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[penguinofhonor]

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[Tack]

After reading up a little I think you're talking about their youthanasia blitzkrieg?
It conflicts me. People talk about "healthy, adoptable" pets, but I think it's more on the humans. If you can't adequately care for your kid, child services wil take it away, attempt to find a foster home, and, failing that, raise them in an orphanage.
If you can't adequately care for your pet, PETA will take them away from you, attempt to find a foster home, and, failing that, put them in an orphanage, and failing that, kill 'em.

Logically it's one step down the rung of human sentiment. If you can't care for your rat, it'll die on it's own. If you can't care for your plant, etc.

I can't really judge what they're doing as "right" or "wrong" when the capitalism is in clicks, so the punchier story the better. I'm trying to find an impartial blog, but it's proving difficult.

[scrdest]

If you can't adequately care for your pet, PETA will take them away from you, attempt to find a foster home, and, failing that, put them in an orphanage, and failing that, kill 'em.

Except they skip the majority of the steps before 'and failing that'.

[penguinofhonor]

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[SirQuiamus]

I can't really judge what they're doing as "right" or "wrong" when the capitalism is in clicks, so the punchier story the better. I'm trying to find an impartial blog, but it's proving difficult.

Always go for the official first-party sources – you'll never be disappointed.

This one's my favourite. <3

Years later, studies are still proving what the masterminds behind PETA’s “Got Beer?” campaign knew all along: Beer is better than milk.

While that pus-filled glass of milk actually depletes your bone mass, a new study shows that beer just might be the key to keeping your bones from going brittle.

So crack open a cold one while we contemplate pulling an oldie but goodie out of the PETA vault.

How can anyone be so utterly right while being demonstrably wrong?

[Helgoland]

The two scenarios you mentioned were both religion-based. Or race-based, however you want to look at Israelites.

Fun fact: There were people who a) weren't considered Jews by the Jews, b) didn't consider themselves Jews, c) weren't considered Jews by any other sane person, but d) were still sent to the concentration camps as Jews. That happened because the Nazi aryanism laws worked differently than the Jewish inheritance laws.

[Tack]

Why? What was the defining feature of a Jew in the nazi eye? I thought it was just a Hebrew name.

depending on how anti-capitalist you are.

I'd happily be anti-capitalist if I could think of a better system of government. I don't think that a business should have more money than the ruling government, plus I don't think the untalented and unmotivated progeny of billionaires should get to ride through life.
But I imagine if I was a billionaire I would think differently.

It makes this whole "democracy" thing rather obsolete when the power of the hundreds of millions is handed over to a few hundred people- bribery and corruption being all too easy for the latter but impossibly expensive for the former.

However, the dumb are many and the intelligent are few, so I'm stuck on what to believe.
Argh. Working overnight and having nothing to do but mull on politics. I Hate Thinking.

[ChairmanPoo]

Arguably being anticapitalist does not mean being anti-industry, either. An old-school communist would want the means of production intact, but in the hands of the working class/state/kholkhotz/whatever.

[Helgoland]

Why? What was the defining feature of a Jew in the nazi eye? I thought it was just a Hebrew name.

Naah, IIRC they had a one-eigth rule: If one of your great-grandparents was Jewish, so were you.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Why? What was the defining feature of a Jew in the nazi eye? I thought it was just a Hebrew name.

Naah, IIRC they had a one-eigth rule: If one of your great-grandparents was Jewish, so were you.

Plus I believe they had some system of making phenotype-based judgments depending on the shape of your ears, the distance between your eyes, and other bull like that.

[TD1]

And nose size

[Jopax]

So not really a sad, more a mix of sad and something, novelty? Not entirely sure.

In any case, the cause is that for the first time since I've known her I don't want to talk to her. Like, it's not that I don't have anything to talk about, there was always something to talk about, and I was always ready for talk. But now? I really really don't want to, it's not even not feeling like it, just this rather strong aversion to the idea of it.

The cause? Well, after some random thinking I realised a rather nasty case of double standards, something I really hate. And even though she keeps saying she's a bad person, all the bad stuff she has done that I know of was in some way justified or excused by something or other. This though, is just shitty behaviour with no excuse that I can think of.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Wait...who has the double standards, she or you? Your wording is sort of ambiguous there.

[Jopax]

Um, she does. Thought it was obvious because of the "something I really hate" part X)

[Avis-Mergulus]

Yeah, I thought so, was just confirming. And you don't want to talk to her because you feel an obligation to confront her over them, but at the same time don't want to argue, and can't manage idle conversation because you're constantly thinking about how you have to confront her about the double standards thing?
I'd talk to her about that, anyway. Like, not argue, just talk. Maybe you're mistaken and there's no double standards thing. Maybe she doesn't realize she does the thing and needs to have it gently pointed out. Maybe whatever, I don't even know what sort of relationship you have with this her, but still, I assume you're fairly close and she will notice that something is wrong anyway with how you don't want to talk to her. So you'll have to address this sooner or later, amirite?
On the other hand, I'm some 19-year old internet stranger. Anything I say might be very far out.