It's funny how our personal 'media bubbles' work, how the description of the world fed to us by the algorithms we subscribe to tend to be more and more infuriating to us every day.

I'm a Jackbooted Thug of an Authoritarian Communist, some like to call me a 'Tanky'. I'm also queer, Secular Jew-ish, and an environmentalist; all while being a 50 year old white guy born in the West to an automotive industry executive and an entrepreneur that both used to be cops and raised in a nearly pristinely white upper class neighborhood.

I look at Reddit and usually see a cesspool of White Right-wing Wanna-be-bourgeoisie Capitalist-simping Neo-fascist Performative-Christians pining for no government, no social support system, and a return to the days that a man could rape his wife and beat his children with impunity.

Do you think that China is actually trying to make The West like that? Is their objective to radicalize the 'majority' to go to war with literally everyone else in their country?

They are not necessarily white; I have heard the same sentiment spoken by black political activists. It is referencing the age old technique of the Bourgeoise to incite the Proletariat to fight each other instead of them.

' i'm not moved by the environmental issues, '

How can you not be? I'm always very confused by people that make statements like this. Do you not have children, or other family members with children, that you would like to grow to live a healthy life and carry on the family line?

Whenever I see that explicitly expressed the first thing I think is 'That is the kind of misanthrope that I would not want in my community.'.

And then retrofit a physical key into the ignition circuit of the vehicle? Most of the car thieves are too young to have ever needed to pick a lock or hotwire a car so you could create a situation of security through obsolescence.

As a Canadian this made me very uncomfortable

Those 'recycled' plastic earbuds still end up tossed in the trash and then into the landfill at their end of life.

The plastic shell, electronic components, and the lithium of the battery will end in the ground water that percolates out of the landfill into the rivers and oceans. The freeze/thaw cycles, rain, and churning of the ground grind down and erode it into particles fine enough to be lifted into the air by the heat of sunlight evaporating the water it floats in. Those particles circle the globe and are breathed in, eaten, and drank by the entirety of life on the planet.

We cannot afford to keep using those plastics at all, let alone letting all the processed electronics elements become that deadly dust.

Keep making excuses if you feel you must. If the company profits and your inexpensive conveniences are more important to you than the current and future conditions of human life as a whole then I congratulate you on ascending to full on Misanthropic-Corporate-Drone-Slavery. /rant

Ha! Apparently I read that a little too fast and didn't catch the fact that you actually live in the Philippines! But my argument still stands. The trash that gets thrown out in your country can get ground down to find particles that Americans end up drinking and breathing; which makes plastic manufacturing, recycling, disposal, etc. a global problem not a regional one.

Where are the plastic comes from is not what makes it a problem; it is the fact that it gets ground down to particles so fine that the sun on the ocean can cause it to waft into the air with evaporating water and circulate the entire planet so that plastic thrown out in Vietnam can be breathed in by your wife in America. Then it's can cross the placental barrier during gestation of your child and spend the next 20 years as the core of a slowly forming tumor that affects your child's cognitive and physical development.

It's not so much that the communism/socialism attempts failed is that capitalism made a point of undermining any attempt for its to succeed because by its very nature anything other than capitalism is a threat to capitalism; the primary problem is is that capitalism is a system that serves itself and not the people that are subject to it.

There is literally only one element that responds to a magnet, iron; and of all of the elements that we need to control the release into the environment in the waste disposal process it is probably one of the most benign and least harmful of them.

If you don't think that plastic pollution into rivers and oceans is a first world problem then I'm going to make the assumption that you are a misanthrope that is looking forward to the death of the species by the inevitable proliferation of cancers and the decline in the birth rate due to microplastics and the accompanying chemicals.

The abolition of the use of petroleum derived plastics in any but the most absolutely essential manufacturing should be the primary concern of every person that considers themselves to be any sort of activist; any sort of sex, gender, race, politics, or nationalism organization that protests or lobbies for change are fundamentally flawed, functionally meaningless, and foundationally hypocritical if the species itself and its ability to thrive on Earth is not the starting point of everything they try to do.

Being able to have machines do an arduous, dangerous, disgusting task that most human beings really would not want to do on a large scale in a facility because too many humans can't be bothered to do it at the point of disposal is a perfectly acceptable use of AI to replace human labor.

It's only cheaper if you are only taking into consideration the profits of the current and next quarter. If you take into account the long-term effects on yourself, your children, your grandchildren, and the rest of the population now and into the far future it is ultimately cheaper to do everything you can to be a good steward of the environment even if it is inconvenient, more expensive, or less profitable. Too consciously make the choice not to means that you are literally a bad person that chooses their own luxury and convenience to be more important than the overall sustainability of the planet and the health of all the other people that currently and will in the future live on it.

They also did child sacrifices to appease and placate their gods....

There are a lot of people that listen to Cory because he speaks to Gen X and younger people that participate in the information age the way that Bob Dylan spoke to the hippies, John F Kennedy spoke to the Boomers, and Hitler spoke to the Nazis. For those that subscribe to his view of reality he is an eloquent, intelligent, and respected writer and orator.