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Nando161<p>Only named and shamed? Price gouging has been happening since the first form of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> ever <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/existed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existed</span></a> on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/costofliving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>costofliving</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gst</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eattherich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eattherich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticapitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporategreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporategreed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greedisthecreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greedisthecreed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ausgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ausgov</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tasgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tasgov</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taspol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politas</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/J7lXho8bGic?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/J7lXho8bGic?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>"If you ask a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> when <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> was great, many would say "when it was <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/founded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>founded</span></a>".</p><p>And if you remind them that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/existed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existed</span></a> then, they'll usually try to cover their asses by saying "except for that".</p><p>But slavery is not some minor fluke. If it's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kidnap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kidnap</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traffic</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rape</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a> black <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a>, and if the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> actively assist in that, and if <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anyone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anyone</span></a> who tries to rescue the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/victims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>victims</span></a> goes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jail</span></a>, and if it keeps happening because the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> bothers more people than the violence that they're <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesting</span></a> against, then no decent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/person" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>person</span></a> is going to care how "great" it is otherwise. That's not something that can be overlooked.</p><p>Also, that level of violence never happens by accident. Slavery was not a fluke. Slavery happened because it was <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/profitable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profitable</span></a>. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> was working exactly as intended, and it still is."</p><p>:acab: :acab2: :acabkitty: :clowncop: :nocops: :pig_cop: :txt_eff_the_cops:</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/721381047477190656/if-you-ask-a-conservative-when-america-was-great?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/</span><span class="invisible">721381047477190656/if-you-ask-a-conservative-when-america-was-great?source=share</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>If we simply close some desert <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farms</span></a> that never should have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/existed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existed</span></a> in the first place, there would be more than enough <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>One of dads nutjob exs when I was growing up had no idea of what <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>companies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/existed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existed</span></a>, they <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/assumed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assumed</span></a> when I mentioned the email company "hotmail" that it was some <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/homosexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homosexual</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>porn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/site" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>site</span></a> until I had the last <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/laugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laugh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/about" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>about</span></a> it. Random <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> flashback.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hotmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hotmail</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/outlook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outlook</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/personal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>personal</span></a></p>
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