Disposable plastic. It should never have been a thing, but by now it really shouldn’t be a thing. No plastic food containers, no plastic textiles, damn near everything should be in cotton bags or paper boxes or glass jars or unlined metal cans but we’re so damn accustomed to convenience that the permanent externality is seen as necessary. I’m willing to make allowances for safety and medicine but even there the focus should be developing good biodegradable plastic.
the west was too modern, scientific, and secular to fall prey to this stuff.
Anyone who grew up openly atheistic could have told you this was bullshit the entire time, at least in the US. The normalization of Christian lunacy did not start with 9/11.
majority of Americans here
As in on Lemmy. It’s not exactly a right-wing bastion.
“We should simply let imperialist tyrants do whatever they want!”
I know it feels good to vent, but the vast majority of Americans here already hate most of the American government (and the private entities that guide it).
And since you brought them up, Germany didn’t solve its own Nazi problem. Help. And stay vigilant because this problem is not confined to the United States, the Anglosphere, or even the “West”. We’re just further along.
Homer’s brain is anyway, the thoughts don’t usually make it all the way through Homer.
Yeah, how dare we live in an even slightly collectivist society! I should only have to maintain/pay for the infrastructure I personally use!
And while we’re at it, decolonize Polynesia.
Boy, this thread is just loaded with reprehensible takes and dudes telling on themselves.
This opinion is equal parts repellent and depressing. Get a hobby and a therapist, self-actualization is important.
I do find it oddly paradoxical that men who make it very clear that they are actively seeking sexual partners would disparage women for being sexually active.
They don’t want experienced, knowledgable, self-confident partners. They want naive young women they can gaslight and abuse.
By the standards of US presidents it wasn’t even that bad. More White Man’s Burden than bounties for scalps.
When did I say anything about banning drugs? I just said I don’t think it’s a good idea to make more addicitive substances for the sake of addiction.
Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.
Companies definitely should not be allowed to own companies.
Oh I’m very much aware of the entire coin. Police overreach, judges willing to turn a blind eye, Defense Attorneys more interested in looking out for themselves than serving the public, we’ve got a whole pile of shit before you even get to the jails-as-punishment and slavery-for-profit problems.
In Finland no-one wants to recognise our university-educated police can have anything wrong with them, especially on a systemic level.
This is getting tangential, but this point is pretty frustrating as an American. We hear about how racist our country is and how Europe doesn’t have these problems but it seems like we’re the only ones even trying to see the bigotry and classism inherent in the system, much less do something about it.
I’m sorry your own experience was so bad but I’m not surprised.
Police don’t need consent if they have reason to believe a violent crime is happening, and even from an ACAB perspective it would be wild to make community-protectors wait at the door in this situation. Everything after that point is an abject failure.
What, and lose an opportunity to funnel tax money to private interests?
Fuck no I’m not, I’m just continuing to use it in ways I want rather than that make money for billionaires.
There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.