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    Sometimes, I wish I lacked a sense of guilt. I could make so much money conning these people…

    But then if I lacked a sense of guilt, I’d be one of them.

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      I hate to say it, but Dems should be trying to reclaim the word “freedom”. It makes absolutely no sense for Cons to be attached to it so strongly. We need more freedom fries and liberty toast.

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        I think they do, it’s just not repeated ad-nauseam and attached to everything like the Cons do. Free to be LGBTQ, free to read the books you want, free to organize labor, etc… Real, tangible, life-improving freedoms. Cons? All they want is freedom to take everyone else’s rights away. That’s their “freedom”.

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          But that’s the thing. The Dems want to campaign like they have for the past century, going out and making sensible campaign stops every so often. Obama was trying to change this, and honestly had the right of it - you blast your message everywhere, all at once, KEEP REPEATING IT, and shorten the general gist until it can fit in a meme.

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      It looks so easy 😭 I wish I had the starting capital and lack of morals to start one of these grifts.

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        Just print out the word “freedom” in size 72 times new roman on your printer (doesn’t matter if it won’t fit on one line) and tape it to some blank t-shirts. Go to a Republican event and sell them

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    she got the idea for the brand while watching the Republican debates, where she noticed audience members drinking water that had “no connection to the people drinking it.”

    They could have been drinking the same water as the blue team. Disgusting.

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      That’s just what I was thinking. It should contain added microplastics and industrial waste. And it should come in bottles made of plastic that cant’ be recycled and never breaks down. That would be the proper way to support right wing environmental policies. It would also be another “don’t get vaccinated” way for them to kill their own supporters.

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      I liked it better when W.C. Fields was attributed to have said it (although it isn’t definite that he did).

      He did say some fun things in about booze in films though:

      I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for.

      I exercise extreme self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

      Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days.

      He also once said something serious which is also my own policy:

      Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.

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    This sincerely might be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen, I don’t even have words anymore

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      You should use a reusable water bottle for that purpose though. Don’t reuse single-use plastic like that

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        Normally one puts used 2-liter pop bottles into recycling.

        Occasionally I reuse one a few times.

        Why would I buy a water bottle when I essentially have one—at times several—already?

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            Maybe, but such would be insufficient, IMO.

            We must cease using all plastic:

            plastic shopping bags, plastic textile bags, nylon, polyester, food wrap, margarine tubs, most electronics, automobiles, electric bikes, pedal bikes, definitely tires, plastic sandwich bags, tea bags, pens, chewing gum, filters, plastic pill bottles, plastic syringes, plastic in diapers, plastic in bandages, plastic in tampons, use only glass bottles for shampoos and conditioners, non-plastic combs and brushes, (most) imitation leather, plastic election signs, plastic gardening pots and trays, plastic garden hoses, plastic piping, plastic fuel containers, plastic casings for batteries, plastic electric chords, plastic in masks for the next pandemic, etc.

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              Nah you’re right, you should just keep using the same old sunlight-degraded Fuji bottle you’ve been using. Who cares if you’re drinking polyethylene, hell boil some coffee in that bad boy. Fuck minimizing exposure, it’s nothing to me champ, drink up.

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                Those go into recycling, which, IIUC, mostly go into the landfill because Toronto doesn’t rigourously enforce preparing and sorting recyclables enough.

                For a while I used a 1.5 liter vodka bottle (mostly as a lark) but it got broken.

                Metal containers also aren’t transparent—I like to see what I’m drinking.

                If re-use of plastic isn’t the answer, then recycling is definitely not the answer.

                At least 8 billion humans must stop using plastic.

                Perhaps a more realistic solution would be to sterilize humanity now: that way, by 2099, the environment will start to significantly improve.

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          Yes. Microplastics leech into your water when you reuse a single-use plastic bottle.

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            Microplastics are in the air we breathe and the water you’re filling your re-usable bottle with likely comes to the tap via plastic pipes.

            Moralizing people for re-using single-use plastic bottles is just virtue signaling. It’s basically impossible to avoid microplastics and if one cares about their health there are things you can do that have orders of magnitude greater impact on it such as staying lean and excercising.

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              1. Avoidance isn’t my goal. Reduction is. Might be the same for the other commentor

              2. Drink out of what you want, but I like being able to scrub my reusable bottle.

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              Dogs piss on dirt, so if you walk on the grass, you may as well just be drinking dog piss. Don’t demonize people for that.

              Thanks, dope ass logic. Let’s just ingest more plastic!!!