Seems a little on the…ah, “colonial tourism”?..scale. It’s not like these folks are going to stay and do some kind of real cultural exchange and contribute or anything. But at least they seem reasonably sympathetic and respectful of boundaries, and it’s neat to get a brief glance and a bit of cool liberation propaganda at the end.
Twitter is truly the 4chan of the modern Internet. Well, if 4chan had been broadcast and normalized all over the fucking news, anyway, instead of being the closeted cesspit of bigotry that it was.
Steal from a corporation?! Unlikely. I’m guessing he stole them from his neighbor’s kid or something. Or his own. (Does he have kids? I don’t even really care to find out.)
This guy is a pretty hopeless liberal. While he’s absolutely obsessed with a certain brand of conservative—and particularly how they behave on the Internet and other public patforms—he identifies himself as part of the status quo of the Democratic Party (you can see this all the time when he uses the word “we”). In particular, he attributes a lot of shit to Democrats without introspection, like assuming they are always honest and well-intentioned.
Like, how would he tell you Democrats are behaving about the concentration camps literally being run within the U.S., now under the direct control of the Democratic administration of Joe “Take Back The Streets” Biden? Would he take a moment of thought and then eat his hat and acknowledge that they’re pulling exactly the same behavior that he’s describing here for Republicans? The militarization of the police? The continued warmongering, and support of fascists abroad (e.g. Israel)?
This is not leftist material. It’s just a part of fearmongering about Republicans in order to get people to accept and wholeheartedly support the fascists under the other brand name of the U.S. uniparty, and never look a single millimeter beyond. Get this shit off BreadTube. Seriously. We can do MUCH better.
No, traditions and customs aren’t laws. Sorry, but that’s some big-brained liberal nonsense, designed as apologetic propaganda for the legal injustice system. IMO Peter Gelderloos provides a pretty good functional definition:
Anarchists take an entirely different view of the problems that authoritarian societies place within the framework of crime and punishment. A crime is the violation of a written law, and laws are imposed by elite bodies. In the final instance, the question is not whether someone is hurting others but whether she is disobeying the orders of the elite. As a response to crime, punishment creates hierarchies of morality and power between the criminal and the dispensers of justice. It denies the criminal the resources he may need to reintegrate into the community and to stop hurting others.
In an empowered society, people do not need written laws; they have the power to determine whether someone is preventing them from fulfilling their needs, and can call on their peers for help resolving conflicts. In this view, the problem is not crime, but social harm — actions such as assault and drunk driving that actually hurt other people. This paradigm does away with the category of victimless crime, and reveals the absurdity of protecting the property rights of privileged people over the survival needs of others. The outrages typical of capitalist justice, such as arresting the hungry for stealing from the wealthy, would not be possible in a needs-based paradigm.
The existence of law is 100% a bad thing, even if sometimes some not-awful stuff happens to be encoded into it (generally due to concessions made by the powerful to prevent revolt over the rest of their oppressive garbage).
EDIT: Not sure if people realize, but the criticism is addressed toward the idiot liberal lawyer who’s a guest at the beginning, not toward Abi’s video overall, which is generally much better than his tripe.
Kshama spitting truth! Someone’s fighting to improve material conditions for the working class here, and it sure as fuck ain’t the Democrats (or Republicans, but that’s obvious)!
Regardless of how much good vegan diets do for the climate (which is already quite a lot), it is important to note that most vegans, myself included, are vegan for ethical reasons.
The vast majority of humans can thrive on a diet the does not include animal-based ingredients. Even B12 is easier to get, as the only reason meat is currently a good source of B12 is due to the animals being fed supplements. You are still getting supplemented B12, just one step removed.
There are some people who cannot live without meat, which is why we also advocate for lab-grown meat. But in my own experience, the majority of people who say they need to eat meat for health reasons do so more for convenience or taste reasons. They often only mention these health issues after they are confronted with the reality of animal agriculture, and will continue to claim illness even when they have never tried alternatives.
At the end of the day, ending the life of a sentient being simply because you want 15 minutes of pleasure in the form of a particular kind of food is morally abhorrent. If it is considered abuse to hit an animal for not doing what you want (which is the case for every animal except those in factory farms), then killing them for an even less consequential reason should also be seen as abuse.
All of the above is not even to mention the absolute horrors that workers endure in slaughterhouses, the number of zoonotic diseases people die from as a result of squalid conditions and overuse of antibiotics in factory farms, and the fact that we grow more food to feed livestock than we do to feed humans, despite meat and dairy making up less than half our food supply.
Animal agriculture is unnecessary at best, and downright psychopathic at worst. Animals are not commodities; they are living, breathing, feeling beings that have been proven time and again to experience suffering and pain. Going vegan will not hurt you, the climate, your health, your children, or anyone else, and it will ensure that another creature is not forced to live a short, torturous, and painful existence simply because you want a particular kind of sandwich.
Workers absolutely do not own and self-manage their workplaces in China. There is nothing communist about it, except propaganda used to falsely promote its rulers. Economic systems are defined by the actual, material relations involved in them, not in the lies told by their PR.
EDIT: Note that others may or may not want to address the connection you make between China and fascism. I chose not to, because it is irrelevant to the question of whether anything about China implies something about communism.
Since when was thunderfoot considered breadtube? He’s had some pretty regressive/reactionary takes in the past.
I sort of wrote him off years ago. Can anyone give me a convincing argument I should change my mind?
I assume nobody is going to see this, as the post already has negative points.
I don’t think the creator is considered by most to be. I posted this video because decarbonization and actually doing something to combat climate change is fundamentally anticapitalist when getting down to brass tacks. This video gives an easy-to-understand demonstration of the current state and future projections of anthropogenic climate change.
I won’t try to change your mind on any person in particular, just highlight that ideas can be correct even if the person saying them is disliked and/or has other wrong or disagreeable ideas. No one can pass an internet-wide scrutinizing purity test, especially when conducted by leftists haha.
Edit: Sorry for the weird reply format. I’m just trying it out bcause I do not want my reply comments to be hidden if the original comment is deleted.
GOOD take. Watched it all and I agree not only on the points presented but also on the weight placed between competing and complimentary critiques and approaches. Thanks for sharing.
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