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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGo vote rule
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    11 days ago

    Our brains tend to simplify things to help us understand the world around us. “Both parties are dumb” is rhetoric that you submit to when you don’t really want to understand what makes them different, or what their agendas are.

    I’m not saying people don’t get fucked on decisions either party makes. It does in fact happen, but the world just isn’t so black and white. We need to have the ability to criticize our representatives and hold them accountable, but right now I’d say there’s a party that doesn’t want any such accountability, and their agenda would put regular people further away from being able to take action.

















  • heavy@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldCapitalism
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    14 days ago

    I appreciate the perspective but nothing here says we can’t be coscerbed by both positions (or all sides) of power.

    I don’t want kings or monopolies, or either by any other name. No need to split hairs on it.

    I would also argue that “we hand powers over to modern capitalist institutions without a second thought” is a pretty loaded sentence. Who’s doing that? Me? You? It’s not like someone asked us. Sounds pretty dismissive to assume people are acting outside of their better interest.