Just Another Shipper

Crazy shipper, Agnostic, Asexual

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Bravo and thank you, Canada. 🫶

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[prokopetz]

Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because they’re designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset – heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you don’t even need the screwdriver, unless you’re performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement.

Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable.

[whosurisold]

just ask Dr Fauci

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[useless-englandfacts]

oh someone at the guardian has lost the will to live

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[tsunderrated]

Liberals love to be like “why are there Nazis around we used to fight nazis” meanwhile America was actually pretty chill with the holocaust until those evil Japanese attacked us

[christianstepmoms]

The US has extremely close ties with Nazi Germany. The Hindenberg was a Nazi airship! It was a diplomatic line between the countries. We were actively vilifying people in Hollywood speaking out against Hitler and the Reich! Many of whom went on to be tried by McCarthyists during the Red Scare!

Charlie Chaplin made the Great Dictator in 1940 where he portrayed a satirized version of Hitler, and was booed at the end when he stared directly into the camera and had a 5 minute monologue about how Fascism and Nazis are bad.

The US LOVED those Nazi bastards and would have sooner joined the Axis if it weren't for how much more we hated the Japanese.

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After the war, Chaplin was all but blacklisted in Hollywood for his suspected "communist sympathies" after his movies began to be increasingly critical of capitalism and he was seen fraternizing with communists in Hollywood and attending functions held by Soviet diplomats. Chaplin denied allegations of being a communist, instead calling himself a "peacemonger" and a defender of political freedom. He openly protested the HUAC trials and the persecution of communists in the United States.

Chaplin was subpoenaed by HUAC (although never called to testify), and John Rankin (a key figure in the formation of HUAC) even called for his deportation. George Orwell included Chaplin on his snitch list of communists that he delivered to the British government. In 1952, Chaplin would leave the United States to attend a film premiere in London, only to have his re-entry permit revoked, effectively deporting him. He would not return to the United States until 1972.

After this, Chaplin's films only became more critical of the United States and red scare politics. His 1957 film "A King in New York" exemplified his critical views, and as a result it would not be screened in the United States until 1973. Outside of film, Chaplin also met with Zhou Enlai and Nikita Khruschev, and received an International Peace Prize from the World Peace Council.

It's impossible to separate the admiration of fascism in the United States from anti-communism. Fascists were viewed as potential allies against communism up until the point at which the fascists started attacking the liberal democracies as well. Yes, there were plenty of racists and eugenicists in the US who admired those aspects of Nazi Germany (and the Nazis in turn were inspired by the segregation and eugenics programs already in place in the United States) but the anti-communism was something that even the liberals could get behind.

The US did not have qualms with the Nazis either before or after the war. The US helped Nazi scientists and engineers escape prosecution and immigrate to the US through Operation Paperclip. The US stood by as Konrad Adenauer put a stop to de-Nazification in West Germany, to the point where a former Nazi who worked under Speer building concentration camp barracks using forced labor, Heinrich Lübke, became President of West Germany in 1959, and a former Nazi who worked under Ribbentrop and helped broadcast Nazi propaganda, Kurt Kiesinger, became Chancellor of West Germany in 1966.

The material interests of fascism aligned far better with the material interests of the United States than communism ever could. The Nazis invented the concept of privatization. Mussolini appointed a liberal economist as his finance minister and compared fascism to FDR's New Deal. Fascism as an ideology was never a threat to the Western liberal order, despite its performative attacks on the decadence of capitalism. Spain was allowed to remain fascist long after the war ended. The US even backed the fascist junta in Greece (among other similar interventions around the globe during the Cold War.)

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Don’t you feel we get OVER taxed as Canadians? The government takes soo much from us that we don’t even have enough to live. Especially at a time like this where every dollar counts. We need those extra dollars they are running off with.

No.

Taxes pay for my healthcare, public transportation, science funding, and income supports for low income and disabled people. Its a right wing talking point to cut taxes, which as a whole will lead to cuts in important social programs and public services.

What needs to happen, is the super rich have to be taxed a lot more.

The current tax level for low to middle income people is fine, imo. Low income people do not pay significant taxes outside of GST and other sales taxes.

[pom-seedss]

What regular folks would save from a tax cut is just going to be used to erode public services. We already are living in an era where our politicians are using every excuse to cut funding to public projects, and you want to give them more excuses for their austere as shit practices? Absolutely not.

We need higher corporate tax rates, we need the government to stop sheltering large corporations from consequences, we need things like rent caps and actual affordable housing regulation, we need rich individuals to stop evading taxes and for the government to come down harder on them and close bullshit loopholes.

I would rather the government come down harder on the rampant profiteering than slash any tax rates.

Otherwise, the money we save in taxes is just going to 'run off with' corporations into their vast hoards rather than be used to fund public good.

[bucketofdeltav]

Hey anon, the government in my country cut taxes! I get a whole $10 a week more in my paycheck!

I also now have to pay $5 each for my prescriptions, school lunches for kids have been cut, the vital freight link between islands is in jeopardy because the government 'couldn't afford' new ferries, benefits for jobseekers have been made harder to access (they were fuckin hard anyway), an entire graduating year worth of nurses has fucked off to Australia because there aren't enough trained nurses to supervise their placements, thousands of civil servants have been laid off, hundreds of police and teachers have quit because they can't afford to live on their salaries, the whole north end of the country isn't accepting new patients at GP clinics, GP visits everywhere else have gone up, a new hospital wing can't be opened because there's no staff, there's still a housing crisis, and the government is talking about selling off parts of the national bank and the already overstretched rail network!

Pay your fucking taxes and shut up.

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