Gsus4
@Gsus4@feddit.nl
- Comment on Opaque think tanks and landlords dominate Tory conference 1 year ago:
yes, but it’s a body that has existed for more than 300 years, there must be some way to get an impression on it through the times :)
- Comment on Opaque think tanks and landlords dominate Tory conference 1 year ago:
I’d like to have an idea of the history of MP pay in terms of the average salary to understand if this is a new thing, if they have always had side businesses and claimed “favours” later or if there is an actual decline in the status of “civic duty”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Millionaires are the new poors and everyone below is various grades of slave-begging :/
- Comment on Slavery was abolished, so the rich are now trying to make economic oppression the equivalent of slavery. 1 year ago:
With enough inequality and without a strong social net, wage labour is equivalent to slavery. They cover the minimum costs of your survival and you spend as much time working as they ask or else they’ll find someone more desperate.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
Yea, colonialism is yet another compensation for yet another historic crime (invasion, to start with) But, I think all this is going to be peanuts compared to compensation for global warming, this one is going to break every bank and nobody can agree on anything…it’s like these debates times 1000.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
Yes, a lucrative market for a hideous crime was created, and the guys who hunted other groups in order to get paid in that market wronged the enslaved too. (I’m not sure it was all like this all over Africa too, but in the Congo, it seemed to be the case)
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
If entity A is the UK and entity B is those hunted and sold to slavery by entity C, why does A have to pay C for stealing labour from B? Pay B for stolen work.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
The UKs position today is arguably due more to the Industrial Revolution and that was the main factor in the decay of slavery, so you need to balance historic grievances with development i.e. “what have the Romans ever done for us?”
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
not looking likely, the way they’re going, but like the zen master said… we’ll see.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
Well, the thing about the fediverse is that each instance has its quirks and particularities. In principle, each instance on its own would be shittier than reddit, but it’s the freedom to roam between them and to see each other that makes this protocol so powerful. I still think it’s good of you to ask.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
Nice photo, shows his more telling qualities.
Why don’t you join an instance that allows it? e.g. c/uncle_bens@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
I know, but when you said religious conservative, I immediately assumed American and economically conservative, but there are plenty of Christian social democrats in Europe.
I think I may have misunderstood your question: which ideology did you expect religious conservatives to support? And, where? Maybe they could be socialists, because the new testament encourages generosity. Or maybe they could be really conservative and rabidly monarchist, imperialist. Maybe it does not matter and they just “support” what there is in their country at the time, because religion is separate from the state.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
Because it’s remarkably similar in form:
“each one takes care of himself and god takes care of all”
Vs
“Everybody pursues their own gain and the market takes care of everything”
- Comment on Why Did ‘Barbie’ Bomb in South Korea? 1 year ago:
Makes sense for a country still technically in a civil war, I guess.