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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s not liberal bs

It is.

It’s lazy thinking on your part

No, blaming individuals for not coming together in some magical way and putting all the responsibility on them for what corporations do is your lazy thinking. Next you'll say that blood diamonds are entirely the fault of people buying them and not the DeBeers corporation enforcing artificial scarcity with them while performing atrocities at the same time, with the implication that atrocities just happen until a magical moment that people stop buying the artificially scarce diamonds, and because that is materialistically highly unlikely in the present system, that just allows smuglords like you to shame the masses while at the same time feeling idealistically superior to them while doing nothing.

We

Stop saying "we." You are licking the boot and blaming the masses for not being as enlightened as you so you can feel superior to them.

Quit being lazy

Quit being a smug liberal bootlicker. smuglord farquaad-point

[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s not liberal then what do you call conservatives that make the same decisions? You’re just weak. I love how you gloss over the protections of your comforts. It’s not lazy thinking to hold businesses and government accountable. How tf do you think we do that? People have protested, use their votes and used their dollars. YOU are the lazy one. I’m glad we live in a different world because people and those that agree with you would still have us in the slave days and civil rights wouldn’t be fought for at all. You do understand it was peoples protests, voting and their dollars that forced many of the major movements of the world right? Not people just waiting for businesses and governments to magically do the right thing. Having people ban together despite their comforts is not magical nor lazy. You are just weird.

[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Conservatives are liberals based upon the meaning of words. Do you know what liberalism is? It's not gay rights and lattes.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You've already showed your whole ass and at this point there's no meaningful way to continue replying to you. Continue tooting your self-aggrandizing horn of self-superiority and roll around on a unicycle like the corpo clown that you are. 🤡

For anyone else reading this far, remember this: the eight hour day, the end of widescale child labor, the concept of minimum wage, and much more were not the products of the "vote with your wallet" masses-blaming clownishness you see above this post. Slavery wasn't abolished in the United States (it still isnt if you count the prison system, and you should, but stay with me here) by cotton buyers coming together and only buying "ethical" cotton.