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Honestly not the worst thing that could happen at this point.

Whoever posted this on Bluesky is ludicrously incorrect. There are around 732 affected herds in California, but California has 11,000 herds. That’s 6.65%.

Also, the presentation is highly misleading. Only one cow in a herd needs to be infected with H5N1 for the herd to be “affected”. There are 1.75 million cattle in California. As little as 0.04% of California’s cattle stock could be affected.

Further, H5N1 doesn’t cause serious illness in cows, just 7-10 days of minor symptoms. We don’t even know that cows can spread it to each other.

Liberal is a political philosophy, not a social class.

No, that’s an incorrect summation of one part of my argument.

The response to your comment is in my second sentence.

There is no poly shaming going on here. The article makes clear that:

1. Kennedy was not poly with his ex wife. He just repeatedly cheated on her.
2. He invoked the term to try and justify his behavior. And he is the only person here who made any moral judgement about it - he called it “wrong”.

I think you missed my point entirely.

We all just learned from Walgreens’ latest report that placing barriers between consumers and the goods they’re trying to purchase reduces sales, and CVS’ response to this problem is to add a login requirement.

Where is this language taken from?

We tolerate people that hold those beliefs in that they are allowed to exist in open society where they can be called out

This point is hugely important, but not for the reason that you intended.

You are mistaken on an essential aspect of your argument: calling out bigoted or discriminatory views out is the definition of not tolerating them. At the same time, the bigotry you’re describing - not permitting people to exist in open society - is exactly the reason we cannot tolerate those kind of views.

The essence of bigotry is that entire categories of individuals don’t deserve the same rights as others. People who hold those views aren’t interested in debating the issue because they believe that their opponents don’t deserve the right to be part of the discussion.

One side is saying that we cannot tolerate these views. The other side is saying that they will not tolerate our humanity.

This isn’t a perspective that is subject to change by reason.

My mistake. I thought you were arguing the other way.

This misses the point entirely.

DEI is about finding the best candidate for the job, and paying them fair wages.

What you’re describing is literally anti-DEI. Musk and Trump have both been open about using the H-1B visa program to find foreign workers who will work cheaply, and they do it so that they don’t have to pay American workers a fair amount.

This is not a good counterexample. A boycott has immediate financial consequences for the boycotted company/industry. No such pressure is generated by sitting out an election.

In fact, a central strategy of the right wing in the United States is to reduce overall voter turnout, which is achieved either by restricting access to voting or by discouraging voter participation. By sitting out the vote you did exactly what the right wing wanted you to do.