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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
- Comment on Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs 20 hours ago:
I really hate the kind of liberal reform where they recognize that something is obviously bad, but instead of banning it they just require that the business discloses the information. Heaven forbid we restrain businesses or interfere in the market in any way!
And incredibly the only other party thinks that forcing them to disclose is too much regulation. 🤡
- Comment on idk 4 days ago:
I have mine set on a timer, fill it up with water before I go to bed, and when I wake up I can immediately make a hot broth breakfast. It’s reduced my morning routine by 8 whole minutes!
- Comment on Freaky ass bird 1 week ago:
My family was discussing what the NFL turducken would look like if it was alive.
Possible contender!
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 week ago:
Are we the baddies?
- Comment on Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world's largest city, according to UN 1 week ago:
I know about Jakarta because I read about how the CIA couped Sukarno during the Cold War.
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 1 week ago:
None. Everyone will have an AI interpreter implanted at birth that can translate gestures and grunting into language as we desperately try to I communicate like our ancestors did.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
Do you ever spend even a second with your own thoughts?
- Comment on turing completeness 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that just… every app?
- Comment on where the cuties 4 weeks ago:
Turns out, microplastics make you immortal.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 weeks ago:
They feel empowered, partially, because they’re basically anonymous. Everyone is basically a faceless tank on the road.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 weeks ago:
I think the inability to communicate makes road rage worse, actually. Simple matters that could be solved by a quick comment become rage inducing because there’s literally nothing you can do about them.
- Comment on This is a GREAT idea 5 weeks ago:
What if, instead of hiring a company, we organized together as workers and yelled at the boss collectively? 🤔
- Comment on If it happened, would anybody even question it? 5 weeks ago:
Legitimate improvement.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 5 weeks ago:
All of that stuff is great.
Just don’t make me use a touch screen while I’m driving.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 month ago:
There’s also longer work days and less work shared between the clan/gens/extended family.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 month ago:
That pales in comparison to the massive time investment of having a full time job and taking care of a living space by yourself (cooking, cleaning, shopping, repairs, etc). This is unique to our era, we used to not work as many hours and we used to live in more communal family spaces where work was evenly shared so that everyone had lighter loads.
The fact that I can squeeze in 20 minutes of posting a day isn’t the reason I can’t go on 3 hour walks like I used to.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 month ago:
Time isn’t free.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 month ago:
Yeah, but in this case the passengers are committed to not laying a hand on the driver as he drives them off the cliff.
- Comment on Share your poops! 1 month ago:
- Comment on SPOOPY SEASON HATH ARRIVED 1 month ago:
This is the plot of Parasite Eve
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 1 month ago:
Israel is the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world. It’s the land bridge that connects Africa to Europe, the reason migrants have to die in the Mediterranean instead of walk. It’s the US laboratory for field testing a weapons, surveillance, and border security tech. It’s a modern crusader state that enables Europeans to occupy holy Jerusalem, and the gun pointed at the head of the USs enemies in the region.
There’s so many reasons that it’s hard to even guess which is the most important.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 month ago:
Reading theory is for tankies.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 month ago:
Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.
If a firm isn’t growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you’ll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation, so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.
Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.
It’s a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 2 months ago:
No it just gives bombs to Israel so it can murder them.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 months ago:
Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don’t blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 2 months ago:
You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.
Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 2 months ago:
Because they’re fascists.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 2 months ago:
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s fewer horses these days.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?
Are you confusing me with someone else?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
And now you’re insulting me.
What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?
I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!
These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.
Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.
And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.
We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.
