Affordability is essential to societal stability. Some cabal against the city government is pressuring the brewers, or the taverns, or the brewers guild, to increase beer prices. This can be made through taxes, fees, extortion… The extra money is siphoned to other actions to destabilise the city or to build a army. This can be done by kidnapping relatives to innocent people, corrupting government/guild officials, mind control…

The real motivation can be a noble dispute, a revolutionary uprising, a foreign plot to facilitate a conquest…

The history tells us Clinton wanted Russia in EU, and Germany opposed.

Had to nuke the profile on my instance. The modlog tells the crocodile is toning down their true opinions to appear less egregious.

OP shared a thought. I pointed this is a formal concept and pointed the name, so they can search for more. The concept describes a real and observable phenomena.

Why are you bringing moral judgement of people here? Even if poor people are guilt of their own poverty (they aren’t) like you are implying, it doesn’t change they are formally, but not really free. Marx description stills holds up.

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A nation built on stolen land where the better predictor of your class is is you are descendants from the settlers or from tha natives.

Nothing is stopping…

Except the inequal distribution of aducational and work opportunities, that assure the intergenerational inequality reproduction.

a concerned note:

Your comment about some people having fought for rights and others not is borderline racist. With precious comments about Darwin, it’s a red flag.

All people fight. Some fights are smashed with unimaginable violence. We are watching a live genocide in Gaza to prove this point. Oceania colonization is built upon a genocide. I’m not assuming you have conscience of how disturbing these comments are for a person like me, in South America, where all attempts to built a decent society where meet with USA interventions. Try to think in more broad terms, not only based on your experience, but trying to encompass the multiple experiences in the world.

Yeah. Marx called it formal vs. real freedom. All the people are free to sleep under the bridges or at a five star penthouse. But some are forced to sleep under the bridge and only a few have means to exercise the freedom to enter the penthouse.

Um risco potencial de abuso existe, como toda lei. Mas o fato é que por vários motivos estamos tendo dificuldade de responsabilizar as grandes plataformas pelo que elas permitem que ocorra em suas infraestruturas, e isso não é um risco potencial, mas um risco real, que já está acontecendo.

Quando tiver um tempo, essa entrevista ajuda a contextualizar quais os danos mais graves as plataformas já estão causando na nossa sociedade.

Até entendo os argumentos filosóficos contra essas medidas “autoritárias”, mas é meio absurdo que as pessoas sejam absolutamente contra sem avaliar que a internet está virando uma terra sem lei onde pessoas mal intencionadas podem fazer o que quiser.

Thanks. This is a great work for non-English fediverse enthusiasts.

The last one is Lord of the Lost. Scratched the itch of getting a metal band that I don’t have to worry about being a nazi cult in the future.

This. And also for Israel. And France.

Very good, but I disagree about Substack or Rumble. These are right wing platforms that amplify right wing content, not some neutral ground. They ate censorship free to allow for extreme right but they will not promote left content the same way.