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In other words, all hail our new corporate thought police. The market can do no wrong, right? Sick of getting squashed by big tech? Feel like the market (of bil

by titzer 3y ago

In other words, all hail our new corporate thought police. The market can do no wrong, right? Sick of getting squashed by big tech? Feel like the market (of billions of dollars of ad money) didn't punish them hard enough? Just launch your own Twitter with that spare $X billion you've got lying around! Free speech for the rich and the advertisers, just like the Enlightenment promised! You keep getting downvoted because the rest of us kinda watched the internet happen for the past 20 years. Where were you?

nemo44x 3y ago
Actually all my comments in this thread are at 1 and one of them at 2. It has been all over the place up and down. And just because a comment is downvoted here doesn’t mean it’s bad or wrong. In fact look at all the engagement it has created. Clearly there is a conversation to be had. Trying to dismiss it with quips like yours probably feel good to type but are meaningless. By your comments you belong to a class of people that feels entitled to things you never earned or contributed to and would like an authoritarian government to steal it. This is the worst kind of person. Far worse than a fascist.
- titzer 3y ago
  Ha, I read Ayn Rand 20 years ago, before the last stages of anarcho-capitalism revealed how vapid and destructive that non-philosophy to be. I don't feel entitled to anything, but I do think you get what you pay for. And America has been paying for a shitty government and has a shitty government with no serious hope of fighting off the endlessly metastasizing corporate ticks that are constantly rent-seeking, penning us in to less and less choice, and then gaslighting the most gullible into thinking that it's the "free market" or whatever. But yeah, keep thinking about people who want a functioning society as "looters" or whatever. We just want people to pay their taxes, especially rich people who can frickin afford it.
  - nemo44x 3y ago
    Rich people pay almost all the taxes. America isn’t perfect but it’s pretty good overall. The government is made up of the people. Complaining about it like it’s the cable company not delivering good enough service is ridiculous. Get in there and make the change you want to see. Get involved. I’m not Randian but I do agree that it’s problematic how some people believe they’re entitled to the property of others. That they should be included because they exist and support policy that confiscates, mainly out if greed and envy. It’s mainly people that think they should be amongst the elite and they aren’t. Which to them is proof the country is bad.

by titzer 3y ago

nemo44x 3y ago

Actually all my comments in this thread are at 1 and one of them at 2. It has been all over the place up and down. And just because a comment is downvoted here doesn’t mean it’s bad or wrong. In fact look at all the engagement it has created. Clearly there is a conversation to be had. Trying to dismiss it with quips like yours probably feel good to type but are meaningless. By your comments you belong to a class of people that feels entitled to things you never earned or contributed to and would like an authoritarian government to steal it. This is the worst kind of person. Far worse than a fascist.

titzer 3y ago
Ha, I read Ayn Rand 20 years ago, before the last stages of anarcho-capitalism revealed how vapid and destructive that non-philosophy to be. I don't feel entitled to anything, but I do think you get what you pay for. And America has been paying for a shitty government and has a shitty government with no serious hope of fighting off the endlessly metastasizing corporate ticks that are constantly rent-seeking, penning us in to less and less choice, and then gaslighting the most gullible into thinking that it's the "free market" or whatever. But yeah, keep thinking about people who want a functioning society as "looters" or whatever. We just want people to pay their taxes, especially rich people who can frickin afford it.
- nemo44x 3y ago
  Rich people pay almost all the taxes. America isn’t perfect but it’s pretty good overall. The government is made up of the people. Complaining about it like it’s the cable company not delivering good enough service is ridiculous. Get in there and make the change you want to see. Get involved. I’m not Randian but I do agree that it’s problematic how some people believe they’re entitled to the property of others. That they should be included because they exist and support policy that confiscates, mainly out if greed and envy. It’s mainly people that think they should be amongst the elite and they aren’t. Which to them is proof the country is bad.