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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is the BBC being staffed by Americans? Or are they just using ChatGPT and doing minor edits?

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Governments need to fear their people, otherwise they concentrate power. This is why governments hijack religion. It works as a shield against resistance to control.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They should fear us. We outnumber the powers that be (governments, billionaires) thousands to one if not millions to one, and though they do everything they can to make us believe otherwise, we are their equals in every way except organization and motivation. Those may not be trivial things to change but they are not that hard to change either. Money and laws and ownership are only meaningful constructs as long as we continue to consent to their current implementation. When we stop giving our consent, they will have nothing to maintain their power base except force, and being so vastly outnumbered, they will quickly find the forces they (and we) imagine they can bring to bear are actually quite limited. How are they going to keep paying for their citadels and bunkers and servants and bodyguards and personal armies when nobody wants their money on their predatory services anymore? Money, and our collective desire for it and the things they sell to us with it, is their only real weapon, and if we stop playing the game the way they expect us to, they've actually got nothing.

    The black power movement understood this. The hippies understood this. We need to start to understand it. The power of these people is a myth, it's something we give them and it requires mutual consent even if we don't understand that we're giving it. The power that has been given can be taken back when we withdraw our consent.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think they should fear the people

    Governments should be boring and each government employee bshould have erg limited powers

    I want a government that puts high taxes on the rich so that everyone has the same opportunities

    I want a government that pushes cities for livable infrastructure, designed nfor humans.

    I want a government that puts people before companies

    I don't want a government that does flashy new big projects. I want boring small incremental improvements

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    one piece flags and other references were also used in turkey in the protests against the "suspension" of mayor imamoglu. i kinda love this

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Well, that makes perfect sense given Luffy's typical response to unworthy authorities. Fist-to-the-face-diplomacy is a highly underrated tool in modern politics.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I bring my flag to every protest I go to.

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