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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I'm with you. It's so goddamn hard not to be black pilled these days. Everyone is either greedy and looking to take you for all you are worth, a misogynist, a rapist, a fascist, or some combination of all 4 and some other horrible 5th and 6th thing that I can't think of right now. Lies and disinformation are so prevalent and there are so few consequences that it feels like nothing is what it seems.

If you care about some random issue "A", there is an entire industry ready to take your money in exchange for the lie that your contribution or patronage is helping "A" when it's just lining someone's pockets.

Want to make sure you can buy a thing that isn't made with child slave labor? I hope you did your research because of the 8 companies "certified" as child-slave-labor free, 3 still use child-slave-labor and just paid for certification, 3 use a supplier that uses it, 1 only uses it part time, and one is legitimately what it claims to be... oh no, wait, they were just bought out by a pro-child-slave-labor corp... I hate everything.