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[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 7 months ago

Wake me up when I can sell my children

[-] luchuan@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 7 months ago

Your children yearn for the mines. Mine yearn for "uncoerced" contractual work obligations in the mines. We are not the same.

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Javier Milei moment

[-] the_post_oftom_joad@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 7 months ago

TLDR

because the author thinks so.

No, really. i read the whole thing. It was a slow

[-] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

I wonder what races the proponents of this argument visualize the sellers to be. In practice it happens to be the poorest people on earth in the global south. The bourgeois western middle class isn't selling their kidney for a third jet ski, it's some afghan doing it for a bag of wheat.

[-] Flamingoaks@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

i would guess they imagine people that look like them but poorer doing it, that just seems to be how most people imagine things. but just like buying blood in ameriKKKa its black people that are gonna do it almost exclusively.

[-] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Also true, a lot of people in this country have reduced homeless people to non-human (even if they happen to be the same race). A lot of different types of reactionary thought in this place, hard to pin down to just one thing like racism.

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 7 months ago

ah yes, the important issues of our day, not climate change, no, whenever i should be able to buy someones organs. wsj being the complete piece of garbage it has always been

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago
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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago

I had to check is the WSJ was I thought it was

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
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