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it's weird that we are prepared to die for democracy, yet willingly enter dictatorships daily for work and spend the majority of our waking lives with people we vaguely know (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

And your example of people “ending up on the streets” is such a fucking edge case.

It's really not. See Portland, Oregon. It's pretty much over run with homeless people at this point.

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