Welcome to Lemmy, bud!

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I highly recommend that when you update “all” or your “front page” - be sure to set youe filter for “Hot” results. Gets you the fresh, interesting shit.

Is there a non-paywall link?

“I buy from companies who most closely match my ethics” is virtue signaling, now?"

That’s well said. And good on you for sticking to your guns. You are 100% right. I think if you can afford to avoid these companies you should.

Pretty much anything that you’ve ever owned has been made from the exploitation of some working class somewhere. The clothes you wear. The house you live in. The electronics that you use. The furniture that you own. The very food you eat and drink is often cheap because of an exploited worker somewhere that’s paid pennies on the dollar. Your going to draw the line at a drastically cheaper car that’s leaps and bounds better for the environment than a petrol vehicle? Okay.

We already know how to prevent more extinctions. Better environmental laws, more green spaces, better conservation efforts, less suburban sprawl, etc. You know, things that will never happen.

Elf Comic (Merrivius)

Those policies result in shit like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/01/sam-nordquist-killing-matthew-shepard …and that was murder.

The language used by the state, that they are less than human, that they are evil, that they are less than human…leads to shit like this. Act dense all you want, but you know you’re wrong.

What’s wrong with the artist?

You can “believe” all you want in your happy little make-believe bubble, but the facts are that conservatives are trying to ban, restrict, redefine, and remove trans people from getting healthcare, from being referenced in media or schools (censored), and removing them from the military.

Here’s the list from the ACLU of all 456 anti-LGBTQ bills in the US.

https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2025

Yeah, conservatives are so tolerant…

…oh. And there’s never been a law to force people to use correct pronouns. Ever. There’s never been an effort to “force” anyone or do anything. People were simply asking for you to respect them by using preferred pronouns. Asking for people to respect them as a human being is apparently an affront to US Conservatives.

“You’re not protesting the right way! You have to stand up to them only in ways that are acceptable to me!”

Got it buddy.