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You can't just declare a lingua franca 😂

Here is the thing about equality, everyone’s equal when they’re dead! — Gavroche Adam Smith

Are there any good price comparisons for Lego vs alternatives? I didn't look at the piece per piece price, but the non-liscensed sets seem comparable at best (~€10 for a small build).

The only things way out of proportion for Lego are licensed sets (Disney tax keeps going up) and minifigures (collectors blow a lot of money)

Their definition of violence is anything harming white people or their property

There are "methods" for preventing it but they shouldn't be mentioned in polite company.

Hey, where are all those people saying citizens are untouchable? I have this vague recollection of dozens of comments saying this surely couldn't happen. Am I still overreacting? Just want to be sure...

That money doesn't come out of nowhere; the stock market isn't a magical wealth machine. It works by incentivizing unsustainable private growth at public expense. It's a grand experiment to see who gets left holding the bag when you line shareholders' pockets for decades.

The results are in: after a century of trying, it's not profitable to feed people who can't pay or provide affordable healthcare or keep our shared commons livable. Public benefit is antithetical to shareholder interests.

We've cut the corners as far as they can go; dismantled every regulation; manufactured every last drop of demand. The only growth remaining is mining public user data and selling it to the highest bidder. If you exclude technology companies, the market has already been contracting for at least a decade.

You criticize older generations for expecting the line to keep going up forever and encourage everyone to do the same thing in the same breath.

You're only making money by fucking someone else today or yourself tomorrow. If you want to own it, that's fine. But don't act like you're Robin Hood for encouraging people to buy in to a broken system.

The theory behind DEI policies is to formally challenge personal bias (both explicit and subconscious) in hiring and participation. There's nothing inherently tied to unfairly favoring minority groups other than the fact that they are usually the target of negative bias.

It's a pretty basic and logical idea that acknowledges human fallibility. I hate that it was rapidly co-opted on all sides as a shorthand for racism and opposition to cis-white-male dominance.

Forget 1914. Try 1905. George Cove's solar electric generator is remarkably similar to modern solar panels.

If you have enough money to significantly invest in the stock market you're not experiencing food insecurity

In 2022 nearly 1/10 households with an adult aged 65+ were food insecure.

Speaking of grandma living with you, multigenrational households are more than twice as likely to experience food insecurity.

Is feeding those people wasting money? You're fine with your grandparents being part of that population if something unexpected happened to you?

Just admit that your solution is "fuck you, i got mine".

Why don't those kids and grandkids invest their speculation money into something that tangibly helps grandma? Why go through the rigamarole of building a portfolio to maybe someday pay for a nursing home instead of funding a food bank or a mutual aid network?

The world is in this shitty situation because we've had decades of people taking opportunities to help themselves. I don't think it's a radical position to question what good a tiny bit of personal enrichment does.

Buying in is perpetuating the bubble. Maybe those younger generations should be itching for a livable planet and not a few extra shares of the orphan crushing machine.

Maybe we just didn't let enough children die... 🤔

Step back everyone, we've got an Enlightened Centrist here!

Don't call for violence, let's just compromise to allow a little fascism! 🤏

Nobody here is calling for purging wrong-think. There are very obvious and visible threats to our society from an enclave of people tearing it apart. You're making a strawman to conflate targeting them with targeting freedom of thought

Spank the monkey?

That's not totally true.

Republicans turned out at slightly higher numbers than Democrats relative to their representation in the U.S. population (8 points vs. 5 points).

And there's a lot there suggesting a leftward lean from the independent portion (eg. disproportionately non-white, non-Christian and urban)

Edit: If anyone has a counter argument I'd love to hear it. Its just weird to dismiss the entire massive non-voting bloc in a country with a long history of right wing voter suppression and anemic left wing opposition.

Republicans put a ton of effort into voter restrictions, ostensibly to prevent mass voter fraud which study after study proves does not exist. Why do they go through the trouble?

Is that any worse though?

Fascista Leggera ⚖️ Full blown McFascism

Even better than that, the Fed can nullify your passport at any time