It’s a book about non monogamy and how to practice it in a considerate and sensitive manner.

Wrong!

No frotting the electricity

I’ve been called a tankie for just trying to be clear about what Marxism actually is. I would say I’m sympathetic to Marxists but not one. Having far stronger anarchist sympathies.

But you know, being critical of the usa or saying anything remotely positive about China/the ussr means you are either a Russian bot/op or a tankie.

I would quibble here and say that torture is actually an incredibly civilised act. I mean this not as an endorsement, but rather in the sense that only highly ‘civilised’ societies appear to have every carried out systematic torture. It seems to require a great deal of centralised, bureaucratic control in order to prevent instincts like empathy from preventing it.

It’s also worth pointing out that torture, as defined in a UN convention that is pretty broadly ratified is much broader than we normally think of it. It is defined as follows:

For the purposes of this Convention, the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

Which I think is food for thought. Portrail of torture is incredibly systemic in media, and I think we are numbed to it a great deal although I don’t know which way causality goes there. How many of you have seen cops handling someone roughly with the intent to hurt them or intimidating someone to make them pliable as routine ‘justice’? That is literally torture by a convention that it is highly likely the country they work for has ratified.

You topped my joke so hard you’re in orbit. Bra-fucking-vo, I’m in stitches.

I dunno what songs they’re singing but the lyrics seem a bit avant-garde

back in my day we just said SWIM unreservedly supports crimes.

Oh idk, fucksaws are pretty manly. Love a man that knows his way around a fucksaw.

Real men can shrug off any calibre not designed to punch through car engine blocks.

Shit, I hear that if you use enough power tools and watch enough sportsball even those liquid copper jet tank boomy things have a hard time getting through the protective crust of sawdust and testosterone.

quite frankly, if the repubs are allowed to make up stuff, so is everyone else.

Log off. Please log off, you are doing significant brain damage to yourself.

Jet fuel can’t shoot steel BBs!

you need to lay off the petrol sniffing mate.

Yeah I imagine whatever your reasons it’s probably a pretty stressful to carry out a suicide attack.

Idk, I live in a place where guns that look scary are banned and my interest is blackpowder and old timey low calibre target shooting /shrug

Ok look without getting into the ethics of political violence that’s embarrassing.

I am a baby with rifles, having only shot like 200 rounds? but I thought it was a low calibre rifle from the sound in the video and thought “wow decent accuracy from a 22 at 100 meters!”. Like I struggle to land on the target at 50 with open sights.

But an assault rifle? really?

Anyway this post was about “he is dead” being an absurd thing to say in “what we know” don’t shoot into crowds kids. That’s not very nice.

🙄 when you get angry at racists, sexists, sex pests, DVers, people that beat dogs, whatever are you angry because you want to feel a sense of self satisfaction? Or because it hurts you to see people hurting others and behaving in reprehensible ways?

Yeah me too.

it’s not a slur, it’s the name for the ideology you follow. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnism

Thinking it’s a slur is as silly as people thinking cis is a slur and exactly as reactionary.

I uh don’t think you understand what veganism is about.

I’m queer, and for a long time I was not allowed to marry my wife. Imagine how ridiculous it would be to say something like “you shouldn’t shame people for not treating you as an equal. You would have more of an impact trying to get people to recognise your relationship for medical authority purposes”. It’s just completely missing the point.

Humans are not fundamentally different to non human animals. Each one of them deserves dignity and respect, every cage must be empty.

Look I’ve got terrible depression and chronic nerve pain. Idk what to tell you, hurting isn’t a good reason to hurt others.

Personally I tend to feel better about myself when I’m doing good, I think that’s pretty common. It’s not so difficult of a change, if you learn like 5 solid lentil/bean based meals you can make easily (such as stews you can just throw in a pot) then you can just rotate through those as you learn.

Something like a chilli non carne, Moroccan chickpea stew, couple of dhals, and a pearl barley stew with lentils. I can dump some of what I use to avoid starvation when brushing my teeth is a 2 hour battle if you like?

If you value veganism either you should be vegan or you’re lazy and want others to fix problems while you hinder them