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Credibly accused of being a fascist, liberal, commie, anarchist, child, boomer, pointlessly pedantic, and db0's sockpuppet.

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Vegan for the iron deficiency.

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  • Late here but I think a couple of things are at play.

    Lots of morality is mediated by disgust. People with strange/uncomfortable -> disgust on a hair trigger are probs more likely to end up racist/queerphobic/generally reactionary as well as being disgusted at things which are actually bad.

    Second thing: Right wing nutjobs are fucking obsessed with purity/back to the landness. "clean" purity diets and rejection of modern "removed" farming/diets is absolutely on track for the sort of weirdos kept up at night by skull shape and genetic purity.






  • small percentage of humans being such massive assholes that turn every new tech into a new avenue of exploiting people ruin it.

    It's one of the deep ironies of interconnectedness. We can multiply the impact of positive people but awful people can reach massive audiences too and that's easier as good is often personalised.

    Previously you had a few jerks in your local community but now one scammer can robotically interfere with millions of lives. I think this strengthens the awful tendency to assume we live in fallen times or that humanity is fundamentally bad.