Consumer weakness.
It’s not that you’ve failed to offer a product that’s a good value proposition for the consumer no…
It’s their weakness. If they were stronger they’d buy your overpriced trash. The problem certainly is not that you’re selling trash. It can’t be.
I dont agree but I do think an overly individualistic and hedonistic approach to physical love can be harmful over time. There are people out there that are essentially masturbatng with another persons body and that is never going to be fulfilling in any meaningful way. A lot of mainstream, commercial porn portrays love making this way which can be problematic for so called gooners.
Dont think I’ve ever heard anyone outside the US say that.
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I’ve been seeing more “this minority demographic is to blame” from so called white liberals so I feel its important to challenge that notion and make it clear that the majority demographic has put their support behind Trump for three consecutive elections. In fact the majority of the majority demographic has voted for the Republican candidate since the civil rights act passed in 1964. Minorities are the only reason we’ve had any Democrats in the White House since then.
I agree with you generally. Pointing fingers is not a productive long term strategy. The only complicating factor here is that there are a sizable number of Trump supporters that are also Christian nationalists. Its hard to counter a racial supremacist ideology while ignoring race.
My philosophy is that looking at such data and recognizing trends is important in understanding how/why we got here but applying generalizations to an individual based on data is unproductive and reductive. I don’t think all Hispanic people are responsible for Trump’s election, nor are all White people.
A majority of White people voted for Trump (men and women) three elections in a row. Its unusual to treat the largest demographic in the county as a foregone conclusion and direct all ire at minority groups as a whole.
By all means, ire towards anyone that voted for Trump is acceptable but perhaps we should talk about who keeps voting for him over and over again.
Shout out to certain Indigineous communities, particularly the Wampis Nation, for expelling the Incas and Western colonial and corporate interests to preserve the rainforest.
Scientific evidence supports Indigenous conservation effectiveness across the Amazon. Lands legally titled to Indigenous peoples have lower deforestation rates than untitled Indigenous lands. In Peru, titling Indigenous lands between 2002 and 2005 reduced forest clearing by more than three-quarters and forest disturbance by roughly two-thirds. Areas under Indigenous management serve as robust carbon sinks, capturing 340 million metric tons annually—equivalent to the UK’s annual fossil fuel emissions.
Wow this is a big step since that guy that wanted a divorce and wasn’t granted it by the Pope decided to split from the Catholic church once upon a whenever.
I’m glad that the Catholic church got split then (lots of shady shit, they were directly taking donations to absolve sins ie. simony or indulgence payments) but this collaboration should not be relevant for most people.
No one sees an Anglican praying with a Catholic as a grand act of unity. Certainly not in the modern day.
In America corporations are people.
All for profit corporations have one simple goal which is to increase their parofits.
The governments that will allow them to do that are when Republicans are in charge.
Not sure who Leif Erikson is (Columbus’ arch nemesis?) but it is Indigineous Peoples day so doing something positive for any of the many tribes that were stewards of this land for the 30,000 years is also worth considering!
The real story here is Russia being so desperate they tried to coercively recruit a computer engineering student as a soldier.
This sounds like regular flavor imperialism. Though there is a lot of overlap. With fascism you need an internal enemy which in this governments case is illegal immigrants.
Let’s build a society that worships at the altar of capitalism and then be suprised when people prioritize capital over moral integrity.
Saudi just increased the offer until people accepted. Gillis said they immediately doubled the offer when he declined.
Many people like to pretend they don’t have a number but even those that are living comfortably often do.
If someone dangled a million in front of you to do work that’s essentially a repitition of or derivative of work you’d previously done, how many people do you know would say no to that?
Now these are comedians who are living very comfortably which makes it feel more wrong. But let’s not act like we can’t understand or relate to why they’re doing it. Every single one of us has people in our social circles would take an offer like this.
We all have our hard lines morally, no doubt. But I’d argue the majority of people would accept an offer of x million dollars to do a show in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else, if they didn’t think their own safety was at risk.
Perhaps we need to think about how this reflects on society as a whole, and the values we hold, rather than getting angry at any particular devotee to our extractive capitalist systems which uphold greed over moral good.
Probably good that the Archbishop who failed to act on an abuse scandal left.
The church moved him to Zimbabwe where he continued to abuse boys for decades. He even killed a 16 year old boy in 1992.
So while this is a “progressive” move, we should remember the big picture.
Let’s not forget that institutions have a tendency to put women on a glass cliff. They put women in leadership positions during difficult times so they can quietly fix underlying issues while also acting as a scapegoat, then they replace her with a man once back on track. They also get the try and distract from bad publicity by extolling “progressive values”.
It’s America. People are stuck in their own little hamster wheels of production and consumption. That’s a feature not a bug.
Many cultures adapt for the better / become more humanist with open migration. Think of it as enhancing your identity (which is likely just mid at best in its current form if we’re being real)
Fediverse is great but if its not going to pay “content creators” a large number of people won’t move to it. Those with the highest engagement generally expect to get paid now and for some of them its their livelihood.
They won’t chuckle. Jimmy isn’t that funny.
Western liberals have always been like this.
Western society is predicated on some people being more human than others (but, but my enlightenment values. ha)
Christian institutions tied themselves into knots to morally justify the horrors of the colonial era and Atlantic slave trade. The conclusion they reached is some people are just more peopley than others. These people being Christians.
Western attitudes towards human rights, egalitarianism etc are a direct extension of this era. Patting themselves on the back on being the chosen people and treating their own well while treating others like they’re the scum of the Earth.
The only way to get decent prices is if you use their gamified, personal information stealing app. Otherwise you’re paying out the ass for trash tier food. They did this to themselves.