frisbird

@frisbird@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There will always be people who don’t vote. Some because they are legally barred from doing so. Some because they are illegally barred from doing so. Some because they are unethically burdened in ways that make it very difficult to do so. Some because they are unethically misinformed in ways that make it difficult to do so.

  Then there’s the people who are consistently harmed by both parties like people who self-medicate, people who grew up as descendants of slaves or of destitute indigenous families, criminals who haven’t been barred from voting (those who have are included above).

  Only after you get through all these layers can you find the people that choose not to vote because they didn’t care or they didn’t think it would matter or did so out of protest.

  And within that group you will find legitimate reasons to protest vote, like genocide.

  In short, when we say that only x% of Americans vote, we don’t really mean all those people simply had the option to easily vote and just didn’t want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps you don’t understand what the word means.

  The commenter said this only effects speculators.

  You replied with:

  No, it effects ‘ordinary’ Chinese people as many invested their life savings hoping to pay for a house or an apartment for themselves and their children.

  That’s speculation. Investing with the hope of a big pay out is the definition of speculation. Yes, ordinary Chinese people can be speculators. Do you think speculators are not ordinary people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China has been eliminating poverty for quite some time. In fact, over the last 70 years, China accounts for 80% or more of the entire global poverty alleviation gains. The US has created more poverty in that same time.

  But also, the US has been racist, violent, colonialist, jingoistic, misogynistic, and white supremacist since it’s founding. You know those propaganda images DHS posts on Twitter? Those are from the US’s time of westward expansion. This isn’t new. What’s new is that we have given up on trying to hide it, which is something we did for for the last 70 years. But even in the 40s we had concretation camps, we had open racism in all of politics, we had the second largest Nazi group in the world.

  And after WW2? Operation Paperclip? Operation Gladio? The US openly staffed NATO with Nazi officers. The US openly advocated for Nazi politicians to lead West Germany. There were literal Nazis running West German after the war.

  And then of course the Korean War. The Vietnam War. The Irag wars. The Afghanistan war. The embargo against Cuba. The coup in Iran.

  This is what the US is. Nixon banner heroin explicitly to imprison black people. We have slave labor producing billions of dollars in value annually. And we punish our prison slaves who don’t work by giving them solitary. All of that is massive gross human rights violations, things we’ve pretended to invade other countries for.

  This is who we are. It’s not new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotional abuse of children by immigrant parents probably contributes a lot to to why the kids hate their ancestral language.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not more than the society they are being assimilatrd into hating immigrants and their language and culture.