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irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days agoYeah, a symptom of late stage capitalism that large companies no longer compete by improving their product or service, but by manipulating the regulatory environment and/or competition, through collusion, legal attacks, or acquisition. It’s much less risky of an investment for larger companies post-mass-consolidation.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Honestly, though, they are the government in all but name at this point.
How fucked aren’t we? 😅😬
A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Not if you support and vote for your local Mandami. Theyre out there, just needing the right local conditions: create them. Get 3-5 friends and take over your local democratic organization
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I hear you, fellow pleb, and I was ardently politically active for decades —until, at a protest vs Bush Jr’s use of his appointed judges to put him back in office, I witnessed 4 swat pigs hogtie a 13yr old girl that was walking by the scene, and huck her in the wagon like a sack. (they also shot a senior vet w/ a “less than lethal” round in the crotch, etc. when he tried to tell them it was a “sit in”).
I try to help wherever and however I can, but I’m pretty spent at this point after all these years of burning hard toward a dream, to be frank. 🥲🙇🏼♂️ I give what I can these days, but it’s a fraction of what I used to give with exuberance and glowing hope inside.
A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 5 days ago
I get it. I’m much less active then I was too. Just gotta find ways to improve our local community, and not be the resistance for the new energy.
Scaramanga@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
And you would be a complete moron to vote for socialism.
Bo7a@piefed.ca 5 days ago
It is refreshing to see someone saying something so purely stupid once a while. Good job!
vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Ah, you think having Andrew Cuomo or Curtis Salewa would have been more reasonable? What policy of Mandami’s do you not support? Do you think people having access to food is a bad thing?
zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
lol. If voting made a difference, it would be illegal by now.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 5 days ago
If voting didn’t make a difference, they wouldn’t be trying this hard to make it hard to vote