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by thrance 1y ago
In short: republicans are the effectuators, democrats are the enablers. The democrats have been deferring to moneyed interests too over the last decades, just in a less agressive way. They spend a great deal of energy pushing actual leftist
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by thrance 1y ago
The orcas "attacking" boats are just teenagers having found a new fun thing to play with. Too bad it involves damaging private property, but I don't think it matters much to them.
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by thrance 1y ago
One could also use your reasoning to claim that no statements can ever be made about the impact of economic policies, because once they're in place, we can't compare with a world where they wouldn't have been adopted. Best we
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by thrance 1y ago
Know many countries with a political entiry known as "The GOP" that likes to blame minorities for everything wrong in society?
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by thrance 1y ago
We already live in a country where owning capital generates more income than actually working. And this is rapidly getting worse. The GOP has sold the country on blaming minorities, and so things will get much, much worse before they can
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by thrance 1y ago
For sure, that's what I implied in that "corporations and fascism" line. If they wanted to make a stand, I believe they could. But as history tells us, businesses are a fascist's biggest allies, so they won't.
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by thrance 1y ago
A mentally ill right-winger 4chan edgelord shooting at immigrants, to be precise. No ICE officers were harmed in this hatecrime, don't you worry.
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by thrance 1y ago
Except Apple and Google are incredibly powerful, and the Trump administration has shown they mostly fail to follow on their threats (yet, at least). If some entities are able to stand up against the nascent fascist regime, it's them. B
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by thrance 1y ago
"How do you get austerity from neoliberalism, a movement that argues that more wealth should trickle down?". The abundance folks constantly fight the populist left on government spending. Their proposed plan for "having more
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by thrance 1y ago
Housing can either be an investment vehicle or affordable, but not both at the same time. The abundance crowd remains willfully blind to this obvious reality, and is why they will fail. They promise to make housing affordable while receivin
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by thrance 1y ago
I don't know why you insist on licking rich people's boots for these. None of these good thing came from them. I'm telling you: around a billion people are still hungry, and that number has been stable for 50 years. In the fa
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by thrance 1y ago
You have an incorrect reading of history and economy. Basically none of the wealth and comfort we (regular people) enjoy were "gifted" or "left over" willingly by the owner class. Everything had to be fought for: minimum
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by thrance 1y ago
Go repeat that to the nearest homeless guy. Wealth inequality is rising rapidly, and around a billion people on this planet still can't eat as well as they should.
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by thrance 1y ago
Wow, deregulation and austerity, what a fresh perspective on the economy! This abundance "movement" has absolutely nothing new to offer, it is simply a rebranding of neoliberalism. It's easy to spot too, just look at who back
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by thrance 1y ago
Can't be bother to reply to your obviously bad faith comment: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-847924
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by thrance 1y ago
Source? It seems to me the majority of Israel supports the invasion and occupation of Gaza.
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by thrance 1y ago
Israel is a settler colonial project, as far as I'm concerned they cast the first stone. Or rather, the British sending them here did. Not that it matters much in the end, but today Israel plays the role of the oppressor and Palestine
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by thrance 1y ago
Because it angers the fascist right-wingers brigading any topic they dislike, among them support for Ukraine. Also the moderation is completely fine with this and hides between "remaining apolitical", or "avoiding divisive to
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by thrance 1y ago
I could foresee you linking to conservative rags or social media posts. Sorry, I don't let (most probably false) anecdotal "evidence" dictate my politics, unlike you. My point still stands btw, nothing from the left equates o
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by thrance 1y ago
> I don’t know, arresting people for hate speech for writing the letter “N” on social media or being arrested for saying “I love bacon” I can't believe you're saying this with a straight face. I really wonder how it feels livin
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by thrance 1y ago
After nearly a century of Israeli oppression and zero interest from the international community, them electing a terrorist organization is certainly understable, even if still not justified. The first step is to reassure Palestinians that t
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by thrance 1y ago
Well, time to get your eyesight checked maybe? If Trump sending troops to major blue cities isn't Authoritarian, I don't know what is.
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by thrance 1y ago
If by "people" they mean "the people residing there" then maybe ok. If they mean "this particular ethnicity", like it's the case here, then it's fucked up and leads to an encore of the worst atrocitie
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by thrance 1y ago
Full quote: > It's not a "political stance" to say that people should call others by their preferred name and pronouns. It's just basic human decency to do that, You're fighting for the right to be a dick to peo
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by thrance 1y ago
No, the point is to get the bigots out. I don't know of any CoCs that prohibits "nerds" in an open-source project, don't be daft. Also, not fun how you're implying that being from a marginalized group and being a ne
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by thrance 1y ago
Sorry, no. There is no comparison possible between Harris and Trump. Know that I wouldn't have fancied a boring neoliberal technocrat such as her in the White House, but at this point anything would have been better than the literal cr
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by thrance 1y ago
I think it's relevant enough to tech, legality and justice, you know, the themes of TFA. I'm sorry you're tired of hearing that POTUS is a criminal, it does get old. I'm afraid it won't stop until he faces justice t
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by thrance 1y ago
Wow, you really got me with that "some". Are you seriously now claiming that TERFs aren't mostly found on the right? Ever heard of a left-wing TERF? I won't waste anymore time arguing with someone who refuses basic facts
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by thrance 1y ago
Removed windows 10 from my gaming machine for EndeavourOS, an arch based linux distro. Works wonderfully and runs all the games I care about with minimal tinkering. I am now 100% windows-free on all my computers. More concerning though, is
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by thrance 1y ago
Trump and his wife both did the same thing on day one of his second term. No one cares. At least Milei faced some public outrage, but Trump has a cult that will defend him in literally any circumstances. EDIT: I'm getting downvoted,

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