Sign me up for the campaign to abolish the word "expat"
Someone making a child to make a companion for themself seems like a giant selfish consent issue to me - and there's no guarantee someone's child will want to be part of their parents' lives (or live up to whatever other expectations the parents might have).
Developing close friendships with people based on shared interests and mutual support seems much more reliable and ethical.
socialism has had huge positive impacts where it's been tried and massive negative consequences when it's been replaced with capitalism.
what's your evidence that "pure unregulated capitalism" is worth trying? glassing the entire surface of the earth with nuclear weapons hasn't been tried yet either but that doesn't make it a good idea.
ah yeah girl math where
"common irrational human psychology" + "deepseated hatred of women" = whatever the fuck this take is
wow that sure is an extraordinary claim that a brain parasite has similar negative health effects to vaccines I'm sure extraordinary evidence is right on the way...
the weight loss from Ozempic is massively overhyped https://maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/13747346-ozempic
come on that's unfair, it's not just Hasbara, it's also Radio Free Asia, and a great outlet for corporate PR 🤡
mm yes and it has no relation whatsoever to current events, well done calling out this completely irrelevant information
it's almost kind of impressive how the US "education" system managed to get the people in that thread to trot out their defences of probably the worst war crime in the history of humanity so confidently, when even yank military leaders at the time thought using the nukes was somewhere between "unnecessary" and "unforgivable".
and I bet they would all lose their shit if someone said they might have been propagandized in their schools...
anyway, sure this kind of discourse is sad and disturbing to see on reddit, but I feel worse seeing it on lemmy, e.g. https://lemm.ee/comment/3384957
"inconvenience me and I might murder you with my car" I hope you're getting a lot of money from the oil tycoons in exchange for being one of their brownshirts
don't see mention of magpie market yet https://codeberg.org/MagpieMarket
That's because liberalism isn't a halfway point between socialism and conservatism it is, to misquote Stalin, fascism with a happy face sticker on it.
Most "western" countries' governments have spent the last ~100 years waging outright war on socialism through coups, assassinations, imprisonments, and propaganda.
Political (and historical) education has been hacked away so much that most people couldn't give a coherent definition of "socialism" anyway - and socialist policies poll extremely well if you short-circuit the propaganda by not mentioning the forbidden s-word.