I remember a far-right Canadian publication trying the same argument.

“Back when the retirement age was set, it was X years below life expectancy. Now life expectancy is higher, so we should raise the retirement age back to X as well. The serfs aren’t supposed to enjoy things!”

Do you mean work remotely for an overseas company?

Or do you mean emigrate from Philippines?

For good things

Supports the deliberate creation of an addiction crisis which has claimed over a hundred thousand lives in the name of profit

As far as I’m concerned the Sacklers deserve a taste of their own “medicine.”

This has been the EU’s modus operandi since the beginning.

Maybe I’m offbase, but aren’t most so-called terror attacks in the west precisely that, the pain coming home to roost? And instead of thinking “hmm, I wonder how I could behave differently to help alleviate the perpetrator’s grievance” libs just go straight to “uncultured neanderthal swine did this and they’ll keep doing it until we bring civilization to them.”

This more than anything else shows that it’s a pathological obsession rather than an evidence and merit based approach. A perfect microcosm of liberalism if you will.

So US cops don’t hunt down communists, and therefore the US isn’t fascist? I’m having a hard time seeing the thought process here, but then again I’m not a fascist.

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I find it really icky and distasteful. There’s plenty of things we can make jokes about without needing to insult others (regardless of whether this is with the consent of the person on the receiving end).

According to it, if you are malnourished and physically stunted because of it, you can still be classified as not poor if you have a phone.

Next the US will claim to have solved homelessness because you can’t possibly be homeless if you have a phone.

That’s fair, public media in liberal states is just oligarch media with extra steps.

I’d expect that kind of trash from PragerU, but this is from a public broadcaster. Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised given what drivel the German or British public broadcasters (for example) produce.

Same, although instead of chapo I was one of the “Bernie bros” on Facebook in 2020.

Many of us are here cause r/GenZedong got quarantined two years ago for the crime of being honest and popular. Not that gz was exclusively about China, but it was one of the few spaces you could be on reddit where “China good actually” didn’t get you immediately dogpiled and likely banned.

Thanks for your professional input, I really appreciate it.

Your last paragraph is especially important. I overlooked that part, although it’s obvious in retrospect.

In case you didn’t know, there’s a browser plug-in called Sponsorblock which help skip those in-video ad segments. It relies on user input to work, so someone has to watch the video and timestamp the ad segments and maybe a couple other important points in the video, but it works really well most of the time.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Ah yes, the age old crime of “spamming” news on a … checks the title … news forum.

There’s an argument to be made there. In terms of the lived reality in the Baltics that’s entirely likely. In terms of the second point though, the portrayal of westernized, there just isn’t as much media or political attention on the Baltic countries in the US. In Europe there is some, given Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are EU members, but that’s more on a dry international relations level.

This may just be my subjective take on it all though.

I had also bought the standard line that it’s about imbalanced or incorrect brain chemistry, but I’m not sure anymore if that theory holds any water.

There are a lot of criticisms leveled against it, but I found the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari to be incredibly thought provoking. This was even before I had gone full tankie and read a bit into the links between mental health and capitalism. The tl;dr thesis of Lost Connections is that anti-depressants are cover up the symptoms for a time, but the root of the issue is a broken social structure, for which capitalism is responsible.