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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know

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it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know

Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to

Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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And your example of people “ending up on the streets” is such a fucking edge case.

It’s really not. See Portland, Oregon. It’s pretty much over run with homeless people at this point.

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