Inui [comrade/them]

I’m literally just talking about how I wouldn’t feel anything at all if things turned out differently. I hope you put as much effort toward your grassroots campaigns as you do chastizing people online about making fun of fascists.

At what point does someone calling for and causing harm to people you care about sufficient before you lose all empathy for them? How come politicians can literally get away with poisoning people’s water like in Flint, couping foreign governments, and contributing to the deaths of thousands or even millions but I can’t post memes when they die or else I’m worse than them by some brainworm logic? It’s so hypocritical the way they go unscathed because they didn’t put a gun to someone’s head directly. Now every milquetoast senator is sending well wishes to someone who would rather see them dead or deported. People should act in a way deserving of that empathy and maybe people would show it.

Technically true but they belong to the same ‘service’ and because of the vague policy, I dont know whether that means they’d suddenly terminate my account.

So I can’t even use two different Lemmy accounts on different instances? Or have a public social media account and a ‘business’ one I use to share my own music or something? My dual-boxing MMO accounts? There’s a lot of use cases for 2 emails/accounts at the very least.

That’s the funny thing is that they don’t have to. They just sign a form that affirms their strongly held conviction. No explanation necessary, because otherwise school admins would have the messy job of ruling on what is and isn’t legitimate belief. Just have to hope more states follow suit.

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We’re arguing for the rights of animals over the rights of people who want to take them away. I just told you there’s no debate that killing an animal is killing an animal. How do you disagree with that? I never said ‘murder’, that’s trying to muddy the waters. The abortion debate is about whether or not abortion is killing a living being. Slaughtering animals is objectively so.

I edited my comment after I made it, but you have to kill an animal to get meat. There’s no debate around fetal development or rights of the mother vs. the child. There’s no religion involved. If you argue that torturing or killing animals doesn’t hurt them, you’re arguing in bad faith. Even people who eat meat won’t deny it. They just don’t care. You could just as easily frame vegans as the abortion activists surrounded by anti-abortion folks.

And the context is completely different. To get meat, you have to kill or harm an animal. There’s no wiggle room there.

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