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  • Count042@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlDawwwww
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    8 days ago

    We’ve had the capacity for feeding the entire population without animal products since before iron.

    We’ve had the capacity to do so with an overabundance of calories that the population keeps growing larger since the Haber process was discovered.

    Arguing that we should distinguish between animals and livestock until we can live without animal products is incredibly disingenuous.

    Until A, no B doesn’t work as an argument when you already have A.

    Edit: I’m not the same person you were talking with before.






  • Count042@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldwhat are they bombing yemen for?
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    24 days ago

    This is like calling the US now a rebel faction in the civil war in the British Empire.

    We won.

    America is its own country.

    Ansarallah won. The conquered basically all of the territory except for a few towns held by another faction with whom Ansarrallah made peace with.

    All of this while under continuous air attacks from Saudi Arabia w/ US intelligence, refueling and weapons. Meanwhile the US supported a complete blockade, including food, into a country that at that time imported 90% of its food.



  • Count042@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldwhat are they bombing yemen for?
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    24 days ago

    The Houthis are a tribe. The majority (though not all) represented tribe within the government of Ansarrallah, a government that formed during and won the civil war when Saudi Arabia tried to steal Yemen.

    Calling them Houthis is racist and makes as much sense as calling Americans ‘Kennedys’

    They have not been attacking shipping. They have been enforcing a naval blockade of a country committing genocide, something that is a legal requirement under international law. When Israel was “abiding” (or abiding as much as Israel ever abides) during the peace treaty, Ansarrallah dropped their blockade. If this is about shipping, the easiest way to stop this would be to stop applying arms to a state engaged in ethnic cleansing.

    America has never been at war with Yemen. We got sucked into supplying Intel and support and weapons to Saudi Arabia under Obama because of all three weapons purchases from Saudi Arabia.

    Finally, Iran has done very little in support of Ansarallah, in comparison to other countries that are majority Shia.

    Calling Ansarrallah Iranian controlled is about as accurate as calling Israel American-Controlled. It’s just another racist way to try to justify the murder of civilians. You know, the unjustifiable except to fascists like the person I’m responding to.


  • Just because you aren’t doesn’t mean others are as apathetic to genocide committed in their name.

    Secondly, Zionism is an inherently colonial apartheid project. The methods are required for the end goal. People don’t want to leave their homeland and give up all their shit. If you want them too, which is ideologically required for Zionism, then those are the methods you’re going to use.

    The problem isn’t the bombs and guns, it’s the colonialism and apartheid. The methods are fixed when those are the goals.


  • None of what you complained about is the far left, but rather the center/right of the Democratic party.

    To be clear, the far left doesn’t have political representation in America, so you can’t give actual examples because those would require the far left actually had power.

    But if you think Biden, a literal fucking segregationist, represents the far left, then you don’t actually know what the left is.


  • Count042@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldboth pretty extreme
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    28 days ago

    Political theory is not a two dimensional line.

    Those of us who recognize that organization is the most powerful force in human history recognize anarchism for the controlled opposition it is.

    Capitalists love anarchists. What isn’t to love about an ideology that wants to overthrow the established structure but ideologically refuses to use any strategies that have historically actually, you know, have worked?

    P.S. for the intellectually honest anarchist, what was the outcome of the Paris commune, or Spain?