Movement led by the socialist left.. broad-based popular mobilization.. ambitious, popular program

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It's just about getting the Democrat party into power

House prices going down is a GOOD THING for almost everyone except those who have more housing than they need.

Things we need should be cheaper. Why is this even a slightly controversial maxim?

I have already depicted myself as the heroic sisyphus and you as the big boulder

Here's a story about a bad thing in China: They're getting distracted with stories about bad things from other countries! The rubes!

Such bizarre self-own logic here.

Blaming Hexbear for all your woes when Lemmy.world has never even federated with us is just the perfect spectre analogy. "The fact that commies are just chilling out somewhere is a threat to our existence!"

Lemmy just another victim of communism smdh

Very smart engineer: Why don't they just rebuild the bridge cheaply, safely and quickly lol? Also use rusty steel

I'll take this moment to complain about how Tangled (a Disney Rapunzel film, basically) just assumes that pillaging native lands is the moral thing to do.

An old woman is using a magical flower out in the wilderness to retain her youth and health. It's quite literally the only thing keeping her alive. When the Queen of the kingdom falls ill, soldiers of the kingdom go out and just rip up the flower. The old woman, deprived of her only means to stay alive, rushes to the castle, only to find that the flower's properties are now stuck inside the Queen's baby. Reasonably assuming that the selfish-ass King and Queen who just gave her a death sentence were obviously never going to let her use those powers, she takes the baby and raises it in a loving (if very sheltered) environment, using her hair to live instead, again, this is the only way the woman can stay alive.

Somehow, the woman is the bad guy, and the King and Queen who raided the native lands for their own selfish-ass purposes are the good guys. It was perfectly moral to take the flower because old woman didn't enclose her land or have a fucking deed to say "THIS FLOWER BELONGS TO ME". The old woman's native knowledge of the land meant it could keep her (and who knows how many others) alive and healthy on an indefinite basis, while the monarchy just grab it, destroy it, and get a one-time use out of it because the lives of the royal family are more important than everyone else's!!!! Babysnatching isn't moral, but what choice did the woman have?

Yeah I may be overthinking a kid's fairy tale in movie form. But FUCK EM. I genuinely think it teaches children that there's no need to respect the environment or other cultures' understanding of ownership, nor the concept of public sharing.

It's a fun thing to say, I'm sure. But it honestly upsets me to see others so willingly and happily wish death upon others. I don't actually wish death on anyone, it's just a sad and unfortunate necessity because oppressors like Israel and the US make it the only means of self-defence.

Praise for Trump here comes in three flavours (none of them are actual approval of his policies):

-Just blatant sarcasm/irony/nonseriousness.

-Accelerationism. His blatant idiocy you'd think would make it obvious to more people that the USA's system of liberal democracy is deliberately and unsaveably flawed, and his awful policies might bring about change sooner. Just the fact that he was on the ballot without a riot at every polling station seems to indicate this 'acceleration' didn't really happen.

-Equivocacy. A bit like the previous point, his time in office illustrated how much it really doesn't fucking matter, Biden has overseen Roe v Wade being overturned and done absolutely nothing about it. The choices you get in elections are very close to meaningless and basically nothing but a bit of performance art while the ruling class carry on as normal. It forces the question to be more focused if we're going to engage in absolute bullshittery of 'blue v red are the only choices ever'.

This is still 'the world stops here' thinking. Even in this filthy lib's world where the abuse asserted is definitely true and happened, and that 'poor people don't deserve smartphones'.

Why would someone think a phone is more important than milk for their baby? Could it be because this capitalist hellhole places an inordinate amount of social value on expensive phones? In some ways, an investment in your social standing absolutely paves the way to a better life in this awful rat race.

In addition, who is out there buying dodgy cut-price milk from a clearly incredibly poor person? Hint: It's not rich people. The only people in the market for that are going to be other povertous families who can't afford milk on their own and aren't able to get food stamps.

Fuck all these people. 'We literally gave this person some bottles of water and they DIDN'T DRINK THEM!!!" is possibly the lowest thing on the list of problems to care about.

The only people who could be so fervently anti-piracy are those who always had their parents' money to buy every single film/song/game/etc. they ever wanted, and lacked the empathy to think others might not afford it so easily. Take away all their money and then see how quickly they would justify seeing (without buying) the latest Marvel film that all their friends watched.

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