It’s cringey to say you “love” any nation, because they will never care for your wellbeing

That’s not really her argument, which is that you cannot have any emotional relationship with a country.

But even your version is flawed. She lives in Australia and hates what happens to Gazans but is not impacted by what happens to Ukrainians and Uyghurs?

On the one hand she argues that it’s not true that she loves Russia, in fact one can’t even have emotions like love towards a country:

It’s impossible to have a real personal emotional relationship with any nation … You’re not loving the actual country, you’re loving a small mental representation of it that you have constructed inside your head.

On the other hand, her entire blog is aimed at provoking emotional reactions against the US, which she admits she hates:

I hate what they love so they assume I must love what they hate.

Are countries simply mental representations or are they valid objects of repulsion and hatred? It depends on the country, comrade! Russia exists only in your mind, so your feelings about Russia are invalid. But the US is an actual twisted abomination!

[China] simply do the normal thing while we do the freakish thing: they make the lives of their citizens better and better and avoid unnecessary wars, while western governments make the lives of their citizens worse

I have nothing against Russia, China or Iran, but I also have no personal emotional relationship with them.

[Trump] makes the US empire much more transparent and unhidden. He removes its mask and reveals the twisted face beneath it.

Typical tankie. No “emotional relationship with Russia”, but the US on the other hand…

More than half of the top ten companies by market cap do pay dividends: Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Broadcom, and Walmart.

Not all do, of course. That’s exactly why some of those “high value” stocks are probably in a bubble, and soon to become not so high value.

They can’t lie about the dividends they paid out, and dividends are a big part of perceived value. To lots of people, they are the only important part.

A Lumix G7 with 14-42 and 45-150 lenses lists for $650, and you could probably get it under $600 on greentoe.com. Or wait for a sale.

Americans don’t even have a fundamental right to be protected by their own police right here in the USA.

And they claim a right to protection in Gaza? This lawsuit is going nowhere.

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Speaking of unsupported assertions, the OP is confidently wrong that Gaza “isn’t even covered”.

The irony of making false statements about media coverage and complaining about false statements in the media.

If you think it’s not covered by the media, then you’re not following the media.

It accomplishes nothing. No different than propaganda against the moon.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Posting memes about the “ruling class”

Won’t help me or you

And how did you determine what the purpose of fruit is? It certainly can’t communicate its preferences or desires.

All you can observe is that the species as a whole thrives when fruit is consumed. But the same is true of farm animals. You are simply projecting the motivations you want to see, like self-sacrifice, onto one but not the other. After all, many fruits are poisonous. That suggests that fruits don’t want to be eaten, but animals evolved mechanisms to safely eat some fruit.

Finally, factory farms certainly cause animals to suffer but from an evolutionary perspective thriving is not about avoiding suffering. It’s about producing offspring, and in that sense farm animals thrive. And given that the OP is about the potential suffering of plants, I don’t see why fruit farms are any less horrific than animal farms.

Yes, it’s possible but undesirable for both pigs and fruits to survive without assistance from humans. In both cases, that assistance is offered because humans eat the creatures they assist.

You still haven’t explained why this relationship is good for fruits but bad for pigs.

By that reasoning, fruit is not in a biologically obligatory symbiosis with the animals that eat it. There are many cases of fruit falling to the ground uneaten and forming a new plant near its parent. Those plants eke out an existence just as feral pigs do.

Why does the length of time matter? Domesticated varieties of cows and pigs would go extinct if humans stopped raising them for meat. The only niche where they can survive is a farm. They are in symbiosis now even if they weren’t 10,000 years ago.

So cows and pigs - like many fruiting plants - co-evolved with the creatures that fed on them. In both cases, those creatures became necessary for their long-term survival.