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  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzErasure
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    14 hours ago

    I think the issue is the US was founded by the wealthy for the wealthy. The solution is more than just writing your representatives, demonstrating, and getting involved with local politics. All these things can help the situation, but they won’t solve the problem.

    We really need a new constitution that protects our rights. We need to be able to say everyone is guaranteed access to housing, medical care, education, work, and privacy. We need to state that governments and corporations cannot manipulate people anymore. They are using the best of psychology and sociology science against us, this is unacceptable.

    We have to ensure resources are fairly distributed, that wealth is spread out, and that our political institutions are designed to resist corruption. We have to look past popular vote for representation along with all the other systems we use that trap us in this never ending cycle of pitting people against each other for political gain. We need to move beyond having the government be an abusive entity representing monied interests.

    Until we get these things we will never be able to move on. We will forever be trapped in a system that only values how much it can extract from us.


  • Not at all, it is just my informed opinion on the matter and you can take it with a grain of salt.

    On the other hand everything you said I have heard many times before. I would be remiss if I didn’t call it as it is. You have the opportunity to “check yourself before you wreck yourself” so please take care. It sounds like you have become toxic and that is probably due to your environment.

    I do agree with a lot of what you said. I wish you the best of luck and I encourage you to take a step back and talk with people who care about you for another perspective.





  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzErasure
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    7 days ago

    Typical American response. Yeehaw you gonna kill some people er what!?

    Attacking each other is not going to solve this problem because the wealthy have been pitting us against each other for a long time now. It was the wealthy that caused WWII and every other major war where everyone but them ends up dying.

    I agree there are better alternatives.


  • The most obvious example would be the recent antitrust litigation.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2023)

    But I think that falls into fighting to continue their terrible business practices.

    The second is Google refusing warrants due to inadequacies. Google has stated they no longer respond to geofencing warrants although I am having a hard time finding data to back up this statement.

    The third is a couple different cases involving private parties and state governments suing Google over violating privacy and illegally collecting data. Once again though, this probably falls under you definition of terrible business practices.

    The fourth is Google’s transparency reports that expose request from the government. They have certainly received government pushback from this but I can’t really quantify this in any meaningful way.


  • Google should show what they think is right, stop giving them a free pass just because you want to. Companies have long resisted decisions issued by governments. Google has gone to court to fight many times but this does not even rise to that level.

    The fact is this is the Gulf of Mexico and we should not be renaming bodies of water on someone’s racist whims. We may just have to respectfully disagree here.



  • So your entire point is discredited and all you can do is point fingers. By having even an ounce of self respect and just saying no would help end all this. Google and Apple are not beholden to this administration unless they want to be.

    By your logic we should all load ourselves onto the trains willingly because they said so and, after all, we don’t want to get “political”

    The real solution is to resist and not roll over. Pretending that act is anything other than resignation is denying the truth of what is happening.