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- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
The point I was making:
No.
You are saying that you depend on the left in order to win. In politics, that’s called leverage. The onus is on your party to run a candidate we find acceptable and behave in such a way that we reasonably believe they may uphold their campaign promises. Failing that, we do not care if your genocidal, oligarch-and-Zionazi-owned party wins or loses. You may view them as the lesser evil; that doesn’t matter to people like me who view them as equally evil. You can argue on Lemmy and Threads and Bluesky all day, it won’t change the minds of people who have seen what the Democrats are and what they support. You can win an election by meeting our demands, or you can keep losing. We owe you nothing and have no interest in your success otherwise.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
Unfortunately I think the really brutal and sad reality is that they view the inconveniences / discrimination / etc they have been subjected to - or honestly more often, hypothetically could be subject to - as taking precedence over the actual murder of tens of thousands of brown people overseas.
They don’t think of it that way consciously and they’ll get angry and go into cognitive dissonance mode if you point it out, but voting for Dem or Republican requires one flavor or another of white supremacy imo. Or at least prioritizing the damages caused by white supremacy below their own personal priorities.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
I’m doing a secret third thing: voting for someone who isn’t evil.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
…I’m not, actually.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
I don’t really care what you do in your country.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
Agreed and same. I think Luigi was morally correct but I personally value my life and freedom. I accept that’s selfish and cowardly to a degree, but I also recognize I’m an animal who wants to reproduce someday and not die before then (or too early after).
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 days ago:
There were tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Renee Goods murdered in Palestine with Biden’s help.
Miss me with that Blue MAGA weaponization of martyrs to further the goals of your preferred imperialist dogs. Disgusting.
I don’t vote for genocidaires. I don’t vote for imperialists. Period, no exceptions.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
No.
You are saying that you depend on the left in order to win. In politics, that’s called leverage. The onus is on your party to run a candidate we find acceptable and behave in such a way that we reasonably believe they may uphold their campaign promises. Failing that, we do not care if your genocidal, oligarch-and-Zionazi-owned party wins or loses. You may view them as the lesser evil; that doesn’t matter to people like me who view them as equally evil. You can argue on Lemmy and Threads and Bluesky all day, it won’t change the minds of people who have seen what the Democrats are and what they support. You can change that by meeting our demands, or you can keep losing. We owe you nothing and have no interest in your success otherwise.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
This picture might make sense if not for the reality that quantifiably more people died in Palestine during Joe Biden’s term than during Donald Trump’s.
They are both fascist Zionazi shitstains, errors in our species, to be clear, but just saying, Blue MAGA is as out of touch with reality as regular MAGA is.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
Same.
Can’t say the same about when I was duped into voting for Genocide Joe, though.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
In politics in general, sure.
In American electoral politics, tell that to the massive grassroots support of Bernie Sanders who were disenfranchised by the DNC, who argued in court (successfully) that they could “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way” if they wanted to while defending the reality that they showed a clear bias (read: rigged the primaries) against the people’s candidate in favor of the corporate candidate.
The DNC is a rotten corpse that some people insist on continuing to provide mouth-to-mouth to.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
I’m not voting for either oligarch-and-Zionazi-owned party.
If that’s the price of maintaining our plutocracy which we call “democracy” for some reason, I refuse. Too expensive. Not getting my name. Won’t stop them, but not getting my name to endorse your evil, Blue MAGA.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
I’ll take “child” over “war criminal apologist” any day
- Comment on this is real btw 4 days ago:
Ask the indigenous people of America whether they feel the military liberated them, now or 80 years ago or 200.
America knocked down the fascists because they fucked with us, we were quite content to let them conquer Europe and Asia before that. You’re promoting American exceptionalism mythology.
And even then it was the Russians who actually defeated the Nazis.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
This American is clearly more knowledgeable than you, yes.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
Didnt read, dont care about how you justify supporting imperialist garbage
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
Maybe stick to topics where you actually know what you’re talking about, then, because American politics clearly isn’t that.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 4 days ago:
Not to feed the American billionaires who are currently actively ruining my life and the life of all those who I love. Chinese billionaires are certainly no friend of the working class, but again, “lesser evil” is the game when it comes to consumption (unless you can buy used). The CCP literally disappeared Jack Ma for a few months last time he stepped out of line lol (and the CCP is also no friend of mine, to be clear, but is also absolutely less evil than my country)
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
Democrats aren’t left. Hope that helps.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 4 days ago:
Barack Obama also spent years illegally drone striking innocent people in Yemen and bragged about how good he was at killing people.
As someone who kept my house only because of Obama’s programs, I don’t think the latter quite justifies the former.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 4 days ago:
I said “grew up”, not “born and raised”. Though I guess it was a few months so I was still overstating it, sorry about that. But the point remains: it helps to provide context for his attempts to justify the illegal occupation’s continued existence.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 4 days ago:
Quote where I said or implied that.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
Yeah it’s the only thing I’d still use FB for at this point
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
He grew up in Israel and still defends its right to exist (which inherently requires existing on top of a racial underclass) and brutally repress indigenous anticolonial uprisings. That’s what he’s saying every time he says “of course Israel has a right to defend itself, but…”
I don’t need to Google shit, I’ve followed him for years and I know what he is.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
All an “Ethical” CEO would have to do is reduce the profits to 25%, and invest the rest into employee pay and benefits.
No, all an ‘ethical’ CEO would have to do is provide workers with the full surplus value produced by their labor. Otherwise he can get put into the woodchipper 75% faster as thanks for him stealing only 25% of my existence.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
The problem is Amazon. Hope that helps. Throw Bezos in a woodchipper.
Or if you’re willing to take the bitter medicine and view a broader reality, capitalism is the problem and inherently depends on destroying the planet on which we rely on to survive. Bezos is just a particularly severe symptom of the disease of capitalism.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
Who is selling used mops? What kind of business sustains itself on that kind of traffic?
Tons of people on eBay who probably steal them from the corporations or resell from the Chinese companies which manufacture them in the first place, which is way more ethical than buying them from American oligarch-owned resellers.
If I search “mop and bucket set” on Amazon, most results are in the $35 - $45 range, some as high as $60. Comparable mops on eBay (it seems 100% identical except it has a metal ring instead of a red plastic triangle over the mop) are $20 - $35. Then that exact same mop is $17.12 on Aliexpress (with free shipping, from a local warehouse). That’s not “used”, to be fair, but it’s a way smarter way of shopping and doesn’t support Amazon.
Another example is that H2O2 was $8.50 on Amazon at one point, yet like $1 or $2 each at my local Walgreens. Yes, same volume bottle. That was a while ago though, when I was still using Amazon, so I can’t say that’s still the case.
Or if you very literally want “used” for some reason, I did find one guy on Craigslist selling mop and bucket sets for $15 lol. Probably even more people on Facebook Marketplace, including some who might even be giving it away for free.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
Point me to the place to buy a fucking mop that doesn’t involve some asshole on the internet heckling me over it.
Aliexpress.
I have only used Amazon once in the last 2 years (it was a very specific tool that was sold literally nowhere else, even eBay, and was only like $20), Walmart a handful of times, and Target only for cat sand.
If you can’t eliminate the harm you contribute to (which, fair, none of us can in America), you are responsible for minimizing it. Triage. Gotta choose between 3 shit companies? Evaluate which one is the least-shit and go that route.
And that varies for everyone. The people who have a Walmart as their only source of fresh groceries within a 30 mile radius are going to need to shop at Walmart more often than I do, and that’s fine.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
There are people like me who enjoy growing food. If I knew it was benefiting people and not harming the land, I’d be out there as much as I can (…I live in SoCal and have a family history of skin cancer so that might limit it BUT THE WILL IS THERE).
I also enjoy growing cannabis. I already love giving it away for free. I don’t sell it - technically I can’t legally, but in reality no one would care if I did. I prefer giving it away. If I could do that on a huge scale, I would.
Growing or synthesizing psychedelics, and providing free trip sitting services, would make me feel like I was actually fulfilling my life’s calling. I would do that for free for the rest of my life if my basic needs were met, and I would be extremely happy doing so.
There are people like my partner, who enjoy cooking food. She would cook food for people all the time if it made them happier. If they were able to give her something in return, even better, but not necessary. She would also run art classes for free - I know because she already does, but there’s not really the infrastructure to make it consistent and widely promoted.
Instead I’m unemployed with two different STEM degrees because the corporate cannabis industry is shitfuck garbage in a thousand ways, capitalists rigged the permitting processes around me so it’s impossible for me to start my own legal grow even after I saved over 50% of my paycheck for years of work, and I can’t find any other STEM careers that I can be confident don’t serve evil (usually in the form of capitalism) in some capacity. I’m withholding my labor because I do not believe society, as it stands, is working towards anything of value - conversely, as a nature worshipper, I watch it kill divinity every single day.
Another side of it is, being able to get fewer products makes people more self-reliant, which gives “stuff” more value. The wooden chair from IKEA that cost $25 is replaced by a wooden chair hand-carved by you, or your family, or a friend that cost a few days of work. You’ll value it more, it has a story, it’s less disposable and by extension, so are the resources used to make it (at least for people prone to, you know, thought). It is healthy for people to depend on the land on which they live to some extent.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 5 days ago:
Brother he has accomplished nothing and became the DNC lapdog after they openly rigged an election against him. I have personally donated money to him and I regret it, Bernie is spineless and a liberal Zionist.