The ancient Greeks are by no means someone to look for in terms of democracy. Aristotle believed slaves were naturally less human and needed masters, and they didn’t let women, or those who didn’t own land vote.
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But its about working with the system we have. We can always advocate for the system being not broken, but intentionally taking advantage of minorities and increasing wealth for the rich whilst doing the opposite for the poor.
Even though I agree that any democracy in the west isn’t truly democratic, with outright bribery in the form of lobbyist, and a two party duopoly. Even though I acknowledge this, everyone must vote for the less bad party, whilst also spreading the word for what they would truly want.
Even if the system is inevitably going downhill, slowing it down and pushing every means, through voting for the less evil option, and protesting, spreading word about socialism is the best option.
Have I been interacting with a bunch of anarcho-communist middle aged Canadians this whole time? this makes sense lmao.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Okay, but New York (City) is different, bro, I promiseEnglish
8·2 days agoIt’s as simple as, if you want to use any labour, sell anything to, or exploit the working class in any way in the designated area where the taxes are implemented, you have to pay a tax. And if the big companies roll out, surely that just allows for Mum and Pop businesses to bear the load.
Either way its genuinely terrifying that livelihood is so bad that people vote for those who say increase tax to the rich, and yet they are threatened by the rich, that if this guy gets voted in they will make the poor pay, even though it wont work.
Not much of a conspiracy theorist guy, but: JFK was killed by the CIA, MLK and Malcolm X were partially killed by the US government at least, Jeffery Epstein was killed by DJ Trump, during his presidency, and was also an Israel asset, October 7 and 9/11 could be (partially) inside jobs based on how both countries used these attacks to start massive wars/genocides.
This isn’t conspiracy theory it’s just politics.
ngl I do hate this kind of nhilism in terms of democracy. Like I agree with that one quote from that greek guy which says that a democracy needs smart people, but democracy is the best system we’ve come up with that to a small extent, makes politicians meet the peoples needs.
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World News@lemmy.ml•China condemns US airstrikes in Caribbean, backs Venezuelan sovereignty
23·11 days agoYeah, China did this with Iran as well, didn’t do shit. But I guess it gets more people to like china, and view it as the next superpower which actually helps weaker countries, unlike America which just bullies Ukraine.
lmao Satan is chaotic neutral and God is lawful evil. Jesus, assuming his character is different from Yawheh, is neutral good.
Most Christians (I say most because I have met some good ones) only speak out on the bad things the bible says (eg anti gay) and do nothing on what Jesus says about rich people (“its harder for rich people to enter heaven than a camel through the eye of a needle” etc.) Jesus literally told so many parables of old rich men who couldn’t give up there wealth to worship Jesus, and for being the head of such a largely hateful group, actually didn’t say anything bad against gay people, abortion, trans people and was in fact welcoming of gentiles (Equivalent to immigrant or foreigners to his audience.)
Micheal Bazzel recommend ClamAV, havent tried it though
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which social media platform has done the most damage to people's mindset?
1·13 days agoWe say usually say Tiktok has ruined peoples mental health/politics, but I find facebook and twitter abhorent.
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World News@quokk.au•Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says
1·14 days agoand conservative people still hate Kier Starmer for being “too woke”
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News@lemmy.world•Masked fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as Hamas fights with rival groups
9·14 days agoFurther proof that not every Palestinian baby is Hamas and in fact Palestinians are a widely varied people with many different political positions.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for freeEnglish
11·14 days agoLinux or pirate it.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•If only there were a solution to the Windows handheld problemEnglish
17·14 days agoConsidering how successful and profitable the steam deck was considering they have also contributed so much to linux gaming opensource software.
me too! mac also works great for video production.



I am largely a beginner, I run mint on my desktop, and have just figured out wine/lutris. But I’m pretty good at following instructions, and researching issues to find a way to fix it.