this coming from a woman who constantly mocked anyone who took the nazi tattoo or the four tours of military service or the mercenary work or the cheating or the domestic abuse allegations to be red flags for his candidacy is fucking rich. like babe maybe he thought he could get away with anything because you and your friends made excuses for everything right up until the rape allegations made by a white american democrat. that might have something to do with why he thought he'd get away with it.

I don't think the problem is that we eat meat, it's the uniquely cruel ways we treat the animals we eat under our current system. it's a bad system, and there are genuine arguments to be made for veganism as a moral choice on those grounds. you could also just prefer to be vegan or you might not like meat or you might personally feel icky eating an animal. all perfectly viable. but acting as if it's a moral imperative because eating meat is immoral kinda implies that you think carnivorous animals are morally worse than herbivores. like it's just goofy and doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

it's called "we need to talk about louis" and it's not perfect but it's a really good breakdown of his career and of why none of what happened should have been surprising, of the structures protecting him and the defenses people set up, etcetera. and it's also I think somewhat unintentionally an interesting saga of the creator actually demonstrating what it's like to start to deconstruct subconscious bias and bigotry and to reckon with it in a way that seems remarkably earnest