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WHO calls for cigarette-style cancer warnings on alcohol packaging (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] iriyan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

We are daily bombarded with news on what the ruling elites have decided to enforce and that it affects our living, yet instead of concentrating on the mechanism we split hair between us on whether we are for or against their decisions. Nobody is left being concerned on what it would be like for us to announce our decisions that would affect their lives.

There is no talk here whether we should act to prevent this or not, just whether we approve or disapprove their actions. The motive? Our disapproval has little if any effect on them, they will keep deciding, they will enforce, and we will comply, because we know no other way.

I say we change the agenda, stop making their news headlines our center for discussion, let's keep focusing on our headlines, till they start addressing our agenda.

[+] swampwitch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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[-] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

This is the shittiest most fascist behavior anyone can utilize to avoid criticism and exposure. Delete the original post in where there is live discussion with more users than any thread on this miserable medium that allows people like swampwitch to behave like this.

So ignorant and aggressive it should be forbidden, as soon as a comment is posted posts can't be removed. Once information is public who does anyone think that is private property and can remove it from the public sphere? Not even facebook twitter and the likes of corporate fascists don't act the way fediverse actors act. Total punks!

[-] swampwitch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Just figured it wasn't as relevant as it could be. It was just me mentioning that I think it's fine to push this sort of change due to being influenced by family working in the ICU seeing cases of alcoholism and alcohol-influenced accidents. However, I am from the UK, which has a higher rate of alcoholism than other nations.

Didn't think me figuring "eh, nah" would be seen as some sort of heinous micro-aggression.

[-] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

At least you still have a publicly accessible ER and ICU ... because in the US people prefer to die on the street than be billed 4 times life long earning for getting their gull-blotter removed.

Long live the NHS ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t39BdxudF9U

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[-] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I am sorry for over-reacting on something so common, but I feel very strongly about such things. If I write something, post a picture of an alien, print some data and publish them, they are no longer my private property, they are public. I shouldn't have the right to take it away, especially when people used it as a base to discuss that object, despite of its value. It also adds to the confusion, a third person comes by wondering what's wrong with those that made a comment on something that doesn't exist.

We should encourage discussion, we should fight those who prevent it. For ages we shut passively in front of a tube receiving and not being able to react or discuss. One way brainwashing without the sound of resistance. Now we can screen out everything by discussion, and each can judge what is right and wrong, what sounds rational and what is.

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