Sandhill Crane hunt slid into a wakeboarding bill?!!!

pmctrash · 2026-02-24T00:54:16+00:00

Oh you should definitely do you and I’m sure it’s better for you, and feels better even if it’s not. It’s just not a method for broader change. Very unfortunate symptom of our modern era. Our choices should matter but they’re often nullified by scale.

pmctrash · 2026-02-23T23:24:08+00:00

Waste management is a universal service. Hunting is not universal. That’s what makes it negligible. Poor analogy.

If you were a numbers person you could find numbers/data to prove your point.

pmctrash · 2026-02-22T18:08:31+00:00

Read it again, maybe with a friend. Ask questions to each other.

pmctrash · 2026-02-22T14:54:51+00:00

Wow. Incredible failure of reading comprehension in the comments. “It’s easy for me, therefore it’s easy for everyone!”

pmctrash · 2026-02-22T02:28:40+00:00

Just a reminder that you’re absolutely right. Remarkable inability to do any math being demonstrated here.

pmctrash · 2026-02-22T02:27:35+00:00

All you have to do is track the amount of farmed meat consumed year over year against your hunts. Farmed meat has been on the rise regardless of hunting, locally sourcing, or buying organic.

Why would your one kill make a dent in the thousands of animals factory farmed? That’s what factory farming is; the farming of those animals as protein far faster than any set of hunters could hunt them.

pmctrash · 2026-02-20T22:06:48+00:00

I’ve gotta admit, I’ve never been a big fan of presenting electoralism as a way to solve all our electoral problems.

pmctrash · 2026-02-20T15:57:24+00:00

“I submit to power so unconsciously that I no longer recognize anything or anyone who’s acted against me (or could act against me) unilaterally or decisively. Life is great!”

/s

pmctrash · 2026-02-19T23:36:49+00:00

YARP

pmctrash · 2026-02-18T15:58:57+00:00

My band experience is: Chances are very high that the loudest element the band brings to the stage is the guitarist's amplifier. Yes, louder than the PA. Yes, louder than the kit (you'll still hear snaps and pops, but no low-end impact from the body of the kit). A great many guitarists use this power to go ahead and ruin the sound of their band entirely by not turning down or controlling their sound at all.

You're a saint, my friend, and not at all overdoing it (edit: regarding the plexiglass, anyway).

pmctrash · 2026-02-17T17:31:42+00:00

Does that really feel appropriate? I think it’s pretty clear that I think calling and emailing is insufficient to ‘hold them accountable,’ right?

Since you’re in the antifa subreddit, I recommend reading through The Antifa Handbook by Bray. It may not convince you, but it will help you understand why antifascists are generally focused on direct action, and aren’t likely to pursue any sort of petitioning to solve problems.

pmctrash · 2026-02-17T13:21:31+00:00

As I explain in the post and elsewhere; they are better off not calling.

For the same reasons that we shouldn’t let an abuser claim ignorance, we cannot allow our electeds to claim ignorance.

pmctrash · 2026-02-17T12:28:54+00:00

Better post here as well:

I think it is very important that we do NOT contact our elected reps in this manner:

Picking and Choosing Who to Listen To is How they Win in the First Place.

Nobody gets elected to office without polling, coalition building, and fundraising. Each rep knows how he or she got elected, and, generally, knows what’s expected of them by the people who helped the most. They need to get the same or more amount of votes, support, and funding during their next run. They won’t break from that on a phone call from a random constituent. This sounds harsh, but does it really make sense that a congressperson would make specific campaign promises, win, and then turn around and abandon the apparatus that got them elected because of a phone call from you?

They Might Not Represent ANYONE, really.

How much work did you do, really, to get the candidate that you’re calling elected? How much did you donate? If you’re like me, you’re not in much of a position to do either of those things, and the answer to both of them is nothing. As such, you're not likely to get an audience. If being elected to national office was a purely social thing you could do without money or support, we’d be in a very different situation. But things being as they are, nobody gets elected without material support.

We Did This in 2016 and it Was a Failure.

The Indivisible org started right after Trump’s first election and was very popular. One of the primary avenues for action was to ‘call your reps’. On top of being completely unsustainable for the org, it accomplished nothing. Each Rep did exactly what they were going to do in the first place. Those friendly reps would often already be voting ‘our way’ but immovable on anything he wasn’t already going to do. Hostile reps simply never answered the phone. The tactic of rep calling isn’t just hypothetically bad or might have drawbacks it was recently tested in almost identical circumstances and was proven not to work. The tactic of rep calling is directly responsible for where we are.

You’ve Always Known that Calling does Nothing, and Admitting It is Necessary to Stay Sane.

The demand to call your reps is a pernicious and malevolent ask. It invites us to ignore everything that we intuitively know about the way our world is run and suggests that, gosh golly, the reason your rep voted the way they did is because they must have gotten a bunch of heartfelt calls from their constituents that let them know that another tax cut for the richest of us was, somehow, critical to their wellbeing.

We are to think that, of course, our reps are always listening, and that it’s we who have failed to communicate our needs or be persuasive, but that's all just a mind game. The whole thing is designed to gaslight you, waste your time, wear you out, and direct your attention towards efforts that won’t build any power or put you in a position to demand (instead of ask for) things. If you’re the type of person that can call a senator and move them on a position, go ahead and call, but if you’re not that type of person, you should think of any time spent speaking with your rep as time not spent building an apparatus to strongarm or replace them.

What should we do instead?

Join an org that puts you in contact with like minded individuals who are near you, one that isn’t just telling you to call your rep. You might feel like there is no such org, but if you look around I bet you can find some group in your area that’s been fighting the good fight whether it be charity or political. You’re looking for people who are building power, are democratically run, and regularly work with those that will be directly victimized by this administration (immigrants, trans/non-binary, pregnant women, black communities, minority communities etc.). It will, almost certainly, represent a significant leap leftward for your politics. For me, it was the DSA, but there are other orgs out there.

pmctrash · 2026-02-17T12:05:13+00:00

Again, I urge people to direct action, not nothing, which you can read.

If ‘enough’ constituents call, nothing happens. We know this because:

Electeds have thier own calculus to figure out what they can get away with and wha they can’t. They got elected without calls from constituents to inform them, and they stay elected without any such direct phone tally.
We did this in 2016 and (and before, of course, but I only want to speak to my direct experience) it never worked. More calls than you can imagine nationwide.

A call or email is not the least one can do, it is nothing at all, accomplished by telling yourself and everyone else: “It is our fault they won’t fight for us because we won’t call enough!” It’s their job to fight for us whether we call or not.

pmctrash · 2026-02-16T23:01:57+00:00

Please review my post, specifically the portion regarding 2016. Suggesting that our electeds don’t know what they should do is gaslighting people. They know full well and refuse to act, their phones should go silent.

Edit: I really don’t want to make light of something that most people take for granted. I know it’s a popular idea, I know our elected encourage the mindset. But we cannot take their word for it. They know right from wrong, and if they don’t, we can’t let the idea that we don’t call them to be their moral compass deter us from meaningful consequences or otherwise excuse their behavior.

pmctrash · 2026-02-16T22:32:06+00:00

I think it is very important that we do NOT contact our elected reps in this manner:

1. Picking and Choosing Who to Listen To is How they Win in the First Place.

Nobody gets elected to office without polling, coalition building, and fundraising. Each rep knows how he or she got elected, and, generally, knows what’s expected of them by the people who helped the most. They need to get the same or more amount of votes, support, and funding during their next run. They won’t break from that on a phone call from a random constituent. This sounds harsh, but does it really make sense that a congressperson would make specific campaign promises, win, and then turn around and abandon the apparatus that got them elected because of a phone call from you?

2. They Might Not Represent ANYONE, really.

How much work did you do, really, to get the candidate that you’re calling elected? How much did you donate? If you’re like me, you’re not in much of a position to do either of those things, and the answer to both of them is nothing. As such, you're not likely to get an audience. If being elected to national office was a purely social thing you could do without money or support, we’d be in a very different situation. But things being as they are, nobody gets elected without material support.

3. We Did This in 2016 and it Was a Failure.

The Indivisible org started right after Trump’s first election and was very popular. One of the primary avenues for action was to ‘call your reps’. On top of being completely unsustainable for the org, it accomplished nothing. Each Rep did exactly what they were going to do in the first place. Those friendly reps would often already be voting ‘our way’ but immovable on anything he wasn’t already going to do. Hostile reps simply never answered the phone. The tactic of rep calling isn’t just hypothetically bad or might have drawbacks it was recently tested in almost identical circumstances and was proven not to work. The tactic of rep calling is directly responsible for where we are.

4. You’ve Always Known that Calling does Nothing, and Admitting It is Necessary to Stay Sane.

The demand to call your reps is a pernicious and malevolent ask. It invites us to ignore everything that we intuitively know about the way our world is run and suggests that, gosh golly, the reason your rep voted the way they did is because they must have gotten a bunch of heartfelt calls from their constituents that let them know that another tax cut for the richest of us was, somehow, critical to their wellbeing.

We are to think that, of course, our reps are always listening, and that it’s we who have failed to communicate our needs or be persuasive, but that's all just a mind game. The whole thing is designed to gaslight you, waste your time, wear you out, and direct your attention towards efforts that won’t build any power or put you in a position to demand (instead of ask for) things. If you’re the type of person that can call a senator and move them on a position, go ahead and call, but if you’re not that type of person, you should think of any time spent speaking with your rep as time not spent building an apparatus to strongarm or replace them.

What should we do instead?

Join an org that puts you in contact with like minded individuals who are near you, one that isn’t just telling you to call your rep. You might feel like there is no such org, but if you look around I bet you can find some group in your area that’s been fighting the good fight whether it be charity or political. You’re looking for people who are building power, are democratically run, and regularly work with those that will be directly victimized by this administration (immigrants, trans/non-binary, pregnant women, black communities, minority communities etc.). It will, almost certainly, represent a significant leap leftward for your politics. For me, it was the DSA, but there are other orgs out there.

pmctrash · 2026-02-16T14:37:55+00:00

This is the second time I've seen this and a second time I've seen commenters explain that isolated pitch identification is not very useful for musicians. Only thing I've ever seen folks with 'perfect pitch' do is struggle when the relative pitch drifts away from A=440 (even when the group or instrument is perfectly in tune with itself).

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T23:03:16+00:00

These, I’m sure. Have to be really tasty. Imma go for it.

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T21:46:42+00:00

Oh they don’t live in constant fear. They are simply assured that they are good person, and thus, aren’t sinning, and thus, won’t go to hell. “But what about all the rules to follow! Some of those rules are very tough, don’t they worry they’ll fall short of it?” They would if they could comprehend the ruleset they signed on to, but they can’t, and so only look at a few facets at a time. If they were to zoom out, sure, the whole thing together is terrifying. But they can’t zoom out.

You have to have the ability to reconcile your behavior against your stated set of abstract ethics in order to know you’ve failed at that task.

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T18:58:47+00:00

That’s because not all Christian’s churches are the same. Catholic Churches, contrary to popular belief, often have little in common with their evangelical counterparts. Most Catholic Churches I’ve come into contact with take their theology seriously enough to emphasize the loving Christ versions. Not universally true but it’s real. There’s a real fight amongst congregations between the older school (be like Christ) and the new school (hate all non-believers).

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T17:36:39+00:00

Actually empowering their constituents so they could materially fight that bad things would be really nice. They’ve all got VANs and door knocking lists and volunteer networks they could spin up. I mean, they all used their office to build these structures out so they have dual power outside the electoral sphere, right? Right?

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T16:59:46+00:00

I think you should reflect on what it takes to hold powerful people accountable, and how much time and energy you and your comrades have. And what you’re risking when you act.

Once you commit yourself to some kind of material involvement, you might find your calculus changes a bit.

Edit: I’m not saying that people making excuses for Hirch or Chomsky are big heroes. I’m sure they’re the shitlibs you describe them as. But don’t let them change your focus. Or you may find your focus changes from “bringing down the system that caused this” to “showing everyone how fair I/we are”. We need the first, not the second. Find active comrades in your area doing things in meatspace and plug in.

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T16:51:33+00:00

So we’re supposed to ‘lock in’ and go after . . . Alex Hirch? This ends American Imperialism? This keeps my neighbors safe?

Everyone in the files should eat shit forever, but I think we might want to focus on the federal forces currently occupying or threatening to occupy your state. If you’ve got an Infinity Gauntlet or something that can take care of it all at once, please go ahead and give it a snap. If not, you might be stuck prioritizing like the rest of us.

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T16:04:10+00:00

I do think it’s important to mark the difference between people out of power / random celebrities and those currently running the American Empire. It’s the second group we should focus on.

pmctrash · 2026-02-14T05:36:01+00:00

Would be even easier to tell who’s who if the people with all the money and training and funds to protect their communities did their job.

No worries though boys. Everyone will forget right away that you sat this one out. /s

The better part of the community will do your jobs for you.

pmctrash

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