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It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal. There are so many places where a simple refusa
by mmastrac 7y ago
It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal. There are so many places where a simple refusal to kowtow/censor or technical attack on censorship infrastructure could help so many that don't have the luxury of living in our world.
If we're not going to use all this economic power for good, what's the point?
- excalibur 7y ago> It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal. Which goal is that?
- pmlnr 7y agobeing an economic power
- traderjane 7y agoI sure hope that's the goal, or else we wouldn't be able to afford our real goal.
- excalibur 7y agoWhich goal is that?
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- dghughes 7y agoNorth Americans? The people in the 23 countries that make up the North American continent. Why not western nations in general?
- gpm 7y ago> 23 countries Canada, USA, Mexico, what are the other 20?
- Steltek 7y agoGreenland, Caribbean, most of Central America...
- brobinson 7y agoMost of Central America is part of North America?
- Skunkleton 7y ago...what else would it be a part of?
- brobinson 7y agoWow, TIL. I did not realize it was a subset.
- gpm 7y agoWe call distinct bodies of land part of the continent? Ok...
- WillPostForFood 7y agoUSA Canada Mexico Guatemala Belize Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Bahamas Cuba Jamaica Haiti Dominican Rep. St. Kits and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Lucia Barbados St. Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Trinidad and Tobago
- blzrdnofreespch 7y agoAgreed. It’s so easy and convenient to stay in our day/to-day patterns (e.g. gaming after work for a bit), but the level of absurdity of their actions really needs to be met with protest. We need to send a symbol to other companies that this won’t stand. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
- supernova87a 7y agoYou're not going to be able to. America and other classical democracies are in a phase of aging where a decline in prosperity combined with a die-hard (unthinking) application of absolute freedom of speech are paralyzing action. Everyone is disagreeing with each other over a shrinking pie, pitting demographic against demographic, and not only that, any genuine disagreement and decision making is muddied by agents trying to confuse people. There is no prioritization or restriction on who may say what, how loudly, or regardless of how harmful or counter to the public good it is. And, may I add, most democratic governments do not have a strong enough perspective (in this period) on what the public good is. As a result, those places that have harnessed the power of demographics while also controlling the message are gaining power. Obviously I mean China. Yes they have anti-absolute-free-speech restrictions that are repugnant to us. But you're damn sure they stay on message as a country/government. Unfortunately this situation is also to the benefit of chaotic actors like Russia, where they benefit from just other countries being paralyzed and them being able to do what they want. In the absence of government leadership, corporations had the chance of filling in the role. But now we see that in the face of power, they recoil as well. We did this to ourselves, by letting our priorities get muddled as we got richer. We didn't "stay hungry", my friends.
- rpmisms 7y agoSo, you're pro-china, or at least, you like their attitude. Good to know.
- chrischen 7y agoYes let’s meddle with the sovereign affairs of other countries and use military force to impose our values and democracy just like we used to in the good old days of the 2000s! Those heathen commies don’t know what’s good for them as much as I, an ill-informed American, do. I must dictate to them what laws they can or cannot have after briefly hearing about their society in the news!