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iii@mander.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 天前

What are examples of "instead of making our own situation better, let's make the other's worse"?

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What are examples of "instead of making our own situation better, let's make the other's worse"?

iii@mander.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 天前
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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    In the UK, civil servants used to get an excellent pension (a percentage of last earned) . People complained and said that wasn’t fair and it should be removed, so now everyone gets a shit pension. Well done, guys.

  • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The area i life in. That is the main goal of everyone exept a few. You can feel the hate, and mistrust and unwell wishes in the air.

    • iii@mander.xyzOP
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      22 天前

      Sounds quite unpleasant :(

      What are some telltales of that happening?

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        Seeing red baseball caps with “Make America Great Again” on the front are a pretty good sign it’s happening in your area.

      • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I have no idea why that is happening. Everyone is just sabotaging, talking bad, spreading rumors and being so unfriendly to each other.

        There was a case, while i was in hospital, that parents wanted to kick me from school because me and my autism according to the petition, is a threat to other students (note i was the bullying victim of the class) over half of the class’ parents signed. They claimed i was randomly attacking, stabbing, and kicking students down stairs!!

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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          I’m so sorry that shit like that is still happening. As an (as-yet undiagnosed) autistic child, I was in the same boat. Bullies use their “strength in numbers” to have a gaggle of friends agree to lie against a lone victim, perhaps one who’s already known to struggle with emotional regulation. It’s nearly impossible to convince anyone of your innocence when other kids weaponize your weaknesses like that. Maybe you threw a chair against a wall in class one day, and now the school administrators are ready to believe that you’d escalate to actually attacking someone (even though you don’t have a history of hurting anyone. Just inanimate objects. Because believe it or not, some of us do have some degree of self-control.)

          I’ve been there, and I know what absolute bullshit is possible for someone like us. I’m livid on your behalf.

  • FriditaBonita@lemmy.world
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    23 天前

    Greedy people.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    21 天前

    Every decision around healthcare at the national level.

    • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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      21 天前

      I found the American

      • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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        21 天前

        Not from the UK?

        https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/briefings/nine-major-challenges-facing-health-and-care-in-england

        Or from France?

        https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64216269

        Maybe Belgium?

        https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/28-02-2023-can-people-afford-to-pay-for-health-care--new-evidence-on-financial-protection-in-belgium

        Not Germany?

        https://www.bips-institut.de/en/media/press/single-view/gesundheit-in-deutschland-hohe-ausgaben-schwache-ergebnisse-eine-aktuelle-analyse-zeigt-auf-woran-es-hakt.html

        Found the guy who thinks healthcare problems are unique to one country.

        • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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          21 天前

          Were you referring the US healthcare system or not?

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            21 天前

            When I wrote that I specifically did not use US.

            My turn.

            Do you always act like a xenophobic ass?

      • iii@mander.xyzOP
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        21 天前

        You can tell by how they assume everyone is american

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    Trailer trash MAGAites

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      deleted by creator

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    You start out in 1954 by saying, “N----r, n----r, n----r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n----r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N----r, n----r.”

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    Right wing ideologies

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    23 天前

    Inspired by the EU’s new import tarrifs on chinese products. Instead of making better domestic products that people want, they just try to make foreign products less affordable.

    What are other examples?

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      That’s Liberals doing their liberal BS. Why improve anything directly when you can let the magic of the Free Market™ apply pressure to “increase competitive motivation”? Now European companies can compete because everything is more expensive! See, it makes perfect sense.

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    Russia’s hybrid war with the West comes to mind. The invasion of Ukraine has turned out that way too, although it was intended to be a quick resource grab.

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    Why not do both?
    colonizing and plundering of resources intensifies

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    US Republicans

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Literally every single US foreign military intervention ever. There are Americans starving on the street, apparently we cant afford to house or feed them yet apparently we can afford to bomb and murder abroad.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    “Driving is miserable and parking is hard to find, so let’s get rid of the bike lanes.”

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    Conservatism, mostly.

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
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    Gestures broadly at American Coservatives.

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      Yeah. Don’t even know what to add to that. Maybe some boomer culture as well, how they had whatever issues that the modern generation doesn’t have and point that out as some kind of hardship while simultaneously being likely to have had the most stable career, technological, and economic progress of any generation in history.

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