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punksnotdead@slrpnk.netto News@lemmy.world•Video: Republican running for congress heckles Muslim event in TexasEnglish27·6 days ago“This is a Christian nation”
Now I’m not American so I’m willing to be corrected here, but I’m pretty damn certain it’s supposed to be a secular nation…
punksnotdead@slrpnk.netto Europe@feddit.org•Germany's far-right AfD tops poll for first time in blow to chancellor-in-waiting MerzEnglish0·28 days agoFascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
Capitalism most certainly has everything to do with this.
Capitalism robs the workers of most of their value and siphons it up to the owners. We then end up with, those who have far far more than they need, and those with not enough.
The internet allows us to communicate and see these injustices easier than ever before and the Arab Spring brought home to those in power just how powerful the internet can be. It is now aggressively being used against us to promote ultra capitalism and fascism in an attempt to prevent communism/socialism proliferating. And frustratingly, so far, it appears to be working.
€180 for a fan? For a tiny motor and a plastic fan blade. Jesus Christ. They wouldn’t be in business if people didn’t buy this crap as well, what the hell?
A fan is like the most basic of electrical products out there, it doesn’t need to cost a fortune just to make some plastic spin round