• Foni@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    In other words, a company, acting on behalf of its own shareholders, tells a government, which represents 100% of the citizens in a given territory, to shove its legislation where the sun doesn’t shine. And not only is this not inherently absurd, but it also stands a significant chance of succeeding in getting the government to comply.

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        They probably wouldn’t have had to if the school system hadn’t dropped language arts from most curriculums ages ago. Students now are getting a markedly shitter education and don’t even know they’re being fucked over.

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          It’s by design, the politicians only need 28% to win, easier to scrape those votes off the bottom of the barrel of knowledge

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            What really stings is watching groups and communities which historically have been supportive of each other getting fragmented by overt social media operations. It’s asinine and just makes it easier to marginalize and oppress the people that most frequently need a voice.

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        Feel like that speech would have meant more when he still had the power to do anything about it. Instead of going to war against this oligarchy he chose to cash his political capital on a rushed pull out of Afghanistan, and to kill a bunch of Palestinians.

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          Instead of going to war against this oligarchy he chose to cash his political capital on a rushed pull out of Afghanistan

          I don’t see how this is laid on Biden since Trump agreed to the withdrawal and timeline, and then R relentlessly hammered Biden for not getting on it, then relentlessly hammered him for the problems related to rushing it.

          I agree with the rest of your comment.

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            don’t see how this is laid on Biden since Trump agreed to the withdrawal and timeline

            Trump made the original withdrawal date and Biden arbitrarily stuck to it when he came into office.

            He was under no real obligation to stick to the timeline and it was a betrayal to every Afghan citizen that worked with us. I don’t really care what Republicans bitch and moan about.