What I mean to say is the recycling isn’t possible. It just never worked, from the beginning the best they could do is add a little old plastic to the new plastic… You never end up with the same amount of plastic though, you always end up with way more plastic

Limiting plastic on the other hand? That’s doable, we can’t start soon enough

It wouldn’t. It’s like banning decomposition… Good fucking luck, you can play with it a little, but ultimately it’s just not possible

That’s the annoying part. It’s not performative.

From my perspective, it’s like most people just mindlessly stumble through the world how they’ve been taught. They turn on lights not because they need it, but because it’s normal. They trust the label on the back of products over their own lived experience of using it.

I like the dark. I like the sun. I like being able to see. I see just fine in the dark. Excess artificial lights make it so I see less. This isn’t a me problem, this is you projecting

I’m not being weird or edgy. I’m not inviting you to comment, I’m being comfortable. I’m so tired of pretending, it’s fucking exhausting. I don’t need to come into the light, I want to be acceped as I am, not what you think I should be. If you ask genuinely wanting to understand, I’d explain that I like it. I’m so tired of explaining myself to people asking “why are you sitting in the dark?”

No, it’s because consulting companies like McKinsey tell Microsoft, ea, and Ubisoft that micro transactions will make stock go up, then they go to investment groups and say micro transactions are the sign of a gaming company about to make money

They have all the metrics, they aren’t doing what makes them the most sales or revenue. They’re doing what makes the stock price dance

Yes. Literally brain dead.

When you collaborate with fascists, it always goes one way. They use you, then they turn on you. Every single time.

They must always be the victims. There must always be new enemies. If you join hands with fascists, you’re just empowering them and volunteering yourself as the next enemy

What do you think this would even look like? They like the trappings of Christianity. They’re not going to give up religion. They’re just going to pick or create a more convenient hate-filled flavor and try to make it the national religion

There’s a word for that. It’s called collaboration.

I don’t care what you want to do, working with fascists is the stupidest way to do it.

I read it and I still have no idea what this is

No fucking duh. Recycling was always a lie. Especially single stream recycling

Plastics can be recycled… It’s just never viable to actually do it

My understanding is he told them to work through the local authorities

Which…I mean… Do you want the Catholic Church doing the investigation?

It’s really not. The name Leo is associated with workers rights and human dignity, the guy has been directly calling out Vance and Trump, and the guy has strong ties to south America and was Francis’s right hand man

The guy gave his speech in Italian and Spanish, not English. This is not a maga pope

You’d join hands with fascists against a pope put in place to oppose it?

No, that’s legal insider trading. Telling people that a vote is about to go a certain way and them trading on that is still illegal, because reasons

If Trump gave MTG a heads up and she invested, I’m pretty sure that’s illegal

They’re not full of hate - they’re full of fear and anger. Warranted fear and anger. Just misdirected

In Trump’s last presidency, nothing fascist really happened. Bad things certainly, disastrous even, but honestly? Living through it, it was mostly business as usual. Things got worse, but the COVID response was really the worst, and there’s no living comparison… So it’s a mishandling of a unique crisis, so it was what it was

You don’t understand propoganda.

One of the times I felt most ignorant was when I was working in France, and talking politics I called them socialist and they laughed. Because all my life, France was labeled socialist, I learned it in elementary school through college. I was already a leftist. But I never thought to evaluate my understanding of socialism against my understanding of French politics. And when called out, I immediately realized it was a complete blind spot and felt ashamed. I learned to doubt what I’d been taught, to examine my geopolitical beliefs more deeply. I’d never have done that without a wakeup call

They don’t know what fascism is. They’ve never experienced it. The Nazis are unambigiously evil to them, but they don’t know the fascism checklist. The news they consume reframes everything as normal partisan politics… It downplays it all to a degree that can only be described as lies.

They don’t know that there’s any inconsistency. They are the highest form of ignorant - they don’t know to question yet

I’m not talking about Nazis. When all this is over, they can deal with the consequences of their actions

I’m talking about the people who genuinely have no idea what’s going on. The Trump supporters you see in real life. The ones who were shocked when the tarrifs went through. The ones who think Trump is religious. The ones who thought Elon was actually intelligent and is reducing fraud

Most people you meet in real life aren’t the raving lunatics you see online, they’re people who watch the news. In American news, everything Trump says is sane washed.

They aren’t Nazis. They don’t believe Nazi things. They don’t know or understand what’s going on, they think it’s business as usual because that’s what they’re being told

There’s genuinely not very many Nazis, there’s plenty of casual bigots, but the ignorant vastly outnumber the true believers

You can’t just write them all off. Some of them are just raving bigots and cultusts, fuck them. Let them the first step themselves, otherwise

Most of them were just lied to. Constantly, for all their lives. They don’t realize they’ve been lied to constantly, they don’t know to question it

They don’t have much interest in politics, because it’s long been the uni party fucking them over in different ways. Everything just gets worse, and they just want to live their lives

If anything, I think most people are leftists, they just don’t realize it yet. They just have to be woken up. They need to wake up to the lies, and they’re now woke. Most people can’t achieve that without a push, most people can’t even examine their own beliefs to that extent - they need someone to break things down for them and help think for them

You can be angry at them, but they’re angry too. We have to live with them. You can blame them, but that’s unproductive… We’re not going to kill them. They’re still going to exist. They’re still going to vote.

We can use them, their anger, their need for change. We offer what they don’t know they want. Winning is what matters

I agree to a certain extent, but at the same time - what level of responsibility do we really have?

I’d say it’s virtuous to keep yourself educated, but it’s also virtuous to realize your limits and to recognize when you should trust others on things beyond you. No one can know everything, and being able to weigh conflicting accounts accurately is a rare skill

Humans naturally drift to a certain distance from their perceived community consensus. Like the Overton window, or the whole concept of “normalizing” things. Our beliefs are relative to our society

Propoganda hacks this. If you hear something uncontested frequently, you start to internalize it. It happens without actually processing the information. If people around you generally seem to hold an opinion, your opinion is relative to this - except with social media, algorithms purposefully distort what you are exposed to

It just doesn’t seem fair to blame people for not rising above their own nature

Let’s say you have this test. If a few people fail, you can blame them. If half of them fail, you have to blame the teacher or the curriculum

If when you do something to a population, then get consistent results statistically, it’s not fair to blame people for not being outliers

Also, a lot of people are in a bubble when they go online. Maybe they go to their favorite news site, maybe it originates from Facebook, Instagram, tik Tok, even reddit at this point.

Their Internet bubble isn’t the same as yours, and a handful of people are purposely manipulating what people see. They edit Trump’s speech and package it by explaining what he actually meant, and so when they hear “Trump said he’s not sure if he has to uphold the Constitution” they’ve already got it ready to go in their heads “oh, that was out of context, he meant his lawyers are interpreting the constitution”

Fair, my AC has been on the fritz and I’ve been waking up sweating or freezing (it’s getting fixed tomorrow) but this is different

But I ask mostly because multiple other people who live hours away have been waking up at the same times, same time frame. Two is a coincidence three is a pattern and all that

My dreams when I do manage to go back to sleep are unusually uncomfortable, I’ll keep that in mind

My friend also has told me about some disturbing dreams in the same time frame

Yes, but I’ve got blackout shades and my apartment is on the west side