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- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 6 days ago:
It’s similiar to 9/11.
If it happened, it would be blowback from what the government has been doing abroad.
It can be both of those things: a cause for valid anger, and consequence of government actions.
- Comment on 65% of workers are interested in ‘microshifting’ their schedules as an alternative to the strict 9-to-5: It’s ‘a way to reclaim control’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s OK. I’m just describing these systems from a Marxist lens. As in, I’m not being prescriptive, but descriptive of how these processes work and their definitions. Your confusion is normal as there’s a lot of incentive to obfuscate to protect those with wealth and private property. It’s also not exactly simple either.
And to clarify what I meant, it was more anti-“people who own capital / owner” rather than anti-“capitalist system” exactly. The most anti capitalist system would be the workers themselves owning the tools, buildings, property, etc; collectively and with democratic control of the workplace. Obviously the above described where workers collectively bargain is closer in that direction but the capital owner still ultimately remains in control of the company and assets.
- Comment on 65% of workers are interested in ‘microshifting’ their schedules as an alternative to the strict 9-to-5: It’s ‘a way to reclaim control’ 2 weeks ago:
Profit definitionally is value extracted from laborers. I own a factory. For every $40 of materials, and $40 dollars of labor, I can sell a product for $100 dollars. I definitionally made profit of $20 simply for owning the property it happens in.
You’ll notice there is an incentive to pay less to labor in order to make more profit. Labor wants to work the least amount of effort for the most amount of money, and capitalists want the most labor for the least amount of money. It’s an adversarial relationship. Any gains to claw back more profits will necessarily be adversarial and technically anti-capitalist.
- Comment on 65% of workers are interested in ‘microshifting’ their schedules as an alternative to the strict 9-to-5: It’s ‘a way to reclaim control’ 2 weeks ago:
There’s only one goal, profit / capital maximization. Everything else is secondary or in service of that end, such as efficiency.
A for-profit health insurance industry is deeply inefficient but very profitable for example.
- Comment on 65% of workers are interested in ‘microshifting’ their schedules as an alternative to the strict 9-to-5: It’s ‘a way to reclaim control’ 2 weeks ago:
Working for a wage is very capitalist. By that I mean that capitalist owns the capital and rents labor hours for less than what will be made from them.
Wage labor is one of the core tenents of capitalism.
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 5 weeks ago:
If we really cared about drugs we would have drone struck the sackler family.
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 5 weeks ago:
And the CIA had a hand in the Opium trade in Afghanistan while we were there.
The US is comically evil abroad, and getting worse domestically every day.
- Comment on Don't think Gahan would mind a little edit. 1 month ago:
Not oddly shaped enough
- Comment on Truth in advertising 1 month ago:
Or it’s a Nazi dogwhistle disguised as a mistake. Hard to tell.
- Comment on Why do cops and soldiers get more media attention than the average citizen? 2 months ago:
Similar to why a “dog bites man” situation is unremarkable, unlike a “man bites dog”.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
I think it’s meant to play with your expectations. Normally someone’s take being posted is to show them being confidently stupid, otherwise it isn’t as interesting and doesn’t go viral.However, because we’re primed to view it from that lens, we feel crazy to think we’re doing the math correctly and getting the “wrong answer” from what we assume is the “confident dipshit”.
There’s layers beyond the superficial.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Exactly
- Comment on Oh what have I done 2 months ago:
Iconic scene where Edward lists out the elements in the church.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
If they don’t have email access, why is a password less magic link bad then?
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
Password reset?
- Comment on We are not the same 2 months ago:
Public restrooms don’t have a bidet. It’s the worst.
- Comment on Real Sleep 3 months ago:
Right, we’re equivicating both when they are not the same level of evil.
- Comment on Real Sleep 3 months ago:
It’s falsely equivicating the two, and saying “why don’t you care about the first one when China does settler shit?” The implication being “Oh you just hate Israel doing settler shit because you’re anti-semetic”.
It isn’t hard to pick apart the framing here and why it sucks.
- Comment on Real Sleep 3 months ago:
And one of them is a genocide. Zionist whataboutism is so fucking gross.
Let’s imagine for half a second those were also genocides as horrific. THAT DOESN’T EXCUSE THE PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE. WHAT THE FUCK?
- Comment on Impossible 4 months ago:
Ah yes, things people weren’t aware of in the 90s: masks, respiratory illness, mobile phones, cameras, and ice cream.
Granted that exact form factor of combination phone/camera is novel but come on.
- Comment on huge tracts of land 7 months ago:
Right, they act the way they do under specific material conditions and environments. Those can change.
If you just looked at prisoners and concluded humans are highly prone to violence, you would be missing the point.
- Comment on huge tracts of land 7 months ago:
It’s capitalism, not humans exactly.
- Comment on Again and Again and Again and..... 7 months ago:
They get to control a resource rich region AND bomb Muslims and/or brown people. Win / win for the sickest fucks among us.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 7 months ago:
I think the “it” there can also be the human nature to want to love/fuck many people, not just a single partner. I’m being charitable as I don’t think that’s the point they’re trying to make, but I’m not the commenter, so idk.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 7 months ago:
I mean, the rest of the comment did not help. It feels like a misogynistic critique of “how women are”. Glad you were able to pick up on that interpretation; but it obviously can be read, you know, the way it is literally written.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 7 months ago:
So you meant to say:
And most of the time it is women cheating in those movies.
Which, fair enough if that’s what you meant.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 7 months ago:
It sounds like the point they’re making is more: “we internalize and understand relationship norms through serial monogamy, and maybe more people would benefit from reconsidering if that is what they want.”
Not: “You wanna cheat on your partner? Just do it lol.”
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 7 months ago:
You might be internalizing those movie scripts and your own lived experience. A cursory Google search indicates the opposite.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 7 months ago:
I think there’s a big difference between fucking consenting adults while their partners are OK with it, and fucking children.
I shouldn’t have to spell that out but here we are.
- Comment on Anon watches Game of Thrones 8 months ago:
I like the implication that this nerd immediately whipped out his phone to post to 4chan when she said this.