AshWolfy

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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Maybe there is a reason housing isnt built on that land. Maybe we shouldnt be bulldozing every forest just so we dont have to rethink how we organize society
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
> The leftist desire to redistribute wealth (which I think is strongly misplaced and immoral) will become irrelevant once we achieve a certain level of abundance that is unlike anything we are accustomed to today. It will be like wanting
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Thats a bullshit excuse, apple has the worst battery management, ive seen a flood of iphones, including iphone 10s, with power issues with no equivalent for any other manufacturer outside of specific models
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
yeah and we see how poorly that turned out
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first they came for the socialists
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BRCA which citizens united partially struck down had no approved organization list, and no ban on publishing
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Andy Ngo is known to use selective editing and openly lies about facts, and is not a valid source on anything\ A single instance of a protestor who falsely claimed to be press, and did not commit any crimes does not prove that people who cl
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
> we've also seen a lot of "journalists" throwing rocks and molotov cocktails on live stream and doing other criminal acts Ive watched a lot of livestreams of the protest and never once saw a livestreamer throw a rock or m
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Well you could get involved in the labor movement to make sure that doesnt happen, after all unions are democratic. Unions turning against immigration is very unlikely, even relatively conservative unions like the teamsters are on board now
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Maybe so, but the mob im organizing with is groups like no tech for ice which have stopped companies from contracting with ICE. Or the kickstarter union which secured good terms for workers laid off during covid
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Unions are democracies, unions only get that way when people dont engage
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Union workers have better pay, better benefits, more job security, etc
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Many politicians are very aware, just also aware attacking big tech is popular. This is a bipartisan attack
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Mobs are a fact of life, you can either live in denial, or you can try and make things better
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
What about unions like the UFW which were among the greatest champions of immigrant rights in the US. The accepted line in unions these days is anti immigration efforts divide workers
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Sectoral bargaining is rare, its typically within individual employers or workplaces, even if we decide to do sectoral bargaining unions are democratic, and we could change what we bargain for or refuse to participate in sectoral bargaining
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Union workers have better pay, better benefits, more job security, etc. Many unions are shitty, but even a job with a shitty union is better than a job with no union
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Facebook has been overlooking conservatives breaking tos and tailoring their algorithm to suit conservatives
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
That would only be true if there was a tradeoff inherent in technology people prefer. There isnt, but the best technology often has the worst privacy and most anti consumer practices because it makes more money
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Signature checking is not what people are mad about, the only way to get anything not bad from this situation is in the most abstract view that signature checking is not bad thats the problem with people who dismiss Klein and her "oeu
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> Top down regulation will just make startups less likely to enter new disruptive tech Im ok with this
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
It doesnt count as winning the argument if you paid them to agree with you
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Or perhaps change the system that incentivizes companies to violate privacy over and over again
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European internet is better because of regulation, forcing competition, and government investment in infrastructure, not the free market
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what makes you think you are special and able to resist manipulation?
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It doesnt solve the issue and wouldnt actually be much money anyways
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
i mean we literally just saw this how covid overwhelmed our just in time supply chains
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> Earlier generations passed those laws because they viewed mass surveillance as a fundamentally Soviet activity with no place in a free society Laughs in cointelpro
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
yes, because at least the user is trying to act in their own best interest, even if they fail
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Counterpoint, intensive farming companies, with full ownership of the land, are ruining the topsoil of their land because the cost of farming sustainably is greater than the cost of acquiring new land

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