Depends on the metric. If it’s lives taken, it’s more ethical for cat food. If it’s human suffering, it’s more ethical to use mice.

Ok so, you’re vague on what the apocalypse is, but you did say “before everything collapses”, and talk about preserving knowledge. So I’m thinking big solar flare that destroys technology as we know it.

For an apocalypse, this is easy mode. Basically going back to like what, the 50s level of tech for most people. A lot of the world would also not even notice.

Get myself and all the people I care about to withdraw everything they can in cash, even taking out cash loans if possible. Build fereday (sp?) cages for all our stuff. Stock up on a few months worth of groceries and water, and we could probably ride that wave till things get fixed.

It certainly can seem like that, but the biggest problem is our voting system makes it work like that.

With a winner takes all voting system, and only two effective parties in power, everyone is basically stuck with “horrible monster who wants to kill everything in know and love” and “someone close to what I want kinda”.

So people tend to vote among party lines because that’s all they can do.

For example, where I live, both candidates have been anti trans. One’s way worse about it and the other is, in my opinion, probably just saying some rhetoric to try to appeal to some voting base she normally can’t reach. So I am going to have to choose the lesser of two evils, because the person running against her is from a party that actively wants to exterminate trans people, even though the other candidate sucks.

In short, Americans don’t vote for, they vote against.

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

I loved this book!

The comments have devolved into the less mundane and just regular insults, so I’ll throw this one in here:

You’re as thick as a brick sandwich

This is both historically inaccurate and you typed out “costed” like it was a real word.

Sweater is red on black so it is friend (of Jack)

Back in the days of ASCII art, before the days of emojis, people would pretend to be elite hackers by changing numbers and symbols for letters.

I still use 1337 5P34K in certain games

Perfect score

K, have fun being a coward I guess

I mean, that’s one of the only reasons you would argue against someone saying that you’re claiming Tolkien loved fascism.

If I had to guess… It’s you dodging the question. I’m just going to assume you liked Spanish nationalists and don’t think they were fascists.

Oh please, we know exactly what you’re saying directly as well as implying. Someone summing it up simply doesn’t change the message.

Unless … The only reason this wouldn’t make sense is if the summary was off…

Are you saying that Tolkien didn’t love fascism, or are you saying that the nationalists during the Spanish civil war weren’t fascists? Are you glad he liked them?

Hell yeah, I love my homies. Most of my friends I met through conventions, which is a pretty easy way to meet people. We game sometimes, we’ve worked on cosplay, had wild parties, and we talk and hang out sometimes. A bunch aren’t local but I’ve also got a lot of guys who I hang out with locally.

You just gotta find the right people and don’t hang out with the people who you don’t vibe with. Throw a party for the people you do like and they can invite people that are cool they like.

You need to turn off the machine in your belt that turns men conservative!

The idea that only pure people are allowed to make things, and that you are allowed to only enjoy things made by pure people, lest you become impure by enjoying them, is a childish view held by the extremists on the right and the left, and such an ignorant idea should be left to fools.

“Tolkein loves fascism”

Where did I say that?

Your title is “TIL Tolkien supported fascist Spain”.

You don’t have to be a super sluth to see what you’re saying between the lines here, saying “well I didn’t say those specific words” doesn’t work with people who have reading comprehension.

That’s suspicious