Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Great point and one I always refer to as well … money and wealth only exist because we all believe it to have value and purpose.
It’s a modern day religion that only exists because we all put our faith and belief in it all.
And just like every ancient faith and belief … if one day enough of us or all of us stop believing in it, all that wealth and power just evaporates and means nothing.
MAP … Minor-attracted person, a euphemism for pedophile
the things you learn about on the internet
Doesn’t anyone ever make the connection that BILLIONAIRES SHOULDN’T EXIST
I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them … just separate them from their money. The idea of someone owning and controlling so much money and wealth is only detrimental to the rest of humanity.
Get rid of excessive wealth and you will solve 99.9% of the world’s problems. It won’t create a utopia but it would be a hell of a lot better world than what we have now.
A great way to think about all this … replace the country name from Israel to China or even Russia
The world would lose their minds and WWIII would start immediately
Just lay some flowers to the entrance of Hitlers bunker … I think it’s a parking lot now
What I don’t get about this sport is … lets go extremely, dangerously fast on this tiny sled down an ice chute on a HALF PIPE!!! … where it’s half a tube and that if you ever fly off or go out of control, you’ll fly out of the tube and your squishy meat popsicle self will get thrown around like a rag doll.
If they want these guys running this fast in this situation … they should have a FULL PIPE and we should be watching them run down as fast as possible inside a glass or plexiglass tube … and when they do lose their shit, they can just fly down the tube until they stop.
EDIT: for context this is what happens when you lose control on these tiny sleds … this is 21 year old Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the country of Georgia, at the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada … he was moving at about 146km/h when he lost control, flipped his sled, flew off the track and slammed into steel girdles that made up the structure … what do you think is going to happen to your spandex wearing body if you fly at 140 km/h onto an immovable steel beam?
lol … conservatives would be the first to happily just get rid of cross walks altogether … both to not acknowledge LGBTQ+ and also to give more freedom to vehicles and get rid of “pedestrians”
Money … it’s the differentiator between a Justice system and a Legal system
Gotta keep grandma entertained in the afterlife. I’m sure playing the harp and praising the lord every day can get boring after a while.
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich,”
As an example of how stupid our global civilization is … Africa has more than enough wealth and natural resources to produce all the food and water it needs to feed its own people without any outside influence or control. Unfortunately, first world countries have such a stranglehold on African nations and governments that they are forever beholden to foreign aid and manipulation that they will never be able to pay off their debts … which means African will forever pay first world countries and never be capable of standing on their own.
Also, I’ve been sober from alcohol and drugs for close to 30 years now … and I’m perfectly aware of all this and think about this stuff all the time. We don’t need mind altering drugs to understand how stupid, greedy and corrupt our world is, has always been and will always be until we destroy ourselves and free this planet of our own stupidity.
Definitely old enough to remember 1980s famine relief … and also old enough to remember in the 90s when Bono from U2 saying that the whole famine relief thing was a joke … because they raised enough money in the millions to pay off the interest payments of some of the starving countries FOR ONE YEAR!! … the criticism was that the performers were raising money to feed starving people, while first world countries handed out enormous loans with interest payments that more or less cancelled out any humanitarian aid they gave the countries.
The whole system is a joke … first world countries keep third world countries from developing beyond a certain point to keep them under control to access their resources, then give them humanitarian aid to keep them from starving, while making the same amount of money off them by making them pay for the debt on the loans they gave them.
So in a round about way, first world countries have a hand in keeping African countries starving, but make themselves feel good by giving aid … but make themselves feel even better because they recoup that money and more through loan payments and interest … essentially making money off starving people.
The fuck is wrong with the world?
If headlines flashed a picture of starving children in Africa … someone would help.
If headlines flashed a picture of starving children in Canada … government would step in to do something.
If headlines flashed a picture of starving children in Europe … countries would mobilize to do something.
If headlines flash pictures of starving children in Palestine!!! TURN THE PAGE, nothing to see here, nothing can be done, just ignore it for as long possible, nothing to see here.
Why?
The guys a multi millionaire … it doesn’t matter if he had a come back or not, he’s still a millionaire.
You have to be a moron to want more than that.
Iranian in line at checkout with a cart full of uranium
If my history serves me correct … America is about to tell everyone that Venezuela fired first or attacked them in some way and killed American service men … and now the US has no choice but to defend itself -> by attacking and invading the country.
Wasn’t there a similar promise made by Reddit at some point? I remember people referring it to often until it became just some myth … and then at one point, people just realized it was never going to change and then it became a full blown private corporation that wanted an IPO and became a monolith that never even considered sharing anything.
So why does everyone keep referring to Bluesky as decentralized or even comparable to the fediverse
Bluesky is the newest iteration of privately owned and controlled social media
Lol … US law is becoming less and less relevant or meaningful as time goes on
50 to 100 years from now? … phew… i can rest easy now … at least all I have to worry about in my lifetime is extreme heat and hurricanes … I’ll let the next generation worry about the mid Atlantic Ocean current failing
Hey it might even start a mini ice age … which would be a good thing because of the global warming right?
My thoughts exactly … it will be an orbiting container that will be called a ‘hotel’ where rich people can launch up to, float inside for an hour and get delivered back to earth for $10 million