Oh they find a way. Bezos wedding was 40 to 50 million euros.

They’re confusing free market with capitalism most likely.

That’s the problem. The system prioritizes wealth accumulation above all else. When you build a society that views wealth as the highest state of being then those regulatory systems will eventually be bought out.

There may well be no such thing as a sustainable regulated capitalism, especially when we’ve normalized the monetization of everything.

There’s a reason capitalism is essentially counter to the teachings of all major world religions, many of which are extremely authoritarian in their own way.

One aspect of modern capitalism is predatory loans, which every Abrahamic religion has writings against.

It’s pretty telling most religions would not go as far as “poor people can go fuck themselves” despite being used to control people through fear over millenia but the end game of unchecked capitalism is truly as simple as “poor people can go fuck themselves”

Amazing that the young ones will have to teach their parents morality but actually I’m not that suprised. I feel many of us will be looking back at the direction boomers and their parents took the world post WW2 and shake our heads.

The first time I took a deep dive into the Israeli-Palestinian ‘conflict’ was in 2012 and it took all of half an hour to come to the conclusion that Netanyahu has a bloodlust reminiscent of Hitler. It felt shitty to realize that Western propaganda had me believing a lie my entire life (granted I was in my early 20s). But that feeling was soon overcome with an even worse feeling of unease as you realize how many people just accept this genocide as the status quo.

I’m so glad Gen Z is seeing through all this. It was much easier to pull the wool over peoples eyes (in a way) in the pre social media age because news was always curated for us. There’s a lot of bullshit out there on the internet don’t get me wrong.

But it’s hard to argue with pictures of dead children (even though some folk still try).

Yeah this is not a well constructed thought by her. Need to go back together drawing boars with that one.

If the rich paid their fair share in taxes, life would be more affordable for the majority of people if politicians do their jobs. It’s a big if, and clearly one Kathy doesn’t believe in.

Sounds like a chargeback situation to me. And making sure never to do business with BestBuy again.

Capitalism is amoral, meaning it can lead to some real immoral behaviour when monied interests want it that way. It can be wielded to contend with the will of the people, making it a potential enemy to democracy.

The intermediary is supposed to be government. Supposed to be…

No AIPAC funded Democrat has endorsed him. Including many prominent voices in the party.

Same story. One year ago. That and stopping drinking are some of the best choices I’ve made in a long time.

I still use reddit occasionally for its smallest communities where I know I’m still interacting with humans. I assume the top posts are all bot posts with bots flaming bots in the comments. Everyone’s time is worth more than that.

That’s great that AIPAC had a backup plan

Cerrainly not war on this scale.

WW1 was trenches and mustard gas.

Now world leaders can nuke an Arby’s an easy as they can order Arby’s on Doordash.

That’s gotta create an underlying sense of “well, we have it, why not use it?”

The recent Israel-Iran conflict is a perfect example of this. The initial attack accomplished nothing (set their nuclear program back by what, months?) and the response was equally meaningless.

Ro Khanna, Hakeem Jeffries and of course Nancy Pelosi.

They’re acting as close to a controlled opposition as ever before.

When you’re backed by AIPAC, you don’t have to ever give up.

If performative ethics were an Olympic sport…

Well, modern day eurocentrists are weird people.

Interestingly eurocentrists often refer to Alexander the Great as taking over “the world” even though he only took over Europe and the Middle East (which is what they saw as “the world” at the time). His troops abandoned him almost immediately upon entering what is now modern day Punjab (Pakistan/India).

Glad you have a resource to refute this colonial era drivel / brain rot.

When home is relatively cold and only borderline habitable, taking your chances with going out to sea is an understandable instinct.