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[–] 177 points 8 months ago (26 children)

I’m so fucking sick of this fascist shit.

It feels like no one in any meaningful position of power has any morality.

Capitalism has morally bankrupted just about everyone in a position of power.

Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.

    Like who?

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 46 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    AOC, Mamdani, Talarico, Sanders, Buttigieg, Brandon Scott off the top of my head.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Brandon Scott, mayor of Baltimore, MD, USA?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I saw him on the Lemonade Stand podcast and man sounds like a stand up guy.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Baltimoron here - he's definitely not the worst mayor we've had in recent history, and he probably gets some credit for supporting the violence reduction programs that have led to our truly historic drop in homicides over the last couple years.

    Also, he has good taste in music

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    So before capitalism you don't know of any rulers being unjust?

    It's not a feature of capitalism to corrupt, it's a feature of power structures to be corruptible.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    It’s not just rulers being unjust.

    The issue is the rich and powerful are manipulating every aspect of our lives and our political system to gain more money and power for themselves and never face accountability for their wrongdoings.

    These people are genuinely evil

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Still comes down to the rulers imo, as they enable such behavior from the rich. The longer this goes on, the more blatant it becomes. And they've been at it for a looong time.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Of course the rulers enable this behaviour. Who do you think made them the "rulers" to begin with? You think our broke asses pay to get these people elected?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding. That's why I focus on rulers.

    The problem is that people still seem to think that the next politician will change this, which is exactly what the elites want.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding.

    Given enough time and enough resources, anyone is corruptible. The most corrupt are usually those who believe they can't be corrupted. You just have to get them to honestly believe something that isn't true. Once you figure out what cognitive fallacies they're vulnerable to, you'll have just turned a bulwark against you into your most loyal zealot. That's why the wealthy usually win. With enough money, one person can command more time, and resources than 50% of the country combined.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    None of this is a capitalism issue.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    How is it not?

    The rich and powerful are using their essentially bottomless pit of resources and money to influence political systems to give them even more money or resources.

    Billionaires own everything and it's wreaking havoc on our lives.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Capitalism gives them the tools to create the wealth disparity. Wealth = power. They have used their capital to create more, and this have gained a outsized leverage over our entire society.

    You’re not a capitalist, you’re a worker who can’t see past the ruling class’ propaganda that socialism requires totalitarianism. It ain’t true.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Do you think there is no growing wealth disparity under socialism? Do you think an Nvidia employee is going to earn the same as a person working at a small business? People will always have tools to create wealth disparity. Even in a moneyless society people can create wealth disparity.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Look, I'm not a huge fan of capitalism but it's a little silly to pretend that the world was free from corruption prior to capitalism.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    And still I'm told to be afraid of China.

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  • [–] 70 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Handing your own citizens data to fascists - what could possibly go wrong?

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    What the fuck.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago

    Hey guys, don’t let them do that.

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  • [–] 54 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, yes, let's give our biometric data to nazi Germany in 1938, what could possibly go wrong?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Y'all better demand your government to backtrack on giving our fascist government your information.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    They don't even have a border. Just a shared interest in crushing the proles.

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    We should be movinf the fuck away from the us in our integration. Dont do it national, dont like the palantir boot.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Hey look, it's spreading already.

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    I mean, the five eyes have been a thing for a long time. Not sure that this is really news aside from the publicity

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  • [+] -9 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    90 day travel no visa is pretty good though. If info is already shared through the five eyes agreement then this is a no brainer. Ice isnt going to come to NZ to arrest people and Trump's going to be out in a few years.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Do you think America just snaps out of this in 3 years? Or do you think Trump starts to round up people who didn’t vote R in the midterms and then appoints his successor, President Elect Steven Miller?

    And the fact that you thought about it for a second means you should be scared.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago

    Americans are really really stupid so I cant say for sure. But I've got good vibes that dems win next election and fix things. They are absolutely sweeping in the smaller elections and we're seeing a ton of strong democratic candidates we're even seeing lefties win in a few places.

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  • 2 comments in c/newzealand@lemmy.nz view that post
    [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Yeah no, I didn't vote for this.

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  • Not suprised but certainly disappointed NZ is essentially aggreeing to hand personal information to ICE willingly.

    Personal security and digital sovereignty is more important now than ever.

    I'm not into this eh

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