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[–] reddig33 83 points 2 weeks ago

“…

Other countries enjoy benefits like free healthcare and college; modern mass transit; and affordable housing, food, and drugs.

They also have inexpensive internet and phone service without companies listening in and selling their information, schools that don’t even need to mention school shooters, and streets and parks filled with pedestrians and children instead of tents for the homeless.

Additionally, they benefit from renewable electricity that gets cheaper every year while cleaning their environment.

We, on the other hand, have the world‘s largest collection of billionaires.

…”

[–] breadsmasher 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And not a single trump voter will bother to read this, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And neither will anyone else with a paywall in place lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's so many browser extensions made to get around paywalls though.

[–] chase_what_matters 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Can you recommend one for iOS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I cannot, but Firefox for iOS + Reader Mode + refresh seems to bust about 80% of them.

[–] chase_what_matters 2 points 2 weeks ago

Noted, thanks.

[–] valkyre09 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] chase_what_matters 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh nice, I’ll have to test this out

[–] KingGordon 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

If they could read, they’d be very upset.

[–] Sanctus 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Has it gotten any better since then? The last 40 fucken years, has it gotten any better?

[–] Fandangalo 9 points 2 weeks ago

For us? Eh…

For billionaires / capitalist? Absolutely.

[–] BMTea 4 points 2 weeks ago

It has gotten so worse that the "anti-fascist" choice helped commit a holocaust that the fascists want to finish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I know, I know... but for what its worth - Firefox and noscript will get you the article.

[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 2 weeks ago