lemmingrad @ lemmingrad @thelemmy.club

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I say that because, well, I live near Brussel, I intimately know the insides of the european parliament. Corruption is rampant. Maybe not to the point of the US, but look up lobbying in the european institution and you will see what's up. The UE might seem progressive on the IT front but they are also the ones that forces us to sell public services to banks.

It is unjust lol. It's hard for car-drivers to have the moral high-ground where under each of this kind of news, you get comments calling for them to get run over.

Car drivers overall are more concerned about getting to their destination than not hurting people.

So you are excusing genocide because you are afraid your team will lose in your country? lol how selfish is that?

One day you will make up and have to face the fact you're playing semantic games with war crimes and atrocities.

As an non-american, I would blame american voters for supporting the US military complex. It doesn't matter what you vote for and that you've been propagandized into the "lesser evil" thinking. The blood is on your hand.

Plastic containers don’t need to be melted down and remade into anything; they can be cleaned and reused. But we just throw them away, or send them to be recycled immediately, and still consume more; completely ignoring the first two R’s.

Except a plastic bottle start leaking cancerous shit after a week or so iirc

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/health/bottled-water-nanoplastics-study-wellness/index.html

The invisible hand of the market ladies and gens.

I just buy glass bottles and then re-use them for kambutcha

Trust me, the UE have enough money. Please donate to your local homeless shelter instead :3

Of course, it’s all speculation, and obviously capitalism plays a role, I’m just not convinced it’s as significant as the role social media plays alone.

Don't you think those companies have incentive to push for things that provoke outrage, and thus engagement? Imho endless political debates are not the expression of democratic feelings. They are just the way they keep you on the platform for ads.

Yes, Trump rhetoric is anti-elitist, anti-liberal ultra-nationalist targeted at an empoverished working class. Exactly like national-socialism. And exactly like national-socialism, it's profiting off the contradictions of liberals who pretend to be progressive while upholding inequalities.

I do understand (and I am sure you mean well, not attacking you as a person). But the confusion isn't just a detail here, it's inherent to what you're saying. Look up what happened in Berlin in 1933, for example. Liberal conciliating attitude paved the way to nazism.

In 1830, a slave revolt in the US saw the slaves committing atrocities, rape and murder, calling to "kill all the white". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion

Does that mean we're pro-slavery?

Well, the said liberals have defunded schools, hospitals, trains, retirement and anyknd of welfare here in the name of "being opened to new ideas", so it's a bit more than semantics. Sorry, I don't want to be associated with liberalism.

Liberal bourgeois are a significant political force since the French revolution - and always opposed people. It is and always was about the freedom of industry barrons and nothing else.

I miss myself an irish breakfast

My local political scene is using French, not English nor AAVE. And yet there is a which-hunt in the academia to exclude the "wokes" and the "islamo-leftists". Sorry if my proximate political realities are more important than etymology.

European here. They are absolutely not synonymous. Where I grew up liberals are the right wing, with socialists on the left and religious party on the center.

Liberals are right-wingers all around the world, not only in america.

I know you probably mean well, but guess what? I do not care about how right-winger feels and I will not water down my opinions to please them.