“it’s the children who are wrong”

The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children in that they are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure and cruelty and violence.

“Start”? Last month I saw a print edition of my local newspaper, serving more than a million people. It was one section, four pieces of paper.

This will make oil in the USA even more expensive, making alternate yet energy more attractive, and hopefully push us over peak oil. Assuming the USA has a domestic wind/solar industry…

Do people generally need treatment not to rape everyone they are attracted to? I guess I’m special that way. I’m into all sorts of (adult) people and I’ve never had the impulse to rape any of them.

It’s not that weird that pedophiles don’t abuse children. We all manage our sexual feelings.

If you’re willing to molest a child, you are a pedophile.

“It would be ideologically incompatible for me to acknowledge that words have meaning and nuance. I must hate as hard as I can to prove that I don’t diddle children.”

It doesn’t come across that way.

He’s always trolling. It can be two things.

I hear nazis do that, too!!

Because his ilk win through muddying the water, encouraging culture war conflicts between the citizens he means to govern, and making people feel discouraged from voting at all.

Most pedophiles are not child molesters. Most people who have sexually abused children are not pedophiles. Watch out for unconscious ableism.

20 years ago there were a lot of weed storefronts that were just permitted to operate iirc