When people talk about taxing these horrible people I think of tax as being a euphamism

The major difference is China is subsidizing green technologies that are good for curbing climate change and the USA is subsidizing harmful shit that’s killing us all

Now westerners will worry when lining up for concerts or flights and the increased security expenditure will impact their economy

I guess you support ISIS terror attacks as a brilliant play too?

ironically we need less of this kind of thinking in the world

shitposting on lemmy for example

that’s a little old to be playing with interactive entertainment which engages your strategic thinking and problem solving skills, passively consume some content like a grown adult instead

Where are you located? In Canada, there are gray market options in major cities (i.e. physical storefronts) and online.

I hear you, it’s been a brutal millennium so far and things look like they’ll get worse before they get better.

We’re all powerless alone, and I don’t see us being able to stop the worst of what’s to come, but there’s pressure building against Israel, against capitalism, against conservatism, against the status quo.

It’s going to be a rough ride but we need to stubbornly exist and be present and visible so that the pressure keeps building.

Fair enough but I’m a little over uninformed people having political opinions

this is a bad take, it ignores the political philosophy foundations of left and right political theories and is a very naive perspective borne of the American two party system which doesn’t adequately represent leftism

you really can’t tell that they’re the same thing?

Taliban are the conservatives of the region. This is what conservatives do.

Grandpa you figured out how to get online

You’re giving “race” as an arbitrary social construct special status above other characteristics. Height, hair color, etc.

You’re presupposing that race is more significant than these.

Furthermore, the flexibility of racial terms like “white” to include or exclude people like Italians and Irish over the decades also goes to show that it’s arbitrary and malleable.

Like religion, it’s just been a tool for political control. Conservatives love in groups and out groups, this is just the common one of the day.

I unbuckle my belt and assume the posture

Wealth is always a weapon, this is why we need economic change. No individuals should wield so much power

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it’s possible we’re facing a future in which meat is not sustainable and we won’t want to spare any for cats, it’s something worth studying

Tradition is just intergenerational peer pressure

I’m down to make the whole economy public but this is an unfair take

fighting straw men only tires yourself out