Nope, participation in a system that’s forced on you isn’t consent. But you can choose to do something to change the system. Get active, march, vote, organize.

Oh no. No. No. No. The players make the rules. Shifting focus to the game being bad is a deflection as old as time.

Right, so you just chose to be offended at something you knew wasn’t about you.

That’s usually a house. But yeah if they have a million in a 401k then they’re part of the problem. Those funds are sitting in investment companies like Blackrock fueling the primacy of Wall Street over everything.

Sure because “buying the dip” in regards to a recession is totally about someone buying half a share and not corporations vacuuming assets out of the economy.

Nobody is worried about your penny stocks and you know that.

In the US 1984 was the nadir in births. So a similar experience.

I accidentally ended up with a semi trailer full of blue corn tortilla chips?

Wait are you serious?

We should be spending public money though. The public debt has literally never been an actual issue for the US.

We never really recovered from COVID.

If you have the money to do that then you are the problem.

Perfect in every way, good job.

There’s a similar thing in the US but many landlords don’t accept it.

It’s the official government word for foreigners.

I keep trying to tell people classical liberals were bastards. There’s this perception that just because we can vote that means we can’t be the bad guys. It’s an ideological catechism that actually fits with the above picture. If Fascism is just whenever mass suffering and death is perpetrated but also World War 2 non voting systems run by strong men then it gives the modern person living in a democracy permission to stop paying attention. After all they can vote and their guy would never.

We need to get this through people’s heads, stop putting flashy words on human rights violations and start holding leaders accountable. Because a culture of not being accountable is how you get actual Fascism.

So the thing is classical liberals were (and are) capable of a lot of damage without Fascism. Fascism is a specific ideology. Not the suffering people are capable of creating. It’s important to understand that your normal democracy is perfectly capable of creating mass suffering.

Oh just go for full points.

This time I’m going to Dublin!

We need to do a better job of teaching people to approach community groups with respect and as themselves. I’m a severe introvert so it took me way too long to figure that out but it’s really that simple. There are no shortcuts, be nice to people, ask respectful questions, befriend them, and suddenly you’re invited to the party/dinner.

I don’t know, one guy has a real problem that needs to be addressed. The other guy is mad because people got mad at him for cosplaying an ethnic identity.