Atlas667

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by Atlas667 1y ago
The culture warriors are those who enable the culture war through framing discussions in incompatible ways. Charlie Kirk, while pretending to be neutral, was funded by the rich to promote certain narratives and make clips owning the libs. Y
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This is just kinda more culture war. This post is assuming that acts of violence, like Charlie Kirk's assassination, are promoted and committed by large groups of people who identify, benefit or agree with parts of a specific framework
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The ad viewer rationale is parallel to advertiser interests and state goals. The media will try to satisfy it's advertisers editorially as well as comply with some state narratives for state favors. Advertisers have massive leverage ov
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Legal human trafficking was good for capitalism (not for the trafficked or for US workers). Good for the capitalists' economy. This just made it a little bit harder for american capitalists. No doubt there are nationalist concerns but
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This will end what is essentially legal human trafficking by medium and large corporations. Which is clearly a good thing, but I fear it signals deteriorating relationships with other countries.
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I don't understand why people can't make the logically necessary step to conclude that capitalism promotes cartels because there are profits to be made in cartels. Capitalism always results in monopolies and cartels. This was know
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My whole argument is that you can fulfill individual desires better through other means. > It does, I'm certainly more comfortable in an i-Pace than most of the economy hoopties I've ubered in. The lack of choices due to monopo
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Yeah. Almost as if capitalism seeks to generate profits at the expense of the consumer especially if they have limited choices, which capitalism itself produces.
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It doesn't really help consumers whose whole point is to get from point A to B in the quickest and most comfortable manner. It doesn't help traffic, and it only will if self driving cars are already the majority, which is a conven
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Nobody needs this. This is incentivized as private enterprise developing autonomous warfare tech.
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Nobody needs this. This is, in all likelihood, just private enterprise developing technologies for automated warfare.
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This is a such a false dichotomy, mate. The capitalists see PFAS policies as anti-free-trade because it imposes "artificial" limits on production. They see PFAS policies as "big govt overreach". And that if consumers don
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When people en masse remember what capitalist policies do
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Errr my bad, you're right. IP*
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Word interpretation is a part of "word usage".
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You got it. Copyright is about defending monopolization, not just about creative rights and ensuring attribution. Copyright is an artificial system propping up huge sections of the economy/whole industries. It's internal protectio
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I'm not retreating into a wider claim. The civil rights issues were literally about "american" not meaning all of us legally. That is my example for prior usage of the word "american" being biased. It was so biased
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Like I said in the other chain: What were civil rights issues about if not that "american" literally didn't apply to all of us on a constitutional/federal/state and cultural level? You seem to be fixated on pointing
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Jesse Owens example is literally one example and one where they would have the obvious inclination for him to be in-group. > (Remind me, which one of us is arguing that it's awkward and uncomfortable to emphasize someone's race
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You say its "progressive academia" but unless people are reading sociology research papers the way nearly all people come upon this is through mass media. Is it now your theory to say that "progressive academia" controls
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Non comment. Disregarded.
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And so how does this relate to legos? I was explaining reasonings for lego defaulting yellow into white. The defaulting of "american" into white does happen frequently in news headlines by simple fact of often referring to black p
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I'll just copy part of my other comment: As another comment pointed out this is in part due to racial majority being defaulted into the non-specific term "american". As in: most americans are white so "americans" is
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When you need to specify what kind of lineage a person carries people will commonly say a person is "african-american" or "native-american", but never say "european-american". As another comment pointed out thi
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You're absolutely right. But look up the thread at what was being said. We were talking about "yellow" being racially neutral according to lego and how that was proven wrong by lego themselves. Same thing happened in US media
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> African American is an alternative to "black". It was not invented to make a lesser form of "American". Man, I'm not saying its lesser. I'm talking about how its used. I think you want to assign morality t
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You're missing the point. "American" can be interpreted as racially neutral, but then why is "african-american" very common, but using "european-american" is almost non existent?. Same as "native-amer
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I dont think you understood his comment. He's right. And not because they intentionally made yellow into white, but because they unintentionally made it so. It's exactly the same as being an american vs being an african-america
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There's Detroit but theres also thousands and thousands of small towns everywhere where the main industry was coal/minerals or other resources that were outdated and left to poverty. And the "regulation" argument is very
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Yes, capitalism has been great, and we can do better. Capitalism has a flaw, it only does what is profitable. What is profitable is not one and the same with what is socially necessary or even what is good. They're more like analogous.

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