IT'S VEGANUARY !!

:vegan-edge: :vegan-edge: :vegan-edge: :vegan-edge: :vegan-edge: :vegan-edge: :vegan-edge:

the best time of year to start giving a shit about non-human animals

"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment."

🐮 Cows deserve to live their full lifespan

🐷 Pigs deserve a life free from exploitation

🐔 Chickens deserve a life free from genetic manipulation

If you've got any basic questions or concerns about veganism, !vegan@hexbear.net has a megathread devoted to that sort of discussion!

Liberation for all animals!

The State and Revolution

:lenin-shining: :unity: :kropotkin-shining:

The Conquest of Bread

AMAC and ACAB, sort by new

Yesterday’s megathread

Follow the ChapoChat twitter account :comrade-birdie:

THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!)

COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS

Join the fresh and beautiful batch of new comms:

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*like @glimmer_twin says, https://veganuary.com for recipes and guides for how to try it out!

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Just had someone on r*ddit unironically tell me labor doesn't have power any more because boats exist now. Lmao.

    To nobody's shock their a frequent /r/neoliberal poster.

    • Amorphous [any]
      ·
      4 years ago

      wait but boats have existed for, like, literally tens of thousands of years at least

      i dont understand

      • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Their argument is that importing goods is cheaper than local labor, without thinking that maybe there's political and economic factors driving that.

        It's a ignorant point from an even more ignorant person.

        I just made fun of them for not knowing boats existed until recently.

        • glimmer_twin [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          And how do they think those cheap imported goods are made, if not labour, lol?

          • gammison [none/use name]
            ·
            4 years ago

            How do they think those goods miraculously travel and arrive and get sold to them? They must just magically teleport from a factory into a store which magically sells it to you and maintains itself with no human interaction.

            • glimmer_twin [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              It’s like Star Trek, you just say “iPhone” into a microwave looking thing and it appears.

              Who made the microwave thing? I dunno, another microwave

              • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
                ·
                4 years ago

                you see, when a bird-microwave and a bee-microwave love each other very much, they utilize overlaping fields of electromagnetic radiation, in a special hug, causing intermolecular friction that spontaneously generates a tertiary microwave.

        • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
          ·
          4 years ago

          It's not even about what drives it or not, it's that humans in power have created transnational legal structures that encourage this sort of thing.

          The US was already one of the richest countries in the world even when it had a far more isolationist way of doing things. It's really just that the political project around open world markets benefits incumbent power.