matter, too.

if that

for anyone interested in picking a lane:

• rap: here, specifically, is how america is fucked
• punk: I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE
• funk: they want to see us sad, but i refuse to be
• bluegrass:

in 1872 my pappy was born on the coal fields of eastern kentucky. his mother loved him even though he didn’t look a thing like his daddy. his daddy loved him too. he looked just like the mine boss. you see back then the only way to make ends meet was for the woman of the family to supplement the income of her husband with sex work. but they loved him for being their son regardless of what he looked like. but i swear to fucking god, if i ever meet that sumbitch James Donald Bowman i’m going to break this goddamn banjo over his fucking head for reperpetuating my suffering by pretending to speak for me. because i love jesus, and that’s what jesus would have done. he whipped bankers, afterall

hotel. these adhoc ICE protests are outside of the major chain hotels DHS books reservations for their agents at

i don’t understand how that negates the utility of a mobile app that presents this information. also i’m not saying to get rid of the server-client paradigm, not sure what you’re talking about

status. part of the impetus of the development of piefed was a frustration with how the lemmy devs treated people who tried to get onboarded to help with the development of lemmy. i can go into more depth about how this is a reflection of how the lemmy devs see the world, but i don’t necessarily feel like hashing all that out when i have bigger fascists to fry

there’s a black market for human skulls and skeletons that mostly caters to racists who still believe in phrenology

phone apps can’t use activity pub as that’s a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.

that implies he ever knew it…

wildly unhelpful, @[email protected] . you’ve jumped straight back into reinforcing false binaries. i agree that the person you are replying to is in the wrong, but caping for authoritarianism is NOT OKAY.

you could just leave it at that a foreign occupying nation enacting an extraction economy on a people is wrong, immoral, unjust, and doesn’t bring anyone closer to liberation. instead you “pray for [someone’s] oppression”

i’m going back to blocking you and this community, but i’m going to ask you this. what do you want the world to be? just a bunch of campist fighting so long as you get to attack some liberals? enjoy. i want no part of it. i want to build a better world from the ashes of the old rather than renewing past mistakes.

accelerationism, making things worse for people, does not bring us closer to liberation. working and organizing into a robust movement of the people does. we cannot be free as long as we’re all just picking which imperial dictator’s to support rather than working together to burn them all down

i think he sucks, but i don’t think it’s good he’s gone. this hasn’t brought venezuelans closer to liberation. the opposite, in fact. i think the people celebrating just aren’t familiar with what a foreign occupying extractive economy does to a people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home

If anyone is interested in how ICE is just imperialism turned inwards (one of the definitions of fascism) I recommend this book

Would you be fine with me calling you “sis?”

The notion of “everyone is ‘dude’ or ‘guys’” supports a patriarchal hegemonic understanding of the world

on white men, specifically

fr. in the early days of the web, like pre 2005, it was a revelation

“also the petrostate paid me a lot of money to say the evidence isn’t there”

they’re a complete joke. more of the same shit as back in the 1800s when the british tried to justify their way of eating as being superior to the people they were colonizing, only now it’s white meathead influecers bulging with muscles they got from taking HGH that they won’t admit to saying our paleolithic ancestors ate mostly meat (they didn’t. our paleolithic ancestors ate meat ~1 time a week)

this is all just more of the same rewriting of the past, ignoring science, and trying to plunge the future into a modern dark age

hasn’t seen the police form a defensive circle to protect nazis

and 2020s internet is a shocking direct parallel to the nazi mass media mechanism in the 1930s and 1940s.