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Reply to How can we feed our pets without destroying the environment? by /u/Brick

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Pop wrote

I don't have pets

What is the alternative? To kill the pet?

For me this pet thing is complicated; I simultaneously

  • care about animals and don't like the horrible ways that they are treated in this world
  • am aware that for some people, having a pet is some important shit that keeps them together
  • recognise how groups of people are dehumanised and seen/treated 'like animals', and that racists and others tend to focus on green issues in their closedness to engaging racism
  • find it hard to see people who buy food and toys and like a dog bed or whatever for their inside dog while there are homeless people
  • think that if people treat their pets like family then this is in some ways a similar kind of question to 'how can we feed our children without destroying the environment' - especially for those people who are from point 2

I don't see much use in spending a lot of time trying to create relatively ethical ways of feeding your personal pet, and would be skeptical of people who did because I feel like there are better ways to spend the energy

perhaps my solution is to ignore this entirely and give my everything to destroying kyriarchy

Reply to How do you deal with voters? by /u/rtsn

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Pop wrote

Usually it's a good time to engage people about how voting is a disempowering waste of time

It might be worthwhile to try to publish something about this, either in hardcopy newspaper or a local news site online
I've done this before just taking other anarchist thinkpieces and tailoring them to my context with not a lot of effort