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[โ€“] bricklove@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

I think it's like the old trope of asking a fish how the water is and they reply "what's water?"

[โ€“] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

because they arent the ones being stripped of their livelihoods to fatten the moneypigs

[โ€“] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Lack of successful alternatives? It's easy to find flaws with capitalism but every other system has its share of problems too.

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[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Brainwashed since birth. GI Joe had the American Express slogan in an episode ("never leave home without it."). Alvin and the Chipmunks had a story about the Berlin Wall propagandizing communism. All the bad guys in Cobra have accents.

This shit is vile and it was on my morning cartoons.

Stockholm syndrome

[โ€“] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Living in denial is easy to continue doing and widely encouraged, while being very hard to overcome.

[โ€“] Babalugats@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Often because they're profiting from it themselves.

[โ€“] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

what if it was me

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