• KnowLimits@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What exactly does this have to do with the multinational capitalist greed machine? It seems to me that governments of societies across the entire spectrum of economic systems have quashed protests with at least as much unreasonable force.

    We do need to keep our governments in check to retain our freedom and privacy, but this is true universally.

    • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      This is a response to protests from the people from their leader circumventing their legislative process to raise the retirement age to satiate the capitalists who don’t want their taxes to go up to pay back into the system that provided the infrastructure and means for their success in the first place.

      Those protests are continuing and getting worse due to increased use of police force, and its cutting into GDP, the only thing the capitalists care about. How much value did we accumulate? How much did the beloved economy grow metastasize? Better find a way to kill the people’s voice, or our quarterly earnings won’t reach shareholder expectations!