The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.
  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I am sorry but your user name is incredibly on point for this comment.

    Yes, maybe once we were, we had some kind of admirable core of ‘practical utilitarianism and basic fairness in a local community’…

    But… we have now become the mask, forgotten all but warped, distant, misremembered echoes of some former self we used to be.

    Skull kid may be in there somewhere, broken and crying and confused … but we have become monstrous and dangerous to the point that hardly matters.

    We are the villain, our tragic backstory may matter in a narrative sense… but ironically, not in a practical sense.