alxjrvs

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by alxjrvs 5mo ago
We don't even have to zoom in, to be honest. What children? What park? The presence of a park pre-supposes a political society that has prioritized parks, the budget to enact those priorities, and the space to do so. Any one of those c
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
> Some people hold a point of view that there is something other than democracy serves their agenda better. Well, since they don't believe in democracy, I suppose they won't be too concerned when their opinions are discarded. W
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
I also wonder if it includes the part where mark paraphrases the 14 words. We're at the "White nationalists have some good points" stage of discourse.
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
Feels like the kind of headline that would briefly pause in front of the camera to establish how the world got "like this".
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
I disagree. Capitalism is a very specific, recent invention. You are living out the actual quote. I don't care if its nature - in my estimation, it fucking sucks! Your argument works just as easily for Kings, Slavery, and every other h
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
I am going to try to respond to the middle chunk later, because I don't really understand the lines you are drawing and how they map to my argument. In some sense, you are describing "The Market", which is another thing that
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
> Right now if I step out into the street, I can flag a taxi, I can buy a coffee. In each case these are direct peer to peer transactions, where the price is agreed between us based on what we both want out of the exchange I agree that w
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
Do you mean trade or mercantilism? Capitalism - a system by which the means of production are privately owned - has only been dominant for the last few hundred years, broadly exacerbated by the industrial revolution (where you could easily
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
IMO, this is the right idea. I've worked on small projects using Jira primarily as a means of ticket management, and I've worked on giant orgs with scrums and groomings and all that. As far as a tool, it's perfectly fine. A l
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
> what for almost all of human history, is something so far beyond the imagination as to be bordering on the grotesque. Citation needed
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
There are whole swaths of still living people who would gladly give up their wombs. Trans men, for example. Not that there's any amount of polite progress that won't cause insane public discourse when it involves gender.
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
Damn, it's almost like Gender is largely vibes and any attempt to root it in a strict biological standard is as patently ridiculous as it would be trying to do the same to horoscopes. Giving birth is already not a precondition of being
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
Racist fears of "replacement", mostly.
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
>You mean that when they send people back to their home countries because they're no longer welcome here? > I don't like bullies, but when they do the "made you flinch" thing, part of me wants to smirk. You like b
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by alxjrvs 1y ago
Imagine the organization you are imagining in your head. Now imagine there is a Super-boss, who is exactly like the "people running the business" (attribution needed), but one level above them. If the Super Boss were to look at th
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
Because the marketers oversold it. That is why you are seeing a pushback. I also outright rejected them because 1) they were sold and marketed as end all be all replacements for human thought, and 2) they promised to replace only the parts
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
It was a sideways reference to an old line from a detective movie. I'm trying to say that the emperor is nude, and you are arguing that the threads might be so small as to not see them - or, rather, that the Media said he was naked, so
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
What about your own lying eyes?
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
> I don't think it's necessarily evidence of being anti-democracy in his leanings. This is either willful ignorance or something else.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
> Either way, I think a pro-Democracy attitude will oppose growing power of unelected officials, regardless of political leanings. DOGE is headed by an unelected official, from a party with not a lot of Pro-democracy leanings to spare ri
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
Absolutely - there are many who are actively complicit, and I don't mean to give shield for everyone.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
Many of them are trapped by work visas.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
The same number closets you'd need to build before you've build a house.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
I would agree! Let us both continue to trust our eyes. It was a nazi salute.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
Who do you trust, the Party, or your lying eyes?
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
> I believe he is well-intentioned and a good person You should read more about the things he says, does, and the way he treats people, especially from those who are close to him. The picture it paints is something I'd consider &quo
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
Who do you trust, the Party, or your lying eyes?
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
IMO, this is no more "ironic" than hot chocolate tasting like chocolate. Dude campaigned on open corruption, and is actively taking measures to prevent anyone from stopping him. It stinks.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
Dear Leader is never wrong. There is no COVID in ba sing se.
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by alxjrvs 2y ago
I was trying to address the incoherence of this; > Y'all really doubling down on this whole "77 million people are white supremacists" huh? > You understand this means that the other 75 million people are actually looki

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