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      8 天前

      Kick US media out of your country, use opensource software and you’ll be better off.

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        Don’t be afraid to just take US intellectual property.

        It was acquired through exploitative neoliberal and neocolonial policy. “AI” is actually the peak manifestation of this.

        Also, China does it (though in some cases consensually) and its gone fairly well for them.

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          Apparently China just came out and said they dont care about american copyrights so this might grow.

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            To be fair, its not like the West played by the rules during the colonial era so that’s understandable.

            A number of US based companies have willingly given away IP in the past to access the market.

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      I think Europe had their time. They are nodding knowingly and pitifully at America at how hard it will be to climb out of it.

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            In some cases, but rich people are usually right wing as it justifies their wealth. Consequently they are classists. And racism is just another type of classism.

            In other words, Europe has their own rich monsters.

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        Russia is worse then the US is, but the US is working on it. Both are helping out likeminded European groups. Musk was turning up at German and British facist party events for a reason.

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          So what you’re saying is that the UK needs a repeat of Cable Street to drive home that fascism isn’t welcome and drive out wannabe-Mosley.

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            Would be an option. Another really good one would be a reform of the election system. It is insane that Labour got 2/3 of the seats in parliament with only 1/3 of the votes. Even worse with Reform polling at about 1/3 of the votes right now.

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        Are you kidding? Europe is trying it’s best to keep up with the USs sprint to the hard right.

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          The crisis of the 30’s was a factor and now we’re in the same position.
          Dramatically worsened by the results of ‘there will be no more Nordstream’.
          Not a peep from our EU leaders, just more bootlicking, crippling sanctions on ourselves and buying wildly expensive and polluting US fracking gas.
          And billions more of their murder toys OC, what else are our pension and social welfare funds for?

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        That was my belief for quite a while. There’s certainly no shortage of stupidity, but the real problem is that people do understand the evil shit they vote for, and they fucking love it.

        Look at the Trump admin: he didn’t trick us into voting for him by giving some ‘on paper’ bs about why the things he does is somehow good; he just got on stage and started shitting on veterans, disabled people, women, immigrants, etc. The majority of voters looked at that and said “YUP! THAT’S MY GUY!!”

        We’re (collectively) just fucking evil. Idk if there’s a fix for that.

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          The thing is, they don’t truly understand the consequences. Otherwise c/leopardsatemyface wouldn’t be a thing.

          They believe that they are free from consequence because they keep being told that, and by the odds they’re unlikely to face major direct consequences of their choices. And when they do, often it gets blamed on “the other side” instead of the people they choose to represent them.

          It’s not about them being too stupid to understand, or too evil to want better, it’s about an unwillingness to think about the consequences of their actions.

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            Oh i’ll be around to remind them. I’ve been doing rounds on calling out the idiots that still keep blaming dems for not saving them from themselves. Voters are entirely to blame for this and need to grow up and own their entire part in this mess.

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              They’d have to be willing to listen to you for it to matter. And shouting “you’re a moron!” at them has gotten little to no positive response thus far.

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    The US is going to take gold in every event. Mostly because other countries won’t be allowed to compete or won’t want to.

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      I’ve always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.

      The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified

      The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it

      The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can’t be caught.

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        Rich countries have highly developed sports infrastructures that allow better detection of talents and training the talents in the best possible conditions. That is probably already enough to explain the difference in results. No need to look for some drug conspiracy. If your city doesn’t have the money to build a swimming pool, you’ll never have swimming champions from there.

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        Russia, a powerhouse, had a ridiculously complex scam going and even they were caught.

        They aren’t rich in the normal sense, but they are powerful and secretive, so I think they provide a valid counterexample.

        Does it go on? I’d believe constantly. Does it get found out? Every time, albeit there’s always a short window of success. Do more powerful nations have more success at cheating? Yeah, since the smaller countries can’t cheat as well.

        But not a conspiracy, just correlation, I think.

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      I said it above and I’ll say it again…a Nero situation might just happen at the next Olympics and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

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    European grown up with that.

    Don’t buy american wine for example (not only cause is unbearably sweet), cause of pesticides allowed.

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      They use fungicides on vineyards in Europe though. In France there are more people diagnosed with Parkinson’s around vineyards than anywhere else in the country

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        Parkinson’s disease can be recognized as an occupational disease for people who have used herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides frequently and for many years in a professional context. The fact that Parkinson’s disease is now recognized as an occupational disease means that those affected are entitled to support from the employers’ liability insurance association if the disease developed as a result of their occupational activity.

        TIL

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    lol I didn’t even think of this. Personally, I think that hosting the Olympics is a really fucking stupid thing for a city to do, so I’m just gonna sit back and laugh.

    And yes, I’m American.

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    Cut the crap on the “civilized” world farce. If there was any decency the israeli onslaught would be punished. Instead these countries stand by them and do nothing.

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      Civilised doesn’t have to mean flawless. The US is still a horribly barbaric country, and the weapons Israel use to commit genocide come from the US.

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      Many of the countries in question don’t have a military presence that could dwarf the others, nor an army that would willingly fight larger enemies for those morals.

      Obviously, I’m not including America in that statement.

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        You’re correct but there is much that can be done without military intervention. The least these nations could have done is a weapons embargo and sanctions. Many other diplomatic levers that can be used but aren’t.

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    The football world championship is going to be in the US too. The goalies aren’t the only ones going to be shot at.

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    I cannot fathom how maple MAGOT 51st staters haven’t looked up the price of insulin in the US vs Canada yet.

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      Consider all MAGAts cultists. You cannot fathom how fucked in the head they are. You could point this out, any logical person would see how crazy expensive insulin and other medication in the US Healthcare system is … but MAGAts have no logic whatsoever. They will just say its “fake news” or liberal propaganda.

      I am serious. You have to shut MAGA down. These bitches are crazy.