markr
@markr@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country? 4 months ago:
You’ve doctored your first two points to avoid the fact that widespread corruption and crumbling infrastructure are in fact a feature of the USA. That said, obviously we are not a ‘third world’ country, nor a ‘developing or under-developed’ country. We are, instead in our own special category of fucked. We have an absolutely giant economy, but as we have decided politically to disinvest in all of our public sectors, either by privatization or under-funding, we are rapidly becoming dysfunctional. Add to that the huge global reclaiming of surplus value from workers wages to plutocrats profits, and we are, as is obvious, in a political crisis shared by the rest of the neoliberal democracies.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
Everyone will be working multiple shitty service jobs that robots are not cost effective to automate. Our miserable wages will be just sufficient to keep the wheels on the cart from falling off.
- Comment on They hated him, for he spoke the truth 10 months ago:
Leg breaking was invented to handle the idiots who were in to their bookies for way more than 100%.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 10 months ago:
I assume you meant decent. Prime has always been substandard. They are indeed a descent service gliding right down into the enshittification cesspool.
- Comment on Dave Chappelle’s Obsession With Mocking Trans People Continues in New Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’: ‘I Love Punching Down’ 10 months ago:
Uh, it is?
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
From now on I’m calling it Foot Football. That other game is Hand Football.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Oligarchs funding a resurgence of fascism in order to protect the global system that is wrecking the environment, successfully it seems.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
And on a related note, zen buddhists have a pretty vile subsect that is entwined with Japanese militarism and has been for centuries. However there are a lot of buddhists who are really good people, and lots of buddhist sects likewise. As with almost all religions, it depends on the particular flavor of ideology they have adopted.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
Depends on the monk. The shitty Buddhists in Myanmar support genocide.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
It’s a horrible graph. Likely they meant ‘evangelical protestant’ to differentiate that group from protestants like Lutherans Methodists Anglicans etc.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
just about every police reform has failed to provide any independent oversight, failed to address the core problems, and generally just poured more money into the already bloated and militarized police force.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
Lumping ‘always’ with ‘sometimes’ is cooking your results to meet your objective.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
you oddly misspelled ‘fascist’ as ‘conservative’.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 1 year ago:
Also I am just thrilled that so many here have encouraged you to view your awareness of just how shitty the system is as a mental illness, as a failure on your part to be correctly integrated into society. There is nothing wrong with you. What is wrong is the system itself.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 1 year ago:
Yes There Is! I am here to tell you that your fully alienated existence can be mediated by engaging in your commodification as part of the spectacle of end stage capitalism. Consume and Be Consumed!
- Comment on How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ? 1 year ago:
Also illustrators for newspapers - as the tech for mechanical reproduction made it possible to put photographs into newspapers and magazines most of those jobs disappeared.
- Comment on So what happened with the protests in Iran? 1 year ago:
Iran is a fascist theocracy. There is no ‘consent of the people’ operative there. The theocrats kill enough people to stay in power.
- Comment on Elon Musk wanting to remove dim theme from twitter 1 year ago:
The only spectrum he is on is the asshole spectrum.