Then if you have ever gone faster than the speed limit, you are a criminal. That makes most people in the developed world criminals.
That aside, the point is that naming someone a criminal has moralistic baggage, and by saying that anyone that breaks laws is a criminal thus immoral, you imply all laws are inherently moral.
What makes someone “criminal” as a quality? Breaking the law? Killing people? Are all health insurance workers criminals too?
He shot a man to death who killed thousands. He’s a vigilante if anything.
I’ve tried a whole bunch of Europe, and there is plenty of hatred and idiocy to go around.
I fear for our future.
Don’t worry, we’re working on it.
Jokes aside though, not all of Europe, and we’ve all got our own very serious issues as well.
One thing I never understood with the US. With how they killed George Floyd on the street in front of everyone and they were set to get away with it - my first thought would have been that what would be different if they did that to me? I’d come up with nothing, and that’s terrifying.
People are arguing about the legality of the death sentence, but a cop can kill you with impunity any day, even tomorrow, with no reason, even in your home. If you are reading this while you’re trying to sleep in your bed, or sitting on the toilet, there are people who could kick down your door and murder you, legally without consequences.
How can you tune that out? How do you live like that? It wasn’t like that even under communism, at least not after the 70s, and the period before left a collective trauma on half a continent.
That’s fine, but then who does the search engine?
You can do things decentralized, and if you look into it, the EU is happy to fund projects to create decentralized internet services. Case in point, Lemmy’s primary funder is the EU.
Oh, you’re right, I guess on the one hand I’m from the happiest barracks so to speak, but what I meant to say that there it wasn’t uncommon to know people with cars, it wasn’t some “you have to be a politician or CEO equivalent” thing, more like a “most people don’t have one, but they do know someone who has one”.
TBH it feels like it was similar than trying to save up for a house from zero for young people now. It’s not entirely unrealistic, but the average person won’t get there.
The peeps I know were teachers and they did own a car, the same car over 30 years though. There were no traffic jams though.
Having a Western car though, that was the real shit. I knew someone who had a VW Golf in the 80s, now for that you had to be high in the pecking order.
Knowledge will break the chains of slavery!
TBH I expect it to be the same as everywhere where there are a lot of people with imperfect oversight.
There is going to be some children working just like in the southern US.
It’s very heterogenous. I’ve lived in a few countries in the EU, the NL for example gets you even mental health for 150 a month for the whole deal. And sick leave is unlimited and self-reporting.
My phone is constantly losing signal, can you help me get another one of those 5G vaccines?
Try being black and poor or a latino “illegal” in the US. Slave labour and summary executions in the middle of the street.
It’s not a competition, and we could all do better. Even if they are worse, we’re not better because of that fact.
Just a bit of context as someone from Eastern Europe - it was not that people couldn’t afford cars, it was that they were in short supply. People - fewer people than in the West, but still a lot of people - bought cars, they just got them 30 years after the fact.
Shittyness is not a race. This could be a teaching moment where we realize we could learn from each other and shit.
Does it matter if my system is better than your system if it’s still killing people? Compared to Tsarist Russia, we’re all living like kings, so we can stop improving, right?
That’s not really fair, it’s more of an old money - new money split or an orphan crushing machine - concentration camps dichotomy.
On the one hand, what did you think ml stood for?
On the other hand, this is more of an America bad than a CCP good post.
You are posting on a social media platform solely funded by the EU.
But I’ve heard the USPS is not shit either. Publicly funded and run universities in the EU also provide the same or better service as those in the US for pennies on the dollar. Also, a lot of European railways are state run, like a lot of other public transit companies.
Also, the only space agencies that ever got to the moon were public. So were the ones that put the first man in space, and the first man on the moon, and the one that sent the first satellite into orbit and the farthest man-made object from Earth.
Just block payments from advertisers by revoking their business licence.
Yeah, they know you’re addicted, and won’t let you cut yourself off