Treating us like a monolith ignores the millions of Americans who have dedicated themselves to bringing this beast down, most of us long before Trump ever took public office, some at great personal risk and consequence. We don’t assume that all Europeans are jew-scapegoating islamophobe vassal dogs who will slavishly comply with a war in Iran despite being seriously threatened with military annexation by the US within the past year, despite the optics begging that assessment, despite being poked with this “Do something, Americans!” stick only now that you too have been made materially uncomfortable (Like I’m fuckin tired boss, I have been doing something continually since Occupy Wall St when I took my first pepper spray, before they were using the more exotic chemicals). We know that despite the failure of Europeans as a whole to stop fascism on their soil before it was too late (Several times now) that there are freedom fighters over there too who dedicate their life and safety to pushing progress, and we applaud them. Even though they don’t usually get shot at or lynched by cops or shipped to a cage in another country when they get close to their goals. We know that it would be an insult and an erasure to assess them by the failures of their societies.
- 7 Posts
- 1.8K Comments
the vote is the only say you get.
bless your heart
Resentment politics, blue version.
deleted by creator
Everyone is demanding that somebody else go and do something.
You’re demanding Americans do something that you don’t even have the will to put into writing?
Are you asking us to rise up and overthrow our government?
Less maize and replace it with a wider variety of edible crops intended for domestic food consumption. Beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas, peanuts, alfalfa are all nitrogen fixers. We already have more soy than we know what to do with, it’s insane.
If you can’t grow plants you can’t raise bugs, either.
Please stop tempting fate holy shit
Soy and beef sectors, both of which have metastasized as a knock-on effect of oil crop subsidies.
You see, we subsidize the farming of soy because as a source of industrial oil, it’s a cash crop. But most of the plant isn’t valuable to this end, so the ruffage ends up getting used as ultra-cheap cattle feed, which results in more cattle farming (Which we already subsidize, too). And grocery shoppers will pay more for soy crisps than farmers will pay for ruffage, so it also floods store shelves. Soy and beef are both relatively high-protein products, so advertising begins emphasizing protein content.
In the US these days I’m pretty sure it’s the overwhelming majority. https://www.statista.com/statistics/204342/comparison-of-us-vehicle-production/
I actually like it, after getting the thought process. It’s The Treachery of Images.
Unnerving or annoying is still cool, that’s art.
Yeah my parents had a last-gen Chevy Nova (The tiny one that was actually a Corolla) when I was a kid, they made it work just fine. I have a mk5 Rabbit today probably at least in small part because my mom had a mk1 in college. Though to be fair the mk5 is nearly twice as big as the mk1, and it’s right around the time that everything was starting to get chiclet-shaped so it doesn’t have the nice hard lines of mk4 and below.
I do love vintage hatchbacks. Favorite car type.
The PT Cruiser is one of the more absurd abuses of US CAFE standards, it’s technically classified as a truck to skirt around fuel economy regulations. Chrysler didn’t have the balls to just lie about their fuel economy numbers like VW did at the time.
The fact of the matter is that anyone willing to pay $75K-$100K on average to climb a mountain is a prime mark for a $5K scam.
deleted by creator
…Is this something I’m too autistic to understand?
They have (had?) these across the California border from Vegas. Bright as fuck, you could see them dozens of miles away when flying in on a plane, but couldn’t look directly at them.
Homelessness?
Yes.