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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’m not sure the gate keeping you’re observing is all that much of an issue. I think it’s useful to remember many vegans are also public advocates for veganism. It’s important to them that people generally know what they mean when they advocate for veganism.

  However, the definition of all words are always in flux. It’s not uncommon to see people call themselves vegan when a more apt description of their lifestyle would be plant based, flexitarian, vegetarian, etc. As such, I think edge cases like your friend take on an outsized importance that goes beyond the morality of your friend eating honey.

  Basically, the goal may not be the social exclusion of your friend which is what I think is usually the problematic aspect of gatekeeping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I trust the United States government and so should you!” -Alphane Moon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s that relevant? Do you have counter evidence for any of the points I made or are you just desperately trying to prove you’re not a dupe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do check out RFE/RL and its sister outlets from time to time. It’s pretty obvious that their agenda aligns 1 for 1 with American foreign policy objectives. To be fair though, the US wouldn’t fund RFE/RL if it didn’t effectively dupe people into believing it was an unbiased source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean it’s designed to prevent partisan interference. RFE/RL’s purpose is to support US foreign policy which makes it inherently political. It is undeniably a propaganda outlet and therefore comparable in function to RT. You may trust American propaganda over Russian propaganda but that doesn’t mean the former is not propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What an absurd response. This is akin to saying RT isn’t Russian state propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Growth isn’t a problem when it’s sustainable. However, there are natural limits to how far and how fast technological development and resource extraction will allow us to grow the economy.

  Additionally, competition within capitalism forces the wealthy to seek out any and all means of growth. If they do not they actually risk all of their wealth becoming devalued. This drives innovation but it also is the driver of imperialism, exploitation, environmental degradation, all of which grow the economy.

  When growth because less attainable due to various natural constrains, the wealthy start to cannibalize the systems that keep society stable. Again, they can’t help themselves. If they don’t their class position is threatened as some other capital owner beats them to the limited profits that come from privatization and austerity.

  This usually results in mass unrest across all the various classes in society. That includes some of the middle classes who also rely on exploitation to maintain their standard of living. In response to threat of social unrest, the wealthy usually align themselves with right wing authoritarians that claim to be able to bring order to the chaos and renew growth through imperial expansion. This kind of politics is often supported by some of the downwardly mobile middle classes. That’s how we get fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get in the Hilux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point people do not actually become happier from additional wealth. If you create a system where people are allowed more than that you are just giving them power over vast quantities of resources for no particular reason. It becomes an incentive only for those whose lust for more cannot be satiated and is anti democratic by it’s very nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mlem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem isn’t just publishing though, it’s academia as well. Scientists are incentivized to publish in “prestigious” closed access journals such as Nature. They are led to believe it’s better for their career than publishing in open access journals such as PLOS One. As such, groundbreaking papers often get paywalled. Universities then feel obligated to pay outrageous subscription fees to access them.