Ok.
If someone's thinking about a lifelong decision, it's well worth that 3 hours of being spoonfed the dozens hours of research that went into it.
(That's just for whoever passes by to read this. I do not care what you do personally.)
VerticaGG
joined 1 year ago
Safe consumption sites save lives and improve communities, blatantly so when compared to the status quo. Fuck outta here with that tired, bloodsoaked, right-wing, reactionary NIMBYism.
You dont care and that dehumanization is why you'll catch an ez block; I'm not rehashing this debate for the nth time.
To those reading on or willing to learn more:
https://crackdownpod.com/ Actually hear the perspectives from survivors of the War on People [mostly of color] who use Drugs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8DA1LuZFk 5 minutes on why Harm Reduction/Safe Consumption Centers are a better way
Respond to right wing reactionaries who go out of their way to complain about vegans simply with "😇💌Triggered"
There. Now you are the Good Vegan™️
Nah they'll cower in other subthreads
Yeah. They address that. In excrucitiating detail. Listen, enough running circles abour it on boards. Just...watch the video, or read, i think the author's long form written reponse which is even more exhaustive.
Bc you can say that but then when you get into the actual root cause analysis and solutions you recognize you cant simply wave the issue off with "just adopt", and you begin to recognize the callousness, unrealistic expecration, classism and outright anti-intellectual dismissiveness such a write-off amounts to.
Go beyond, and beware the common regurgitated talking points, if you care for human rights, a better tomorrow and world liberated from authoritarianism, heirarchal domination, state class and money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeADcAaeDAg
It is a great injustice that the poor are denied the resources and means to start families. I extend that to non-traditional families, even beyond those that involve birth. Adoption I am told is incredibly difficult. As a trans woman with many chosen family who need to escape hostile situations, we are, as a big queer diaspora, in our own way denied generational wealth and greatly inhibited in the means of persisting our culture.
This is a topic that leftists should not cede ground on, certainly not so easily as is common
I used to be on this talking point but then I learned about how antinatalism is the tool of nazis. Like some real eugenics shit. Worth the dive into the topic.
Not even worth engaging with the obvious wUdAbOuT troll. Ty for doin it but fuuuck mute block delete, or speak past them and to those reading instead.
Preach it. One can appreciate mods efforts while also pushing back against respectability and "civility" discourse. Far from mutually exclusive, we need folks to more often acknowlwdge how exhausting the same tired mythbusting gets.
Moderation is lethal unless it prefigures itself to account for those who are silenced (and often far worse) by the wave of noise that is the statua quo. It's not just some nice thing a person does. There is a power dynamic and that means responsiblilty, being held accountable to that responsibilty, and if nothing fucking else than not being surprised to be greeted with frustrated profanity where they have fallen short. Maybe mod less subforums, but dont blame the marginalized folks standing up for themselves.
Thank. You.
Ez upvote holy fuck I'd trade places in a second as an anti-authoritarian, high-covid-risk person ill absolutely take that deal vs living in the land of the walking small pox blankets where the Small Business ™️ must flow.
The absolute fucking gall of comparing that to the 14 characteristics of fascism. Must be nice to be so insulated.
This is, at least in part, the topic of the book Capitalist Realism -- basically the Reagan-Thatcherite thinking that no other system could exist https://archive.org/details/capitalist-realism-is-there-no-alternative 10 min vid using fallout to explain that
Now, Valve could today make the company entirely a worker-owned cooperative, with sociocratic decision making. They could even extend these to consumers, a gaming collective. That'd still participate in capitalism, but it would do a lot of good systemically, compared to other options.