Yeah but my pleasure is more important than the environment
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Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a 'fat lesbian'
Nah g holocaust deniers, nazis, tankies, homophobes, and all authoritarian capitalists can get fucked. The way that countries like Canada, the USSR, the UK, and the USA protected "useful" Nazis after WW2 is disgraceful, but that doesn't really have anything to do with modern Switzerland shutting down homophobic neo-nazis.
Doesn't Thailand have a military coup every few years? When I visited back in 2014 there were signs all over the airport telling tourists not to join the protests against the latest military coup or you'll end up in a Thai jail!
NZCTU is a good place to start if you're a kiwi.
I'm a member of the E Tū union which is currently negotiating an industry-wide Fair Pay Agreement on behalf of all commercial cleaners in the country!
Hopefully they don't just replace the USD with a different flavour of the same shit!
That's likely one of the factors, but far from the only one; the internet makes it easier to expose the bad shit their government is doing, which has coincided with a rise in religious extremism and nationalism.
If you look at news coverage of the Americans over the past 20 or so years you'll see a similar trend despite them supposedly being our allies.
Eh a decent number of those holy Indian cows end up as exported leather...
So you'd be chill with a bunch of white bogans moving to China then marching down the street while chanting crap about how they want a Christian nation? You're fine with the USA assassinating foreigners who say stuff they dont like? Are you on board with the Bush/Trump era anti-islamic oppression?
Kinda hard to have a stable food system when an imperial power is stealing most of your food in a rather genocidal fashion!
Pretty sure that's actually just a reference to the film Soylent Green...
Money > standing up for random people who are being mistreated in a country far away from you.
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Hell, Telstar 1 was the first ever communications satellite, launched in 1962 and nonfunctional for over 60 years, yet it's still orbiting the Earth!