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People be all about conspiracy theories about The Man controlling things then go shopping on Amazon, buy food in plastic, eat killed tortured animals casually, & write their deep thoughts on Big Tech-funded extremist-platforming Substack.

Yeah we can’t avoid everything
we can’t be perfect
but when you got a choice to feed the kind wolf—take it every time. If working with the toxic wolf leverages change toward good, go for it.

But biking, public transport, voting, going vegan, zero waste, meditation—no one but you is stopping you from putting a lot less aggression and a lot more love into our harried world and abused planet.

And if you do, when you do—you might inspire others to do similar.

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“I love animals, but I still separate their families, torture and kill them—or better pay for them to be tortured and killed.” It is morality. There are other ways to feed your family, and cheaper, and more healthfully.

Besides, it’s the easiest most powerful way to reduce out footprint–not letting The Man, Big Business, Billionaires off the hook–rather the opposite, combining our power so as to force positive change and provide a stable home for all future generations. Again, that’s a moral cause.

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I shared this post on our facebook.com/elephantjournal Main FB page and a few good reader comments to this general point:

“Look what we did to Disney+, Target and more. We may not be able to change the world, but together we can get their attention and remind them of who really has the power.”

“By yourself, not really – our individual consumer choices have only minimal impact on the global corporations like WalMart. However, when millions of us boycott a company or country, it does matter. The boycott of South Africa helped end the apartheid regime there, and Target’s profits are down significantly since the current boycott started.”

“What’s even more impactful is changing laws – raising wages, improving working conditions, banning unsafe products and sweatshop labor, and closing the tax loopholes these big corps use to not pay their fair share.”

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it’s not a particularly ethical platform, unless you’re okay with hardliner fascist extremist voices of hate and that it’s backed by Big Tech money, which is the source of many of our problems in society, including around climate crisis/future of our planet and all future generations, today.

If Elephant were funded by big tech money, we’d be led by profits and view our readers or community as users and would be sold to the highest bitter at a convenient time. There would be no long-term vision to be of benefit. Then on top of that if I were platforming voices of hate and extremism, no hyperbole, I doubt very much you would tolerate that or that others would tolerate that. Too many take what Elephant is, and is not, for granted, and write on Substack. Most of my own friends. We’re feeding the wolf that…will bite.