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Also, if you have any ideas how to opt out of funding genocide, please let me know.

Taxes are taken out of my paycheck. I do not know how to ask my employer to reduce my taxes to zero.

Even if i leave the country, which would be hard to do as a somewhat poor person, the government would still imprison me if i don't pay them.

I could become just a begger or someone who works illegally to avoid the taint.

I've also thought of just checking out of this world because it's so terrible.

I'm not really sure what you think I should do instead. Is there a box to check to easily opt out of laboring for a government that thinks it owns me, that I didn't ask to be a part of?

Just becauze I think slave labor is awful and think a tax on Chinese goods to help stop slave labor is good doesn't mean that I support what is going on in Gaza. This planet is awful sometimes. I am mostly poor. What should I do?

I recognize it's a genocide at this point and war crimes are occurring. I am not a powerful or rich person. What should I do?

I really don't think that's it. Slavery is disgusting, even if China has made great technological advacements or done great things. It's completely fucking gross and many people want nothing to do with slavery. This isn't about the US, it's about slavery being bad.

Check my post history before you presume my beliefs about the situation in gaza.

I disagree with many of Trump's policies, but his idea for tariff's on Chinese goods is possibly a good one. There's no way to get this stuff out of the supply chain. I'm terrified some of the things I bought from China are made with slave labor.

How do I get slave labor out of my life?

Up to 14 hours a day? That probably means 80 hours a week. I do 40 and that's difficult. 80... With no choice... So awful!

I don't want to be a part of that.

If she had been a reporter instead, would you feel this way? And what would she have had to have done so you considered her a journalist rather than some death-worthy influencer? If she had "official credentials" would then it have been upsetting?

Some of these posts feel like bots or rage bait. No one is that stupid.

Given the fact that war crimes are being committed in Gaza, this is neither funny nor edgy. She died a hero and reporter, not just an influencer.

Yep, I believe you.

A lot of times people who teach in schools were not the popular kids, but they were not unpopular either. (Because no one unpopular would want to be in a school given how unpopular kids are treated.) And it's almost like these teachers and admins want to relive their glory days, but this time they are cool, and they do this by actually trying to be liked by the popular kids, lying to themselves and thinking if things had been slightly different they would have been really popular instead of just mildly liked or that somehow they've become cooler. And popular kids certainly innately see this and milk it, exploiting it for all its worth. It's disgusting and pathetic and enables all sorts of bullshit. The popular kids give the teaxhers admins the occasional joke and smile, making them the cool teacher or admin, cementing the cycle of favoratism. It's actually worse than just lookism, there's this weird psychological interplay between people just on the outskirts believing they could have been in the inner circle and people highly socially intuitive exploiting that, plus neither verbalizing the phenomenon. Ocassionally administrators are teachers were really popular in high school, making it even worse, but mostly it's the "almost popular" kids who wind up back in school and allow a corrupt unsafe bullying environment to evolve/devolve.

I completely believe these women, and I am sure Border Patrol invented sentences and put them in the transcript, altering what the women said in some parts and outright making stuff up in others. People assume transcripts are correct, but any corrupt authority can alter them or attribute anything to anyone. I called the Border Patrol to find out more and they surprisingly admittted to this corruption, saying "Yep, we alter transcripts all the time in between felching each other and praising Moloch."

There was always a large number of stupid kids who were jerks in school, but it was always hidden behind a mentality of stern rebukes of fights and an occasional suspension. Now, all of those same types of moronic assholes have a digital distillated stream of garbage that fits with their natural tendancies, putting these idiots into hyperdrive.

Honestly, it's probably better that the problem gets worse so that it unmasks the high amount of bullying and abuse that's normally accepted in schools.

Worst of all, when bullies harass and attack and beat people over and over in school, on the rare occasion when a student defends themself, the defender often ends up charged because "cool" bullies get a free pass unless bones are broken or the victim dies, while uncool victims are castigated by schools for defending themselves. The unfortunate recent charging of the innocent Karmelo Anthony with murder for refusing to be bullied by some asshole jock is an excellent example of this.

Andrew Tate is not the problem, this problem has existed for a long time with school just letting it fester. Tate at least finally makes the problem noticeable. The problem has always been school administrators who allow this sort of stuff to happen.

Columbia was already known to play loose with ethics (when it submitted information to US News & World report that inflated it's national ranking so much that US News removed them temporarily from the national rankings), and this just makes them seem to be a school that caves in to money and lacks integrity.

If a student at Columbia engaging in controversial speech can be subject to degree revocation, why would anyone with any ideas other than the banal choose to foster new, risky, or exciting ideas there?