We are the next great mass extinction event and in some ways our impact is already faster (and this far in, harder) than most of our previous mass extinction events. But hey, billionaires need a few more yachts and need endless growth even if it literally kills the planet. So thats a price we are willing to pay for them. We should be rioting.
Thats possible true. But our proverbial great grand parents fought against muzzle and police cavalry to get kids out of the mines, to extend the vote to the working class, to recognize women as equal. These weren’t given to us. Class consciousness is on the rise.
Bring it on! Unsustainability will destroy us worse than a needed economic restructuring.
Ikr. Desire for billionaire status is a sign of a serious mental illness.
Sadly Iran’s military and Islamic extremists have even greater grip than they did before the war started. Good job yankees.
Hes retiring, and he was one of the few to openly call out Trump. Id save your energy for attacking GOP or militant centrist dems.
These centrist governments embrace fascism to protect their ill-gotten wealth inequality and it ironically will lead to real fascists replacing them and making it much worse. Sigh.
The hyper wealthy need to wake up and realize they can still be super wealthy, they just need to give up on the idea of endless growth no matter the context. Else we are heading towards a bronze age collapse as all of our ecological, economic and social systems unwind.
Gut wrenching stories of violence and genocide DAILY. Its disgusting. The worlds everyday person is waking up, but too many governments cozy up to this fascism.
I mean. Did they try making sure billionaires get more while continuing to deprive the working class?
Centrist governments the world over, creating fertile grounds for fascist swings. Because centrists protect wealth inequality. Which is a tragedy of course because these fascist swings make wealth inequality even worse.
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Right true. 300m passed by congress LAST YEAR that trump has no choice to approve. True. But that is a drop in the bucket, and the only military support given since trumps second term. This year Canada gave nearly a billion in military aid compared to the US 300m, and Europe gave almost 75 billion. It is Europe finding ukraine, not the US.
Edit in all your posts you refuse to blame trump for ballooning your national debt and starting an illegal war that severely impacted actual oil flows. Instead you gripe about proportional pennies to Ukraine. If your economic woes are hurting you, get angry at your government ffs
You are! Because you attacked the right of Ukraine to raise the funds needed to strike the aggressor: russia. Besides the US gives very little aid anyway. If you are not European then you have zero right to criticize where their aid goes.
Are you American? The US (edit has almost completely) stopped sending military aid anyway. This is Europe (who faces Russian aggression) and allies like Canada also seeing the rise of authoritarianism in its neighbours. These are dividends for our own defense. Oil prices won’t mean much if the great power autocrats have their way and expand trump-style neocolonial imperialism across the globe (like venezuala). Fighting dictatorships now saves you much worse later.
Escalated aggression on all fronts from an increasingly desperate Kremlin. None of this is good.
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The world is turning, burning. Floods and natural disasters on the rise everywhere. But hey, can we at least make sure billionaires keep getting richer right?
Its baked deep into the culture, right from childhood. US exceptionalism is a hell of a drug. And its going to lead to the country’s collapse.
I highly recommend this piece on Avi Lewis and how this isnt about Israelis or jews, but zionism. https://lemmy.ca/post/71680208
This particular topic has little to do with Israel to be real. Even as an anti-zionist i am not sure why you slipped this in.
Nah mass consciousness is on the rise. In my home province a few years ago the government tried to ban collective bargaining for custodian services to which the province responded with a planned general strike. It won, the government immediately backed down. We do have power. We just forget that until we dont.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-threat-of-a-general-strike-shook-doug-fords-ontario-government/