[-] muddi@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

Liberals think he got run over right? Also they know China is communist, has been for a while, and will be for the foreseeable future...

So this image is saying communists are on the winning side of history and liberals on the losing side by a wide margin?

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is what dates and hanging out with a friend turns into anyways. Go to a show/dinner/game then awkwardly walk around town because neither wants to go back home and do something less fun

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

They already have anti-China shit in the original show. The part with the Dai Li conspiracy and brainwashing.

Actually even before that, the Air nation being 100% based on Western exoticism of Tibet, which apparently means racially predisposed to being peaceful spiritual nomads (who live in one of several settled places nonetheless for some reason) and get genocided because their reincarnation prophecy challenges political goals of empire.

IIRC in some interview the show creators even pull out the line "hate the political party, not the people" when the topic came up

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 82 points 7 months ago

leftists just adopt “capitalism bad and culturally underdeveloped people good” as their core principle and go from there instead of reading the books

This is fucking racist

The Avatar worldview. The James Cameron one, not the good one

Yeah sure ATLA certainly has no black and white message about the consequences of industrialism and imperialism on pre-industrial societies.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by muddi@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

Yes, I am still watching the show, and even this episode is edgy, but it was edgy in a more scifi short story kind of way? if that makes sense. It's clearly based on some dystopian scifi stories like Soylent Green and Never Let Me Go, and there was a very obvious vegan message that impressed me.

spoilers, TW: death, suicide, gore

They eat some nice spaghetti, but it turns out to be dead people from another planet, and Morty is mortified. The planet learns about this and begins factory farming their own people for profit.

Morty tries to get around the moral anguish after learning the truth in different ways, just like carnists will try to eat meat and not cry about it: say it is consensual, they had a good life, maybe they can bioengineer alternatives, etc.

The solution was actually good IMO. In the vein of Impossible burger et. al. Rick says to kill just one more person and he can synthesize spaghetti without harming anyone more. But the killing machine also broadcasts the person's life as it flashes before his dying eyes, and everyone becomes disgusted by the concept of eating spaghetti as a whole and gives up on even the "harmless" alternatives.

That is my position on vegan meat and dairy engineered alternatives...we don't even need the category, and trying to keep it around only halters the fundamental goals of veganism. It seems to still be a controversial opinion among certain groups of vegans. So I was pleasantly surprised to see Rick and Morty of all places have a reasonable take.

The last scene has the family eating steak after giving up spaghetti, willfully ignoring their new moral doubts. Rick hints at the fact that it is just as bad if not worse, but everyone just laughs and continues eating. Kinda a typical Rick and Morty final scene, but also hits differently in this episode.

I recommend watching it! Just beware the TWs, it is an edgy show still...

vegan-liberation-rad

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

Some Polandball type shit, making out nation-states as characters in some pseudo-relatable sitcom

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

Desecrated

Because the Founding Fathers are a pantheon for the American civic religion? (Answering myself, unironically yes!)

Meanwhile they'll protect the acts of burning Qurans and rendering the Prophet in insulting ways as free speech, and not inciting public religious conflict

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 49 points 10 months ago

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind"

I wish I could tell you that I had some magic solution, or five-point plan to resolve this never-ending crisis. I don’t.

Then stfu Bernie

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submitted 10 months ago by muddi@hexbear.net to c/vegan@hexbear.net

porky-scared frothingfash

I feel like I'm losing my mind there, a lot of people struggling to comprehend a diet where "protein" isn't a category, made from animals or plants otherwise.

Btw Impossible burger etc. are not vegan, they do animal testing: https://impossiblefoods.com/blog/the-agonizing-dilemma-of-animal-testing

CW animal testing

But we were confronted with an agonizing dilemma: We knew from our research that heme is absolutely essential to the sensory experience meat lovers crave. Replacing animals in the diets of meat lovers would absolutely require heme. So without the rat testing, our mission and the future of billions of animals whose future depends on its success was thwarted. We chose the least objectionable of the two choices available to us. We used the minimum number of rats necessary for statistically valid results.

Yay capitalism lets us have our treats, and only a few animals had to suffer! brainworms

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 59 points 10 months ago

ngl that would be a funny bit if Musk started a whole ass Twitter thread rephrasing the entirety of the Aeneid in his usual raving manner, screeching about weapons and some dude from Troy

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

Fighting against Stalin does not mean you are fighting for nazism

Hitler or Stalin. Pick one because in the 1940s there was no other choice.

So which is it? Dilemma or not?

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 42 points 11 months ago

Meanwhile under capitalism, the ones swinging the hammers the hardest in the factories make as many times more money than the one in the suit sitting in the cozy office in the corner, right?

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago

Also in the comics:

Earth Kingdom peasants rise up against the king for better conditions. The king asks Kyoshi, the avatar before Aang, to suppress them. Kyoshi won't serve the king at first, but then some windows get broken or something and she goes full cop and suppresses them, then further goes on to establish the Dai Li secret police to prevent further protests.

The "wisdom" being that the avatar answers to no king, but destroying private property is even worse, so some weird centrism is the best . In general, the Avatar is a disgusting centrist neoliberal corruption of the original Indian concept of a hero incarnated to deliver divine justice for the oppressed

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submitted 11 months ago by muddi@hexbear.net to c/food@hexbear.net

Sorry no pics, I ate it up already. But I was curious if anyone knew the food science behind this recipe I threw together, initially for a smoothie, but which turned into a kind of pudding or jelly:

  • hella blueberries, like 1/2 lb (washed with vinegar, rinsed with water)
  • enough soy milk to just cover them in the blender, maybe 8-10 oz?
  • couple teaspoons of this low-cal sweetener I found (isomaltulose, stevia and monk fruit extracts)
  • pinch of cinnamon
  • pinch of dried basil
  • pinch of salt

Blend together until smooth. Wait for a while and realize your smoothie has turned solid for some reason (about 5 min)

It's kind of like a soft tofu pudding, a Desi-style yogurt, Chinese ginger milk curd or Indian kharvas/junnu if you know those.

I'm guessing the science is something like those later ones. Some reaction between the blueberries or isomaltulose and the soy milk proteins causing a gel to form. I'm pretty sure it's not curdling tofu from the soy milk. It isn't very acidic and I applied no heat (apart from the blender's working heat). Also there is hardly any liquid, so probably not "whey."

Tastes great btw. Not too sweet or tangy, and very refreshing. Nice deep purple color to it. I think serving it with a fruit syrup would be excellent

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago

Give them D20s instead

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