maness300 @ maness300 @lemmy.world

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Have you ever considered that kind of dichotomy actually helps him rather than hurts him?

Imagine being a Bukele supporter and seeing people like you say he's bad just because has too much power.

To El Salvador's population, Bukele is responsible for stopping gangs from freely using rape and murder as means of extortion. They don't care about your stupid western ideological wars. To them, results are more important.

Compare El Salvador's gang problem to Mexico's, and perhaps you can see why dictatorships are not intrinsically bad just like democracies are not intrinsically good.

I don't expect you to have that level of rationality, though.

Even if they lose?

Are you just gonna say we should've sent them more support? Lol.

Have you considered Ukraine cannot win without foreign armies assisting them in combat?

Linux is also free as in beer.

It's almost like both nations are just tools to support their ruling classes.

US bails out private corporations left and right but refuses to nationalize them.

China nationalizes industries but ensures profits are maximized for those in control. (there shouldn't even be profit in a national industry; all of it should be re-invested.)

This is why communism vs. capitalism is a stupid debate. Real solutions, to real problems. Let's focus on that.

Debt is a kind of gravity.

Uh... no. If you pay attention to history, debt can and is wiped away without repercussion.

Debt is more of a threat, than anything else. If China fails to pay their debts, does the world just stop doing business with China?

The reason why there's so much unpaid debt is because the ruling class has convinced workers to sell themselves out. That's all. It doesn't actually need to be paid just like college loans. The world would in fact be a better place if it wasn't paid. The only people who get screwed are investors with more money than you.

Yeah, maybe they should run their country more like Mexico!

That would be the same El Salvador that’s had the world’s highest murder rate since I was a kid, would it?

Their murder rate is way down thanks to the efforts of the man you are criticizing for having too much power.

Before him, that's when gangs were running rampant and contributing to the murder rate you recall as a child.

This is why people overwhelmingly support him. It turns out, results speak louder than ideologies.

Retards will not understand this last part, though.

Dictatorships are not intrinsically bad.

You can have good dictators, even if they are rare.

If you can't comprehend this, then you are a victim of propaganda and indoctrination.

Sometimes, it's easier to convince the masses to vote against themselves than it is to convince a dictator to sell them out.

For example, Mexico vs. El Salvador.

15 years ago, nobody thought Mexico would have a worse gang problem than El Salvador. Without Bukele's heavy-handed approach to suppressing gangs, they would still be running rampant like they are in Mexico.

At what point do we view Ukraine as a sunk-cost?

At what point do we admit we've been taken for a ride by propaganda to fund the MIC?

Price fixing is normal and doesn't require explicit collusion.

Have you ever seen gas stations on 2 sides of the road with the exact same prices? It's a genlemen's agreement.

This lawsuit will go nowhere.

Downvoted for clickbait.

Absolutely. A good father is hard to come by.

A lot of them end up clipping the wings (and foreskins) of their children because their wings (and foreskins) were clipped, too.

These kids then go through life thinking that's how they should treat others if they love them. It creates a lot of confusion that could be assuaged by acknowledging most fathers are shit.

leading to too much trash in downloads…

Uhh, couldn't they just extract it into a folder? Then it's identical to being compressed.

It's my understanding that this is the default behavior on Macs: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/n5l4de/is_there_an_addon_that_unzips_a_zip_file/

If they can do it, why can't we?

Literally nothing about my comment said or implied that men or women do not deserve respect or that either aren't responsible for their actions.

It’s also unfair because most of my problems exist because of unfairly distributed wealth

I mean, you support the disparity in wealth when you think you deserve more before others who have less.

If living in cheaper areas isn't good enough for you, why should you get more before the people who live in these places? You already have more than them, but you think you deserve even more without being able to afford it.

That's textbook entitlement and hypocrisy. This is why you people get mad whenever I suggest moving to cheaper areas. You don't want to acknowledge your own contribution to the problems.

Seems you’re assuming that moving is the easy solution.

No, you just assume that the only viable solutions are easy ones.

Keep waiting around for other people to solve your problems for you.

Yeah... there are no jobs in my city of 80,000 people.

Lol.

It's a shitty source that's trying to get people angry for clicks.

These people do not argue in good faith.