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  • I’m wrong all the time. Anyone who never admits to being wrong is an idiot. That’s a person that never learns anything. I just want solid proof.

    Although it would take a metric fuck ton of proof to believe that conservatives are anything but parasite and idiots, because I’ve witnessed soooo much greed and ignorance first hand.

    But there are definitely things that I’ve been manipulated into believing that aren’t true. Police are good. Anything with the recycling logo will get recycled if I put it in the right bin. Roundabouts are stupid.

    I try my best to learn from my mistakes, and to be wary of propaganda and gossip disguised as facts that I want to believe.















  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldChoices
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    3 months ago

    Those 100 companies have made it so it’s incredibly difficult not to buy from them.

    Groceries? There’s like 10 companies that own all of the food supply. Good luck figuring out which one’s have child labor, and a horrendous environmental impact. They’ve very purposely masked that image.

    Oh wow, everything is recyclable! No, those companies just slapped that logo on all of their products so we can ignorantly wish-cycle their garbage. Most of it ends up in the landfill.

    Don’t want a car? Our cities are very deliberately designed to require cars. There is a very strong private agenda against good public transportation.

    Then there’s the pollution. These companies pollute so much more than we know. Whether that’s dumping forever chemicals into our water, or taking private jets everywhere. It’s not like the label on your T-shirt tells you that.

    Finally find a good company? They’ll buy it up, lobby against it, or coerce them out of business. Just look how many companies Luxottica has destroyed.

    There’s layer after layer of obfuscation to hide what these companies are doing. It’s not just a matter of picking Product A over Product B. We rarely have much choice, or the information to make better choices.