Indifference is just a tool they use - the root cause is Greed.
They hate immigrants, but love slave labour. Then use immigrants “taking jobs” (what the farm owners actually want, because slaves are very profitable and locals would never do that work at that wage) to rile up the population to vote for Conservative governments, who often don’t change the influx of immigrants but who does love to lower taxes and turn a blind eye to labour abuses.
Evangelion at the beach!
Honestly, there’s plenty of reasons to make fun of boomers/millennial/genZ but the reality is each generation has Republican and Democrat voters.
I’m not gonna suggest that Democrats always have the best interests of working class people in mind - but their camp does contain progressives, which is something that Republicans lack entirely.
At the end of the day, all our problems can be traced to income inequality that is largely pushed by Republicans (and a huge dose of “trusted media” espousing outright lies).
You can absolutely have a business oriented economy whose government protects it’s people from abusive and predatory businesses practices while providing great education and healthcare for free.
It’s something we’d all benefit from (even the wealthy, but it’d be less profitable) but something we’ll never have because every generation has Republican voters who show up 100% of the time.
In fact, now that we’re literally watching Nazis take over the Republican party - anyone from any generation who votes Republican now is far worse than anyone who voted R in the past before the middle class was destroyed.
The Republican party is evolving into its final form of purest facisim, something that was plausibly deniable 10 years ago.
Bottom line is we’re at a point in society where feelings and opinions are the only reality for a lot of people. It will be the death of democracy, and they’ll go to their graves in chains they put on themselves believing they made the right choice, because why would anyone ever chose to feel regret or acknowledge the consequences of their own actions?
This is the first genuine aneurysmposting type content I’ve seen on Lemmy, congratulations!
Good luck with reality, gonna be tricky if it’s filled with conspiracy and mental illness
Don’t worry too much about the debt, Canada has loads of debt and we are letting our politicians dismantle healthcare and education while homes are unaffordable and there are massive homeless encampments in pretty much every city/town. But voters are apathetic or don’t understand anything about our political system so it only gets worse
I think America has the largest debt in the world and they don’t even have public healthcare (and also loads of homeless)
So having some debt but actually getting public services is really putting you ahead of most of the world!
Not saying you shouldn’t worry about expenses/value, but countries carrying debt is normal
may as well include the US as well
You seem to get pretty good value for your debt! Want to send some of your politicians over to North America pls
China also gets to ramp up war economies for Taiwan
Obviously more US aid is crucial, and it’s recent absence is clearly having negative consequences in Ukraine.
If there is a silver lining, it’s that all of Europe is finally getting it’s military shit sorted out.
Russia is settling into it’s war economy and the rest of Europe has decades of dust to shake off it’s military capabilities.
Obviously NATO and individual European counties aren’t fully engaged in war like Ukraine is, but the resources consumed by war is proving just how under prepared Europe is for a long campaign.
Do currently you talk with cats? Or talk to cats?
Because if you’re not successfully working with your cats as cat burglars, you’re only talking to cats.
For what it’s worth, I picked the same 3
Awwwwh, but I wanted a peanut!
Nokia invents patented technology they use in their products (hint, not a cellphone)
Another company illegally uses this technology without a license
Nokia sues them for using their proprietary systems without permission
“Nokia is such a parasite”
I originally typed ‘Arguably the worst thing we’ve done’ but the more I think on it, humans are generally terrible.
If it wasn’t religion, it’d be racism, sexisim, geography based hate, abilisim, left handedness, phrenology, etc etc etc. Religion is just another lubricant to placate docile individuals, and justify the actions of hate focused individuals
I’m certain we could all live together in peace, but we’re so tribalistic that the second anyone says their group is better than X because Y the majority of the population seems to lap it up at nearly any expense.
I received one for a dormant account, but am Canadian so I couldn’t use their IPO insider advantage even if I wanted to
Makes me think this thing is gonna Drill immediately after launch, take everyone’s lunch, and eventually rebound (or get bought by Meta/Alphabet/Microsoft/Apple on the cheap)
I’m happy I found this show when I was 17, heard about it through an acquaintance, and found the English subs on Kazaa.
Perfect show at the perfect time of my life, definitely has a massive nostalgia factor and helped me work through some stuff.
If I were to see it for the first time today, 20 years later, I’m not sure it would have the same impact.
While it may not be for everyone, Evangelion is the standalone best anime for me and I rewatch it often.
Big fan of 50:50 water and grocery store white vinegar with a tiny drop of dish soap.
For glass I’ll also add a little rubbing alcohol to the above, for heavier grease or spots on glass I’ll just use 70% rubbing alcohol
Bathrooms can have a ton of different surfaces, I’ve had great success with VIM bathroom and kitchen but I’m sure anything branded for kitchen/bathroom will handle sink/shower/tub/toilet well.
CLR for anything involving (Calcium, Lime, Rust) tougher sediment buildup.
I get sponges that basically look and feel like the rough part of Velcro and are thin for a sponge, like the green scrubby rectangles, but superior imo.
When they’re getting tired they become my household cleaning sponge and work great! A decent sized brush can be handy, and definitely rags/paper towels for wiping things dry if necessary.
Squeegees are fun, not particularly handy for bathroom cleaning unless there’s a lot of tile/tempered glass/mirrors or you like using it to wipe down the shower when you’re finished
1337x.to has been pretty solid
Don’t evangelicals hate Harry potter?
Or is it now acceptable for anti woke reasons?
Jesus is woke now too apparently.
Guess nothing really matters to the right wing/evangelicals except more hate
RIF was working for about a month after the shut down (shit down?) but I was logged out and strictly lurking.
Lemmy has been way more stable for me in the past 2 weeks as well.
I’ll use my browser to look at reddit without being logged in every now and then, but honestly 90% of the major news is on Lemmy anyhow and the memes and community are 10x better than anything on Reddit since about a decade.
Only thing left for Lemmy is more local/provincial communities gaining traction on Lemmy, but I’m in no rush at all. I’d rather have a limited user base with genuine interaction than the shit slide botfest reddit feels like now
And then put it where?
Macroplastics?
Even if you have been greatly wronged by everyone you trust, that doesn’t necessarily mean you were ever even around trustworthy people. So personal experience may feel like the only reality or truth but once you realize that it’s only true specifically for you and only up to this point, you might be able to understand its not a universal rule or experience.
There’s so much to experience beyond pain, loneliness, distrust and suffering (outside of incurable medical pain)
It does exist and it is available to you, but when anyone has their trust destroyed beyond repair multiple times it will take work to let the pain go and look inward and forward to get what you want out of life.
For all I know, you’re the asshole in everyone else’s life and you blame them for breaking your trust - or you are a complete victim who has been taken advantage of every step of the way and it’s impossible to conceive of a person existing who isn’t working every angle to take advantage of you.
You do have agency and you can control how you think and feel about most things. It sounds like you are convinced that life only exists in a single, permanent, unchangeable state - and if you don’t attempt any change in this perspective it will become a self fulfilling prophecy.
But once you realize the control you can exert over these thoughts and perspectives you’ll hopefully realize that despite other people, when you’re an adult life is what you make of it, not what it makes of you.
It does take monumental, constant effort. Especially compared to how easy it is to give up/admit defeat/believe things are permanent and unchangeable. Doubly so if that’s the mental state you’re already in.
Therapy can give you the tools to climb the mountain, but it’s not gonna move your arms and legs up the mountain for you.
I am not sure what point you are trying to make, or how it relates to my comment/the article?
Even if we’re talking about someone who simply lacks basic or any morals, that would make them even more susceptible to Greed.
Especially when using a system specifically designed to provide them with vulnerable people who are mostly hidden from public and given less wages and rights, don’t know local laws, and are incredibly desperate.
What a convenient coincidence, heartless Greed finds itself flush with unlimited desperate workers. Again.