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New Jim Crow has prevented people from voting for a long time. Ask any of the people now barred from voting because they smoked a plant that's now legal and making the wealthy class a lot of money.

The American myth of democracy is a strong one, but it needs to die. Even aside from the new jim crow (which Michelle Alexander lays out much more coherently than I did above in her book), half the population doesn't vote and we are only given two choices which the half that do vote openly calls their own party evil, as in lessor of two evils, evil.

Dont even get me started on our campaigns to "spread democracy" across the world.

We havent had democracy in a long time, if ever. Its always been the rich vs the rest of us. Its time to wake up.

on Oh lord yes · c/historymemes · 7 pts · 41d

While i question your kcal count, i agree that swimming is one of the few great exercises for weight loss.

Also what most people consider very long distance running (like at least 20 miles per week, realistically even more) is great. IIRC your body doesn't even start to primarily burn fat until like 30 or 40 minutes into an intense workout and it's slow to burn any.

Pay attention you are at the gym. 90% of the people on treadmills are walking with the vast majority getting off after 20 to 30 minutes. Dont get me wrong. Its better than doing nothing, but its like bare minimum maintenence and definitely not even close to fat loss.

People burn through a small amount of their glycogen stores at the gym. Maybe 100 to 200 calories. Go home and drink a 500 calorie smoothie as a reward and wonder why they aren't losing weight.

Yall don't want to abolish money?

The anarchists in Spain did that about a 100 years ago.

Orwell wrote a book about fighting in the war with them. The actual people who did it can be watched in color on youtube. Its quite good / entertaining watching them explain how they were against all vices but found themselves in the position of giving out free cigarettes and alcohol.

Dont be so lazy or small minded.

on Too real · c/programmer_humor · 1 pts · 72d

Learning Vim makes this meme even worse. I lose my mind watching people use the arrow keys to navigate a document.

The problem is too many women and minorities vote for the opposite party so they want to make laws that take away their rights without explicitly saying that is what they are doing.

on Cure · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 93d

I use soy milk to help meet my protein needs not wants. It is sold by three trees who only sells organics and only plant based milks.

I became a vegan to reduce my consumption and impact. It was not and still is not a popular decision. It was not advertised to me. It was and continues to be actually quite alienating.

I work to challenge "the system" in many ways other than my veganism, but to be clear veganism is challenging "the system." It is explicitly about making the choice to not indulge in wants if they cause harm.

Of course capitalists will cash in on any trend. Guilt by association is a fallacy that can be used to incorrectly dismiss anything.

on Cure · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 93d

Idk if this is you but it doesn't follow that because there is no ethical consumption under capitalism therefore I'll just have cows raped, separated from their babies, and murdered my whole life so I can drink their secretions.

Drinking soy or oat milk is definitely more ethical than cows milk. Im not saying it is saying it is 100% ethically pure just as no consumption under capitalism can be ethically pure.

Last I checked Ds and Rs support Israeli genocide. Or if its too recent for you just rewind and you will find obama droning down whole wedding parties because someone didnt support US hegemony (aka was a "terrorist"). Of course Bush committed war crimes all throughout the Middle East too. Voting Blue harder isn't going to fix your problems

If I had to guess on allies I would point to the coalition of Western European countries who routinely join US imperialist wars like the "war on terror" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Id say the military industrial complex is a murderous power structure. If you want specifics look at the Pentagon, CIA, and various "defense" contractors such as Raytheon, Palantir, and so on.

IMO the path to stop it is something like anarcho- communism which you can start doing in your own neighborhood by forming collectives.

White people and white culture are in positions of power. It is their foot on peoples' necks, quite literally.

If every other time I turned on my TV there was a different ethnicity doing this i would call them out, but that isn't what's happening and to somehow act like racism within the black community is part of the reason the black community keeps suffering from white racism is just distasteful to me.

I don't think that's what you are trying to say but it is certainly adjacent to position and I've heard many white folks argue that or similar, but don't worry its okay because they have "black friends" ^TM^.

Just call a spade a spade.

My issue isn't with white people, my issue is everytime someone accurately identifies an issue, there is always someone in the comments with the "its not all X..." except 95% of the people are not saying its all of them. It's a distraction.

Your comment proves exactly what im getting at you got so upset that I suggested white people have some issue that you didnt stop to question if you even understood what I was saying. Im not saying white people are inherently bad at birth. I never even said anything close to that.

We need to be able to say democrats have a genocide issue. Full stop.

White people have a racism problem. Full stop.

Cops have an accountability problem. Full stop.

Politicians have a lobbying issue. Full stop.