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I’ve heard that the young’uns call “ohio” things that are weird and cringey.

Unclear. Are you referring to human rights abuses in cobalt mining? Are you talking specifically or abstractly? About a specific industry or generally? Individually or at the national level?

Nobody is talking about billionaires “giving up their stuff” or making a “sacrifice”. This is about wresting ownership of the means of production away from the capitalists. I don’t know exactly what you mean by “complicity” in this particular discussion, you’ll have to clarify.

Yea I assumed that your main point was some kind of sacrifice, not the smartphones themselves. If it weren’t for the smartphones you’d be phrasing your gotcha around TVs, or washing machines, or fridges, or indoor plumbing. I’ve seen this very conservative argument before.

Progressivism and leftism aren’t some kind of ascetic christianity and nobody needs a morality preacher. Social progress is not about individual morality. And it’s not a zero sum game either.

There is enough food production and wealth in the world to eliminate hunger and extreme poverty already. I could be a selfish asshole not willing to part with my sneaker collection and that would still be the case.

Maybe there is a future where carrying around a smartphone isn’t necessary because we’ve rebuilt human connection in communities. The damn things are addictive misery machines under capitalism anyway. But that’s very different from going around wagging the finger at people that say “we could feed the hungry”.

Weird gotcha. What is this the early 2000s when smartphones were rich people toys?

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What’s wrong with overnight oats? I really like them.

That was quite the John Deere commercial.

Cool. Now do Northern Cyprus. What do you mean “no”?

Hey, this is great citizen journalism.

That flower is not an actual national symbol of Greece, even if its stylized representations are ubiquitous in ancient decorative arts. The national plants are the olive and the laurel.

Well I’m crying now.

You’re in c/fuckcars buddy. Read the room.

She doesn’t need to support an embargo. All she has to do is to say that the US is going to follow its own laws. As a former prosecutor, all she has to do is be the law and order candidate.

My kid loved it.

Go check out your local bookstore. There’s plenty of minecraft chapter books already. Movies are a natural next step. In fact, Jack Black read the first audiobook in the series. It’s pretty good.

Does that include Israeli Americans? Because I don’t think it does.

Edit: unless they happen to be you know left wing ones protesting apartheid. Then they’re fair game.

Are you actually claiming there was no media coverage of the murdered hostages?

There is a very good argument that the role of non mainstream news sources, like the Intercept, it to shed light on the news that mainstream media doesn’t raise.

If the CNN was blasting 24 hours the news about this American being shot, I’m pretty sure the Intercept would not bother either.

It wouldn’t be such a tired cliché if Americans were not insisting on ownership of “football” without the qualification “American”. Nobody makes fun of Australian rules football, Canadian football or Gaelic football, because they don’t claim the generic term football to the exclusion of what the vast majority of the world calls football.

I’m going to be a filthy reformist and say “make billionaires millionnaires again”.