Actual hot take incoming to spice things up: I think calling to boycott the new wizard game was dumb liberal politics. Boycotting never works and never does anything, you’re just wasting your energy. I didn’t play the game because it was mid as fuck. All in all I think way too many people wasted too much of their energy being mad at the dumb game.
Children breadtuber hasan consumers and the adults separated themselves during this time.
i think its reasonable to boycott it, but you shouldnt put so much energy into defending the boycott. kind of a waste of time.
Again, boycotting just plain fucking doesn’t work. Never has, never will. It’s better to spend your energy building actual organizations dedicated to trans rights or whatever is the issue.
I thin Hasan’s take is pretty good here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8HRX-8x0eU
I also believe there is no ethical consumption under un capitalismo!! Buy buy buy! (treats por all)
Or, just, I dunno, make whatever consumer choices you think fit both your means and politics best and don’t try to police other people trying to do the same because that’s always going to be a game where nobody wins.
Also it’s just a fucking video game, it’s not the same as I dunno going to southeast asia for child sex tourism.
It wasn’t a boycott. It was asking people not to buy it. At least that’s all I’ve ever asked anyone. Like sure, we can’t make enough of a difference to stop them from making a sequel or whatever. But we can just show solidarity to our trans and Jewish friends and family. It wasn’t a huge ask.
genuine hot take. it’s demonstrably untrue that boycotting never works (in situations where the bulk of consumers of a product or service can be organized as a bloc it certainly does), but i agree that the attention given to it was disproportionate to the harm it actually represents and the benefits of focusing on it.
Yeah you sure are gonna need to be careful with that take.
Fascism, especially Nazism, was only particularly possible because it learned from the atrocities of colonialism.
This doesn’t diminish the horrors of either and both should be treated as evil.
Lebensarum wouldn’t exist without manifest destiny.
Not exactly. I have, however, seen people use this opinion to downplay the horrors of the Holocaust, which is why I agreed that you really have to make it clear that’s not what your intent is.
It’s common enough that when I see this take I immediately go :fry: until I can figure out the person’s angle.
Churchil killed 4 indians and 1 iranianian for every jew hitler killed.
So yes both are bad.
where’d you get these numbers? maximum counts for both iran and bengal are in the neighborhood of 3 million, that’d be parity with jewish victims of the holocaust, and less than half of the overall non-combatant victims of the nazis.
and the highest estimates for iranian deaths both in ww1 & 2 are working from United States population estimates, which is a strange source to put faith in
For bengal ive heard 20 million as a conservative estimate. The iranian famines are estimated from 1 to 13 million. Bu we know that the qajars had a similar revenue as the otoman empire. So we asume a simiral or larger population given that the otomans probably had higher tax eficiency. Yet at some point in the early to mid 20th century iranian population is reduced by half. So that it is now similar to turkey alone. The famine probably acounts for a large portion of that.
coffee/caffeine addiction serves the interests of capital, which is why it is not only legal, it is encouraged.
Only thing that work gives away for free is a stimulant :thonk:
This is why I don’t consume caffeine except on weekend mornings. Work only gets all-natural, stimulant-free labor from me.
It also taste good tho, somethings are just a “happy” coincidence. I feel like a lot of us intervention is them just exploiting something /weakness that already exist rather than creating something
Just because it serves the interests of capital doesn’t mean it’s unpleasant or can’t be otherwise enjoyed, just needs to recognised for what it is: a drug that enables people to feel better about shitty working conditions.
Okay but lets be fair and say coffee isnt made for capital, its being exploited by capital.
If i were in my hippie arts and crafts commune, id still want coffee
Ranch is fucking disgusting.
Plastic bottle hidden valley: pesticides
Powdered ranch mix in mayo with buttermilk: yimyum
The discourse surrounding reduction of working hours and workdays in a week is completely dominated by office workers and their perspectives.
Without a broader restructuring of wages and overtime pay (or of society) it will only serve to further alienate workers who already work more than the standard work week or are on call.
