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Same logic with antivax people.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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Vote with your dollar! If tainted baby formula kills your kid, simply refuse to buy that brand anymore!
3 stars. I dislike that it killed my baby, but shipping was really fast!
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But RandLover1988 on YouTube told me businesses have to sell good things otherwise competitors will come in and they'll go bankrupt, unless there are too many regulations and too much socialism, which is why he got banned for saying the N-word on YouTube. /s
For more fun stuff on why the FDA should exist, but also some of their bad stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1UD3qjA5A
Someone somewhere recently pointed out that fascism tends to rear its ugly head every 100 years because everyone that experienced it last time has to be dead before it can happen again.
Americans specifically have had it generally good for so long that anyone incapable of picking up and absorbing information from a history book, which is most Americans, simply don't know how bad it used to be. So they fucking sleepwalk into fascism or allowing regulations to be rolled back.
You'd think that having a written language to chronicle all our mistakes would ensure that we moved forward without repeatedly making those mistakes, but the catch is the majority of people have to read the fucking words for that to matter.
I think it would help to have history-oriented comics and manga in schools. I learned to enjoy history, in no small part on account of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe series. Making things approachable is how people progress from knowing nothing to being a college graduate.
Hence, the defunding of education, and specifically critical thinking. That is by design. You can’t easily control the population when they can read and think for themselves.
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but the catch is the majority of people have to read the fucking words for that to matter.
Hell, I'd even settle for more people watching classic movies and TV shows. People need to maintain some link to the past to see the mindset of those who lived through fascism, wars, etc. and absorb what a society that rejects those ideas looks like.
Culture is a big part of our collective memory, and a society that can't look back will just reinvent the same problems.
It would be cool if someone made a "transported through time" miniseries that showed exactly what living in that period with those problems was like. I think it could be very popular.
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That's gonna make the cows mad. And mad cows will make US mad.
Sure unbridled capitalism is the way to go as there has never been starvation under capitalism.