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You can be against fast fashion and be empathetic with people who can’t afford expensive clothes. There is a way to inform people of the consequences of their choices without blaming them for making the choice.

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I wish people would stop writing like we can’t hold to competing ideas in our minds at once. Being concerned about thing A doesn’t mean you’re against all instances of thing A or all people who do thing A

Choose a camp so a culture war can unfold.

Right. It's seducive in providing you with an enemy and releaving you of internal dialectic and nuance.

Or choose a camp so we can all win the culture wars. That is, dismantle our morally-superior overlords whether progressive or conservative, and build actual freedom/equality by the people for the people.

There are only two sides to the barricades. Only one of them is interested in elections and the face of who runs the shitshow.

How will the pundits/influencers/grifters have anything to talk about? Think about the damage to the economy with such reasonable dialogue.

why even bother trying to solve this through individual consumer purchasing habits, all it accomplishes is turning powerless common folk against each other

It seems like that, for most partisans and politicians, is exactly the point.

yes, why do you think for instance big oil was behind (as in campaigns, big funding) promoting plastics recycling and getting everyone to focus on that and their neighbors' behaviors. it's valuable to give people a framework they can follow to correct a problem and feel satisfied or feel enraged at their neighbor with zero systemic impact besides enabling unchecked greed at scale

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