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While wondering how much of this is going straight into Trump's pocket (europe.pub)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh I'm sure. But you have to remember what the USA is, in terms of how to l capitalist it is and it all adds up. Plus, destabilizing a "stable" country by doubling such a fundamental cost as fuel as an indicator is so much more.

Putting it like the USA is whining and playing trauma Olympics on a global scale ain't great, either. All that does is play into normalization of some pretty fucked up stuff that we should actually be more unified against and have solidarity around everything that's happening right now.

Gas prices are bad, yeah, but the deeper discussion around it isn't simple at all, and gas prices themselves aren't really the big issue.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's a really good point. Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply people are whining but I can understand in the current environment why it would come across like this.

    I also didn't realise something so critical has doubled, we historically have relatively cheap food in the UK and I can only imagine the uproar if that doubled over a short period.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Gotcha gotcha. Yeah I think of it as like systemic problems in society. In some ways, the costs of certain things going up is acceptable or even good (no more slave labor), but then you find out that the money isn't actually going to workers, but instead CEOs and stockholder investment firms, leeching money and power from society, slowly sucking it dry.

    Every action that benefits them more than the rest of civilization is another step closer to collapse.

    Gas gouging, billionaire deals behind closed doors, extreme consolidation of power, another day without a guillotine... Is another day society gets weaker and frustrated and closer to conflict.

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