Lol you think the West has just become the baddies?

Who is honestly shocked that support for LGBT people is fragile, varies by gender, and diminishes greatly depending on how old you are? I mean I’m practically older than legalized same-sex marriage has been in most of the West.

The same trends occur regarding womens’ rights, immigration, gender identity, etc as well.

It’s almost like the West has only ever engaged in performative lipservice to legitimize its hegemony.

Now we’ll all watch as the ‘free world’ wrings its hands and embraces US-fascism, along with all the hatred and discrimination it entails, because the alternative is reparations and letting non-white, non-Christian, non-capitalist countries call the shots. Everyone points and says ‘Nazis!’ at Republicans and Trump; but they forget that until the Blitzkreig, most Western countries were fine with antisemitism as long as the moneymaking machines went brrr

Meanwhile, the EU continuously engages in exploitative extractive capitalism across the Global South, just as the US does. Even the Mercosur-EU deal is based on large part by allowing EU-based corporations to invest in infrastructure that they build, they operate, and with a legal framework to challenge the sovereignty of the countries they need resources from in order to maintain their bloated wealth.

The West is a failing civilization that has contributed greatly to mankind, but has never been able to reckon with its violent and racist legacy.

And that’s why:

Y’all are cooked AF.

I’d argue Johnson sealed our fate when he rolled over for Confederates after the war.

But really the argument could bemade that the moment European explorers realized they could just kill people and take their homes away and nobody would stop them, they decided to make it a core part of their identity by rationalizing everything they can, and dismissing whatever they can’t.

The devil works hard, but colonizers work harder.

The suffering is just a side effect. Massive death is the goal, they just don’t want to have to get their hands dirty.

It’s probable that they’re betting on technological innovation to bring about a post-scarcity economy where profit and capital are irrelevant. And relatively speaking, that could a good thing.

The issue is instead of taking a reasonable utilitarian approach, these people would rather lean on things like:

unmitigated greed

racism

a romanticization of historical imperialism

the social construct within the Western capitalist mindset to incessantly seek new frontiers of exploitation

and the insidious belief that other people don’t deserve to participate in such a society; either because of their beliefs or because of immutable characteristics that deem them unworthy or otherwise burdensome to the system.

IMO, the tragedy is that while the rich want to bet on consolidating enough capital to shoot themselves out into space, the statistical likelihood that they will find anything within reach that even remotely resembles the beauty and habitability of our planet is very low. Too bad they will kill all of us first before realizing that.

Something something, when we cut down the last tree and poison the last river…

Observe the resurgence of right-wing nationalism in the West.

It’s not accidental that this phenomenon is occurring specifically within the context of algorithmic social media exclusively controlled by multinational corporations. It is collusion between these companies and certain political entities to consolidate political and economic power within the fortresses of wealthy Western countries, as a defensive posture to the projected collapse of habitability and globalized trade across the world. By exploiting peoples fears and internalized biases, these architects are redefining the West to meet their economic agenda.

Simply put, the political moment the West is living through is a manufactured cultural shift intended to psychologically prime the populace of said regions for the steady collapse of international law and human rights in the face of unprecedented ecological disaster and the resulting mass migration of displaced people.

Instead of reckoning with their fundamental role in creating this dire circumstance and pursuing a policy of redistribution of wealth and resources to minimize the impacts globally, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the wealthy oligarchs of the world are instead doing away with liberal values and leaning into a nostalgic ideology of social Darwinism and the belief that wealth is a product of intrinsic superiority.

Theres a beautiful video circulating of Seun Kuti speaking to a crowd and telling them that if Europe (and by extension, the West) can free itself from the destructive ideologies of its past, it will inherently lead to resolution of the conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and the Congo. It iterates the point I am presenting here in a beautifully succinct way and I recommend watching it.

Ah gotcha

Nah. I Live in the Great Basin. Anyone who thinks it’s a desolate, insufferable landscape can kindly stay away in their coddled temperate baby cribs.

Nah. Being naked in the face of the burning sun is superior to needing clothes for comfort.

Fascinating! Thank you for being informative. Truly appreciate it.

Technically false. Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) embeds itself in a cystic form in the skeletal muscle of cattle and is transmitted to humans through consumption of undercooked, contaminated beef. Not very common in North America, and relatively easy to catch during inspection, but youre wrong that undercooked beef is safe to eat, strictly from technical standpoint.

Also, can you provide evidence of your claim that pathogens only infect the ‘surface’ of beef, but penetrate chicken and pork?

That being said, I will always order beef tartare from a reputable restaurant if it’s offered. yolo

I mean, false equivalency, don’t you think? I have yet to meet an enjoyer of medium-rare chicken, probably because the Salmonella or Listeria already took them out

Lord have mercy on folks cooking their chicken to 400 F. Those birds will come out as dry as the sands of the Sahara.

Please don’t have kids.

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