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Refugee fleeing the shittiness of reddit

  • Consolidation in markets has led to high prices, poor service, poor competition and bloated oligopolies.

    Governments should be intervening to break up these oligopolies but have been captured by these vested interests.

  • Bro, it is likely 100,000 people (mostly women and children) are dead.

    Civilian infrastructure has been deliberately targeted, all the hospitals bombed, graveyards deliberately razed, universities have had their antiquities looted and then demolished, all water infrastructure deliberately destroyed, all fisheries/bakeries/food production facilities deliberately destroyed, etc.

    There are numerous instances of literal war crimes including murder captured on camera.

    Multiple reports from numerous organisations that Israel is deliberately obstructing aid into Gaza.

    There are random "kill zones" declared and randomly moved around which the IDF use to murder everyone within it.

    From the Israeli organisation, Breaking the Silence:

    https://mailchi.mp/breakingthesilence/there-is-no-liberty-in-occupation-7226978?e=d4bcf62320

    "Last week, we got another detailed, chilling insight into the ways in which we fight in Gaza with a new collection of testimonies being reported in Haaretz - all from soldiers who served in the same, very large, kill zone north of the Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza.

    ...

    Unarmed civilians posthumously labeled as terrorists by the hundreds, all while restrictions on shooting are near nonexistent. "Anyone approaching whatever line was decided at that moment is considered a threat – no permission needed to shoot," one soldier said.

    "After shootings, bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them. In Gaza, people know that wherever you see these dogs, that's where you must not go," said another soldier.

    Another soldier described an occasion where a teen who crossed into the kill zone was shot dozens of times: "We responded as if it was a large militant raid. [...] For about a minute or two, we just kept shooting at the body. People around me were shooting and laughing. [...] "When someone pointed out he was unarmed and looked like a civilian, everyone shouted him down. The commander said: ‘Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone's a terrorist.’”

    One reservist described a case in which an IDF helicopter fired a missile at an unarmed adult and two children who had crossed this ever-changing border. "We had them under complete surveillance with the drone and weapons aimed at them – they couldn't do anything," he said."

    In Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israelis are literally ethnically cleansing Armenians and Palestinians out of the Armenian quarter and other areas. No Hamas there. Just plain ethnic cleansing.

    Israel could not have maintained its campaign for than a few months without American support.

    The Israeli government was secretly sabotaging its own negotiations and Biden's peace plan.

    The idea that people shouldn't be able to talk about this and try and hold people accountable is some spineless shit.

    The reality is that even if Arab Americans voted at the same rate as 2020, the outcome would not have changed.

    The Green vote was historically insignificant.

    Blaming people who were raising the Genocide in Gaza is some spineless blame shifting.

    Incumbent governments around the world, regardless of political orientation, have been getting tossed out of power due to inflation and cost of living pressures.

  • The Democrats did enable genocide though.

    Doesn't mean Trump was going to be any better.

  • WTF

  • Who is this picture of? She looks familiar.

    Is she a movie star?

  • What are people using to monitor this?

  • It has basically been taken over by the IDF

  • I think 90% of the AI investments really have no commercial viability and are being developed to suck up clueless venture capital.

  • I'm older than 30.

    Probably played one of your games.

  • Super curious here.

    What game did you make?

  • Outside Musk subs like /r/elonmusk, /r/Tesla and /r/spacex, Elon is widely mocked across reddit.

    Reddit is a shithole but let's be real here.

  • It's like he was having a stroke while typing that up.

  • The far-left to far-right pipeline is wild.

    It's like they had no ideological consistency in the first place.

  • Why back up fantastic claims when you can just circlejerk on Lemmy?

  • Have you always been an insufferable wanker?

  • Similar age here.

    Not into social media and Reddit now sucks.

  • Sherman did nothing wrong.

  • Ok, I'll bite.

    Why are weddings stupid?

  • While this is true, I suggest reading "All trade war are class wars" by Michael Pettis and Michael C. Klein.

    Basically, both China and America have been persuing trade policies (which result in persistent trade imbalances) which are unsustainable.

    China through subsiding it's export sector through preferential interest rates (transfer income from savers to borrowers like industrial enterprises), managed currencies (transfers income from importers to exporters), weak labor laws (workers to companies), etc. which results in smaller household sector which cannot consume what it produces.

    These policies primarily benefit industrial exporters at the expense of everyone else.

    Note: This is not unique to China. Germany, Japan, Taiwan, America (up to the great depression), etc. have persued such policies.

    American subsidies consumption via policies which encourage a higher dollar (being attractive for foreign capital), higher debt, etc. which results in an household sector than consumes more than it produces.

    Note: This is not unique to America. The Anglo-Saxon economies all have this issue (noting that at times of high commodity prices Canada and Australia sometimes run trade surpluses).

    These policies primarily benefit importers and financial sector at the expense of everyone else, particularly the industrial sector.

    Although in America's case, being the reserve currency provides great geopolitical advantages.

    These policies are unsustainable. One cannot import more than you export forever.

    America cannot to grow such vast sums of private and public debt. Eventually, there is a limit.

    Every other country that has persued such policies in the past have had difficult corrections. These can be quick and brutal (the great depression for the USA, where the economy shrunk 1/3 but the household sector only shrunk ~17% and thus the economy was rebalanced) or a slow adjustment like Japan (where household consumption grows marginally faster than overall GDP growth for 1-2 decades).

    This issue was seen and written about during the great depression ("beggar thy neighbour" policies). After WW2, John Keynes suggested a mechanism to rebalance trade so there were not persistent trade imbalances (the USA opposed this mechanism because it was running surpluses).

    Why does this matter in this instance? China is having great difficulty raising consumption and moving away from it's export driven model. So it is looking for new partners to export to (given the West and even other devleoping economies like Brazil and India are unwilling to accept more of China's subsided exports), like Kenya.

    It is running into the trouble Western counties had in the 1980s with developing countries being unable to service their loans for infrastructure, etc.

    China may not be popular soon because it (like the West during the 1980s) is unwilling to write off loans which cannot be paid.