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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldoh shit waddup
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    13 hours ago

    My view on true happiness is that happiness is good and the system that creates the most happiness with the least suffering is the best system.

    I’m having trouble understanding which part of that you oppose. Is it your opinion that there should be less happiness total or that all happiness should cost equal or greater suffering?




  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldoh shit waddup
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    15 hours ago

    The best example of democracy is the happiest most well cared for people on earth.

    The best example of an anarchy is Myanmar (at least before the 2021 coup) and has common people living like medieval peasants while the elite treat it as the world’s most expensive resort location, while also being manipulated by China in proxy aggression with India.


  • I’m hearing a lot of apathy for everyone except the brutal regime in this comment.

    Another, independent, sovereign nation is run by despots who regularly publicly declare they want us all to die in nuclear fire, disrupts the politics of every nation within their reach, deserves a little more response than a strongly worded letter, imo. I bet you’re the type of person who would have advocated against the USA fighting Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.





  • There are a couple, but what is there to oppose? Under competent leadership, we would have an opportunity to support a revolution for Iranians to throw off their despots and enter democracy for the first time in 80 years. There are both economic and security incentives, as Iran has threatened nuclear war and supported insurrection and violent extremists in Egypt, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, etc for many decades, now. They’re the proxy war agent propped up by Russia and China. Since they’ve been collapsing under the stress of famine and drought, and begun slaughtering thousands of insurgents and protestors in Tehran before the war started, now was the time to strike.

    Do you really expect the DNC to stand up and say “WE NEED TO PROTECT MIDDLE EASTERN MAGA” ? Nah, fuck the Ayatollah, glad that piece of shit is dead.

    The problem with this situation is that Trump is helping Israel with a border expansion campaign, has no inclination to aid the rebellion, has completely ignored congressional authority, and has led to a great many unnecessary casualties.


  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldoh shit waddup
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    16 hours ago

    Prime example Finnland. Highest tax rate on the rich in the world and also ranks as the happiest nation on earth regularly.

    Lesser example is that the USA, while failing, is still in a much better position than Russia which has been solely countrolled by a plutocratic oligarchy for decades.

    Clearly there is a spectrum for how much or how little people control policy and wealth. There is a a battle going on between the rich and the governments built by the people.


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    18 hours ago

    I feel like denying the existence of any amount of democracy everywhere on earth is exactly the mindset that empowers fascists and communist dictators.

    It feels good to be able to simplify everything down, but concentration of wealth in market economies is a complicated issue that requires complicated solutions that the majority has been busy crafting and implementing for thousands of years as we progressed from the time of god kings to now. We have real democracies. We have means of the many peacefully controlling the privileged few. We just need more people to participate in that system.