Tape doesn’t always refer to adhesive backed banding.

Think of all the non-adhesive tapes in modern day, like measuring tape, plumbing tape, video tape, cassette tape, binding tape, bias tape, Velcro tape, caution tape, seam tape, magnetic tape, etc.

Levels of whataboutism that would make conservatives proud. Truly quality Lemmy content.

Your comments show that your empathy is underdeveloped.

Comfort isn’t about yourself. When someone is grieving, you don’t do what makes yourself better, you do what makes them feel better.

Calling the loss of lives an ‘opportunity’ is making it about yourself because it describes how this situation benefits your personal religious agenda, not the beliefs of others. Proselytizing to others in their most vulnerable moment because it makes you feel accomplished is making it about yourself, not them.

You ask them thought provoking questions about Mormonism to get them to think critically about the foundations of their beliefs. Show them what it’s like to be treated like a human being and not a propaganda machine.

40% of Mormon missionaries leave their church after their missions.

Don’t turn them away. Talk to them with kindness and compassion, and understand that they grew up as victims of a cult. Show them there is so much more to the world than the what the LDS church tells them.

Hot take: eating a capybara is about as morally reprehensible as eating pasture-raised chicken.

I’m flexitarian and I eat meat. I just don’t want to be a hypocrite about it.

It’s so easy to romanticize the ‘violent overthrow of the ruling class’ as if social collapse doesn’t bring upon starvation, armed conflict, destitution, and mass instability.

Please stop with the armchair progressivism. The vast majority of American liberals aren’t protecting the ruling class, they’re working three jobs to feed a family for four while people like you treat them like a moral failure for making a realistic attempt against deep rooted conservatism.

How about you treat liberals like humans who have kids, family, and friends to think about, and not objects of sacrifice in your grandiose ‘theories’ that conveniently leaves out the mass casualties involved in the process?

Liberalism is a stepping stone to socialism.

You cannot institute change by expecting people to radically change their ideologies overnight. It happens bit by bit, through actionable steps, not condescension and anger.

Ask yourself this, do you truly want people to become more progressive, or do you just want to feel morally superior by yelling at people who don’t meet your standards?

American liberals are just trying to do the bare minimum of fighting fascism, and even that is a monumental task. Political infighting in the American left only helps conservatives. By the time you are done yelling at liberals, there will no longer be a country that has any shot at adopting ‘real leftist’ ideologies.

Are you a ‘real leftist’ who would rather attack liberals for not being not left enough before attacking conservatives?

Or are you a right wing plant here to sow political division among the American left?

Horseshoe theory strikes again.

Fibromyalgia sufferer here. People have seriously said ‘god made you like this for a reason’ and I’ve never wanted to punch someone’s face more.

I don’t remember what painlessness feels like anymore. Sometimes I look at look at the ends of my hair because it doesn’t have nerve endings, and that is the best reference for a body part that doesn’t experience pain.

High rises give way to urban density and walkable neighborhoods. Any costs in maintenance is easily offset by freeing hundreds of people from the costs of car ownership, medical costs due to sedentary lifestyles in unwalkable suburbs, provide more affordable and accessible community funded childcare, better access to healthy foods than in food deserts enforced by zoning, and reduction in homelessness related crimes.

Nothing is more socially isolating than car-centric suburban hell where anyone too young or too old to drive are deemed ineligible to leave their house independently and participate in society. Nothing creates anti-social behavior like forcing homelessness and desperation onto people who cannot afford to live in cities that are lacking in affordable public housing.

Speaking as someone who has lived in both urban highrise public housing and suburban hells in different parts of the world, the most socially isolating experience by far has been living in car-depedent suburbs with piss poor public transit, especially as someone who cannot drive often. Every will eventually become disabled and cannot drive. It’s just a matter of when. When that time comes, you better hope you can afford a retirement home or to have someone drive you, because if you can’t, you’re stuck right where you are. And that times sooner the less walking you find the time to do in a day.

High density housing bad and dystopian. Homelessness good. Now build more single family homes with lawns pls. /s

Roblox is literally actively shutting down anti-pedophilia efforts.

It’s clear from the moment you called anti-natalism fascism that words don’t mean anything to regressive fuckwits like you anymore.

How about you “go join q-anon and suck Charlie Kirk’s decomposing dick while you tout your ‘family values’ and pump out kids with room temperature IQ.”? See? I can also use words the same way you use ‘fascism’ to make a meaningless word salad.

Just because you can’t handle valid criticism it doesn’t make others fascist for calling you out. Go sit down and think of something original to write instead of copying everything I said with a flimsy ass ‘no u’. Everything you deflect is just another projection of yours.

Lmao complaining about my reading comprehension when you confused ‘sterilize’ with ‘euthanize’ is a whole other level of hypocrisy.

Keeps complaining after claiming after you’re ‘done responding to this thread’.

Words just don’t mean anything to you. You like to say whatever soothes your precious little ego and then backtrack when you get called out on it.

Can we cut it with the veganism bad boomer humor?

I’m not even vegetarian but this shit is getting old.

Removing humans? Again, shows how little you understand about anti-natalism. There is no ‘removing humans’ involved if they aren’t born in the first place.

I love how you substituted ‘sterilize’ with ‘euthanize’ as if they were the same thing, and then claim that I was the one who didn’t try to engage.

If you don’t care to learn you should have said so earlier. Anti-intellectuallism, bad faith arguments, pronatalism, false attribution, deflection, and projection are all hallmarks of conservatism. Go and take your conversative shit somewhere else.

That’s wild of you to think that not wanting kids is facism. Read up on the Cross of the Honour of the German Mother.

Anti-natalism is pro-working class because it goes against pronatalist ideologies. Working class women without affordable access to birth control are often trapped in a cycle of poverty, lack of higher education access, and financial dependency. Pronatalism is often presented under the guise of family values but actually aims to encourage the birth of more minimum wage workers and cannon fodder for the military industrial complex.

I’m not the one advocating the Great Man theory here, I’m merely emphasizing the ridiculous of your claim that one can only improve the world by birthing kids and raising them to do good. You don’t have to birth kids to do that, just fuckin do it yourself.

Your arguments are not written in good faith because to go as far as claiming that anti-natalism is facist shows how little you care to learn about the topic. You don’t actually care about anti-natalism, you care about being called out because you can’t emotionally handle the idea of being wrong.

There’s a certain degree of arrogance in thinking that you are contributing to a greater cause by potentially birthing and raising the next Einstein.

On paper, we may have enough resources to sustain the world population. In practice, we are no where nearly socially and politically progressive enough yet to support said population. Social progress doesn’t happen overnight. Birthing the next Nobel prize winner doesn’t instantly resolve climate change or end world hunger.

Of every person born, there will be far more people putting strain on a system that isn’t able to adequately distribute resources to those who need it. Most people make for dog shit parents.

Thoughts and prayers.