Capitalism isn’t about anything other than keeping the ruling class rich and in power. How it chooses to do that has varied throughout time. During the 20th Century the lie was that “American Style” capitalism was fair because the capitalists would promote Laissez-faire style economics (“Free Trade”) out of their mouths, while actually building monopolies.

With the rise of Trump-style ‘conservatives’ Republicans have adopted a new strategy, Mercantilism. Mercantilism doesn’t even pretend to be fair or free. The word ‘Competition’ doesn’t even appear anywhere in that article because competition is bad for Capitalists and they see no reason to continue to lie about that. They actively oppose free trade.

Even if ‘Capitalists’ possessed the ability to feel shame for being hypocrites (which they certainly do not), calling them out for not following along with the principles of ‘the free market’ does no good since they have abandoned advocating for that a while ago.

Your comment for me reads as every legal immigrant is getting deported by ICE, not some but all

It’s a significant number of them so far and I see no signs of it slowing down. Perhaps the goal is to deport every legal immigrant? At any rate it’s enough of them to expose the lie that MAGAts have been spouting for the last decade that they “have no problem with immigrants, they have a problem with illegal immigrants.” Clearly that isn’t the case.

Besides even deporting just one LEGAL immigrant is one too many. Especially when they aren’t just being deported, but being thrown in foreign prisons/ possible death camps.

and as the US isn’t the only country that has immigrantants, it reads as false

I’m still not sure what you are getting at, what does other countries having immigrants have to do with how we treat immigrants in the U.S.? Other countries also have authoritarian dictatorships, that doesn’t mean we should have one here.

I do realize that. What does that have to do with my comment?

Why sunbathe when you can smear Orange shit all over your face and ‘fool’ people into thinking you aren’t an undead ghoul- Donald Trump

I would say make sure people have a clear way of becoming legal immigrants.

Right now there are legal paths to immigration, and that’s who ICE is deporting- people trying to do things ‘the right way’.

We should make sure the labor laws are enforced for everybody regardless of their immigration status, that would go a long way towards addressing the issue you are talking about. It’s not the fault of people desperate enough to accept being exploited, it’s the fault of companies doing the exploiting, they are what needs to be fixed.

It’s the Republicans who consistently vote against paying people a reasonable minimum wage and against protections for working people who are clearly to blame, but sure blame immigrants. Talk about not dealing with reality.

I ment alternative news, not mainstream, that should be obvious.

How would that be obvious when it was all over mainstream news?

I don’t live in the banana republic, even there the right wing Dem party and lib media fully supported her.

I don’t live in a “Banana Republic” either and I’m not sure that has anything to do with my claim about US News.

This is literally my statement: " It has nothing to do with being a teenager but with her anti-capitalist stance "

Yeah, I get that now that you have clarified. Did you expect me to divine the future to learn what you meant before I replied initially?

And it does contradict your “it’s bcs she’s a teenager now”.

Jesus fucking Christ. For the THIRD (3rd) time now, she is NOT a teenager any longer. She aged, just like everyone else did. Time continued to pass for her. She ‘grew up’. She is now 22 years old, which is NOT a teenager. Now that she is 22 years old, she is no longer considered a Teen. She was born in 2003. 2025-2003 = 22 years old. I’m not sure how much more plainly I can say the same thing.

Do you normally have this hard of a time comprehending the English language?

You can’t really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn’t have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.

In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.

If you knew about her still being in the news, your statement about how you never hear about her anymore makes little sense.

She’s not a teenager any longer, that was my point. It was fairly unusual for a 15 year old to be so outspoken and articulate about the problem, which is why she used to get a lot of coverage.

Now she is just one young lady among millions who are outspoken about the issue, and the only thing that really distinguishes her from her peers is that she got famous for it at a young age.

Almost all mainstream news in the US is right wing, and I was clearly speaking about why they don’t report on her as much now as they originally did.

I’m sure that her anti capitalist stance has a lot to do with her not being in the news as much, nothing I said contradicts that.

From the way you worded your original statement it seemed like you were saying that the reason you don’t hear from her now was because she wised up and stopped doing it, not that she realized capitalism was the problem and that caused the media to stop reporting on her.

Now that I know what you meant it’s clear we are on the same side of the issue, so I’m not sure why you are insisting that I’m ‘completely wrong’ about it.

There was a silly little movie in the 80’s called “Maximum Overdrive”, written and directed by Stephen King.

In it Aliens somehow cause machines to ‘turn’ on human beings and attack us.

They could remake that movie now but instead of Aliens causing the machines to attack people, it could be malicious ‘hackers’ that do it, and it would be more believable that the original film.

I generally agree with your point (although I think we can hold corporations accountable and make whatever changes to our lifestyle that will help at the same time) but

There’s a reason you don’t hear about little Greta anymore, she got wise.

She was in the news just last month for trying to get humanitarian aid to Palestine. She was on a ship that tried to bypass Israel’s naval blockade and the Israelis seized the ship and it’s cargo and eventually deported the activists.

She’s still very active in her environmental activism as well.

You many not hear about her as much now that she’s a young woman and not a teenager, but your implication that she ‘got wise’ is incorrect. The mainstream media doesn’t like to report on her unless they can somehow make her look bad, because they don’t want to remind people that climate change is happening or encourage young people to follow her lead.

Omg, that if fucking disgusting. Thank you for letting me know.

I recently started playing again after a 15 year break. It’s changed quite a bit and I’m having a blast. Don’t miss it, go play it :)

Edit: I take it back. Don’t actually. See below :(

Here you go!

It’s Musk so he’ll probably rebrand them as NaXis.

Maybe enough MAGAts will join him that it will split the vote and it will get easier to get people with basic human decency elected. That is assuming we continue to have elections.

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