As far as everyone except oligarchs are concerned, it means everyone can access it without getting financially fucked over into debt. And that’s excellent news.

Go to IRL places, find IRL painters, pay them.

Deaf/hard of hearing.

Guy who bullied me constantly, calling me slurs and all that. I swore I would take revenge, and broke his jaw. He pretty much stopped after that.

For people in the Netherlands and Belgium: Bol.com.

For elsewhere: AliExpress, Temu, Vinted (European).

For more specialised services:

Furniture: IKEA (Swedish)
Clothes: Zalando (German)
Food delivery: Jumia (German), HelloFresh (German).

Generally, it’s best to buy directly from the companies themselves. Buy from small or mid-sized companies. You’ll skip on the high prices that way, as there’s no markup. Additionally, since you are not one of millions of consumers - but one of a few hundred, they will care more about you.

I disagree. I’m very well off, cishet, white, fairly traditional – and would never consider living in the USA. It’s a country for and by egoistic people, not for families of all kinds. To me, it might as well be a fourth world banana republic, masking as a first world country.

From what I read the issues can give wildly differing results, though.

That said, I’d wage that if they played it accordingly to their own IRL beliefs, most normal people would fall anywhere inbetween these;

• Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
• Democratic Socialists
• New York Times Democracy
• Left-Leaning College State
• Civil Rights Lovefest
• Scandinavian Liberal Paradise* (really should be labelled “Scandinavian Social Democrat Paradise”)

The media are deeply insidious and dangerous. What needs to be done, is cutting off access to Twitter, to Facebook, to any of those media that sow hatred.

The only answer is to cut off the access to that hateful propaganda entirely.

They believe they are part of the ‘in-group’ rather than the out-group, which they actually are. It’s the tragedy of the commoners.

Extreme inequality, easy scapegoat, control of virtually most large media by a few oligarchs, algorithms, lack of education on recognising desinformation… they also think they’re part of the in-group rather than realising they will never be considered ‘one of them’ by the oligarchs.

The one answer is to cut off all hateful news from them, by any means possible.

I agree with you. Once a fascist and unwilling to change (even in the face of deradicalisation programs), always a fascist.

I pity them, but at the same time, reserve no compassion for those who would kill everyone.

I pity your dad. May he either turn back and no longer be a slave to fascism, or die as swiftly as possible.

There is no place in the world for fascism.

The “real” answer is not pulling him down like that.

There’s no unified majority. There are many millions of people.

Don’t think it’s alarmist when people already are getting sent to concentration camps in El Salvador, or have no fair trial due to being at Guantanamo Bay.

No martyr is born without fighting for liberty for all in the world before death.

The pig was not one of those.

Kirk was a state terrorist who called for people to get shot because it protects gun nutjobs.

He also said empathy is for the weak. I’m returning the favour by not having empathy for him but having it for others.

Dementia is what they mean.

Excellent news!

All the better and more worth imo. No one needs exorbitant wealth, but all need to be able to live decently.