To expand...one of the biggest goals of a capitalist is increasing profit. What better way to do this than to take over and manipulate the government of whatever state you're operating in to cut you special breaks? It's the pinnacle of capitalist achievement.
You create laws to regulate it...the capitalists will manipulate them and control your government anyways.
You loosen regulations to "promote competition" or whatever excuse they use, and then there's nothing stopping them from fucking you even harder. Capitalism and the state are always intertwined, one feeds off the other. Even the Soviet Union was sometimes said to be "state capitalist", where basically the entire country was under control of one "corporation".
The person I saw desperately hiding behind their car and shot and killed from three feet away by a Hamas fighter did not look to me to be an IDF soldier. They were deliberately targeted, not "caught in a crossfire". Videos don't lie.
Sorry, justify it and sugarcoat to yourself and speculate however you want, you're not going to convince me both sides aren't evil sick and twisted assholes in this conflict with both Palestinian and Israeli civilians caught in the middle.
I don't have an answer to that. Nobody has a good answer to that. It doesn't mean I condone targeting civilians, no matter who it is. They both have the right to exist and live in peace.
This isn't just a boomer thing. I know damn well half my schoolmates in the 90s preferred to walk around blind as fuck than be "uncool" and wear glasses. I'd see them sneak them out of their cases to read something on the chalkboard real quick and then tuck them away.
When I was 10, all games looked like Minecraft's textures. And you can forget 3D. And the controllers were square-edged bricks that left stinging blisters in your sweaty palms after 12 hours of Super Mario 3. And the flickering CRT leaving your eyes dry as a desert with a pounding headache. Those were the days let me tell you.
But you know what we also had? Instant loading times, no waiting on updates, and no lootboxes.
Due to my exposure on the Internet, I've begun to take on some phrases and things from other English-speaking countries that I like. "Can't be fucked" is one of my favorites for when I'm too lazy to do something.
But it's all about convenience (teacup.social)
If you're feeling left out it's probably because you defend billionaires who would mince you into fertilizer (lemmy.world)
Even soil needs a little TLC sometimes. (slrpnk.net)
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Urban Warfare (slrpnk.net)
The correct civilians to slaughter (sh.itjust.works)
Comic sans. (lemmy.world)
when someone starts reminding me how old some of my favorite things from when I was younger are (slrpnk.net)
every time (programming.dev)
Boomers be like (lemmy.world)
MrJiggleAss@yahoo.com (startrek.website)
literally no clue (media.infosec.exchange)
That's some good shit (slrpnk.net)
I was around during the stone age of the internet (slrpnk.net)
I remember getting AOL CDs in my box of apple jacks
ba dum tss (feddit.de)
You shall not pass! (feddit.de)
I mean where are the zipties keeping things secured? It's a mess (startrek.website)
Focus (slrpnk.net)
More people died by the spear than the sword, and if you don't like my opinion, I'll shove it up your ass with sharp stick! (slrpnk.net)
And video games made me a monsterfucker (startrek.website)
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