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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No. I'm undercover as a private investigator⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup! I intentionally go shopping looking like absolute trash, because almost every time I go shopping, someone assumes I work there, and I’m way too nice and often end up helping them anyway.

  I’ll wear sweats, an oversized hoodie, a backwards baseball cap, and earbuds, someone will still stop me and ask me a question obviously meant for a store employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, it is much harder than it used to be to catch the oppressor class off guard.

  But given how hard they work to discourage us from even nonviolently protesting, I suspect that they understand that once we truly collectively achieve class consciousness, it’s over for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d attribute this to two main factors:

  1. The wealth inequality we’re dealing with has a higher ceiling (and higher floor) than the wealth inequality in pre-revolution France. We’re poor and hurting financially, but most of us are still able survive day-to-day without viscerally feeling the effects of our poverty.

  2. The internet keeps us apart. Pre-internet, people built communities, coalitions, and armies much more effectively because they weren’t so isolated in their homes, and so paralyzed by screens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll acknowledge that saying it’s a dog whistle every time was slightly hyperbolic. 

  However, I’d argue that the claim that the global human population is declining too rapidly is actually pretty hotly contested. The world’s population is still growing — around 8.2 billion now, heading toward a peak near 10.3 billion in the 2080s.

  That being said, in some countries there will be a surplus of retirees and not enough workers to fund them through the existing tax structure, which is a legitimate problem. But it’s a problem best remedied through better social safety nets, not by popping out more babies.

  However, the biggest contention I have with the concern over population decline is that population decline doesn’t matter at all if we don’t adequately address climate change within the next decade. If someone’s house is actively on fire and they express concern to me that their roof should be re-shingled, I’m not going to give a shit about their roof shingles until I’m certain their roof will survive the fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, people worried about “population decline” are actually concerned about their preferred race/religion losing political & cultural power.

  It’s a dog whistle every time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surveillance Capitalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every new “feature” I see from Amazon makes me so glad I decided to wean myself off Amazon a couple years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seen.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.zip/comment/29299731

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight! Fight! Fight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering I think Putin and his ilk can & should get absolutely bodied & the fact that you thought I was a fan of Xi, yeah, I’d say you’re making assumptions when you should be asking clarifying questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight! Fight! Fight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, no I don’t. Make fewer assumptions, ask more questions.

  And I agree, Xi can fuck all the way off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight! Fight! Fight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think I’m wrong, feel free to tell me why

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight! Fight! Fight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about any country’s liberal party. I’m talking about neoliberals. In the U.S., they are often misidentified as being “the left”.

  And regarding NATO, I am against it as a specific entity, but I think that some of its functions are important and should not be lost if it is ever dismantled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight! Fight! Fight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except liberals aren’t “the left”. Liberals are center or center-left at best. Liberals are funded by the same entities as the right is, yes, but this distinction is important, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight! Fight! Fight!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the actual left’s whole deal is fighting billionaires.

  I really need everyone to stop conflating liberals with the left, and also learn some basic political theory before speaking on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiddies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a lesbian, and even I need this to end