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@matana this opens a convo about how we tend to conflate justice with punishment. perhaps its the very reason why American police are garbage, because instead of focusing on making things right and aiding communities that ask for it, they instead simply look to punish those that are in the wrong, to the point of abusing ethnic stereotypes to find these jackasses

Bringing it back on topic, big hopes that Belarussians are respected and left alone

@matana what the legit fuck, who can hate MCR? What can hate Gerard? Bro....

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@SPRENGLARF @lina @Zerglingman @pixie i feel. only other thing annoying about fedi other than how socially inept some people can be here is essentially the amount of extreme cringe you find, like I constantly finding people that whine about trannies and whatnot. They think they are better than people that whine about transphobia when in reality its like comparing feminists to terfs; yall are still cringe for the same reason

@FallenFadedLostItAll@freak.university spreading of wealth doesn't really solve a lot of issues in our market, as they tend to boil down to price gouging and overall exploitation of selling subpar products to consumers over everything. Not to mention all you're doing with a worker co-op is essentially taking Jeff Bezos and splitting his wealth onto thousands of people just for working at his shit. I do believe the government should crack down on mega corporations like Amazon and force them to be smaller but worker's co-ops don't even address that, they are literally just good for spreading wealth which is cool but mandatory spreading of wealth wouldn't help the oligarchal mess of the free market as much as say, getting rid of IP. It simply includes more people that can enjoy luxury simply for working.

Compare that to say, the government forcing Netflix and essentilly every shitshow streaming company to offer their services across platforms (no platform exclusives). Not only would this bring down the cost of entertainment down substantially, which literally benefits everyone, but it also forces those streaming platforms to rely more and more on improving their actual services unique to them since they can't rely on platform exclusives. The corpos would actually have to work on making their platforms specifically good platforms, as the shows they can access are shared by all platforms now, people don't have to grab multiple streaming accounts to watch their shows which makes it easier for lower class people to enjoy their content and overall it benefits more people just logically. And thats all possible if the government simply looked at how platform exclusives harm domestic consumers and said "Hey thats not really fair". Imagine if we took that logic to patent abuse with the Insulin industry. I rest my point, we have more to benefit from focusing on consumer rights than simply worker's rights

@lina eh russia wins though, and I reject all authoritarian bs over everything else. That said, Putin should just sit down, he's doing the whole country of Russia a disservice. Shame that civialians are being punished for being ruled by a tyrant

@MK2boogaloo @lina eh i prefer either trolling them or making them based. one of my homies is a trans libertarian, one of the coolest people istg

@lina imo the issue isn't trannies, its that we need more trans people that are pro gun. Everyone should access to arms to protect themselves.
jokes aside, yeah the lgbt community as a whole is kinda a bruh moment

@lina reddit :moyai:
yeah feds in generalare fags. being loyal to the victim leads to romanticization of weakness, which is exactly what the feeds want

@Zerglingman @SPRENGLARF @lina @pixie i have sympathy for them especially if they didn't know better. we should prevent women from being into hypergamy though, since the negative consequences hit harder for them than for guys (although tbh all hypergamy is cringe)

@SPRENGLARF @Zerglingman @pixie unironically supporting nazism is retarded
making jokes about it though......

@FallenFadedLostItAll@freak.university also a business is reliant on how they are with consumers, much more than any reputation lost from even the worst treatment of workers as seen with things like Tesla. Just in general Working conditions would improve a lot more if the main method of product distribution happened with the producers/workers getting paid for their production directly from the consumers, kinda like crowd sourcing

@FallenFadedLostItAll@freak.university workers will always have to work even if its to sustain themselves. Consumers always have to consume, and by statistics not everyone can work. If anything a lot of issues that apply to owner's rights also apply to worker's rights, as in the ability for a company owned by an individual to abuse the free market is the same as a company that a worker co-op realistically, its just a matter of getting the workers to agree to exploit their audience, to which in a society where we rely on profit for livelihood, theres not much stopping worker co-ops from attempting to monopolize the free market

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