A good additional point!

Has anyone watched this? Is it good?

Today's rant: Stop moralizing everything you consume

I'm taking this one from a literature point of view, because that's what I'm most familiar with. The number of people I know who get weird and judgy about books and "whether or not they should be read" because of "problematic" material is ridiculous. Yes, many fantastic books feature reprehensible characters. Yes, this even includes abusers, rapists and murderers. But those people, as awful as they are, exist and have stories to tell. You can learn a lot about the human condition from reading both the good and the bad. Take your purity culture elsewhere, let me have my fucked up little guys >:(

Honestly, I feel as though the main thesis for this entire channel is "the human condition is a very messy thing, and us leftists have to acknowledge that to make any progress"

Oh, also, saving the planet is rad

I want to be kind.

Tl;dr, plastics are only recyclable one to two times tops, and the industry has known about this for decades

Cool that this article was recommended to me on Firefox!

I LOVE WIKIPEDIA GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

I know a lot of people will disagree with this idea (perhaps rightly so, nationalism is icky) but I *genuinely* believe that, if leftist talking points were reframed as a "continuation of the projects of freedom, equality and justice" and other "American values," a lot of otherwise reluctant people could be sheparded into more leftist viewpoints. Rhetoric matters, folks

Of course, there's a conversation to be had about whether you want "good leftists" or more leftists, but idk, I think you slip into vanguardism really quickly that way

Elaborating on this, an important part of rhetoric is "speaking on people's terms." Language, of course, influences how people think about things, and if you don't address people in the political language they want/are accustomed to hearing, you're gonna have a hard time