Lots of warning, very little doing anything…I feel like I’ve seen this movie before.
PostmodernPythia
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The only thing actually preventing secession is Supreme Court precedent (Texas v. White), and since that’s generally on fire…maybe we have more choices than we think.
Because capitalism’s the dominant economic system, and thus deeply related to most people’s problems? Don’t like it? I’m sure there are right-leaning Lemmy instances that rarely talk about capitalism.
Only like 5 countries have a GDP bigger than California, it’s where the world’s dominant media comes from, and is home to many of the US’s big tech companies. If companies are that stupid, competitors should step in to offer alternatives pretty quickly. (Probably California companies, creating new California jobs.)
I don’t see a problem.
This, like cancel culture, is a direct result of a justice system that pretty much never delivers justice to the victims of the rich and the powerful. Fixing that is the only thing that can stop this escalating cultural phenomenon.
People unironically plot responses along a left-right grid all the time. What is is about adding an authority dimension that makes it worse?
No. Young boys love Andrew Tate because the social media algorithms push misogynist right-wingers on everyone, and teen boys are uniquely vulnerable to these messages.
Don’t forget the racism so bad they’ll screw themselves as long as it also screws “the wrong people.”
I understand the theory, it’s just not my experience that it makes any difference in practice.
We haven’t tried shit. We’ve continued to operate as if there are no limits to the biosphere. I’m very aware of the situation, which is the only reason I don’t reject geoengineering out of hand. Mao thought ecoengineering by killing all the sparrows would increase crop yields. It did not end well. I simply don’t want that on a global scale.
Term limits would serve as de facto age limits for most without actual de jure age discrimination, and solve other problems besides.