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  • the way this was framed i thought they were using like cameras and shit to detect vaping. it’s just the fumes?

    yeah lol fuck you, don’t smoke.

    also i don’t care whether it’s for kids or not. no one should smoke. breathing air wherever you are is a right. fuck your smoking.

    edit: i think some smokers or vapists may have misunderstood what i meant by the comment above. to be clear, fuck all of you who vape or smoke anything anywhere another human being breathes. you disgusting, smelly cunts.

    i hope that clears any misunderstanding ♥




  • this isn’t pedantry. you fail to understand basic concepts. you claimed bribing politicians is the same as shoveling money into the government’s mouth, when it’s the exact opposite. paying taxes is giving government money. bribing politicians so you can get subsidies and tax cuts is sucking money from the government. if you can’t tell the difference, which is like night and day, that’s not on me.


  • first of all, a government official? i didn’t say government officials aren’t politicians. i said the politicians aren’t the government.

    second of all, context clues:

    we were talking about money here, so guess what, I was talking about money too. the government’s money is your tax money. and money rich people give to the politicians doesn’t go to the government, it goes to the politicians themselves, otherwise you couldn’t buy a politician. billionaires and corporations don’t give money to politicians so you can get more public services.



  • pyre@lemmy.worldtoComics@lemmy.mlSmall Governemnt
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    small government means less taxes and regulations, so small government for corporations. it’s still big government for the people though.

    meanwhile they say the other side is for big government when that’s the side that’s against government in your bedroom, government in your doctor’s office, government up your genitals, government establishing and dictating religion, government asking papers at every turn, a god-king president being above the law, and on and on…

    bullshit terms made by people who want to control you and give their buddies more money.












  • yeah but that just doesn’t work. fiscally conservative policies inevitably result in inequalities and preserve a hierarchical structure that keeps conservative norms intact.

    tbf liberalism is still a right wing position so i shouldn’t say the term is entirely inaccurate, but it’s generally used in the aforementioned lowercase-l libertarian sense, as if someone can be fiscally “right wing” (preserving inequality) and socially “left wing” (promoting equality). that simply cannot be achieved. you cannot achieve equality by preserving inequality. you’re still authoritarian.