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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Trump is the exact opposite of everything Jesus Christ stands for in the Bible.

    Jesus: Feed the hungry. Trump: Takes away food stamps.
    Jesus: Heal the sick. Trump: takes away medicare and medicaid and is undermining affordable healthcare.
    Jesus: Fought authoritarianism in the temples, Trump: Acting like a fascist and having ICE use Gestapo methods, and attempted a coup once and is planning a new one.
    Jesus: Be humble. Trump is a flaming narcissist, always putting himself first.
    Jesus: Help the poor. Trump: Undermining everything that helps the poor and even middle class.
    Jesus: Be merciful and forgive. Trump: Extremely vengeful firing people he don’t like so they don’t get their pension, constantly threatening people who oppose him even the slightest.
    Jesus: Respect the law. Trump: No respect for the law, a criminal and a traitor.







  • AOC would be a stellar choice IMO, but 90% of the 1% would probably be against her, and that’s about half of all the money in USA.
    Social democracies in Scandinavia work DESPITE being undermined by the rich, so the political shrewdness and tenacity that would be required of her is insane. She would need a lot of backup from the population, and the population will need patience.

    Because rebuilding the institutions in USA to their former standard is already a lot of work, but rebuilding them to the standard of a proper social democracy is something USA has never seen before, and will be very difficult.
    For starters it requires USA to become an actual democracy instead of the dysfunctional democracy that USA many Americans praise as divine and sent from heaven. A multi party system is a must for true democracy, and until USA has at least 8 parties represented in congress, it is not really a functioning democracy at all.












  • Yes, but meat demands are also deforesting huge swathes of land all over the world.

    You can use that argument for everything that isn’t run in a sustainable manner. The same can go for growing vegetables that are not for animal feeding but human consumption. But it can be done in a sustainable manner, and obviously that was what I meant.

    Brazil’s deforestation is the world’s most extreme.

    Last I heard the land recovered from deforestation in Brazil is not very good, and generally cannot sustain their crops for long, the land becomes infertile, and they continue the deforestation.
    This is unsustainable no matter what the crop is or is for. And is not a good argument against farming that is sustainable.
    It especially sucks when it’s rain forest that is lost, because it is extremely hard to get to recover again. I live in Denmark, and we produce 3 times more meat than we consume, and that is done with sustainable farming. Most of the farmland we have today used to be infertile heathland, and took decades to improve into fertile farmland.
    Many countries have similar types of land that can be improved, so the problem is that they don’t do that instead of destroying valuable land.
    But to make it work requires government incentives to do that instead of ruining fertile lands and then just move on when the soil is depleted.