This is what democracy looks like, and it should be respected.
Why should it be respected? Should we respect it any more than the US democracy which elected a thug? A system isn’t automatically respectable just because it’s one type of democracy.
You’re not just gonna leave us hanging without a link, right? …right?
I care more about where they are spent. My local government is spending it far better than my federal government. If it was half my income and was spent in ways that lower the cost of living and improve quality of life, then I’d have no problem with that.
If I get a tax cut, I think, cool, at least I choose where this money goes, because I actually do give some to non-profits that benefit society. Tax amounts are not something which determines how I vote, I gloss over it in the news, it’s just incidental that the anti-worker parties want to raise my taxes and spend them in worse ways.
What are the most important differences?
There are many, many systems of governance out there and plenty of democratic systems are wildly different from the ‘liberal democracy’ we’re familiar with. Cheran in Mexico is an interesting example, five minute documentary.
Nationalism also works the other way. The wins of the privileged are framed as ‘WE’RE winning!!’. Big companies exploit you more and profit? It’s spun as The Economy is going well. GDP went up. That sounds good for you, doesn’t it?
It’s a common practice, a problem with authentic child actors is they generally change once the original actor hits puberty, so higher pitched adult voices are common.
One of the behind-the-scenes videos on a Ed Edd n Eddy disc had some funny stories of the voice actors meeting fans (e.g. Ed’s VA spotting some kid watching the show on a TV while on vacation in Jamaica and throwing in a “huh huah, thut guy is funneh…”) and Kevin’s VA had to keep doing their voice since kids didn’t believe her whenever she mentioned it.
On the other hand, AI recycling could be an issue on other platforms where user reputation matters more. We don’t have ads or karma tallies by default so its less abusable here.
Same, but I still like this recreation. It has a culture jam aspects to it, like Sonic ‘Ethical consumption’ memes.
I, for one, insist you homecook me rustic poorly-edited memes daily. Taking a meme and editing it is not what memes are about!!
Putting resources into things simply because someone is willing to pay money for it is a huge problem in our world. Once we put a dent in poverty and other existential crises, then let’s consider paying people millions and billions for simply entertaining people with skills and talent. Entertainment, arts and culture are certainly important, but their industrialization and overemphasis under capitalism comes at a very real cost, both to their art and entertainment itself, and to the rest of society.
Here’s a related hill: I am for the abolition of the professional sports industry. Focus on local competitions, actual participation and sports that encourage socially-useful skills, like the Firemen’s Olympics and its modern siblings.
Zionism is a movement which attempts to convince Jewish people that they are unsafe in their community, and can only be truly safe in the zionist ethnostate.
Antisemitism is a movement which attempts to make Jewish people unsafe in their community.
Zionism aligns in goals with antisemitism. They can both agree on making Jewish people feel unsafe enough to move to the zionist regime. In fact, in my country and at least a couple of others there’s already been concrete evidence revealed of links between Zionist organizations and racist White Nationalist events, like shared speakers and copied rhetoric/memes as propaganda.
Other replies have already alluded to this, but it’s important to state clearly.
This is not a phenomenon limited to Zionism, we see it with other separatist projects too, like the US Nation of Islam allowing the leader of the American Nazi Party to speak at some rallies, for example. [wiki summary],[famous image]
Ah, that makes sense. I rarely-if-ever play heavyweight games.
Doesn’t cut what? Web browsing? Watching videos? Playing new games?
Since when was 8GB RAM, let alone 8GB VRAM, a problem? Are you running ML models, video editing or some special games?? Or some weird poorly-written thing like Windows OS?
I know some people in the building profession who habitually call out everything in mm, as oppose to most people where I am using cm for most household measurements. So I’m not surprised to see measuring tape (esp a carpenting one) ignoring the redundant cm
I thought it was because he’s about to move to Mexico.
I’m clicking all the “read my other comment” links until I’ve basically read Capital Vol. 1 in its entirety through Lemmy posts.
Tor Browser (daily driver) because I really hate surveillance capitalism. I have fallbacks but rarely need them. Can recc LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.