I choose it as much as I’m able. The problem is cost. Anything that is even incidentally vegan tends to get the capitalist bourgeois markup, so it’s not always economically viable. Tofu used to be cheap, and even that has gotten expensive. I’ve been experimenting more with beans and lentils, but it feels very limiting.
The Discord news is hugging them to death. If you get past the captchas the email verification takes 24h to arrive and is expired when it does. It’s fine. I’m patient.
Not lifting a finger against fascism is actively voting for fascism. Yes, the choices were all bad, but one was obviously much, much worse and they made a choice. Nobody gets a pass for gross negligence simply because irresponsible decisions were lower-effort than others.
Even if she was an old white guy, being a scumbag neoliberal who would not condemn genocide would have lost the election. Being brown and a woman made her an even harder sell. People are sick and tired of neoliberal dirtbags that do everything in their power to screw over regular people while gaslighting them about it. That’s not an excuse to refuse to vote against full-blown fascism, but there needs to be a reckoning against neoliberalism and capitalism in general before anything will change.
They know what they’re saying is stupid. They are trying to build anger and when there is nothing material to twist, they have to invent something. Eventually they will build an entire alternate universe mythology around Mamdani, just as they do with all their enemies.
You should ask them whether they would enjoy a vacation on Venus, because that’s where this ends.