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Recent high profile cases? Or are you referring to the one from 2012?

Oh they find a way. Bezos wedding was 40 to 50 million euros.

They're confusing free market with capitalism most likely.

That's the problem. The system prioritizes wealth accumulation above all else. When you build a society that views wealth as the highest state of being then those regulatory systems will eventually be bought out.

There may well be no such thing as a sustainable regulated capitalism, especially when we've normalized the monetization of everything.

There's a reason capitalism is essentially counter to the teachings of all major world religions, many of which are extremely authoritarian in their own way.

One aspect of modern capitalism is predatory loans, which every Abrahamic religion has writings against.

It's pretty telling most religions would not go as far as "poor people can go fuck themselves" despite being used to control people through fear over millenia but the end game of unchecked capitalism is truly as simple as "poor people can go fuck themselves"

Amazing that the young ones will have to teach their parents morality but actually I'm not that suprised. I feel many of us will be looking back at the direction boomers and their parents took the world post WW2 and shake our heads.

The first time I took a deep dive into the Israeli-Palestinian 'conflict' was in 2012 and it took all of half an hour to come to the conclusion that Netanyahu has a bloodlust reminiscent of Hitler. It felt shitty to realize that Western propaganda had me believing a lie my entire life (granted I was in my early 20s). But that feeling was soon overcome with an even worse feeling of unease as you realize how many people just accept this genocide as the status quo.

I'm so glad Gen Z is seeing through all this. It was much easier to pull the wool over peoples eyes (in a way) in the pre social media age because news was always curated for us. There's a lot of bullshit out there on the internet don't get me wrong.

But it's hard to argue with pictures of dead children (even though some folk still try).

That's because you and I were force fed Western propaganda from a young age. Indigineous people have an actually sustainable way of living. The Western world has set humanity on a path to extinction, with a bet that technology will somehow save us at the last second.

Sounds like a chargeback situation to me. And making sure never to do business with BestBuy again.

Absolutely agree. Especially since the majority of the world's Muslims (60%) live in the Asia-Pacific region.

Wouldn't be offended necessarily. He's Muslim and South Asian (parents are Gujurati and Punjabi) so it's easy to think that. We need to offer grace to people outside of our ingroup. They're going to know less and that's ok. Just like I don't know if O'Keefe is Irish, Scottish or Potato.

No AIPAC funded Democrat has endorsed him. Including many prominent voices in the party.

Transgenderism has a long precolonial history in India. Westerners have been heavily propagandized into thinking they are the origin story of progressivism (mostly colonial propoganda to justify genocide) when the truth is history is much less linear and much more complex than they are made to think it is.

I'm not suprised that the propoganda exists. But I am in awe when the worldview it promotes is still held by many today. Perhaps the consequence of having a wholly inadequate education system.