“our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth” - Does this mean that the author doesn’t count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?

“Our poor people are the poorest” sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there’s no way.

One party where a basic platform is defined and differences are expressed vibrantly on top of that is better than two parties that brand themselves as different but only offer a couple of aesthetic differences and concessions to keep people mad at the opposing party and not the underlying structure

Similar metal in the human body one, Vitamin B12 has cobalt in it. Absolutely wild. I guess that’s not really commonly known but it’s still worth mentioning

this is how I feel about the liberals to be honest, but that’s the beauty of lemmy: we can have our instance to talk about communism, and you can have your instance to talk about how much you hate communism.

so many people are getting to the point that they can identify that capitalism has caused human society to self-digest and go to shit, yet so many will give the most asinine dog-brained reasons as to why. It’s reassuring to see people starting to wake up but frustrating to see them groggy, incoherent, and still half-asleep. 95 times out of a hundred they’ll blame “corporatism” or welfare queens or race mixing or overpopulation or some shit and it’s just exhausting

hey woah, end up quitting after two or three years because of what?

Reputation laundering. The LDS church collected $33 billion in tithes and $15 billion in profit on private holdings in 2010 alone. Don’t fall for this bullshit, they’re the most hell-bound sinister ghouls this world has to offer.

The LDS church is a force of evil in the world and $1 million dollars (0.002% of their annual proceeds) is pretty cheap for an ad to control the narrative.

this is the most sleekness-over-usability dysfunctional bullshit I’ve seen in a minute, it’s not even labeled

$0.50 has been deposited into your Tesla Supercharger credit account

Isn’t this blatantly true, both now and going back all the way to the origin of Niger as a nation? That’s kind of France’s whole goal, it’s easier to extract resources from an unstable nation.