Politics

what’s become clear is that a large number of people faced with the trolley problem would just get mad about the fact that you’re asking them to pull the lever

Americans feel poor despite being orders of magnitude richer than most others because our gov. cannot provide cheaper public options to costly private goods.

In any cause the undecided are who you have to convince. So if you actually care about the cause, you can't afford the luxury of despising them, regardless of how good it might make you feel.

What I think is a mistake is to inconvenience the public merely for the sake of inconveniencing them. If a big protest incidentally blocks traffic, that's ok. But a small number of people blocking traffic *in order to* inconvenience the public is a tactical error.

At the risk of making twitter really mad, I think “no ethical consumption under capitalism” means stuff like no matter how you get your produce, someone in the supply chain was exploited not like “fuck it - $500 SHEIN hauls”.

Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.