Speaking of imbalance, in the USA, Black and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people have the highest firearm mortality rates of any racial or ethnic group. The U.S. also ranks at the 92nd percentile of all countries and territories for child and teen firearm mortality.

Source: Evan D. Gumas, Munira Z. Gunja, and Reginald D. Williams II, “Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries,” chartpack, Commonwealth Fund, Oct. 2024. https://doi.org/10.26099/1t4e-7h62

When I’m sitting at home, I am not living in constant fear of fending off robbers and rapists, or fantasizing about murdering them with a firearm.

A perpetrator with a victim complex.

People are more scared of the boogeyman than the people literally kidnapping folks off the street and sending them to concentration camps merely because they belong to a 3 letter agency with authority.

He’s that guy who threw trans people under the bus, brought a neonazi onto his podcast, and didn’t call down the national guard after they were deployed on protestors which he has the power to do, right?

FWIW Quebec generates 94.3% of its electricity from hydro. Non-hydro renewables such as wind and biomass account for a relatively small percentage of Quebec’s electricity generation mix (5.3%). They only use a small amount of natural gas when demand is peaking.

Truly shameriffic to switch to Ecosia, based in Europe and working on their own European indexer. I’d hate to see Google lose shareholder value.

I fully agree with everything you’re saying except that boycotts are not worthless.

There are many great reasons to prioritise mutual aid and workplace organizing that you have laid out since it has much more value.

But it’s a waste of time to discourage people from the most low-effort actions and it only causes unnecessary conflict.

Arguments over the “best”, most pure way to oppose fascism and capitalism only sow division in an already fractured left and discourage people from potentially taking their first step.

Make a good case for the action you want to prioritise, then embrace a diversity of tactics where people can make their own informed decisions on the action(s) they want to take.

Check out the new community !canada@50501.chat

Downvoted strictly for the harmful clickbaity title.

I agree that fascism cannot be overcome by boycotts alone, but discouraging boycotts doesn’t benefit anybody. And in this case, boycotts are actually helping to chip away at Musk’s power - Trump just had to do an infomercial at the White House for Musk because his stock is tanking so hard.

We need a diversity of tactics.

I’m suggesting that instead of saying don’t do X, do Y. Just say do Y with the great reasons you provided.

Yes, and. Boycotts are one of multiple tools that do work. Do not discourage people from one tactic in favour of another. They can both be done together and people can choose. We need options and to go at this from more than one angle.

It is still a great idea to unionise and join mutual aid orgs and I encourage everyone to do so.

Thank you

Most speed cameras are either revenue-neutral or generate a small amount of revenue for the city.

It’s one less Tesla that’s bought new and it devalues the car.

I love that this won’t happen on Lemmy.

It’d be a shame if more people switched from Chrome to Firefox with UBlock ad blocker…

Those who can afford to should consider donating to support development too.

Your write some of the best essays I’ve read btw. I appreciate you.

I thought that was just a mirror?

Edit: the mirror is on !mirror@50501.chat