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  • Hear my idea:

    First we pollute the air enough to be almost unbreathable (as a side gig, we get to burn oil, coal steel…)

    Then we make special facilities to filter said pollution from air before said air enters the house.

    Then we sell these house for a premium with grade AAA+++ the best air quality ever.

    Now, what to do with the defective filters?

    Put in a house with grade B+ air quality.

    Grade C will be the houses that get the air that was exhausted from AAA+++ and B+ (after being breathed a few times and with no filtering).

    Grade F is the good old coal air that the people who can’t pay will have to breath as they work in the coal burning facilities.





  • That was not my point.

    My point is that waging war (or military operations if you want to keep the masks of civilization on the face) is bipartisan.

    Even Barack Obama waged war during his term (and received a nobel peace prize for that).

    A lot of countries did manage to deescalate conflicts and wars they were involved with (at the very least, most of south american countries for sure) and managed to have diplomatic relations without treating to bomb another country.

    US politics is a war-waging politics.

    I’m not American and I have no say in your internal affairs or whom you’ll elect.

    I’m just voicing that the “global south” is tired of being into wars or being bombed by the “Western Civilization”.

     


  • Edit: as pointed out, my comment is derailing from Governor Newsom to the broad america imperialism, So I apologize in advance for being off-topic here.

    Inb4 I’m not calling you (specifically you) out. The you is aimed at “People of America” as a whole

    independent of left or right, I’d like to say you guys need to elect someone that doesn’t expand that list further more:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

    In other words, Could You All Please Stop Fucking Raping The “Global South”? Pretty Please???

    And I’m using the word rape both metaphorically and literal at the same time. Also, I’m not downplaying the word. I’m just pointing out the fucked up things US (as a nation) did to all of us outside of “global north”, “western civilization”, “first world” or whatever term you guys keeping using to refer to us, the “inferior” class of “subhumans” people.

    The US was always imperialist, but now the masks are off and Trump is just bringing what US did to other countries (see the list above) inwards to US. That’s why most of the population are worried.

    Except for the few leftist that called out what US always was, most people aren’t worried of US raping other countries. But they are now worried because the military force is turning inwards against the enemy within.

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  • Good time to remind there exist two “models” of economy:

    Commodity- Money- Commodity (where money is used for the sole purpose of getting commodities like house, food, clothes, healthcare, …)

    Money-Commodity-Money (Where the purpose of money is to turn commodities in more money, so the end goal is getting more money).

    The first one is okay. Humans always did it.

    The second one is a disease that starter with what we call “nowadays” Capitalism.

     

    I’m saying that because I see on real life a lot of people conflating the two and thinking that “ending capitalism”==“ending comerce/trade/barter” when the truth is that “ending capitalism”==“ending hoarding wealth like a dragon”



  • I hope you are right, but my highest fear is that Trump isn’t pusshing bills through congress.

    by that, I ean the congress is in control and want to pass such bills without loss of face.

    Then who better than trump (or whatever president) to autopen everything thatwas handled by a middle man, then make a show of “How Trump is bad and bullying us! Bwaaahhh!!!” and then just let the bill pass because that was the plan from the begining.

    But again, I really hope that I am wrong and spurting some tin-foil hat nonsense.




  • Remember that writing is also for processing (emotionally) the shit that is going on.

    I know it is your work and you do with it what you want.

    Even then I want to suggest just to write your voice against what is happening today in whatever way you want.

    It may be in the style you imagined or you may just shelve this particular style for a while.

    But writers are always needed to shout the voice of those who “can’t do so by themselves”


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    This is the kind of “I want my worldview reassured so I will ignore the context” behaviour that I see a lot on the right. The more I am on Lemmy, the more I see this same aporach.

    Warning for everyone else: This “both sides” thing is a typical tactic used by alt-right (and even fascists)to muddy the water, making us questioning if we should punch up or down.

    Yes, there are some cases where “both sides” talk may make sense.

    But what determines if it makes sense or not is the following question:

    “Is the criticism against punching up or is it a criticism against punching down?”

    “Punching up” means punching the privileged elites (example: talking bad of shareholders for making our lives worse)

     

    Punching down is what this comment is doing, which is making excuses for harmful behavior against a minority (Remember that human’s right are a right for any and every person)

     

    So, remember, just like with comedy, NEVER punch down (never make the oppressed lives worser)

    Do Punch Up! (Make the oppressors lose their grip)