[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

The NYT said that one is simple!

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Yeah, rich people take orders of magnitudes more money from society in order to reinvest it in very concretely destroying society further, but did you consider that someone who was over-prescribed opiods as part of a deliberate campaign by the Sacklers also take up money coping with the addiction they ended up with?"

Fuck off. There are important societal benefits to welfare, while corporate bailouts and the like are a cancer intended only to give the rich more money.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Most of those conservatives are Democrats, as the OP also states

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

I’d love to see us cut off every ounce of support we give to other nations and see how that works out.

Me too! It would be an incredible turn of events that would massively benefit the world. Could you throw in removing the blockades on Cuba and the DPRK and others while you are at it?

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Do you not understand why I said that? I would not support student loan forgiveness only for white people because, while I like student loan forgiveness, I can recognize that such a program would ultimately just be in the interest of white supremacy. I wouldn't pull the disingenuous liberal line of "you've gotta start somewhere" as though the policy was tethered to some imaginary future state that it is nominally more similar to but practically much further from.

Likewise, saying "well, at least by holding Belarus to account some countries will be held to account, which gets us closer to all countries being held to account!" is absurd. It promotes western dominance, not the abstract idea of "holding countries to account". Striking only one side saying that it's closer to both sides being struck than striking zero sides would be is sophistry.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Aside from the racism of the "face culture" narrative, the guy is a dinosaur and notably not an official, just there as a matter of respect and legacy as a former President. We don't really know what happened, but those meetings are long and the dude is probably senile, so he was probably getting helped off the stage by aides at around the time they expected from the outset.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

If you make your own instance, you can curate your own whitelist

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

This is just a silly "no u". We're federated, not defederated, so one is relevant and not the other at the moment.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

The southwestern quadrant still includes a bit of mainland China and is mostly outside of the Strait, not to mention that all of the Strait is still in the ADIZ.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Did you ever check out that thread on lemmygrad I made for you? You never said anything but you might have just forgotten.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Did you know that the "nickname" derived from a myth of the character being banned in China when it is not?

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

I don't share your optimism but I appreciate it! heart-sickle

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