lemonwood

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[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'd join. Ads do nothing but damage to society. How much? Well they manipulate people to make suboptimal choices and waste at least as much as the advertisers budget (on average), or they would stop doing it. So it's at least 775 billion dollars per year. Rising annually. Enough to end world hunger and homelessness.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Too much parking space and too many lanes. In Europe, houses like this would not be in a suburb, but in the city. Everything would be reachable by foot, bike or public transport, so less people would need a car. It's not ideal, but at least much less space would be wasted on cars.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I got Eco-Marxism and I like, that the quiz prominently features questions on the environmental crisis. But I feel like, there is not much on reproductive labor or on how imperialism and racism should be addressed. These areas of struggle are every bit as central and contested as the environment. The quiz is leaning towards a white, western, cis-male perspective, but it should be possible to add a few questions and categories to address that. Maybe inspired by Marxist Feminism, Black Marxism, Afro-Marxist traditions, decolonial struggle and anti-imperialist praxis.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

This is a great read! Thank you!

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Lots of people will love you for being yourself. Those are the ones that matter.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

At that time the Anglo Saxons where foreigners among the Celtic Britons and their Romano British Culture. So he would probably be surprised, that no one is speaking Brittonic or Latin anymore. He might have gone to great length learning those native languages when he arrived in Britain and now people only speak a weird, very simplified baby version of his own West Germanic language with half the grammar and consonants taken out and the vowels all shifted around like a parody of his language.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

The US never had or fulfilled and obligations in NATO. NATO is part of the US empire.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

No, the rooks where the ones who were elephants. Towers atop battle elephants.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Depends. What does the pizza index say? How busy are the fast food places surrounding the white house? /s

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NATO: Pay tribute to the US military industrial complex! And also, the US empire will use your countries to wage war from a save distance.

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I'm physically safe, I think between 8 and 10 depending on my energy level. If I'm threatened or hurt in a fight, still up to 8 at least. We can love our enemies and still fight them with all the force necessary (but no more).

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