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  • Man, if it were just this then banks would be pretty stable.

    The problem is banks don’t just lend and receive money, they invest. And they invest in everything. And they take super risky bets.

    This is what caused the banking collapse of 2008 and what caused the death of SVB and a few other banks.

    Your bank doesn’t just hold your money and debt, if you rent it almost certainly owns a peice of the company managing your property. It owns crypto assets. It has shares of startups. And it uses those assets to get more money to create more debt.

    Dobb Frank was created to stop some of this, but unfortunately it’s been effectively repealed already.






  • cogman@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldI was only gone for a day or two...
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    4 months ago

    Here’s a quote from the site you cherry picked

    Some people may choose to go vegan, for some it may be because they do not believe in farmed animal practices and animal exploitation, for others it may be due to environmental concerns. Whatever the reason The Vegan Society is here to support everyone on their vegan journey.

    Gee, looks like the vegan society also recognizes some people become vegan because of climate change… Or maybe you are going to redefine more terms so you can win your argument.



  • Got it, so you are emotionally defining veganism in such a way that you aren’t actually vegan if you don’t get there for emotional reasons.

    If that’s your definition of veganism then of course nobody can get there with reason. You’ve created a tautology with your emotion filled definition.

    For the record, veganism is defined by MW as

    : a strict vegetarian who consumes no food (such as meat, eggs, or dairy products) that comes from animals

    also : one who abstains from using animal products (such as leather)

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegan

    That was the definition I was operating under. Sorry I didn’t Intuit your arbitrary definition you pulled from “eat meat.com” or whatever you got it.


  • Meat production is a prime contributor to climate change. Large amounts of resources go into raising meat. Further, cattle and pig production (not so much chicken) is the prime pathway to food contamination. Whenever you see lettuce recalls because of e. coli, that’s because animal shit got mixed in with the lettuce or the water for the lettuce.

    Choosing not to eat meat because of these facts seems like a pretty rational choice, no emotion involved.





  • Israel got in hot water internationally the last time for doing exactly the same thing. So blaming Hamas is an easy trick to pull to try and detract from the ongoing mass starvation they are directly responsible for.

    It’s really gross.

    They did the exact same thing when they first blew up a hospital. Then they proceeded to blow up all the hospitals after the major news outlets stopped covering it.

    Ditto with murdering literally over 100 journalists to try and suppress independent coverage of their ongoing genocide.

    You can’t trust fascists propaganda to accurately report fascist genocide.