Exactly. While certain dietary habits will most certainly have to shift if we’re to adequately tackle climate change, the framing of this as “everyone should just go vegan” falsely puts the onus on individual consumers to solve what is ultimately a systemic problem of production.

Mao and Stalin (though to a noticably lesser extent) actually had insightful things to say though. Mao’s essays on epistemology are genuinely really fantastic. And that can be true alongside all of the show trials and sparrow murder which was genuinely really fucking bad.

Pol Pot meanwhile admitted to never having really ever read Marx, and his faction of the Communist Party of Cambodia was more concerned about Khmer ultranationalism and anti-Vietmamese sentiment that had been brewing over the course of French colonialism, then with anything to do with building socialism.

So, I guess what I’m saying is that we ought to take a nuanced, grounded view of historic socialisms that accounts for their success and failures, and doesn’t fall into either mindless exoneration of awful shit, nor reflexively screeching “TANKIE TANKIE!!!” Every time anything vaguely socialist oriented comes up in discussion.

They do that because of Firefox goes, Google is open to being trust busted. Killing Firefox would be literal suicide for Google

It got France to this point (descent into authoritarianism), and you think that’s a good thing?

… Do you know what the French historically do to authoritarians???

I dunno if you know literally anything about the French, but Rioting is a long-standing part of their political culture over there. I’d argue it’s a good thing.

Not really. It’s a separate, temporary, register until a more permanent solution can be found, which given the way Nepalese politics has been since the overthrow of the monarchy in 2006, this is how everything has worked. Constant gridlock has created perpetually delayed “permanent solutions” for damn near everything. So this isn’t any different in that respect.

What’s considered South Asia is basically the Indian subcontinent. So India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, The Maldives, and sometimes Afghanistan depending on who you ask.

The Himalayas separate South Asia from what’s broadly considered East Asia, which is what Taiwan is a part of, given its historic ties to China.

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Tumblr has at least managed to carve out an interesting little niche for itself at this point.

Not sure I’d conflate r/The_Donald with the Republican Party’s turn into overt fascism, as a whole. But yeah, there’s something to be said for the dangers of ironic bigotry.

Watching major social media websites actively kill themselves has been nothing if not an experience

Physical media is superior. Don’t get me wrong, I love the convince of being able to stream any song I want, whenever, from my phone. But you don’t actually own that music, not even the digital music you bought.

So having that physical backup is good. But also, it’s just a fundamentally different experience, to have to put a record on a turntable, or a tape in a cassette deck, and listen to an album from back to front.