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Yog_Sothtoth t1_jduvhre wrote

While I agree with you I have to point out this is a well established strategy, they did the same with unemployment benefits, the goverment campaigned heavily for its removal only to find out a lot of their supporters benefit from it so what are we going to do? Easy, you cannot refuse ANY job offer, not just about the money, but also location. It's ingenious, you can be offered a job 500km from where you live with a paycheck of 500€ and if you refuse you lose unemployment. No matter if you actually could live on it or not.

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Hapster23 t1_jduujxn wrote

That's not really something one can prove (that they want them to die) so I would avoid that kind of rhetoric since it doesn't add much to the conversation, other than polarising the issue. In reality it is a complex issue, since these countries have to bear the burden of all north African migration attempts. Their solution was to reduce the number of rescues by making rescue boats return to port, this in theory would mean the passage is more dangerous and thus disicentivize illegal migration, and thus less of a burden on these countries. Obviously reality is different, these people are fleeing their country because they would rather risk dying in the Mediterranean then continue living as they are, so this "solution" just leads to more deaths. Truth is that EU needs to help share the burden of these countries (some form of migrant relocation system based on populations etc) so then they cannot justify shitty laws like the above.

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ipel4 t1_jduualk wrote

> It's interesting then that all the countries in the world with the highest median income are all capitalist countries.

That's a very valid argument until you realise there are only 4 socialist countries in the world. One of which is sanctioned to oblivion for making nukes.

A better example of why pure socialism sucks is eastern european countries who were worse off when they were under ussr occupation due to all the looting and stealing and are now faring much better.

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SkorpD94 t1_jdusmk6 wrote

Before the covid pandemic hit the world and lockdowns were put to halt it, there were massive protests all over the world, most notably in Chile, Hong Kong, Algeria, Soudan, Liban and, to a lesser extent, France (tho some can argue that France is in a permanent state of protest). It's great to see that people started to protest back after covid became less of a problem, we have to finish what we started

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PlateImpossible191 t1_jdusgng wrote

That would require way too much effort and admitting that the EU is refusing to face the problem as a community instead of leaving one or two countries neck deep in shit.

Everyone wants to save them but no one wants to take them in

It's a lot easier to just blame Italy and go "urr durr fascists urr durr".

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OldManJeepin t1_jdus1qe wrote

Maybe a nice, big Gamma blast is headed our way? It's speculated that it has happened to Earth before, and wiped out %90 of life on land and in the sea. Mankind better start getting serious about reducing the single-point-of-failure issue when it comes to our survival. We *have* to get off this rock and start moving up on the Kardashev scale. Especially if we are concerned about survival as a species. Not sure we deserve it but....Deserves got nothing to do with it.

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