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What is something the world would be better without? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

20-25% of current Aussies have convict ancestors and 40-45% have coloniser ancestors. I'm not even going to engage in ur stupidity of blaming the people of the present for shit that happened over 100years ago.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imagine splitting the difference when convicts were still used for settler-colonialism, yawn. Are you still going, peck?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No. I'm separating the fact that the entire events of colonisation happened over a hundred years ago. That's a lot of goddamn time.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The fact that you think it is speaks to how comfortable your life is lmfao. For my people, a hundred years changed fucking nothing. Schools, jobs, living districts, third spaces, the fact that we still get lynched by cops and fed into prison slavery if we're lucky enough to survive a cop run-in; all still segregated in ways that are just nebulous enough to get a veneer of plausible deniability from the settlers thanks to the efforts of assimilationist tokens. Y'know, the artifice that lets you say "a hundred years is a long time and everything is different now". I couldn't be paid to believe your situation is any different-- just where you sit on the pecking order.

But this is all a waste of time. Even if you read what I'm saying-- which I doubt-- you'd never internalize it. You're physically incapable of seeing how your sausage is made; otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I am reading what ur writing I think it's critically important to for everyone myself included to talk to people one disagrees with.

Well ur talking about america in this situation and well yeah I agree America is completely fucked its the worlds greatest third world country. I never said its different now I'm simply washing my hands of any responsibility for something that happened 100 years ago.

If I was in charge of america here's what I would do to fix the country, let me know what u think

Abolish private funding for all schools
Mandate that every school receives equall funding per student
Make minimum wage $25/hour, mandate that any pay per unit (gig economy) 10% of sale price is minimum pay for the person who sold it. Both these apply to priaoners
Abolish the death penalty
Prison funding per person is 'funding * (1- recidivism averge of prison%)'
Nationalise healthcare
Any money a politician receives from anyone must be public and legally referred to as bribes
Implement liquid democracy
You have a right to bear arms if you have served for military, police, or fire service or have undergone a free national training program with a once every 4 year refresher
Abolish income taxes and replace it with a tax of 10% for every time money gets transfered to a different legal entity
Contracts cannot limit your ability to make a contract with another person or ability to engage with someone in the courts
You have a right to privacy and self autonomy
Warranty must provide upgrades to critical design flaws, replacement parts, and software, at cost, these must be available to anyone with no restrictions.
Copyright length must equall patent length must equall warranty length
The right to modify distribute and reverse engineer anythibg you have bought.
No artificial restrictions my be placed upon any product that limits the user capability to modify it as the see fit.

Its long needs improvement and totally off the top of my head so I'd love to get some feedback.