SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 60 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Violence is almost always the solution. Civilization is an effort to find a better solution. But people who reject the systems we've built up seem to forget why we built then.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is how you know the Navy isn't like Star Trek.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

We've given them plenty of opportunity. We tried to pass something closer to universal health care, and they shot it down. We tried to raise the minimum wage, they shot it down. Tried to relive student loans, tried to make housing more affordable, nothing.

They have had their warnings.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Looked to me like an attempt to pull off an in-line bulleted list.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago

Shot in officer involved shooting?

Shot by a police officer.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean, we've been trying to do other things, but they won't play nice. I guess we need to exterminate a few, then offer the rest the opt-in to pay higher taxes as an alternative.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 5 days ago

Yea, this guy tap-dances well, but if he wasn't lying to Congress right there, ill eat my hat.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Why the duck are they making a MTG movie instead of Transformers One 2?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

As I understand it, these sweatshop jobs do resist the standard of living in the areas they are in. The people there don't have the option to work a job that we would consider good. They work the job we consider terrible, and they get paid more than they would doing other jobs.

To make a moral judgement, we must balance between "terrible working conditions, no protections, maximum wealth extraction," on the one hand, and "no infrastructure, no job, no money" on the other. Sadly, there is no profit in making the world better for everyone.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

No, unacceptable.

Undo, undo!

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 13 points 6 days ago

Are you using the US or China as your "here?" Because I don't think it's quite that bad in the US, but I don't think anyone blames the voters in China.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

I think it refers to being being out at work, or at a major event.

If I shit myself at work, I'm going home. I'm not coming back, either.

If I'm out hiking, same again.

If i'm running errands, I might have to go back out to finish them. The groceries aren't gonna buy themselves, and now I really have to do the laundry.

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