Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries

Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Beep@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.

  Like who?

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  • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    AOC, Mamdani, Talarico, Sanders, Buttigieg, Brandon Scott off the top of my head.

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    • humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Brandon Scott, mayor of Baltimore, MD, USA?

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      • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, I saw him on the Lemonade Stand podcast and man sounds like a stand up guy.

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  • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Linos Torvalds

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m so mad that the world saw Linus’ gift and said “cool, let’s build all the torment nexuses out of this because it’s cheaper”

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      • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        … and every other open source dev. how many of us are there, millons?

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  • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Chloe Swarbrick for an NZ specific example

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    • purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Chloe all the way

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      • piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Chloe for PM!

        Fuck this surveillance shit

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• myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So before capitalism you don’t know of any rulers being unjust?

  It’s not a feature of capitalism to corrupt, it’s a feature of power structures to be corruptible.

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  • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not just rulers being unjust.

    The issue is the rich and powerful are manipulating every aspect of our lives and our political system to gain more money and power for themselves and never face accountability for their wrongdoings.

    These people are genuinely evil

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    • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Still comes down to the rulers imo, as they enable such behavior from the rich. The longer this goes on, the more blatant it becomes. And they’ve been at it for a looong time.

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      • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Of course the rulers enable this behaviour. Who do you think made them the “rulers” to begin with? You think our broke asses pay to get these people elected?

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      None of this is a capitalism issue.

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      • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        How is it not?

        The rich and powerful are using their essentially bottomless pit of resources and money to influence political systems to give them even more money or resources.

        Billionaires own everything and it’s wreaking havoc on our lives.

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      • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Capitalism gives them the tools to create the wealth disparity. Wealth = power. They have used their capital to create more, and this have gained a outsized leverage over our entire society.

        You’re not a capitalist, you’re a worker who can’t see past the ruling class’ propaganda that socialism requires totalitarianism. It ain’t true.

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Look, I’m not a huge fan of capitalism but it’s a little silly to pretend that the world was free from corruption prior to capitalism.

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  • Wammityblam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not saying that capitalism is the cause of corruption. I’m saying that capitalism is an accelerant for corruption

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your comment wording implied cause to my reading.

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