This is why it’s silly hearing billionaires, who do the most damage to our planet, telling us how urgently we need to “get off this rock” which has supported life for millions of years in favor of some dead planet. It’s really just an extension of capitalism that demands infinite space to exploit, instead of being content with sustainability.

The US has been involved in war for almost every single year of its existence, so actually it’s easy to say even when one’s home country is involved in a war.

What about the veterans on the other side of those wars? Do you celebrate them as a “super man” (übermensch)? I’m sure they thought they were fighting for a good cause too.

Panic buying like this only leads to more price increases. I just buy the minimum, like usual.

The most realistic portrayal of a dystopia.

Smash the window!

I dunno, apparently someone can support a genocide and still be considered a good guy these days.

I hate America but don’t want Trump. What do?

Both. It’s kind of like asking if monarchy is the problem or if the problem is just evil kings. Theoretically even a dictatorship can work out well for the people given a benevolent dictator. The issue is with the vulnerabilities inherent in the system. For capitalism, it’s that those with more money have more influence and thus it creates a feedback loop where those with more money have more power to get themselves more money and therefore more power and so on.

Don’t forget proxy wars and subterfuge. It’s much easier to gain influence through “soft” power than through brutal invasion and occupation, but this “soft” power can still result in tremendous bloodshed, like instigated coups.

A country without farmers will perish, a country without “elites” will make do.

Getting directly involved in publicity photo shoots, that is.

Says the one with the profile that says “Swiss Pan-European Nationalist”. By the way, whataboutism is when you bring up an unrelated topic to distract from the current topic. It’s not whataboutism to point out the accusing side doing the exact same thing, that is simply called pointing out hypocrisy.

It could be argued that Israel is free to unleash their campaign of genocide because the people in Israel do not experience the horrors themselves. There is no pressure to reach an agreement. Bringing the hostages back has been the only rallying cry by Israelis, but other than that, actually ending the genocide doesn’t have much support.

It’s similar to how so many consumer goods are produced through the use of slavery. That distance and lack of visibility mean there is little pressure from consumers to stop those practices.

Who is the OAuth provider in this case? The instance you sign up on? That’s already the case.

But these were strangers.

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My trick is to tap my upper and lower teeth together to poorly simulate chewing (avoiding the pill, of course) and then I’d just naturally feel the urge to swallow.

That’s why people throw tomatoes when they want someone to get off the stage.

The problem is that most of the growth goes to the already rich as they pay immigrants poorly and make them pay high rents (hence the need to have multiple families living in a single unit). It’s still a death spiral, just with higher profits for the rich few. The only way to make it not a death spiral is to force the rich leeches to stop sucking the blood out of everyone else.