• 7101334@lemmy.world
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    At the end of the day, people need food, lodging, and healthcare. They don’t need “jobs”. We should be fighting to get people’s needs met, not fighting to keep people in their shitty jobs that they hate anyway.

    On one hand, I agree with you.

    On the other hand, what you’re saying is, “Life would be better if we would become wholly dependent on a white supremacist, genocidal, colonial institution”.

    I don’t think what you’re suggesting is possible on the land known as the United States of America until it’s no longer called that.

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      You’re assuming everybody in this conversation is American? 🤔 I for one am not part of the “we” you describe there…

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        Your nation is either beholden to the imperialist pigdogs which run America or you will be targeted by them. So sorry (truly), but yes, you are “we”, even if it’s a more extended “we”. Maybe you can fly under the radar if your country is both poor and resource-poor.

        …Aside from that this is a thread about an American university, so