Sunfoil @ Sunfoil @lemmy.world

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I've not said anything positive about him, but OK. At least you've admitted you were wrong.

That's just symptomatic of Americans inability to advocate for themselves, either in the workplace or by what they buy. When Americans should have been unionizing and buying local, they were blissfully filling their houses with plastic crap and voting poorly. Also, small but important distinction; wages have grown as well as quality of life, just not in line with productivity.

Ok, so continue to make the most immediately expedient choice for your personal circumstances with no regard for the wider impact of your actions and hope the Government will just elegantly and efficiently legislate our way out of our rapid and inevitable civilisational decline. It'll be great. We can just blame the corporations!

That's the decision. They made a decision there, to buy the cheaper product without thought of the consequences. We continue to pay for the average consumer's lack of discretion.

It's not pointless. It's one step of many to get us off destructive products. You're going out of your way to make it harder to recycle and to make it more dangerous for wildlife. Ideally you should have already been avoiding plastics, but I guess the government will have to drag you kicking and screaming into living sustainably and for the future. It sure would be great if people could take an ounce of personal responsibility for what needs to happen, so we don't need slow government interventions that will be too little too late.

Well the responsibility is on the consumer, I know it's scary, but every person has a responsibility to make moral choices, like avoid exploitative foreign made products, buying nationally produced foods etc. Obviously it will never be 100%, but that is no reason to just shrug all responsibility in defeat. Change is slow. I manage pretty well with not much money to buy products from US/UK/EU nations, buy mostly local or ethically sourced foods. Does it mean I don't get to have some things? Maybe, but that's the choice most people seem unable to make. Luckily the market is correcting for this consumer desire for more ethical products, and my local supermarkets all have products in that vein in every category.

When these companies started moving their manufacturing, a choice could be made to buy domestically. That continued lack of discernment by the consumer compounded the problem. Everyone happily shopped at the big stores, watching their local shops dry up around them. Luckily these days I think people are starting to make the choices we all should have been making this entire time, and I find sustainably made / eco, zero waste plastic free, domestic products in every category at most supermarkets. It's also very easy with online retail to avoid Chinese rubbish and buy US/UK/EU made products for everything. It's 100% possible with some intentionality, financial literacy and self control to ethically consume while not being loaded. I do it. I'm not American though, Americans need to do something about every part of their society it seems.

The companies put the products in front of you, but the consumers made the decision to abandon domestically made goods.

If you can't handle a slightly different lid design, you're going to hate it when you have to actually make lifestyle changes for us to not all die.

So a single mother with no qualifications living in Grays, a grim Essex town and raising her son by herself is what? Middle class? I don't know why you're so desperate to gatekeep being poor.

I was in the Army and getting up early is the thing. Up at 0530 every morning. It was very difficult for me and I had to put a lot of effort into discipline and routine to not die of sleep deprivation. I'm a massive night owl, 0300 every night if I could. It's definitely a component of genetics not just environment. I agree though, most people are strung out on caffeine, staring at their unfiltered computer screens at 0200 after not doing any exercise that week and wondering why they have sleep problems. Diet, light, and exercise have a massive impact on sleep.

I haven't provided a clip of him NOT talking about drugs because that is such a dumbfuck statement.as to not warrant a real response but if you insist;

https://youtu.be/xeLuvhCurfk

Gosh he just can't shut up about them can he? Actually he can and most of the time he isn't talking about drugs. Shocker.

OBVIOUSLY at the point of being a film star he was no longer working class. Jesus. I've never said he is CURRENTLY working class, but he is not Working Class in income only. And because Working Class is an amorphous social group, he has more of a claim to it than many other people. Therefore he is a working class man from Essex who became rich and famous. I think you're the one who needs to go to school if you need it spelt out for you so laboriously. His mannerisms and experience and outward appearance are a result of his working class upbringing, money doesn't suddenly give you an RP accent and a Habsburg's Jaw.

Those people should stay in their homes and off the internet, so no one has to see them or speak to them.

You said he wasn't working class. He was. You said he is a drug addict. He isn't. You said all his material is about drugs, it obviously isn't. Just saying falsehoods isn't an argument.

Presumably you're not providing anything substantive like a point or evidence because you know you chatted shit with nothing to back it up.

Maybe there are good renters protections. Maybe property is so plentiful that rent is less than a loaf of bread and no one is homeless. It's a light hearted fantasy comic. Your hatred for landlords doesn't need to be applied to all things.

There isn't an argument, you called him the fakest piece of shit around and then suggested he was some kind of privileged upper class toff pretending to be an Essex urchin. But the obvious reality is he presents himself as he is. You chose the dumbest attack you could have. Attack his politics or something.

You want me to find a clip of Russell Brand not talking about drugs? Wow.. impossible.

Working class is anyone from the social group of unskilled or manual/industrial work. The people who work these jobs and their families/children. Like Russell Brand. He's not working class anymore, but he just factually was as a child. Weird hill to die on.

He left his single parent home at 16 before turning to drugs. How was he not working class. He's an ex-drug addict and doesn't glamourise them at all. I don't even like him, but the facts are out there.

He is a working class person from Essex. He's not pretending to be anything he isn't, except arguably an intellectual. No need to be so vitriolic.