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In the show,

says something to the effect of:

The show basically requires you to be a bloodmouth for that to make sense, which is annoying. If you ignore that giant plot hole, it’s pretty interesting though.

Good. LLMs are a fucking blight on the world and every company that pushes that dogshit deserves to implode.

Eat shit. Fuck off already. Decades too late. Pelosi always sucked.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, which is different from a social democrat, as you labeled him. Yes, many of his proposed policies are steps toward social democracy, rather than actual socialism, but I can’t expect one mayor, even in one of the largest cities, to somehow enact real socialism.

That distinction aside: all we can do is apply pressure and hope that Mamdani doesn’t meaningfully sell-out the working class in NYC.

I’m glad you found your way to being vegan! I have a pretty different background (I was never a vegetarian) and I just want to share as well:

I definitely agree that if you’re doing whole foods, you’re gonna have a great time being vegan. I am what I’d call a junk food vegan (because I was a junk food carnist for all my life previously), and have been for ~5 years, but I met someone wonderful that’s showing me how to enjoy eating good whole foods and I’m really enjoying it!

I went from carnist to vegan immediately in an area that is considered a food desert. It’s very easy once you internalize the ethics and understand that the exploitation we do to other beings that can suffer is wrong. I will never go back to excusing and paying for the rape, murder, or torture of anyone ever again.

Stories like yours and mine are why it’s so great that vegan food is just regular food. Even carnists and vegetarians eat it because it’s normal food (lentils, beans, oats, leafy greens, etc.), and if they don’t, they will simply malnourish themselves or perish. Most people, aside from some very unfortunate cases, are already used to eating “vegan” food. They just need to understand why consuming animal products when it is possible for them to avoid them is wrong and harmful.

Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections “drama”? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they’re being immature, even when they’re obviously right.

Objecting to a fascist government’s influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.