Latest comic on the convenience of making less ethical choices

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@jensorensen

this is what happens when you build a nation on the ideals of a buncha rich, white, slave-owning men who didn't like paying too many taxes

(and after so, so many years of treating the constitution as a 'living document,' decide to adhere most strongly to one of their values - owning guns)

UGH

great comic, as usual 😊

@jensorensen "Mastodon! Less hitlery than that other social network!"
@jensorensen I'll confess that one of my first thoughts was, "Not that hard... for some people.", because of things like accessibility and flexibility for marginalized groups. At the same time, I don't want to downplay how important it Definitely is for us all to be looking out for opportunities for change when and where we can. If we could all do everything it would be wondrous indeed. I just hope people are encouraged to do what they can, when and where, even outside perfection ;) .
@jensorensen πŸ‘πŸ†
Humbly, it may perhaps be apt to replace "even when" with "especially when" in this meme.πŸ‘‡
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@jensorensen "Not as Hitlery" 😬 (me: why are you still over there? them: not all the posts are by Nazis!)
@ai6yr @jensorensen all the talk is about 'the movement' but they don't clarify the terms

@jensorensen 1000 times this!

The Dead Kennedys were telling us this in the 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Me_Convenience_or_Give_Me_Death

Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death - Wikipedia

@jensorensen Good thing I can give out as many πŸ† as I want. Keep it up, friend.

@jensorensen @Gargron

The last frame would be a great official cartoon for Mastodon. πŸ˜‰πŸ’‘

@jensorensen I don't understand how so many people seem to have lost their moral centre when it comes to this stuff. Especially the almost effortless choice to avoid Amazon, or try out non-commercial social media.

I know of otherwise good people who won't even bother to boycott a single corp, despite everything they know. You won't catch me praising Kant, but even if you truly think the it's hopeless (it's not), where's your sense of what's right?

@jensorensen you're so right. It's extremely difficult to find USA made products or even North America/Mexico made products, but I thought it was important for me to put my money where my mouth is too. I get all my jeans from Dearborn Denim, and I very happy with my boots and sneakers from Thursday Boots.
@jensorensen I see the point of this cartoon but honestly it smells like victim blaming and eitherway it won't achieve anything without systemic change. Why don't you leave academia/news agency (examples) to maintain integrity? Well for example maybe because you have loans or family that depends on the money. And eitherway you will be replace by somebody without the moral spine. Calling for personal actions is just pointless and actually pretty bad.

This comic πŸ‘† by @jensorensen sums it up perfectly when it comes to decisions for or against certain social media networks. Let's do better!

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@jensorensen
"not as Hitlery" seems like a metric that is both Excellent and 'Sad That We Need It'.

Love your work @jensorensen
this is an AWESOME comic!

I just wish you would add your Mastodon handle to your Copyright/Credit line so that readers who aren't aware of Mastodon yet could get curious.