• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Oh so baity!

    You can remove “western democracy” there I guess.

    Also nah, I can speak out against my boss, my eventual landlord and protest in the streets, because I live in France, a western democracy.

    YMMW.

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      3 months ago

      The French are smart enough to burn cars and loot when their government tries to pull some bullshit. I wish Germans were that smart.

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      3 months ago

      And yet most of the political forces in France are advocating to remove all these rights. Sindicalists are arrested under terrorist laws, as are eco-activists. And maires trying to enforce price ceiling for lawns in cities are considered like Staline.

  • TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    For the first 2 points: Don’t use “Western democracies”. This is a US problem. Canada has much stronger labour and home protections.

    3rd point: Getting banned online is a “you” problem. Your government has nothing to do with why your shitty opinions get you banned or muted. The fact that you even have the ability to complain about your government online is a luxury many other governments don’t afford to their people.

    4th point: Whining about cereal variety makes the entire argument hold less water. Who the fuck cares about brands of cereal. Buy your cereal or don’t, but shut the fuck up about it. This is an empty complaint about capitalism.

    5th point: Fair enough.

    I don’t directly mean you, OP. Unless you made the meme… In which case I do mean directly you.

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      I think cereal is brought in to demonstrate the absurdity of the situation, where something so basic as worker’s or renter’s rights are non-existent but somehow energy already has went into something so stupid as cereal, which indeed nobody cares about.