May Day / No Kings Garbage.
The other day I posted pictures of the needless garbage Democratic candidates send to my mailbox. They talk sustainability, but look at their action. You can see the pictures in Democrat Garbage: When Democrats Say They Value Sustainability, They Mean When It’s Convenient For Themselves (Republicans Probably No Different).
Am I unfairly judging them? On the contrary, the conflict is between their values and their actions. I didn’t ask for them to send me garbage. I work to stop junk mail being sent to me. I hardly receive any now, but Democrats do it.
Holding people accountable to their values helps them. It doesn’t hurt them.
Their garbage continued to arrive after the election. I put an image of more recent garbage of theirs at the end of this post.
May Day, No Kings, and Garbage
Yesterday, for hours several helicopters hovered over my neighborhood. I was busy writing and working, so was bothered, but didn’t know why they were there.
In the evening I went out to meet someone. Passing through Washington Square Park on the way, I saw the cause. It was May Day and people must have been demonstrating.
How do I know? Because they left garbage everywhere. By the time I arrived, maintenance people were cleaning it up and I was in a big hurry, so I only took pictures in one corner of the park, but here’s an example, followed by a gallery below.
If you talk sustainability, fairness, and justice, you undermine yourself if you violate your words with your actions. I’m not writing anything in support of or against the May Day or No Kings message. I didn’t read the messages or talk to people there. I’m just showing that those communities trashed my neighborhood.
If I violate my values and hurt people in the process, breaking laws in the process, I’d want people to hold me accountable. How else can I improve?
They didn’t have to trash public land. Nobody forced them to. They just did it.
How about a message somewhere in their literature, web pages, or communication saying “Leave it better than you found it” or “Try to live by your values”?
How about a message saying, “People will judge us by our behavior more than our words. Please act appropriately.”?
They seem like people who would do land acknowledgments. How about honoring the land they acknowledge? How does trashing land square with saying it belongs to someone else and that they are uninvited guests?
Since I mentioned more garbage coming from the Democrats, here’s the stuff from after the election, so far at least.
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