This is off topic. This isn’t a boring dystopia. It’s jist a regular dystopia.

The western way of a civilized society was only ever a gimmick. Calling for human rights, equality and peace while benefitting by exploitation, wars, and poverty of people who can’t help themselves somewhere else.

Those mega yachts aren’t going to build themselves.

This exemplifies what is wrong with America. People keep looking to those in power to fix things, and as of late we’ve all recognized that the real power lies in the hands of corporations, conglomerates, private equity firms. So we try to “vote with our dollars” and support “ethical” companies with their “PETA certifications” and “Rain forest pledges,” to curb the influence of the “bad companies.”

These are children, worked to death in cobalt mines, and here we all are, sitting on our hands, waiting for fucking apple and alphabet to go in and demand these companies stop working children to death.

At least that’s what this says to me. These court decisions are just feeble attempts to wipe away the blood stain of culpability that we all face, knowing exactly where the cobalt in our electronics came from. Seems like America is the most powerful country on earth when we’re overthrowing your government in a CIA Cocaine fueled coup, and also the weakest country on earth when it comes to policing our most favorable, honored (oligarchical) citizens.

Sorry Jabari, we’re all very much aware of how you and your family were destroyed by working yourselves to death in a cobalt mine, and how these companies enjoy a ludicrous (absurd) amount of profit by not having to pay for what would ensure safe conditions for you; but we have tiktok videos to watch, and if there aren’t enough bread a circus enough to fill all of our downtime, we might end up revolting.

This is why I’ll only consider LFP for my next car

Congo just keeps getting overran with mercenaries armed with imported weapons. So coincidental. Why don’t they just set up a stable government 🤔