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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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See in each system we are choosing who dies, the disabled or the poor.

I don't know, maybe it's just me but I think the statement "universal healthcare is worthless unless all the healthcare offered is good" is just a flat-out bizarre statement tbh.

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It's simplification by necessity of being a comic, but the theory is sound. The worker who makes the product creates X value for the product, the truck driver (through convenience of transporting the product) creates Y value, and the marketer who drums up demand creates Z value. The product's value then equals X+Y+Z.

When one person takes more value than they contribute without increasing the cost of the product to account for it, they are stealing the labor of others.

All of the jobs you listed create value for a product. The point of the comic is to address the fact that managerial positions take more of a cut than they contribute.

(Note: I disagree with the ethics of a monied economy anyway, but that doesn't lessen the argument in the context of today's society)

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lmao at mozilla having to be like “not only did we not get rid of the fox in our logo but if all the people yelling at us actually use our browser they should have known that 🤔”

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okay not to be a dumbass but I thought BIPOC stood for Black and Indigenous POC. indiginous people aren't lazy in their activism so i dont think i understand your point

Y’all need to recognize that black resistance isn’t interchangeable with other minorities. You can’t take the black out of “black lives matter” or “black excellence” or “black girl magic” and substitute it with “women” or “Asian” or “trans” or “gay” ect. Doing so really dilutes our message and it’s just another form of appropriation that harms black activism. You need to find your own forms of resistance and respect ours as intrinsically tied to blackness.

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You are correct

I don't know if you guys have been hearing about what's happening in Myanmar, but here's a succinct video.

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Please read this thread again any time you think atheists aren’t culturally Christian.

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“…dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren’t a metaphor, but rather actual people we do not want our children to become.”

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joths (jewish goths)

image description: a digital illustration of three Jewish people dressed in clothing from different alternative subcultures. The first person is wearing a red tichel, red tartan trousers, a black t-shirt and gold jewellery. They have one hand on their hip and look upwards with a surprised expression. The second person wears a black lacy dress cinched in the waist with a corset, a black coffin-shaped bag, fishnets and silver Star of David earrings. She has straight black hair, dark makeup and multiple nose piercings. She smiles slightly with one hand in a 'rock on' gesture. The third person wears a black oversized sweatshirt, black and blue tripp pants and a hamsa earring in her left ear. She has black and grey dreadlocks and a can of Monster Energy in her right hand. The background is a black and grey checkerboard with a red and blue rectangles.

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real tired of hearing the vegan vs. omnivore arguments when the real superior diet in terms of both cruelty and ecosystem is locally sourced

beef and pork from a farm 10 minutes away from you is more ethical and less detrimental to the environment than quinoa grown in ecuador. the future is food forests. the green revolution is food forests. if we manage to survive this apocalyptic hellscape all of your food, plant and animal, is going to come from within half an hour of where you live. plant a vegetable garden in the meantime

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europeans act as if muslims are invading their countries and trying to make them muslim…bitch have you ever seen a muslim missionary? yeah that’s because they don’t exist. muslims aren’t supposed to try to convert people fkldfjasldf. white christians sure are trying to convert people, though!

colonialism is a part of too many white peoples’ identities on a level they don’t even understand…like a subconscious level. case in point: they don’t understand that someone might immigrate because they need a place to go or because they simply want to live somewhere else. conquest is the only reason for going to a “foreign” country that they are capable of conceptualizing. it’s so deeply ingrained that you see liberal white americans going “we are all immigrants!” as a counter to people on the right saying that immigrants need to leave the country…like no, the majority of white americans did not come here as immigrants, their ancestors came as colonizers. the majority of black americans did not come here as immigrants, their ancestors were kidnapped. native americans are not immigrants, they are native. immigration and colonization are not the same thing! not even a little bit!

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tbh we really need to have a conversation about digital poverty cos assuming all students have both their own laptop and a reliable wifi connection stinks of classism

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city dwelling liberals really make 0 effort to understand why rural voters lean conservative, and fixate on abolishing the electoral college instead of organizing to enfranchise rural non-voters

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You missed my points. I don't know if it was on purpose, but it sure seems intentional.

a) forever is very obviously a hyperbole. unless you extend the same hatred of owning land to home owners in cities then your point is less about colonization and more about hating rural people.

b) the points at the end were moreso saying that its easier to change the mind of a rural conservative young person because their worldview is built from lack of exposure. I find the typical leftist view of the unchanging bigot to be narrow and impractical. you also made this point so im unsure on where you disagree tbh. it was more of an addition than an argument

c) my point wasn't that all farmers in nebraska are ethical or even that they don't exploit migrant communities. i agree that agriculture is built on this exploitation. my point (regardless of how badly worded it was) is that poor white farmers *do* exist and *do* face a lot of struggles.

For clarification on where i actually disagree/agree with you since im realizing how badly i put together my thoughts:

most of your post seems to be saying (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that the majority of rural whites are choosing to be conservative for business interests while rural minorities are disenfranchised and therefore not voting. this disenfranchised is due to lack of resources for voter efforts in rural communities and due to the active voter suppression by republican lawmakers.

the only disagreement i have with this statement is that it ignores the class divide that, while obviously affecting poc at higher rates than white ppl, also affects white people and increasingly does so in rural communities in the modern era. i didnt succinctly say this, and i apologize.

city dwelling liberals really make 0 effort to understand why rural voters lean conservative, and fixate on abolishing the electoral college instead of organizing to enfranchise rural non-voters

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I *would* agree expect I think this is too much of a generalization of rural voters. When I lived in rural cali, this would be a very apt description of why rural ppl vote conservative.

But I live in Nebraska and 97-99% of farms are family owned and usually owned by poor people who've lived there forever. When bad storms hit and flooding happens, I know quite a few people who've committed suicide because their farm was their livelihood. FEMA gave (and still isn't giving) enough funding to even partially rebuild communities destroyed. Politicians joke about having to come to Nebraska once or twice because we have a swing vote in Omaha.

I'm a leftist (not liberal) and I can really understand why people vote conservative.

1) Democrats don't give a shit about rural America

2) The idea of a large federal government is scary to people who are systematically disenfranchised by the federal government

3) Because they don't have the same access to internet or resources in general, they are less likely to be exposed to opinions outside their own community

Bigoted city kids are *always* worse than bigoted rural kids in college. When my girlfriend came out to a friend of hers (a trump-voting white guy from the middle of nowhere) he immediately went found someone to talk to to educate himself so he could be as supportive as possible. A separate acquaintance I have who is similarly a white trump voter from the middle of nowhere is the best at using my pronouns and I've never had to bug him about them.

Rural people are usually socially conservative from a lack of exposure to different folks and the young ones are usually very willing to learn.

city dwelling liberals really make 0 effort to understand why rural voters lean conservative, and fixate on abolishing the electoral college instead of organizing to enfranchise rural non-voters

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today is the start of chanukah so for those who don't know: the holiday is celebrating the Maccabees, a group of ancient jewish freedom fighters.

the main jewish holy site, the Temple (and rly all of judea), had been conquered by the seleucid empire and repurposed into a temple for greek god Zeus. some upper class jews wanted to accept greek polytheism, letting the ancient tradition of judaism die out in favor of assimilation into empire. this of course was met with resistance from many jews, and that resistance was met with murder, subjugation, and outright religious persecution.as things in jewish history tend to go.

a large group of angry jews, largely poor farmers, who decided they werent afraid of death or imperialists or anything banded together as the Maccabees, named for the rebel leader Judah Maccabee and meaning "hammers". They fought a war against ensconced imperial forces, using largely guerrilla tactics and winning small skirmishes that built up over time into the ultimate victory: retaking the Temple and driving out the seleucids for good. as they celebrated and ritually cleansed the temple in accordance with the torah, the rebel fighters found that much had been taken or destroyed, with only one pot of oil left fit to light the Menorah, the religious lamp (which dates back to Moses himself). though there was only oil enough for one night, the lamp burned for eight nights, which was seen as a miracle and brings us back to the 8 candle lightings of modern day.

chanukah is definitely "not the most important jewish holiday" like many people say, but i wanted to share this story to bring some gravity to this celebratory time of year. we fry latkes and spin dreidels in the company of loved ones to bring joy in the winter, yes. but also, this tradition began as the revolt of an oppressed marginalized people, crushed by a government that did not represent them, left to rot by an upper class who sold their people out for nothing. the maccabees were not trained infantry, or a previous faction of government coming back together; they were just a ton of working class people unifying under a common cause, fighting scrappy battles to destroy the evil they saw looming. if you take anything from this holiday, it is the spirit of the maccabee: redouble your efforts to build and extend solidarity, release your fears of power and the size of our struggle, and dedicate yourself to fighting, in any way that you can. we too can unite, and push back the evil above us, and reclaim our world for all people. happy chanukah 🕎❤️