For example, c/food is the best general population food forum I've ever seen for my particular needs. A lot of the non-vegan parts of the site is not just tolerant but considerate to vegans. That's frigging unheard of. I don't know what the big deal with shit posters is, but that is hardly the only or defining feature of the culture.
I feel like if you wade into a community you're not a member of and don't understand looking for shit posts, a lot of things are going to look like shit posts.
... id be up for some temporary power exchange if you are subtly hitting on me ...
A clock that keeps perfect time never reads the correct time. Non sequitur, I just think it's interesting.
They are. They absolutely are. One gives you all the social conservatism that the ruling class will permit you to have, and one gives you all the social progressiveness that the ruling class will permit you to have. They both work for the exact same interests. Whether or not the state allows gay marriage or abortion is totally irrelevant to the ruling class, has zero effect on their lives, and they give and take these things cynically not to advance a political cause but just to keep us scurrying back and forth, oscillating between panic and ersatz vindication, giving cover to allow them to shape the world 50 years from now into anything they please without any meaningful oversight or democratic input.
Voting in elections is literally the least engagement you can possibly have with governance without it being none at all. It's okay to "throw your vote away" if you are actually engaged. You make more of a difference in one day than any vote you cast makes.
Genocide is not a special interest group issue.
Honestly? I'll think about most people's genitals at some point in a day.
r/titlegore the fault of the original article
TAIWAN #1!! CHINA #4!!
It IS the propaganda that makes people decide that the military is a way out of poverty and not just another trap OF poverty. If there weren't recruiters in every poor neighbourhood's school, people might decide that joining a mission or Greenpeace or digging wells in Africa for a charity is their "only way" out of poverty.
I used to be really into computers 30 years ago...
It's aggressively bad.