Thanks

I choose 35hours per week and retiring at 60.

Stay safe, hope all will be well for you and your family.

Everybody is tariffed as the US imposed a 10% blanket tariff. However, there is still a 2.5B USD trade deficit with Russia, so I would have expected to see more than the 10% blanket especially if we apply the apparent formula they use.

Not sure if other countries in a similar position as Russia have also been spared additionnal tariffs.

I'm not familiar with this polling institute but in the past years French polling companies have consistently underestimated LFI numbers and overestimated RN numbers. (If you look at who owns these polling companies this makes sense)

As animal liberation is one of the subject in which I am the more active, let me try to get you to understand my view on this subject as a vegan.

First, yes this is a systemic change and only individual changes would never amount to anything. The commodification of animal life is driven by profit. Currently this is the material basis for it that is then justified via speciest ideology. However, consumption is not neutral. The problem does not start at consumption but it is in part maintained by it.

For me living as a vegan it feels like a political statement that I’m expressing at a minimum 3 times per day around other people. This is praxis and helps challenge the exploitation that is pervasive in our society. It shows we can and must do better. It is in itself a small act and of course this won’t overthrow the specieist system and capitalism, it helps however raise collective consciousness about the issue and shows solidarity with the oppressed animals.

As most vegan will tell you, being vegan is not the end of the road, it’s only the start. Organize around the subject. Join political movements, join organizations that support workers transitioning out of these industries. Promote systemic changes/alternatives.

Finally let me answer to your last point: "the animal is already dead". I feel like this is a really bad argument. Just because other people decided to do a terrible action does not mean you need to compromise your values and partake in it. Imagine yourself applying the same logic to humans. Especially when in the grocery store you might have alternative close by (think any legumes) that might be cheaper.

Imagine going into a store where there are two kinds of shirts. One is created by slave labor and the other is not. Would you accept someone saying, well I’m used to the kind of t-shirt created by slaves and these are already made anyway so why would I bother choosing the other? My point is of course if your medication contains animal product no animal liberation militant or vegan will berate you for using it, but when the alternative is literally 5 feet away in the same grocery store or a few blocks away then the arguments stops working.

You can draw a parallel to what Lenin says about compromises in "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder. A striker compromising with their oppressor because their strike fund is empty is not the same as a strike-breaker "compromising" with the oppressor. Some compromise are justifiable, others are not. Here you are "compromising" with your morals because you’re used to meat.

Last time a court gave the same verdict it was also linked to an obligation to leave the country. Valls the minister at the time simply refused to sign this order to kick him out of the country thus rendering the verdict moot.

I expect the same shit this time around.

Edit: Just read more into the case and this time the court did not require a signed order for his release.

I’m not too versed on the subject on lesser-evil voting and the arguments against. Anyone willing to educate me and share resources about it please?

Disclaimer: I’m not american so don’t try to persuade me to vote or not vote in this election as I’m tired of having to explain to people that not everyone on the internet is from the USA.

Lack of education truly is fascism's and capitalism's greatest ally

Please add a CW for dead animal body parts as per hexbear CoC.

Anyway, this picture is a clear exemple of Animalization of the bodies of oppressed people. The Ko sisters have written a lot on this subject when presenting what they term as black veganism and how speciesm can be also used on oppressed groups.

Don’t forget the fascist SVP party getting fucked there as well, it has been rare in the past 25years that they lose.

They were literally saying the following on their websites a few days ago:

The SP and the unions want to destroy our tried-and-tested three-pillar model by integrating the 2nd pillar into the AHV in a kind of communist people's pension.

Please don’t threaten me with a good time lmao

Basically your post is already "posted" there. Anyone with a mastodon account on an instance that federates can see it. They could either paste on their mastodon search interface the url to this post and see it appear as a mastodon message. They could then reply on mastodon and it would show for you here on your lemmy instance.

They could also follow your account on mastodon or a community just as if you were a mastodon user and then see your posts on their timeline.