people really like to degrade vegan people's advocacy for the liberation of animals from abusive exploitative capitalist systems as if their entire dedication to the movement was formed through them watching a nature documentary one day & having a meltdown over seeing a lion eat a zebra & deciding very firmly that No Animal Should Ever Die Again
"New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
- Zohran Mamdani
truly not to sound like a lib but cheney dying on the same day that NYC elects socialist muslim zohran mamdani as mayor gives me a thrill like no other
while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.
tumblr will talk about being kind to animals and loving them and saving the spider and putting it outside all day but veganism is where they draw the line. god forbid you have consistent morals and take a step back to unpack your speciesism. god forbid the vegans may be right. god forbid there's more to being nice to animals than petting them and finding them cute.
"don't worry scientists will invent a way to solve climate change!" They already did... several times over... just the people who didnt like their solutions (cough cough oil companies) had enough cash to shut them up both legally and illegally
Dick Cheney should not have gotten to live as long as he did. He should have been beaten to death with blunt objects. But it's still amazing to wake up to the news that he croaked. May he rest in piss
I find it very sad that so many kids, when they start expressing compassion for animals and reason that eating their meat/products from their bodies is wrong, are taught by caregivers that kindness is wrong when it inconveniences others and caring so much for other living beings is childish and naive, because trying your best to do less harm will make others feel bad about their actions, and I can't help but feel that's where it starts for a lot of people who then grow up to believe that their pleasure, convenience, comfort and conformity is worth it even if others have to suffer for it.
It’s really admirable how all of these vehemently anti-vegan leftists don’t buy chocolate or coffee, only use sustainable and fair-trade electronics, and make sure that all of the meat they eat (from local farms, the grocery store, and restaurants) is only farmed and processed by companies that don’t pay undocumented workers slave wages, don’t have astronomically high rates of PTSD in their workers, and don’t feed their livestock crops that are farmed by other slave laborers. It’s a shame about the carcinogens in their leather and farm communities but i’m sure they’ll figure that one out too
people on tumbler dot corn will be like "you really think veganism will change anything? that's such bourgeois thinking, which pales in effectiveness to my revolutionary strategy: doing nothing"