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@SamovarDrogeth @WeshouldRead @ISASaxonists The leaders of the American revolution were not oppressed, they were opportunists and idealists

@SpaceTrump @WeshouldRead @ISASaxonists Except the American revolutionaries who were oppressed didn’t act like animals when they were fighting the British.

Haitian Revolution is actually Everything they trying to sell you about 1776

@TunasAladBBC @OrevaZSN ? That's literally how wealthy people make money

@OrevaZSN We don’t get money forcefully taken out of paychecks directed at wealthy people

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we rarely question why some wealthy people are never satisfied with what they already have.

@SamovarDrogeth @WeshouldRead @ISASaxonists The onus of civility does not lie on the oppressed. If you treat people like dogs you are responsible for the bites of a dog.

@WeshouldRead @ISASaxonists 1776 was a civilized revolution. Haiti was civilians being chopped up.

@Quincey_Morris_ @Arduous_Hope @river_is_nice It's not defeatist at all because it identifies the problem. Either through alternatives or post-scarcity capitalism will eventually kill itself.

@SpaceTrump @Arduous_Hope @river_is_nice Sounds like a defeatist, materialist mentality. Sad. Perk up, buddy, life is beautiful.

Ayn Rand never understood capitalism as it actually exists and so she created this fantasy version of it wherein all the downsides or contradictions were actually a byproduct of “statism” or “collectivism” as opposed to the market itself —- imo it was because she resented the soviets so much, she didn’t didn’t want to admit Marx was right about *anything* including a lot of observations he made about how Capitalism works that are now regarded completely mainstream, even among non-Marxists.

@Quincey_Morris_ @Arduous_Hope @river_is_nice If there is government, capital will corrupt it. If there is no government, capital will make one. Every time. There will never be a steady state solution where owners of capital feel like they have enough. There will always be a need for endless growth at any cost.

Capitalism is not an entity, it's an observation of the natural way markets work within human societies, all based on natural order and human behavior, as such, it does not "create what it wants". Saying there is no such thing as "without government help" is oversimplifying the issue and my statement. Here's an example of what I mean, government help is good for protecting citizens and nature, like the national parks system, and helping citizens recover from natural disasters etc. Government influence is NOT good when it goes against nature, or when it helps one group of people(like a corporation) suppress natural competition with other groups of people. Government has its place, but when lobbying and regulatory capture are the norm, that's how monopolies are able to thrive.

@BoomerTiro @peoplesposting @river_is_nice This is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. Capitalism exists only to serve the owners of capital, and it's doing just that as you describe it. Capital will always create governments and corruption that suits it, because that is how it grows.

@peoplesposting @river_is_nice Right now the big businesses that should have fallen are protected from their failures. "Too big to fail" does not exist in capitalism, only too big to last. Without an official class system the government and corporations have still reduced us to fuedal serfs.

@Quincey_Morris_ @Arduous_Hope @river_is_nice It's pointless because there's no such thing as "without government help". There will always be government influence or intervention. It's silly to base any reasoning on the contrary. Monopolies are a feature of capitalism because capitalism will always create what it wants.

I'm not anti-government, I believe that state power should exist for the sole purpose of protecting its civilians. The problem is corruption leading to corporatism and cronyism(which is just fascism but I hold off on using that term because it's loaded now.) All I was saying is that Rand was correct about monopolies, and nobody has been able to name even one yet.

@acewizardnz @Lydskia There is no more evidence for Christianity than there is for Mormonism.

I try to be tolerant of other religions but Mormonism is so profoundly fake in such obvious ways that I genuinely do struggle to respect it at all.

@Omni_YSR @SSadler79335 @Partisangirl @alcapone1924 Nothing honest about it

@SSadler79335 @Partisangirl @alcapone1924 All I see is a man working to earn a honest living

The last moment of life of an Israeli bulldoze operator demolishing homes in south Lebanon as a drone with a bomb finds him.

@beigepilled @Tyronebigams_ @DeadBEA68511572 @hexprax All of these rules are useless on paper but out of thousands of working hours just take a single slip of the mind to end your life or maim your body or those around you.

@Tyronebigams_ @DeadBEA68511572 @hexprax Reposting (typos) 1. Store empty inert gas cylinder at 90° 2. Safety glasses in the lunchroom 3. Distilled water used for cleaning needs an expiration date 4. Rubber gloves while working with inert chemicals 5. Steel-toed boots required in building adjoining to work site

@javon_moon59905 @bakkxmd @ilySalt Being informed about the law doesn't mean you're glazing the pigs who enforce it. Learn your rights or lose them.

@bakkxmd @ilySalt i dont know what u retards on the internet get out of protecting this beast system

StableRonaldo was ready to sue the LAPD after finding out Lacy was wrongfully arrested by police and said he would get his lawyers ready 👀😭 “We are rich, lemme just tell you the last name of my lawyer is Goldstein. We won”

@Dan2030200 @kaizen000000000 The point of the hypothetical is that you can't derive morals from "god told me so"

@kaizen000000000 This is a false hypothetical. Murder is clearly wrong. You don’t need religion to know that! Why? Because it is the golden rule. Every murderer is a hypocrite because they don’t want to be murdered. I am not a religious person, but most ppl need religion to feel comfortable

This guy was terrified that Destiny had an amazing point😅 Watch

@NeverDeadYet @wesleytypes @MegaCrit People were already doing goofy reviews from day 1. This helps people filter them out without the need to police them

@wesleytypes @MegaCrit I hate that there is a "funny" tag among the "helpful" and "unhelpful" review tags. Like what benefit does having a funny review do for the game or the consumer? Just encourages more dumb reviews like "terrible game I hate it" from someone with 5k hours in it

> sell 3 million copies in the first week > reach a player peak of over 500,000 > receive universal praise on release So how does Slay the Spire II currently have a "Mixed" rating on Steam? Because Steam user reviews are not really reviews in the traditional sense. Instead, they're used as a bargaining chip to communicate real time grievances with game updates, bugs, and developer choices at the expense of a game's actual overall quality and reputation. This is one of the many reasons why I don't trust user reviews and scores.

@Androkguz @61harpy @HunterEKozak @esjesjesj The value that differentiates the costs of the cuts does not come from the butchering, it comes from breeding, rearing, and so on. Labor still affects the value because tech advancements lower the labor cost of producing the cows and their beef.

@61harpy @HunterEKozak @esjesjesj The average amount of time required to get 1 pound of the most tender part of a cow is the same as that required to get the least tender 1 pound. They will never sell at the same price because they are not worth the same Labor is just a part of supply. S&D make the value

Insanely easy question to answer if you know the tiniest bit about Marxism

@J_Frieds @Feldfrog You are being incoherent. Benny wants the focus to be on Israel but dumb antisemites make it about Jews. He isn't making it about Jews by saying "we should not make it about Jews" he is doing the opposite.

@Feldfrog You’re making my point. The “reason that’s rising” is Israel, but instead of focusing on Israel, you’re talking about Jewish victimhood. Reading some ADL statistics and accepting their hysterical paranoia that this ends with camps, or something. Which brings me back to: grow up

I’m so sorry but Jews like this need to just grow the fuck up, we are not the main characters of this story

@DijahSB Not a single Talking Heads reference here

he stopped dancing to yell at me i’m crying

@susanabulhawa @FumbleBTC looks like palestine?

@Authw8 Some writers write shows now as long-winded prestige tv due to its successes even when their ideas are far more suited to the old self-contained episodic formats

the structural thing going on imo is content unbundling. it used to be that stuff came as a package: you'd get an episode with some plot, some jokes, some surfing, some vampire stuff, and maybe even a moral message. but now you can assemble your own content mix out of youtube, tiktok, instagram, etc. shows still exist obviously, but they're relegated to more prestigious types of storytelling where everything we see needs to have a "point" and progress the overall story. this is where studios still have a competitive advantage over random internet creators.

@vickylynnxo @HubWendy It's an engagement bait post for blue check revenue. 99% of posts from blue checks are to bait discussion for money. Most are bots.

@HubWendy As a nurse are you asking this question to test ppls knowledge or you as a nurse don’t know the answer?

Hey X, I can’t possibly sleep, so let’s do this. Why do newborns have this on their bodies ând what is it called? Anyone? #newborn Nurse Wendy.

@Feldfrog Imagine being Wilbur Wright building a sand castle and your brother performs the first 9/11 by flying a fucking bike into it

Making a sandcastle is much like ruling a real castle. You are under constant threat from your siblings