markr

@markr@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US not considered a third world country?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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’⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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"?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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.