Formatting?

I can fix him…

Seriously, though… Direct donations of bulk foods can drive down the local cost of food, which makes local farming unprofitable, which means local farmers have a hard time staying in business and supporting themselves, which means you’re going to end up with fewer farmers and more long-term food insecurity.

Like … how is a local farmer growing corn supposed to compete with free bags of corn shipped from the US? He’ll have a really hard time making any money off of growing corn. So he’ll probably quit growing corn and do something that’s better able to support him and his family … which might not be growing food at all.

And then this cycle results in dependence upon US food imports. With few local farmers in operation, these food aid packages are the only source of food. And this can make them very vulnerable to the whims of US foreign policy if the US decides to use giving or withholding this food aid as a bargaining chip in negotiations … or if they just happen to elect some asshole who arbitrarily and illegally cuts the food aid for no reason at all.

None of them are elderly or very young.

You can be critical of something and still support it

If you support any state, you’re not an anarchist.

If you support a theo-fascist state, you’re not even close to an anarchist.

I don’t have to support the state of Iran to oppose the US and Israel.

Ooh, that’s a spicy one!

10 people reducing waste by 10% each reduces just as much waste as 1 person reducing waste by 100%.

Member RFK Jr talking about sending the ‘mentally ill’ to forced labor camps as treatment? I member.

Now just diagnose resistance to the regime as a mental illness, and…

Making the product good is difficult and expensive, so that’s a no.

Ah, yes. Any good anarchist should support the authoritarian theocratic state that’s being attacked!

Smart. If you take out all the guards first, they won’t be able to throw you in prison for doing it.

That’s insane.

If you expect anything else from this regime, you haven’t been paying attention.

Republicans are weak-willed morons. There will be a few days of uncomfortable confusion, but they’ll be cheerleading this by next week.

After all, they never met a middle-eastern war they didn’t like.

• Killing lots of brown people.

• Unlimited money for their defense contractor buddies.

• Get to cosplay as patriotic for supporting the war effort and supporting the troops. (Words only for the troops, of course. Still cutting veteran’s healthcare budget.)

What’s not to like?

…while you still can.

That is indeed a very nice goal. But is it practically achievable?

The actions your words encourage within the west are the same that the most bloodthristy warhawks encourage.

I don’t think the bloodthirsty warhawks are encouraging the abolishment of all states, especially the ones that kill people. And, yes, especially the one I live in.

Oh come off it. I’m not defending the fucker. Just saying that a slow, gradual abolishment of slavery that started much earlier might have been an overall better outcome, with fewer people enslaved and fewer people killed over it.

Oops, shit. I was off by about an order of magnitude on the death toll. Still, though.

I’m not trying to ‘both sides’ this shit as much as I’m trying to ‘no sides’ this shit.

Because an 8GB RAM stick costs $9,000 and hard drives literally can’t be had at any price, but this shitty thin client thing is only $49.95 + $10/month subscription. ($25 per month if you want it with no fewer intrusive ads.)

Coming soon, to a dystopian AI future near you.