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  • CaptainProton@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePrivacy rule
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    8 months ago

    Your post implies that government is good by default.

    There’s hiding bad activity the government was elected to perform, like intelligence meddling in foreign affairs to protect the country’s interests, and there’s hiding activity to shield themselves from voter accountability, like using the apparatus to enrich other parts of government at a direct cost to its own citizens, or shield malicious actors from accountability.

    They do lots of both, so why trust by default?







  • CaptainProton@lemmy.worldtoAntiwork@lemmy.mlGaslight me harder, please.
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    9 months ago

    Just don’t confuse wanting to work for having to work.

    My grandmother, who had been retired for 30 years, turned her music-writing hobby into a second career after my grandfather passed by taking on artists, getting involved with concerts, etc.

    I’ve met plenty of very old dudes in my hobbies of archery and shooting guns who are absolute masters and charge too little too profit or nothing at all for tuning, gunsmithing, and coaching.

    These have nothing to do with keep a roof over your head, and everything to do with staying sane when the expectation seems to be waiting around until you die






  • CaptainProton@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHonestly
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    10 months ago

    Funny thing that, European countries haven’t lasted nearly as long as the US on average: revolutions, conquest, coups. Only a couple of monarchies and even those had some big changes in the way the government is structured like with constitutional changes. The US, though, has a ton of new laws but is fundamentally unchanged.