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  • smollittlefrog@lemdro.idtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devThey tried
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    1 year ago

    They didn’t say that either. Where do you get this idea from that they’re talking about (all) US news sites?

    They said “American propaganda websites”. That may include some news sites. It may also not include some news sites.

    The most you could infer from their statement is that only American propaganda websites violate the GDPR.

    Of course websites exist that violate the GDPR and are not American propaganda websites.

    But the vast majority of websites commiting severe violations of the GDPR that an average European encounters will be American propaganda websites.

    (Believe it or not, Europeans don’t often visit websites written in Russian or Chinese.)






  • You can limit capitalism without abolishing it.

    In Germany people are guaranteed 20/24 paid vacation days. That’s not profitable.

    That’s a limit imposed on capitalism. It can be done and has been done without abolishing capitalism.

    That’s just one of the thousands of policies that limit capitalism.

    You can limit capitalism (as literally every capitalist nation does) without abolishing it.

    Enforcing climate friendlyness would be just another limit.


  • Your first link is US only, your second link is about a completely seperate issue. You don’t need to dismantle capitalism to protect the climate.

    In Germany, where I live, the voters could easily vote for the greens “Grüne” and the left “Linke”.

    If those two parties had a majority in government, we’d have a climate friendly system in no time.

    But they don’t. We had a conservative government for 16 years. Now we have a center government, which sadly includes the small government / free market party “FDP”, blocking all significant progress.

    No systemic oppression stops people from voting Left/Greens. But they never did, and never will.

    There’s now an uprise of the far right party “AfD” in Germany, to the point it’s becoming one of the major parties.

    In Germany people have the choice readily available to stop actively damaging the climate.

    But every couple of years, they freely choose to not do that.

    I feel like many left-wing people regularly forget about the billions of people who genuinely do not care to do anything about climate change.


  • These people aren’t “you”.

    I could make a similar statement:

    Child? You’re literally being abused and raped by your parents on a regular basis.

    This statement is true for a lot more children than the prior statement is for black people.

    It’s still a stupid statement.

    No, being a child doesn’t mean you’ll be abused and being black doesn’t mean you’ll be attacked.