Besides posting on chapo, what is something you may do often or occasionally that you think/know is pretty lib?

I use to have a hard time saying no to cashiers who'd ask me to round up my total to donate to some terrible organization the store owned or partnered with. Not only are most non-profits complete shit, but doing it this way the store is the one doing the write off too, kinda a double whammy. I stopped doing this for the most part, but occasionally my mouth speaks before I think and I say "sure."

The other thing is buying girl scout cookies sometimes. I just assume this org is bad, i've never really looked into it, but if they are even remotely like the boy scouts, they are for sure bad.

And the last one is probably shopping at the salvation army, which has a horrible track record, has donated to anti-LGBTQA+ orgs, has a horrible labor track record and more. But like, I almost never buy brand new clothes and random household items anymore because it's both so much less expensive this way and the textile industry is one of the worst polluters out there plus they also have horrible labor practices. But in my mind at least, buying second hand is much better to reuse stuff instead of contributing more to those industries.

what do you got?

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    idk anything about how you consume news but the best thing you can ever do is stop paying attention to western news about China, especially if you saw it on reddit or from some of the big MSNs

    • lizbo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah nowadays I am absolutely very skeptical of western media coverage of China. I think that many years of being a liberal and not being skeptical of that media is the main reason why I tend to be reactionary with regards to China

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        it's absurd how like 5 people are pushing mainstream news stories China constantly and they are all different shades of insane

        • lizbo [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Lol yeah western reporting on China is seriously something else