i just noticed i've lost both follows on that instance and don't seem to be able to re-follow (both stuck on "request sent" though neither appears to require frq approval)
@sun@eris as a canadian i see that phrase and am willing to charitably assume that they're trying to sell to folks who only speak english with reassurances that they'll be fine living there
which ends up being a form of colonization all on its own...
@allison@arcana it's how i managed to be orthodox for 7 years before the commonalities with the evangelicals on key issues just got too much to be ignorable
@arcana@icedquinn@sun democracy is a bit less bad than capitalism since presumably at least some of the demos still consists of people who actually work and do things and have incentives to figure out why failures happen instead of just jumping on to the next investment
@sun@icedquinn@arcana it seems like they're responding to some genuinely awful takes - some racist grassless boomer homebodies who misinterpret the population issue without considering lifestyle changes and concluding that we should just let billions of faceless people in poor countries starve to death while people in the luxurious hegemon countries can just go along with their huge pickup trucks and disposable telephones and airplane commutes - and extrapolating that *all* concerns about the neverending number-go-up are equally invalid and and bad faith
it's like the dog who growled at the stone thrown at it, that's since learned its lesson and now attacks the pond that the mosquitoes biting it hatched from
so i'm going to mention in passing that eris's original reply was to an MCU larper liberal pol account from a group of similar MCU larpers that was everywhere a couple years back filling up our timelines with shitlib takes
@meso@PurpCat@kirby@jihadjimmy tbh the mental illness and resulting volatility probably mitigates a lot of the damage... it's the mentally stable neurotypical (but apparently sociopathic) parasites that do the real long-term harm
they/them, PNW, not whiteassume my reply is a yes-and unless it's obviously notformerly apophis at mycrowd dot ca but not really planning to be as loud here as i was on that account