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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • This is why when people discuss this subject, and use terms like “we need to”, a big part of me knows it’s just that they “want to”. A huge chunk of what we feel is necessity is, at best, “comfort subsidies” for our cushy lifestyles (and lest I be accused of tone deafness, I mean cushy in comparison to those in the developing countries you mentioned. “Less polluted and oppressed for the comfort of others” cushy). While it’s true that too much change too soon means lots of people starve, I don’t really think we actually know what we need.







  • This is SUCH an important point. The biggest and most painful band aid that needs to be pulled off is the cultural one. Our collective cultural identity has been steadily, gradually eroded by the loud, brash braying that the asses to the south continually emit day in day out. If it’s not clear to us by now, Americants don’t view anyone outside of their bubble as real people, or anything beyond a thing to be exploited. A means to their end.

    The crucial realization though is that they absolutely depend on the their cultural exports to validate and legitimize their global behavior. A product and service boycott is good. A global cultural boycott that utterly repudiates their entire way of life is what’s required though.