Now take a second to enjoy it Now."

I did, and now that second is gone forever. Thanks a lot, Webster.

A long time ago

No. He didn’t. There is no such thing as a “good” capitalist parasite.

Fuck Elon Musk.

Sex workers are the heroes we need - but not the heroes we deserve.

Nicely done.

Not sure about that paper - it recommends ocular irrigation (with water) for OC gas… the exact thing you mentioned hurting so bad in your first response. The thing to remember here is that a lot of the discourse on this doesn’t distinguish between the use of a liquid to flood particles away from skin and membranes through it’s kinetic action (possible with CS gas and very necessary with white phosporous) and relying on the chemical properties of the liquid itself to bring any kind of relief.

The capsacin is dissolved in an oil,

That only counts for OC gas (pepper spray) - most anti-dissent chemical weaponry doesn’t contain capsaicin. Milk won’t do shit for CS gas, for instance. For CS gas, water is the only thing that works.

Considering how many different types of this shit there actually is and the fact that they can mix them up pretty easily regardless of what the law actually says makes a one-size-fits-all solution pretty difficult.

edit: did I just say a one-size-fits-all solution to this is difficult? Silly me.

Who did you think presided over colonialism, genius? Martians?

By the time of the Great Irish Famine (one of the British Empire’s earliest achievements) the transformation of England from a feudal society to a liberal one was complete.

The US was literally founded as the model for the liberal nation state - it’s entire history of genocide, slavery and yes, colonialism was drenched in the tenets of liberalism from the moment the constitution was signed right to this very day.

Go redo your history - and, this time, don’t get it from PragerU.

opportunities

Really? It has nothing to do with the hundreds of years of colonialist looting and pillaging liberals presided over that is still ongoing today?

freedom.

Really? This has nothing to do with with the targeted maldevelopment of the 3rd world presided over by liberals that is, again, ongoing to this very day?

Way to go outing yourself like that, white supremacist.

Liberty means freedom

And has liberalism delivered any of this?

And a good thing it is, too - if you liberals were managing it lemmy would have been sold off to Meta or Google a long time ago.

I hear Israel is handing out free land these days - or, more accurately, will allow you to steal it from the people living there while fascist goons squads backs you up with overwhelming firepower.

You know… the way settler-colonialism has pretty much always worked.

They had the same thing going here in Apartheid-South Africa.

I wonder what her Imam would say to that.

Heaven forbid… are you implying that Muslim people perhaps aren’t a brainwashed monolith that simply accepts anything spoken by those in authority?

Say it isn’t so!

Free AKs and RPGs for every marginalized person on the planet - including enough ammo to fight WW3 three times over.

It’s a good idea. Words are extremely powerful - by dictating what something is called, you can frame a given narrative as this or that before any education on said narrative has even occured. People think it’s nitpicky, but it’s not - they pay propagandists a lot of money to come up with words.

Communism!

Wtf does that even mean?

Pretending that production for profit and production for need is the same thing is fallacious - end of story.

All I’m trying to do is explain to you that resources are finite and too many people will burn through them.

You still haven’t managed to justify the right-wing trope of “overpopulation” - pretending that the vast majority’s consumption is (somehow) the problem isn’t proving it, merely regurgitating it.

the white people that slowed down the most.

Sooo… you have figured out that in a capitalist society access to women’s healthcare is merely another commodity - and, thanks to colonialist pillaging and repression, white people do tend to have more access to that commmodity?

You don’t say.

Population projections for the world do not show a decline.

No… it shows a trend towards stabilization - which, just by itself, demoslishes the entire concept of “overpopulation.”

Unless of course you take the lack of resources into account…

What lack of resources. Resources being hoarded by a capitalist elite was as true in 1950 as it was in 2023 - so how does that affect the trope you are trying to justify?

Water used for industry is still going to be used regardless of who controls that industry.

Absolutely not. Pretending that capitalism doesn’t work the way capitalism works is a certain dead-end for your argument.

they just don’t have a means to act on it.

That is one piss-poor justification for the status quo.

Population growth has slowed but it has not stopped.

The people at the top aren’t worried about population growth these days, Clyde - they are worried about population reversal. You wanna know why?

Whether Malthus himself was a right-winger or not isn’t really important… it doesn’t change how the trope of overpopulation has been used to protect power and privilege (ie, the whole point of right-wing ideology). For instance, there is a very good reason why white supremacists support the criminalization of women’s health care in (supposedly) “white” countries while demonizing 3rd world countries for their (supposedly) “explosive population growth.”

It’s a very old trope that flattens human consumption and therefore camouflages the reality that certain classes of people consume resources at astronomical rates in comparison with the rest. It’s utility in shielding class hierarchies from scrutiny should be perfectly obvious.