• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    I’m sorry but I’m not even going to pretend to be sorry about a pickpocket targeting normal people getting his (or her) ass beaten.

    What about American tourists in a foreign nation that has been historically violently repressed via the American Military and economic shock treatment by American institutions? Those American tourists enabled their government and businesses to do that, via their votes and their labor for said businesses. In this respect they are not just “regular people” in a place like Mexico, Chile, Iran, Iraq, and so on.

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      3 days ago

      You know rich people have rigged our gov for ages. Those wars we fought were highly unpopular and nobody wanted them. Rich people made lots of money as a result. Believe it or not, “no more stupid wars” was part of Trump’s campaign platform. It’s about the only part that dems liked too. You can’t run for office here without being super rich unless it’s local or an anomaly.

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        3 days ago

        Bernie Sanders, David Hogg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett.

        Stop this defeatist attitude bullshit. The real problem is people don’t vote in the fucking primaries.

        Zohran Mamdani is an example of what happens when people turn out for the primary.

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      3 days ago

      This is bullshit logic. In the last 40 years the government has served the interests of the few and half the time is literally elected by the minority that would have lost the election in most democracies.

      Also actions are a moral reflection on you alone not the victims

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      3 days ago

      I won’t try to argue about the morality of it, though I can’t agree that pickpocketing any random American does anything to fight the military industry or their imperialism, though I will grant that culpability for it is complex. But when you play with fire, you should expect to get burned occasionally.