This is not true, they did not hate the machines. Please stop spreading misinformation about their movement. They negotiated because they had a place at the table. It was only after they had exhausted every avenue that they turned to destruction.

This is the missing piece most people don't get. If any one European power has access to an entire continent of resources they would be pretty well off. This is American Exceptionalism in a nutshell.

Of course it wasn't actually our continent. We had to engage in a lot of genocide to acquire the land. The strangest part is that there was so much land we could have easily lived in peace. So it really was a conscious decision to go around and exterminate all the tribes.

Between genocide and the slave trade the US was absolutely abysmal when it came to human rights. Something that has never changed. The only reason ithe US was so successful was again because of so much space.

Not only does the size of America make organizing to influence the federal government hard it also acts as a buffer for the decline that is being engineered by the wealthy class. There is plenty to go around, but it is never enough for them. If our country was smaller people would feel these shit policies much quicker and react.

Daily reminder of Luddites demands and the realization they were not against technology, just being exploited by it.

Wage cuts- Employees were fighting for their (economic) survival as wages sank while food prices were skyrocketing. They used collective bargaining to demand higher wages.

Price cuts - Textile goods were becoming cheaper, reducing the value created by highly-skilled textile workers. They asked local magistrates to enforce price limits.

Deskilling - As their work was being replaced by low-skill labour they asked employers to protect their jobs during trade depressions.

Quality standards - They opposed the production of cheap, shoddy goods that undercut the market for quality textiles and degraded their trade. They asked the government to enforce quality standards in textile production.

Breaking traditional labour practices - Employers were abandoning apprenticeship systems and customary agreements about wages and working conditions. They advocated for the prosecution of employers who violated these norms.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Luddites/

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w3kjXWmgos56e3Z4u/learning-from-the-luddites-implications-for-a-modern-ai

I like my cars dumb and with an actual key. Bonus points for being easy to work on.

There is no one behind the scenes trying to make Lemmy more addictive like seen at other major social media giants where employees openly talk about being like drug dealers.

Lemmy is also not using algorithms to push political content or advertising. While these both exist on Lemmy, no one is being paid to push these into your feed.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/were-basically-pushers-court-filings-allege-staff-at-social-media-giants-compared-their-platforms-to-drugs-00666181

https://counterhate.com/blog/what-are-algorithms-and-how-do-they-make-social-media-more-harmful/

Anything can be addictive, but the defining feature is causing problems in your daily activities of life. I have yet to hear about Lemmy causing this issue but I have seen this on other platforms such as FB, Snap, Insta, X, etc.

Poor billionaire taken advantage of by underage girls.

I am sure because he was part of the Iraqi police force who trained a lot of people that they used him for intelligence hence why they brought him to the US. I learned a lot about Iraqi and Muslim culture from him. I thought it was strange he was dating a white girl who was a total pothead, but I wasn't trying to judge him (he prayed on a mat multiple times a day)

I don't think it was luck, he had a lot to tell them and obviously they must have trusted him otherwise they wouldn't have allowed him to stay in the US and then be allowed training to be a commercial pilot (especially after 9/11).

Chrissy (the white girl) was super heart broken when he left to go back to Iraq. He did marry and last time I checked he was raising his family there. Not sure the type of pull his family had on him, but it must have been real for him to return. Obviously a lot of people raise families there regardless of the danger. Life goes on.

I am not here to speak for Iraq even if I know quite a bit about their history. I can see how people can trigger you based upon your history and current beliefs.

Thank goodness. I took care of a guy who went through half of a half gallon a day of R&R. It was a nightmare dealing with a severe alcoholic.

Oh I get all that, but it is boiled down to a power dynamic over fear which really isn't representative of what is going on. This adversarial view of the world probably prevents people from actual working together towards solutions. This is what I mean by cooked

Your example of a private enterprise and a union does not jive well with a government that is run by fellow citizens with the goal of serving their community.

Considering a lot of the anti-government propaganda comes private enterprise kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. One of the biggest issues we face is regulatory capture. Business likes to control the government and then blame them for the problems they are creating.

Fear is simply the wrong way to frame this and I believe supports a bunch of unhealthy thinking that is counterproductive to solving our problems.

Imagine a mental framework where you are only happy when they fear you. If this is how people actually think we are cooked.

They violated so many peoples rights now it isn't funny. Plucking people who have never committed a crime and following all the laws away from their family and job causing irreparable harm just to satisfy some white supremacist's quest to kick out brown people. Disgusting.

This is sickening, no military in modern history has targeted children like this. 20,000 children dead and many more maimed and traumatized for life. What a legacy, they would feel the shame of this if they could.

The fact that we give them so much money that they can then use it to lobby the US government says all we need to know.

It is past time to cut off all support to Isreal. They are not our allies and would probably attack us if we did this or at least kill people in power that would propose this. Their leaders are objectively psychotic and their populace is unbelievabley bloodthirsty. Cut all ties.

What a strange hypothetical, but I will take it

A heroin user with a consistent supply can live to old age.

A meth user that eats three meals a day and still sleeps can live to old age

A person who drinks alcohol their whole life to the point of intoxication like hards drugs will most certainly die of cirrhoses of the liver before old age.

I would not liken the Iroquois Confederacy to nomadic ancestral living.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee

Imagine a system that has dramatically destroyed our environment while creating enormous wealth gaps and waste. Where some people live with dirt floors and some people have multimillion dollar yachts. Is this the system you are somewhat enamored with.

Did you know close to a billion people have died from pollution in the last fifty years? Would you say all these dead people share your sentiment.

Capilitism is not currency and commerce as those exist without capitalism. I don't think you can attribute anything you have said to the system of capitalism. Capilitism instead exploits these things for the minority. Imagine an Internet walled off by corporations, trains shut down because of the automobile lobby, electricity used up by data centers, etc.

The capitalists have definitely been designing the systems to their advantage. I think you are entirely correct about late stage capitalism. It is inefficient at distributing money and is leading to some enormous costs that would realistically take hundreds of trillions of dollars to remedy. The entire Earth is the equivalent of a Superfund sight with every single human being on earth poisoned by forever chemicals and plastics.

Fair enough. I get that you like your life and that it feels like it is hopelessly intertwined with capitalism. It is a modern day conundrum as I type on a device that a company that openly violates human rights made.

I can be both truthful and hopeful despite the enormity of the situation because that is just who I am. I personally will help everyone below me step up and I want everyone above me to take a step down. A little bit idealistic, I know.

What, you don't want your life dictated by fighting factions of wealthy assholes!?

Keeps them off the road and out of society I guess, but surely people are going to drink themselves to death.

He wasn't protesting (the guy that got 30 years) his crime was moving a box of anti fascist zines and having communicated with the group.

I know you are being silly, but the conservatives did repeatedly lie about what they planned to do. It was supposed to be "state rights" but as soon as they secured that suddenly a nationwide ban was being talked about.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-many-abortion-positions-timeline-rcna146601

https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/report/report-the-republican-playbook-republican-candidates-lying-about-abortion/donald-trump/