lapras 🌺 🐚

they think im building an indie game but what im actually doing is building a recursive socioeconomic cooperative to demonstrate scalable collaboration as a weapon against the system that is killing us all (low key)

we would not have billionaires (centralized) if the dollar (centralized) were backed by labor (decentralized) another way to think about it: as labor is first-order (it is intrinsically tied to time and life itself), and money is second-order, money reflects the nature of the first-order. and so, if money were ‘backed’ by a decentralized source of power, à la labor, you would not see the same ilk of centralization/consolidation emerge (which is what leads to billionaires anyways)

Would you be angrier about billionaires if the dollar were backed by your labor instead of nothing?

@JungleJoosh @nyaraVT well, the overton window is way bigger than capitalism. were not extreme by noting that - the capitalism pocket of beliefs is one of many (and one of the most right-leaning) - regulations on capitalism are ~futile because private capital inevitably swallows the government

exactly! like the whole universe, its recursive (each loop defined by the prior) t'was refreshing to see your articulation of such as a spiral (as ive literally sketched such out to demonstrate it before). people struggle intuiting recursive patterns (which is understandable), which has often left myself thinking this intuition-delta is what has shaped this multi-generation folly (which has me seeing it as a key avenue/awareness to riding the spiral more healthier as a species)

@lapdoteth @angrygunmonkeys Recursive is an excellent term 👍🏻

@gonglei89 @angrygunmonkeys "if god/nature is the noun, recursion is the verb" :)

In a way American decline is a Marx was right moment. America was basically most functional at its most socialist, but Americans didn’t understand this so they couldn’t articulate effective politics to sustain it. Follow the wrong gospel for a generation and it all falls apart.

@angrygunmonkeys Marx’s material dialecticism is still cyclical, just a spiral rather than circle. Also open question of how long the cycles are.

It’s incredible how “if we meet people’s basic needs, they’ll stop working” and “billionaires are hard workers” coexist in people’s minds.

@lapdoteth @nyaraVT Yeah you can! I am! Center left just means you believe in tighter regulation. Environmental controls, consumer protections, worker rights. It’s all still private equity baby. Why is everyone on this app so extreme?

Quick reminder that Democrats tried to sabotage Mamdani, because the establishment is terrified of actual left wing politicians.

@JungleJoosh @nyaraVT the left/right line in the sand is between capitalism and anti-capitalism you cannot support a capitalist government and be “left wing”

@nyaraVT Don’t confuse left wing with socialism. That’s far left. Left just means slightly bigger government. Not total government.

@TalkinBaseball_ hitting 68+ home runs (which has been done*) doesnt make the fact said player hit 67 home runs untrue the math nits beat the english nits here

Kyle Schwarber is on pace to hit 67 home runs this season. No one has done that in MLB history

@UmmNadia @SamuelGabrielSG @WatcherGuru then the US should cease to be

@lapdoteth @SamuelGabrielSG @WatcherGuru the US economy is war based. It's who we are.

Reporter: "To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?" President Trump: "Not even a little bit…I don't think about Americans' financial situations."

@ButtertonJanet @BurnerAcco65741 @elonmusk the question was a self-invitation to pedo island

@lapdoteth @BurnerAcco65741 @elonmusk Yes because a email was populated and a question was asked that’s 20 to Life! I understand your Position

Remember when @elonmusk paid $44 billion for Twitter after raping all those kids on the island?

may i ask, why would a capitalist government not grow to serve private capital interests further? and if your guttural reaction is "capitalism means no government", may i ask, who would protect private capital interests? ... since you're slow, ill make this rather simple for you: capitalism implies and requires and leverages government for private capital interest desires. it is implicit to the design... which you simply did not understand because those private capital interests own the media and propagandized you real good. time to wake up

@lapdoteth @Handre LOL

Allow me to propose a radical new strategy for governments: Leave people the fuck alone. That's it, that's the strategy.

@itsjustcornbro kelpital, the currency of the seas (aka the currensea)

@lapdoteth kind reminder that if those fish simply had enough capital they would be able to pay for protection instead

dunce: "nature is capitalist! competition is natural!" nature: *expresses collaboration everywhere* (collaboration is the inverse of competition btw)

@SamuelGabrielSG @WatcherGuru i know you love the taste, but normal humans cannot survive on bootrubber. with that in mind, do you think its rational for the US to have an endless war ♾️-budget, while 1 if 5 US kids incurs food insecurity and 70k+ americans die a year directly due to lack of health care?

@WatcherGuru If your family dies in a nuclear holocaust because of Iran suddenly the price of gas doesn't matter.

@msdavi01 @missmayn > whinges about library budgets > no concern about war budgets > gets called out on hypocrisy > screams "communism" and hides you guys really are all the same... bootlicking shmucks

@lapdoteth @missmayn There's no hypocrisy in my stances, but I don't see a productive conversation between us based on how you approached me and (from reviewing your own profile) seeing you're a terrorist supporting communist. So cheers

if we tried introducing the concept of public libraries today a bunch of rich boomers would say it’s impossible and scream wHO’s gOnNa pAy FOr iT.

@SamuelGabrielSG @WatcherGuru quick question: how many nukes does the US + israel have?

@TheThinLine123 @ChadNedohin @SamuelGabrielSG @WatcherGuru it was a trick question (the united states of israel is the answer no matter how you look at it)

@ChadNedohin @SamuelGabrielSG @WatcherGuru Israel has used mini nukes