Good you did! Hexbear and Lemmygrad are fine communities.

Yes, please.

Fi hefyd. ❤️

I remember vividly when I used self checkout in Asda for the first and the last time… It had similar camera setup, saw myself scanning, and freaked out a bit. Creepy af. I hope it’s not becoming the new normal, tho it looks worrying.

Beautiful. 🤌

Living up to his name, Kid Starver.

✅Wearing green ✅Easter Lily pin ✅St. Paddy’s event ✅Tiocfaidh ár lá

Ah, Finns, the innocent bystanders who were forced to ally with Hitler for survival. Cringeland.

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666! Good video!

I recently received that very same Genocide Watch document as “evidence”. It’s insane that there are people who believe in this nonsense. They don’t even check where the accusations originate from.

It’s good to have an escape plan and leave early enough. It saddens me to say this, but what can we do when there is no healthy working class movement and time is running out faster than people can be organised.

ProleWiki is a good start.

Correct. Failure of class war left generational scars, and WWII gave an illusion of unity. Class consciousness is effectively replaced with reactionary garbage. People think Finland is bee’s knees and buys into bourgeoisie propaganda without questioning. A clown country, truly.

Indeed. Finns firmly believe their own propaganda, like “we were the good guys and innocent bystanders who got brutally attacked by the Soviet Union” or “we have no homeless” or “there is no racism in Finland” etc. Everyone has heard of American exceptionalism, but Finland has its own version too. A country with a healthy working class movement would not allow this.

Period pads, comrades. Period pads.

666

It’s Farage’s party.

It took longer than I wanted, but I’m glad I was able to allocate some time for second reading and writing these thoughts.

Since this is indeed dense essay and says a lot of things in compressed form, it is important to take some time to let the text be absorbed. First reading absolutely was good, and I picked up couple parts that made me go “that’s it!” On the second one though I was able to gather plenty more interesting parts which I had not paid attention enough. Funny enough, second reading also blew off those floaty thoughts as they actually had been said already in the text itself and thus is redundant to repeat. Perhaps this should be read couple more times for it to be fully understood. Alas, that’ll take many moons, at least for me.

Maurizi quote, we can see this in a base and superstructure form. Our base is exploitation of animals which then gives the ground for view that animals are inferior, thus giving room for further exploitation and so on the spiral moves.

Similarly to vegans, superstructure isn’t showing animal liberation activism in a good light either. Even the more tame direct action, where activists break into fur farms just to take photos is still painted with a wide brush as illegal activity despite the horrific conditions of the animals it exposed. Peoples view on something like fur farming is changing however, and it isn’t supported widely any more. Finland is notoriously the largest fox fur farmer in the EU, but the majority of Finns support immediate ban for fur farming. Only 13% are fine with current conditions and support fur farming. We have better ways of clothing ourselves than fur. Even if it seems like people have become more ethical due to this, they still eat animals. Showing the horrors alone may set some individual on the path of veganism, but for it to become dominating the base has to change. When we no longer depend on something or are under the belief that it’s essential, it’s easier to let go of it even without intent of doing so.

Fur farming is easy to call unnecessary and just cruel practice, and people will agree. Dairy, egg, meat, wool etc. industries aren’t there yet. I think we need more distance to it until the moral aspect becomes the standard, much like with fur farming now.

Indirectly related to this – but as a perfect example of my thoughts how things will change – I just saw a video of empty egg aisles in the US and how H5N1 has been the reason for this shortage. Not only the aisles are deserted, the prices are astronomical, and it brings up the question: who could afford to buy these eggs? The poor people just gotta find an alternative, a bit better off folk are probably skipping them too and truly economically safe minority can buy without problems. Even if there are state subsidies to artificially lower egg prices, there still will be shortages that will shape the society. H5N1 has already been spreading to non-avian animals, so this most likely will affect other parts of the animal agriculture too. Even without climate change, this kind of issue is pushing the majority to seek alternatives. Given eggs for example become more exclusive it has a direct effect on other food production such as baked goods. Either prices go up and thus these products become exclusive too, or eggs are replaced or omitted entirely and prices remain as they were or even drop thus avoiding becoming a luxury. So not only the ordinary people are affected by something like this, the whole food production is.

It’s all about the economics, not morals, for those come afterwards.

Regardless of the society moving slowly forwards on its own weight we shouldn’t just sit down and wait. Your thoughts on what we could do are good, and I’d like to underline that it indeed is crucial to do peaceful agitprop from Marxist perspective. We’ve seen it so many times how diving in morals first – no matter how correct we would be – yields a prompt rejection and is rather damaging. Paraphrasing Eugenia Cheng on maths education in the US: how we do things now gives us negative results so it’d be better to do nothing since zero is greater than negative numbers. It’s unfortunate that we cannot just show the unethical horror show that the animal agriculture is and make world go vegan on a heart beat. It will take a long time similarly to going from socialism to communism, but that doesn’t stop us from working towards it.

Good essay and I definitely must give it a second, more focused, reading.

I have few floaty and raw thoughts which I’ll try to put into some coherent form later after re-reading.

I guess if Hexbear already offers a suitable place, then that might as well be used.