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The first time I can recall someone not my brother giving me the middle finger was my first time driving on a real road, and I wasn't even in the wrong ahah.

It can be different regionally too, where I'm at now everyone honks all the time so a little honk is a fine courtesy if you don't see the light change, where I moved from though it would come off as screaming at someone on the street.

But meanwhile as a cyclist if I pass someone and they give me extra space we can smile at each other and wave, or if I have to 'honk' it's a little polite bell. But also I semi-frequently have times where I think "that car could have killed me" and I continue my commute unfazed. It encourages an entirely different mindstate than car-brain.

It's such a silly idea, kids can see how stupid it is because they haven't been thoroughly indoctrinated yet I guess. When I was young hearing about immigrants taking jobs it just seemed logical that they wouldn't 'take' them if US citizens would work for the same pay as the migrant workers. The employers clearly enable this, why would anyone blame an immigrant? A ten year old can understand this.

I abstain from meat for ethical reasons, a similar ethical reason encourages me to use public transit and bike instead of driving, to reduce my impact on life and the environment. This is anecdotal but most vegans/vegetarians I've known are concerned with their impact in general, it's rare that they only obstain from eating meat but do everything else as an average US meat-eated would.

Yeah and they're all fucking losers, it really feels like the vast majority of people don't care about whatever these online people say 'woke' is. It's the same as complaining about "political correctness gone mad", affirmative action, etc, the same complaints they've had about social progress for decades. Nothing about these youtubers is new or worth dignifying with a response.

I walked through a park just a bit ago and there was a juggling group performing. There's also a person in my city that hula hoops continuously while dancing all over downtown, often on rollerskates. It's all a delight to see in our typical modern hell scape, even if they weren't good at it, I enjoy people having fun.

I see, you just don't know what you are talking about, my mistake.

Plenty of us volunteer too, it's not like people can only do one thing. Some people don't have time but they have money, others vise versa. People do what they can. Why are you so hostile to this?

Yeah some, there are fundraisers for people in Palestine or people in global south countries that post plenty as well. I wasn't saying that was the most effective of the ways people are trying to help, just one form

It's as simple as this, my mom explained it to me at 8 years old: "A lot of parents give their kids money for good grades or doing chores, but that teaches them to do things for the money and not because it's the right thing to do."

It's a habit, like a drug addiction, your brain is rewarded by profit and molds itself around that, altering your view of right and wrong.

Yes actually, the mutual_aid comm is one of the most active on hexbear, I have personally helped comrades through it. Others have posted many times about the food they and their crew made for the community for free, or union organization efforts, or plenty of other actions.

It's just a suggestion, and I wasn't saying that there were necessarily a lot of fascists on the fediverse, I meant antifascist action in general. In my view it would be more useful to put in energy to fight against that or poverty or hunger or any other issue than just dwelling on and shaming internet leftists, if one's goal is improve the condition of society.