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BeNotAfraid

@ BeNotAfraid @lemmy.world

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  • French PM may scrap two public holidays to reduce country’s crippling debt

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  • Yeah like after World War 2, when the government imposed The New Deal and the economy worked and the middle class were able to exist and have a family with a single full time job whilst having 90% corporate tax for higher end earnings?

    Or, during Reagan and Thatcherism when the government imposed the neoliberal nightmare that gave us the 2008 crash and put every single country in the world into debt we have never been able to escape and defined the future of the next 3 generations after GenX?

    What about during Covid, when the world governments imposed "relief" through gifted billions to the ruling class as subsidies they never paid back?

    The government imposed all of these. It's not freedom if there is no class mobility. Dynastic wealth is monarchy. Lick the shit off the boots, like a good citizen and jog on.

  • Bosch manager in interview: eBike over-motorization is a risk to our business, because eBikes with more than 800 Watt power will lead to much stricter regulations

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  • LIES! They just don't want us to have electric motorcycles.

  • French PM may scrap two public holidays to reduce country’s crippling debt

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  • The dollar is the global reserve currency, so yes, by default we focus in terms of US dollars. It is also American globalisation which created these people. There's this cool new thing thing called History we in Europe study, it allows for current events to be contextualised. It's a pretty hip thing with the kids, you can learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History.

    Edit: There should not ever be an

    average American billionaire.

  • French PM may scrap two public holidays to reduce country’s crippling debt

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  • Yeah, so imagine. Wild idea here, we tax the rich. To increase the income of the government. Who can invest in the working and middle class, who can then have disposable income to stimulate the economy. Just a crazy theory I have there that has been shown to work every time it's been implemented. Crazy right? It's been 50 fucking years, it doesn't trickle down Reagan.

  • [Video] Fox News encourages their viewers to openly identify as Nazis

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  • Murdoch. Tories and the Republicans are the same thing

  • Peak UI Design

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  • "Lousy Smarch Weather"

    'Do Not Touch -Willie'

    "Hey, good advice!"

  • French PM may scrap two public holidays to reduce country’s crippling debt

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  • Yeah and all of the global corporations worth hundreds of billions that do business there everyday without paying tax and obfuscating revenue through being "based somewhere else." We need a global corporate tax. Plain and simple.

  • French PM may scrap two public holidays to reduce country’s crippling debt

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  • Or, we could stop making excuses for not taxing the rich and.... Tax the rich.

  • Canadian far right repeats Trump-fuelled conspiracy theories on wildfires

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  • It's science we explain to literal 5 year olds. That's been saying it would happen like this since the 1970's you absolute ignoramus.

  • Canadian far right repeats Trump-fuelled conspiracy theories on wildfires

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  • And why is it so dry that these fires rage completely out of control?

  • French PM may scrap two public holidays to reduce country’s crippling debt

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  • Or, just tax the rich.

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  • As someone who's been homeless, I deride the term beggar. Still, It depends, If I have something on me I can part with. A joint, a cigarette sure. Got a fairly annoying allergy that means I often wind up with some food stuff I can't eat. If I have bills they can have cash. Change is kinda worthless here. If someone looks hungry, I'll give them something. But there's so many now in the area, you can't help everyone.

  • European Union to delay retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in hopes of reaching deal

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  • We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

  • You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how

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  • Rent portal? You mean bank account with direct debit and/or electronic transfer. What is a rent portal? How can you possibly benefit from having a website just to act as a middle man to collect your personal info?

  • What's something people incorrectly assume about your line of work and/or hobby?

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  • That I smoke all day, everyday. I don't. I read reports, I check environmental variable, I take readings from and make adjustments to tanks, I instruct people on how to prune and I sob over the new room of completely bare ones because nobody fucking listens to me.

  • BRITOTHDYA PRRRYT (original tweet in post for better clarity)

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  • because this isn't for us. It's for the ruling class, who have more money than they could ever spend and don't care about anything.

  • Alberta bans school library books it deems sexually explicit

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  • Chapter 33: Nailed on The Cross

  • What book should I read to my new rescue dog so he becomes accustomed to my voice and presence?

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  • Kujo

  • I could repost this every day for the next three and a half years and it would still hold true

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  • Where, where is everyone saying "fuck ALL individual Americans"? They're not.

    Europe, Canada, and Australia have been happy to go along for the ride, as well as causing problems of their own.

    Happy to go along with what? Global stability and trade? America develops nuclear weapons, demonstrates it will use them and then it's all the rest of the world's non-action that's the issue?

    What problems has the European Union Caused for the world? Go on, I'll wait.

    What policies specifically are you miffed with? That the rest of the white-European descended world went along with?

    when there are so many of us that have been fighting this bullshit all while actually being victimized by our own government.

    Yeah, you sure did a great job fighting it. I'm sure you were out there tirelessly campaigning against the GOP and spreading awareness of what would happen. I'm also sure you've had to deal with endless torrents of mean Europeans harassing you and telling you to KYS because of the last 250 years + Trump. Luckily, because you're so busy fighting, you probably haven't seen all those mean comments.

    Stop Victimising yourself. Green Day came with American Idiot in 2004. You have had two decades to come to terms with criticism of modern American foreign policy in pop culture, act like it.

    Now that they’re experiencing the slightest inconvenience,

    Undermining global efforts to stop/reduce the climate catastrophe, the systematic erasure of personal freedoms, illegally tracking and spying on the whole world contrary to every law encompassed by GDPR which every American company agrees to to operate there. Creating the migrant crisis out of the middle and near east and creating the far-right after covid in order to exploit the economic recession, largely caused by the then American president's denial of science. The next global pandemic you're currently cooking up, the re-establishment of measles as a serious threat to Human life. The creation of Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley Technofascists through loans lent out by The US government. I can go on, endlessly. It is not "the slightest inconvenience." It is, emphatically, everything.

    they want to cause an uproar and shit on everyone who happens to have been born here. It’s hypocritical and gross.

    Well, now because of your countrymen, being born in Americ doesn't make you American, altgough there are still Americans who weren't born there. (For now.)

    Complaining about American imperialism is not "uproar." What part of any of that qualifies as hypocrisy? You don't think people around the world have been criticising America for over a century? Buddy....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_United_States_government

    You didn’t care before, so what changed?

    Nothing, people have always been critical of the United States. But you never had reason to listen to those criticisms. Now, America is threatening, not just the global order, but our continued existence as a species on Earth. So, yeah, the criticisms are getting louder. That's what happens when you elect the Nazis. Germany still gets criticised, that was 80 years ago. You better get some thicker skin than that friend, because you're gonna hear a lot more and rightly fucking so.

    The only time I can recall in recent memory when any of these folks actually gave a shit about us was during the Floyd protests, which was certainly appreciated.

    Yeah, because the idea of egalitarianism is inherently part of what makes being European a thing. Because we didn't censor our history in school to create the myth of a monoculture descended from a group of British settlers. We are a collection of individual identities, languages and ethnic groups who form a union based on our similarities as humans seeking peace and prosperity through mutual co-operation. Which is why your media hates us, because you guys have created your own aristocracy and we don't like that.

    Dude, you have to separate America the Federal State, VS America the Geographical location, VS America the idea, VS America the population that inhabit the United States and Territories. They are not the same thing. I get people might be mean to you on an individual level, but contextually you should be able to separate that from criticism of America. You should not feel the need to be personally offended at individuals who criticise the actions of the American State Policies. It's intellectually disingenuous to do otherwise and it doesn't make anybody -regardless of nationality- sympathetic to your personal situation to be indignant and act like you don't understand that. Or, the global consequences of the "slightest inconvenience" your country has gifted to the rest of the world.