iain

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[–] iain@feddit.nl 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, all those Leninist politicians that are showing up all over Europe and winning elections....

Liberals hurt plenty of people. They enact austerity that have hurt many poor people. They care more about money than human well-being. They often vote for sanctions that do nothing but hurt regular people. And historically have always sided with fascists when it comes down to it.

[–] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 6 months ago

Israel is the aggressor too, violently colonizing and ethnically cleansing the local population. The Palestinians are just defending themselves against their own destruction. But it's an unfair fight, because they only have small make-shift rockets against Israel with a big army and getting billions from the biggest empire in the world.

The fact that Israel has a democracy is of no concern to the civilians in Gaza being bombed and starved to death. In fact, it makes it worse: Russians can't vote out their government, but Israelis can.

[–] iain@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think financial literacy is the problem. I think the majority of the debt is incurred because people need to spend money on necessities. No amount of sound financial planning can make that go away

[–] iain@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen any Democrats say they did it on purpose, but I could've missed that memo.

But even if it is bait, it's using immigrant lives as bait, and I'm not cool with that. What if the Republicans voted for the bill? Risking all those lives, for what?

And furthermore: now that the Republicans are proven to be hypocrites, do you think that this will cost them any votes?

[–] iain@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago

That's how it should be though. Everybody is equal under the law, so you shouldn't punish undocumented immigrants harder than civilians.

[–] iain@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

On the scale of doing nothing to socialist revolution, this is a pretty minor change. But I'd love to hear some improvements that are not fantasies. Or do we just have to give up?

[–] iain@feddit.nl 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, why do people propose minor improvements to this rotten system. People should just be content with their lot in life! How dare they have hope?!

[–] iain@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This comment got to me really late, probably to Lemmy's distributed nature.

But I still want to add: of course business will make more money if you allow more practices, but selling personal data just has too many negative consequences.

Also low quality advertising? You mean like billboards and in the newspaper? You mean regular advertising?

[–] iain@feddit.nl 55 points 8 months ago (3 children)

No, just ban the collection of user data and selling to 3rd parties. Enormous fines for anyone still doing it. Destroy this entire industry please.

[–] iain@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

Exactly, it's the whole "black lives matter" vs "all lives matter" thing all over again.

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