At least I can sue a racist landlord. Good luck fighting discrimination against a corporation with an army of lawyers. And how exactly would corporations be the better choice in an ideal world? Their ONLY function is to make profits

Incredibly late response but yes. The direct result of collective American corruption in medicine was the opiod epidemic and the rejection of universal health care post WW2.

The American Medical Association - representing doctors - employed a public relations firm to lobby against the move. Cla

No thanks. Lemmy isn’t great by any means but social media is poison and a direct cause of the current state of affairs

This is what I mean when ppl act like trump’s brand of facism is brand new. Depending on who you are and what you look like this has always been a facist state.

Yet Kentucky will stay red as the devils dick while they continue to be screwed

Not to be both sides but nothings more American than killing brown children

Europe is just America 5 years behind

What is the opposite of thoughts and prayers? Apathy and ill will?

They did. They were called the black panthers. They armed themselves and taught each other self defense. The white public thought the idea of brown ppl protecting themselves against facists like Ronald Regan was a bad thing so they were disarmed in California and were infiltrated by the FBI.

Yeah that 4 day work week might become a thing. You’ll just work 17 hours a day. Samsung just extended their work weeks to 64 hours a week regarding semiconductors after complaining about the 52 hours limit. You guys are good at fighting facism and corruption as long as Samsung isn’t involved. And your birthrate raised by .03 to .75. A healthy population needs like 2.1. And you guys are not immune from inflation and global markets so your cost of living has gone up like everyone else. And considering the poverty rate for the super young and the really old are sky high things aren’t looking good.

I’m not trying to shit on South Korea but you guys are just as fucked as everyone else. It’s no paradise

Lol yeah right. I’m sure the only thing stopping Brandon from working at a Michelin restaurant is his McDonald’s job off of I-95

Bruce Springsteen is worth over $500 million so champion of the working man is a stretch. Honestly him saying anything will change very little and like with most celebrities (or the rich in general) lobbying congress would be a lot better than just saying, “I don’t like trump”. These type of entertainers have the means to impact politics with meaningful actions but all they do is the bare minimum. Empty words that won’t effect their bottom line

And you probably should listen to ppl with fancy degrees when it comes to politics. History is our guide to not make the same mistakes over and over again. Understanding politics, the long term effects of introducing laws, how government actually operates, etc is important and we should all listen to ppl who study these. If ppl did maga supporters would actually know the financial aid we send other countries makes up less than 1% of the federal budget. The idea of rejecting experts or dismissing the intelligent is why we live in an idiocracy.

Politics DEFINITELY SHOULDN’T be based on feelings. It should based on logic, morals, and the greater good. Our current government came to be because ppl voted with their feelings instead of logic. I like trump because he tells it like it is, I feel like he’s a good person, I feel like America isn’t respected like it should be, I feel like I won’t be deported, I feel like he doesn’t believe in project 2025. Fox News preyed on their feelings of fear and anger. If ppl used logic, listened to political experts, or watched any news outside of Fox News we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Maybe i would’ve listened to artist like Frank Zappa, or James Baldwin but today’s entertainers are brands that will do anything to not to rock the boat. Celebrities, especially now, DO NOT represent the public sphere. They’re more worried about upsetting their sponsors. Bruce Springsteen isn’t courageous for saying this. He’s got a $500 million bullet proof vest. He’s got fuck you money and funny enough he’ll benefit from whatever happens anyway. He’s no Muhammad Ali

Or you could just give me examples of famous figures of the ethnicities you mentioned being represented as black. I’ve yet to see Miyamoto Musashi, Santa Ana, Buddha, Alexander the Great, or Saladin played by Morgan Freeman or Idris Elba

This is absolutely the worst time for such a bill, so of course it has a better chance of succeeding than ever before.

I feel before the late 60s would also be a time this bill would pass pretty easily. Ppl really need to recognize this brand of fascism is nothing new in west. Historically it’s pretty damn normal

Ok where is all this black washing of Asian, arab, latino, etc figures? If anything they get white washed as much as black figures do or are reduced to stereotypes with zero depth.

Only thing that comes to mind is Jada Pinkett’s shitty Netflix series that no one watched

Well Germany is helping fund the Palestinian genocide so apparently you guys didn’t learn much

I mean Argentina has a history of facism, xenophobia, and racism. Not like they learned anything new from trump

The problem is their voice matters more than they should. I get your point but there are voices more knowledgeable that we should listen to. The minimum I feel they should use their celebrity to amplify voices like those

I feel like we shouldn’t care this much about the opinions of entertainers. That’s kinda how trump got elected in the first place

That’s exactly their point. The pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge should be encouraged. Whats considered mankind’s greatest societies all encouraged the pursuit of knowledge not only for financial gain but because it’s important for society as a whole