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Intuitive Guy ☯️ | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +18 
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befire | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 many of the tiktokers are really good at explaining truths about situations.

while political memes from 𝕏 seem to rapidly spread misunderstanding or outright disinformation.

https://x.com/maddenifico/status/1842032291117167095
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Hazey | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They can "fix" that by getting a US company to own it
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befire | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 no.  

this is another misunderstanding that’s getting more deeply ingrained w a lot of well-meaning folks & bitcoiners who are (rightly) tired of politics and the way things are done/run in the US.  

it’s not at all about private or public.  it’s 100% about people & culture.  

have you never seen private companies/owners of companies pay themselves w huge profits while providing the lowest quality & most ill-conceived goods, products, services, plans, infrastructure…?
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befire | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 🥹 it’s a funny meme, for sure. 🙏

…but this stuff often worries me.
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Intuitive Guy ☯️ | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I am not American so can't properly discuss the topic with data on my side, but I know how things works here (Italy) in case of natural disasters.

It's all about the money. There were court case with probes of calls between govs people and suppliers connected to give help during emergency, laughing at phone projecting and calculating how many euros they would be able to do because of that. 
The specific situation was regarding an earthquake and thw call between them happened max two hrs after the first sismic wave.. disgusting.

Anyway this specific meme came to my mind after listening a nice episode that I just watched between nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcjgxv3n and nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfduws9hu2 where they were discussing how fucked the system is, FEMA in this case, and instead of letting people help on their own, creates obstacles because their final incentive is a different one.

Sorry for the long reply.