Sounds like someone doesn’t know (or care) what can happen to protestors that are protesting the wrong things… Like oil and gas pipelines, for example, or training centers for heightened police militarization. Or foreign policy, even, that one has been happening for generations already.

Lol if only they would protest the right way, they wouldn’t have to worry about anything, right?

Thanks for the reminder 🙏 Cheers

Whatever cause you’re talking about, count me out. I bet one could find some circumstances that make heroin, etc look good to you too, btw ;)

If only there was a way that didn’t involve involuntarily committing people, whether to jail or a psych hospital…

You left out that mental illness and addiction are both increasingly acknowledged to result from the difficulties of coping with garbage social conditions – even at an individual level. What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Some wild experiments have been done out there – mostly in other countries, obv – where it turns out that when you give these deranged people housing, access to education and/or employment, and maybe even healthy social connections, they get a lot less deranged like super fucking quickly. Just wild.

Take my comment as an upvote. I think the current number is a proper reaction already :)

That’s pretty much what it is, unfortunately :/

… Unless you put your own OS on it? Think that’s still possible in 2024, right?

Norway is actually a good example of this, from what (little) I know about the place – where pro-social regulatory policies (i.e. beneficial not from the perspective of capital, but from the perspective of actual societal conditions) are used to help mitigate some of the BS that capitalism produces.

Regardless… Yeah, it’s a problem with capitalism. It’s a problem that stems from the literal core of the ‘system’: utilizing ‘capital’ to create opportunities for the creation and extraction of ‘surplus’ from labor and its products. It’s great that regulation is able to reign in, in some cases, the deeply criminal BS that such a system naturally produces… But it seems like a huge overreach to assume this is possible “globally” (as it would need to be for a blanket statement like that to be true).

I feel you, agree 100% (and with the implication that it’s not alright).

But at the same time, younger generations than the boomers definitely have reason to be pissed, I feel like. Especially since none of us ask to be born – I was pretty pissed at what I found when I got here too, lol.

Using this to be an ass to (or somehow marginalize, etc) specific older people, though, I guess could be where one could say the problem is?

AliExpress too, to some extent, depending on what it is. Usually has “direct from the mainland” shipping, though.