The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is

on the flip side, it doesn’t bother me much at all.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Saying that we’re “letting” big corporations gamble with our lives is more than a little misleading. It implies that we have the authority to grant them permission, as well as the authority to deny them permission. We have no such authority. Or, at least, I don’t. I have ZERO authority. Nobody asked my permission, and none was given. Somebody has the power, but it ain’t me.

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      If you tell someone to stop hitting you and they keep hitting you, and you don’t do more to stop them. That is letting them hit you.

      We get closer to armed mobs every day bc these corpos and by extension our governments are violating the terms set by society for greed.

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        If you tell someone to stop hitting you and they keep hitting you, and you don’t do more to stop them. That is letting them hit you.

        What would you like me to do? You know what, let me rephrase that: what would you like me to do, that wouldn’t just result in me being hit even harder? Or killed. Would you like me to Luigi some folks? So I can be killed, or spend the rest of my life in prison or on death row?