• HailSeitan@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Kamala would have defended DMCA and Big Tech to the death. The only difference might have been a little less crypto grifting, but it’s nonsense to suggest there would have been a major difference on the issues this article is actually discussing.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      17 hours ago

      The trends and forces would have been no different, but it was a choice between a collapse of empire versus a soft landing a la UK. They chose collapse.

      • hark@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        I would not describe the state of the UK as a “soft landing”.

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          5 hours ago

          The state of the UK is fine?

          Free healthcare, relatively low food prices, growing wages, one of the highest minimum wages on Earth, low income taxes, decent workers rights, low levels of violent crime.

          There’s some not great things, like house prices, but as I understand it, that’s an issue in most of the developed world.

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          14 hours ago

          Near best minimum wage on earth, free healthcare and a moat to keep the French out? Could be worse.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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          8 hours ago

          Not my tempo. I was talking about the loss of a global empire. Many have called the UK’s a “soft landing”, but even the hardest collapses so far will have been a different level of scale from what America is cooking up for itself.