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Once someone stops thinking that they should do what the scientific and medical communities advise, it's not a large step for them to start thinking they should do specifically what they advise against.
All businesses weren't doing much damage until they got big enough to do damage. Capitalism isn't so much the pursuit of capital in general as it is the pursuit of capital over all else. If your diner values giving customers a good meal as much as it values making a profit, it's great! But if it follows the capitalistic method of squeezing all profit from the scenario, all else be damned, then it's just a smaller version of all the major businesses.
Pretty sure they're saying that tearing down capitalism entirely is the only approach.
Well, no, he doesn't see it that way - he's not progressive. He's just a guy who said he was to get elected, and now he's showing his true colors. As for Israel, the country that only exists because it stole land from the people who were there already, would be doing just fine if the people whose land it stole just moved on, yes, but that's not going to happen, nor should it.
Some Palestinians use their beliefs to fuel their hatred, and you don't need me to tell you that's bad, but only those who actually let those beliefs lead to unwarranted actions of violence are to be condemned, not the people as a whole. The same goes for Israel - only those who take unwarranted action against Palestine are to be condemned. You can and should disagree with the parts of anyone's beliefs that go against basic human decency, but that alone doesn't invalidate their right to live.
You act like this started because of a recent bombing and not because of the suppression of an innocent group people over the course of nearly a century. It's the quintessential bullshit milquetoast excuse of "If you fight back against a bully, you're just as bad." The US is an example of what happens when the invaders simply kill all of the original occupants to claim the land for themselves - you'll have a tough time finding a progressive who thinks that ended up being a happy outcome.
It might as well be. Why else would you use the fact that Palestine isn't progressive itself to question why progressives support it? Progressives believe that people have a right to live regardless of their beliefs. It's only actions taken that can invalidate that right, which is why we support Palestine and not Israel; beliefs have nothing to do with it - one is massacring the other, and that's unacceptable.
It's essentially a first-party IP now, so you're just as likely to see the next Mario game on PC as you are to see a Xenoblade Chronicles game on PC.
Luigi's Mansion 2 came out during the Year of Luigi, which was a pretty big deal since most people though it was never coming back. But yeah, otherwise it was pretty lame.
Oh shit, I hadn't heard about this yet! Okami was one of those games from the early 2000's that felt really experimental and cool, a common theme at the time, especially for PS2 games. I feel like big game companies have largely moved away from that, which is really disappointing. Even this is just another sequel, but it's still one I'm really excited about!
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air...
Luigi the Flugelhornless
Which goes to show how legality isn't a measurement of correctness.
So you agree that the vast majority of countries don't put capital gain over human life? That legislature is possible in such a scenario, but not ours, with capital being the most important thing, lives be damned? Because that's what I've been saying. Public healthcare exists when a country's government doesn't lie in bed with private healthcare CEOs. America's does, and it was designed to do so. You want public healthcare? Then prepare to join the inevitable revolution, because that's how you'll get it.
Sure, you let me know when your method actually works. I'd love it if it did - it'd sure be a game changer literally around the world. Until then, let's just be happy that this random gunman actually did something that worked, even if only temporarily.
Well, yes, you're right. People will continue to do it forever. So long as accumulating capital is the goal of the country, companies like United Healthcare will exist, and will be free to ruin people's lives in the name of gaining more capital. However, unless we literally overthrow the system, it too will never change. Currently, the only viable solution that I can see actually happen is that every few years we need to remind the CEO's that they're not entirely safe by culling a few. Because we literally have no other way to influence them - the law is on their side, and we would need to overthrow the law itself to change that.
Your solution is only the right one in a hypothetical world where a legislative change is possible, but we do not live in that world. We might be able to change the world to make it a viable option, but to do that would require a lot more killing of a lot more powerful people, otherwise known as a revolution. Even then, in the scenario where we tear down this system and build a new one, greed will always exist in society, and those that seek power will always eventually worm their way into powerful positions. The new system would work for a while, but when greed and power inevitably come back together again, we'll need to tear that system down and start over once more.
A legislative solution? The people making legislature literally work with CEO's, accepting their money in exchange for enacting policies that benefit them. They're partners. I'd love a country where the government works for the people to hold back corporations, but this country specifically believes the opposite should be true. There will be no legislative solution insofar as capitalism is still the American system. There is no way within the current system for rich people to be brought to justice, only people working outside the system can make that happen.
Brian Thompson made a living making people blind, sometimes even literally, and it was all well within his rights in the eye of the law. Us giving him a taste of his own medicine is already showing results in those other CEO's that don't want to suffer the same fate. We're literally already seeing what "an eye for an eye" gets us, and it's fear among those who have been free to blind people for decades without ever worrying about being blinded themselves before now.
An eye for an eye doesn't make the whole world blind. It makes a few people blind until they wise up and realize "Wait, I like making people blind, but I don't want to be blind!" And then they stop blinding people, thus removing the need to blind them in return.
Correct. Those people, who were doing all that anyway. I'm not saying they were good people, but their revolution had nothing to do with the indigenous genocide. I do know that a lot of people were hurt or killed from "being too apologetic to British forces." I don't personally know enough about the French revolution to know about the amount of innocent casualties, but 30,000 doesn't surprise me.
Things are bad over here, and they're only getting worse. If I end up being one of the people killed during the - at this point - inevitable uprising, whether from fighting or from being mistaken as being too friendly with the corrupt elite, at least I could be happy that there would be a light at the end of the tunnel for those who do survive.
Yeah, I mean, look what happened in the late 1700's. A bunch of people in the new world did a kind of "kill the oppressors" movement, and then they had to start a whole new country with a new set of ideas - what a pain. Then people in France caught wind of it and decided to start the movement there, too! It was a whole mess for the bourgeoise of the time.
It still exists, but was hidden for some reason. You can find it by going to the support tab and clicking the "more" button under troubleshooting information. It'll be at the far right of the button list on the resulting screen.