Sometimes I’d go by the meat department or to a butcher and ask them if that they had any of the trim or little side cut up bits left over that was suitable for my cat. Cats love that shit. and the butcher would just throw that shit away anyway.

My cat can have deer flavored cat food the second he can manage to take down a deer.

Fair enough

How is anyone supposed to take the rules in the UK seriously when you give them such silly names?

Really? I only know him from SNL. Didn’t know he was like that.

I don’t find blame-shifting whataboutisms particularly helpful, either.

way to miss the point

except that’s not what happened. “Liberals are capitalism.” is not only an absurd statement, it’s a belief, not a definition of liberalism, nor was anything that followed-- and I called it out as such. And, instead of reacting like an adult to criticism, you attack me for having the temerity to dare ask.

oh, the hypocrisy, lol

edit: and since my whole point here was that this sort of childish in-fighting is aa waste of time, I’m just going to block you and move on with my day.

bye!

where did I say I was confused?

seems you misunderstood after all…

Says the person who has to project their feelings onto others because they couldn’t defend their position. Or even explain it.

And while I’m very happy for you that you take a great deal of meaning in those vague and subjective references in your previous comment, if you can’t even define them, how can you expect anyone else to take any meaning from it?

Yet, you still can’t seem to define it in any meaningful way. Just vague references to other subjective vagaries.

Case in point

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Pointing out that your logic is fundamentally flawed, and that you can’t even defend your own argument is “bad faith”?

Isn’t that what Trump does when he hears something he doesn’t like? Blame everyone else?

What side are you on anyway?

If you can’t even defend your own position, then why bother arguing it at all?

At this point, you’re just parroting something someone else told you. It doesn’t come off as even the slightest bit sincere— or even that you convincingly understood it in the first place.

How is it false solidarity to acknowledge that the climate crisis affects everybody?

How does dividing up everybody into little groups, how does creating all of this conflict help anybody?

How does it do anything but make you feel better about your own sense of identity?

How is it anything but a bunch of circle jerking?

Because it sure as shit isn’t fixing the climate to tell me how much better you are than everyone else

Oh, so “liberal” means whatever you want it to mean

Gotcha

I won’t blame the left before I’ll blame conservatives, but those on the left have at least a little bit of blame… All this infighting and finger-pointing and factional divisiveness? How is that helping? It’s exactly what the conservatives want: infighting amongst ourselves rather than focusing on the real problems that the conservatives are causing.

Sure, we didn’t cause the problems, but a bunch of internal bickering sure isn’t going to fix any of them. And we are well past figuring out who is to blame for all of it. It’s time to start working on long lasting solutions.

But I don’t see a lot of that going on. Just a bunch of grievances and more people looking for more people to blame.

I find the kind of absolutism found in the headline, extremely unhelpful, not to mention total horse shit.

“Liberals” (and I’m not even getting into what people here defined as “liberals”) absolutely can confront capitalism in order to address environmental concerns, they just don’t like to and find it very difficult. But it is absolutely possible, and, with enough cajoling, absolutely will do so.

This “us versus them” attitude, and this level of absolute defeatism only makes the job much more difficult for everyone. Instead, I suggest we all focus on how to get the job done rather than focusing on all of the barriers in our way.

I can, only because I have a passing familiarity with both. I could also spot Korean characters if I saw them. although I cannot read Japanese or Mandarin or Korean, there is a definite stylistic difference between the characters and how they are represented.

I can typically tell with Western languages as well. But, again, only because I have a passing familiarity with many of them.

How many times do people have to keep getting burned before they stop sticking their hand in the fire?

I’d really like to try this. I have tremors that can sometimes get out of control.

Boo. Nothing pisses me off more than wasting perfectly good food.