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A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.

But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.

I know through studies of the economic anxiety that the poor have, which led them to elect the populist right, but I didn’t personally feel it until I lived close to an underprivileged area. They do not get support from the government, and any social housing is blocked by the property-owning middle and wealthy class, because it brings down the property values. As a result, the poor are made to compete for limited resources with migrants, who themselves are victims of imperial capitalism through foreign interventions and environmental exploitation, leading to climate change and its resulting economic decline of the land prompt people to move. The competition for resources makes both locals and migrants go at each others throats, while the rich are laughing their way to the banks with the wealth pickpocketed from the rest of us.

And then cave them in.

The fascists yearn the mines.

Unfortunately, some people have an intense “don’t rock the boat” worldview. I know some people who genuinely think that any kind of protests is “extremist”, even if it’s protests on worsening cost of living and housing affordability.

Really makes you think of the old dilemma of “freedom versus security”, huh?

On occasions I have done overtime or feel under pressure due to work, I do feel my heart palpitating. But I am lucky I immigrated to a country where the work culture is more relaxed compared to others. Had I gone to another country, I might have ended up the same as the guy in the article.

Now that you mentioned it, my mom gives good advise to other people and I was thinking “why don’t you give the same to us?” I kinda realise maybe it’s easier to provide good advise to others as an independent observer, if you don’t have as much personal and emotional attachment to the person.

Nice try United Health.

Iceland protested after finding out their then prime minister is on Panama Papers, and the PM resigned.

That’s true, but the announcement is more like a warning, to be fair. She’s warning ICE but if the moment comes, we’ll see if she keeps her word.

I’ve yet to see any negative headlines about Mamdani ever since hr won election

Seeing the tankies talk about him on .ml would make you think he was leading the 4the Reich.

Well yeah, it depends exactly what kind of social bubble you are in. If you are in a right wing bubble, you would be led to believe that Mamdani is a woke Muslim terrorist commie.

As a Batman fan, it just occurred to me that I really hope Netflix won’t ruin the IP if they get the chance to buy WB.

There’s a concept in law enforcement whereby arresting one person dissuades others from doing similar things.

It doesn’t even have to be about being arrested. The threat of lawsuit, broadcasting licences not being renewed, or business acquisition of a media company by another not being approved by the government elicits enough fear to corporate journalists. These are done well before using threat of arrest to suppress free press.

So the real investment from Tesla is the company stealing from government resources!!

I see this meme all the time, which is an oversimplification. The 250 year time frame that people ascribe to is usually assigned to a country’s lifetime, but really, the time frame is the average length of a golden era of a country, not its existence. Rome lasted for 2,000 years and China today still exists. When the Chinese talk about this “250 year” thing, they would refer back to how long certain dynasties ruled, not China’s existence. Same with Rome having had its peak come and go while it existed until 1453. France also has had several golden ages as the bigger power in Europe from middle ages to Napoleonic era.

America won’t cease to exist, but it will not be the power it once was, and that’s okay (except for the ultranationalists). It’s okay to be humble.

It can be hard to discern what is good or bad advise, especially if you are less experienced, young, and also if the advise came from an authority figure in your life, such as a parent as mentioned in the post. Yes, I am speaking from experience, my parents gave extremely bad advise when I was growing up. How was I supposed to know they’re bad advise to begin with? I was too young to know they’re practically bad until I followed and it put me in trouble. And now as an adult and gained my own experience after countering what they say, it was only then I realised their insistent advise (read: instructions) are projections of their own insecurities and unresolved trauma. I have a schadenfreude now that they regret how they parented. I don’t exactly blame my parents, they grew up in an authoritarian culture where absolute obedience and conformity are paramount. But even so, I am wary if I get kids someday and let my parents babysit them. I don’t know what kind of nonsense they’ll say and teach to the kids, especially that my mom is superstitious.

Even the “good ones” eventually turn evil.

A study did show before that people from either political side fundamentally don’t understand each other, which leaves both sides stereotyping each other and polarisation.

You underestimate how crazy fundamentalists are. For them, it’s worth dying if it saves the fetus, because for them a fetus is a living and breathing child.