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  • Maeve@midwest.socialtoNews@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    19 days ago

    Some states won’t let hunters’ surplus game to be donated or sold. Some will and do. It’s a good balance. Then you find the city slicker trophy hunter deer - whole carcasses, minus the rack. It’s disgusting, even for me (flexitarian), and we grew up raising or hunting our own food. We would never kill an animal that wasn’t an immediate threat that wouldn’t be eaten, except for rats and bugs, but we still didn’t go out of our way to prolong suffering (but we did to quickly end it).









  • That’s not normal. It’s sick and selfish. And I say that yes, with love for you and my homeland. It’s not hate to want my neighbor in the hospital on life support to get well, but it may be selfish if they don’t fully recover. It’s not hate to want my alcoholic family members to get well. It’s not hate to want my diabetic neighbors to check their blood sugar and help find them affordable insulin. And it’s not crazy to expect my fellow citizens to not be sociopathic, fearful, or accept a false scarcity.



  • Corporate greed is why no one can afford anything. There’s no scarcity either. It’s a matter of logistics, but that’s going to quickly change if the very well off people and corporations don’t curb their insatiable appetites, and that can be done with the 50s era 93% tax rates on very high individual earners and adding that same rate to megacorporations. No more tax cuts for donating to self-serving, self -directed “philanthropic” causes anymore, either. That tax money can be used to clean up the environment, well - feed, educate, home and health for EVERY individual at the same providers. No campaign donations of any form, fashion or sort. Campaigns are debates and past voting history, only, and every broadcast radio station and television station will be required to air them multiple times. Every print newspaper too, and taxes can fund that. No corporate or wealthy lobbiests.

    Then let’s see how charitable the wealthy really are.