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  • @[email protected]
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    4813 days ago

    That might be hard to grasp but sometimes the interests or rulers and elites do align to some degree with the average person in their country. Most rich and powerful people have a lot of investments that are worth significantly less when unpredictable things such as invasions happen that disrupt trade.

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      -2613 days ago

      Humanity is literally on the verge of extinction due to global warming and you still believe rulers gives a single shit to anything that isn’t money or power? War is a business.

      • @gap_betweenus
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        2313 days ago

        Extinction would kind of interfere with the whole power and money thing.

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          -512 days ago

          Go explain that to the biggest 10 companies in the world. I doubt you have enough money to sit at their table. Stop giving a fuck about everything around you and focus on money and wealth alone and perhaps you will get a chance to talk with their executives.

          • @gap_betweenus
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            412 days ago

            I was just pointing out a flaw in your reasoning. There are no simple answers to complex questions.

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              -112 days ago

              I think it’s simple to see how greedy people try to take as much as they can without thinking of the consequences. Money and power are a drug

              • @gap_betweenus
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                212 days ago

                Again if it’s just power and money then they would be very much interested in continuation of human spices.

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                  sorry to interrupt but do you believe in climate change and if you do do you understand that since the Paris Agreement the oil companies have been pull more oil out of the ground? if each of these are yes’s then what is it your saying? chop of ones noise to spite ones face.

                  • @gap_betweenus
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                    112 days ago

                    I’m saying humans, even ones opponents are complex and seldom governed by single motives. Most people understand it about themself but like to deny it to others, especially they disagree with or don’t like.

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                    412 days ago

                    Thinking that people you don’t like are one dimensional won’t bring you very far.