etherwaste

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by etherwaste 1y ago
The problem, and the trick, of this word-game regarding empathy, is frequently the removal of context. For example, when you talk about "forcing mentally ill people on the street to get treatment," we divorce the practical realiti
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by etherwaste 5y ago
Marxism isn't when you have coops under the capitalist mode of production, because things are still being produced for the sake of profit, not for social and common, and it still has the effect of making living labour serve accumulated
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by etherwaste 5y ago
A political system which operates above and oppresses the bourgeois class? Based!
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by etherwaste 5y ago
Tik Tok also automatically edits your appearance with default filters.
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Just because you can't tell precisely when the sand becomes a pile doesn't mean piles or grains don't exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
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by etherwaste 6y ago
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Like Briar?
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Cool, posting a far right propaganda website as a reasonable source that the government should just do nothing for the homeless and the homeless will pull themselves up by their bootstraps, because after all, they're only homeless beca
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Y'all need to read Marx.
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Censorship-free? What are you talking about? On instances there are moderators that can do as they please and the largest federation doesn't allow instances like Gab in it.
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by etherwaste 6y ago
That is not how commodity production works. The evolution of the commodity form has been one of competing commodity producers, where one will always lose out and have to sell their wage labor to the winning commodity producer and the existi
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by etherwaste 6y ago
> Corporations are actually held accountable. If they screw up, the owners can lose out massively. Executives too through incentive programs. Ha! Is that why climate crisis is being driven by 100 companies? What's your excuse for th
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Just wait until you find out about what happens to the surplus labor value in capitalism in general...
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by etherwaste 6y ago
This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
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by etherwaste 6y ago
Not only is this psychopathic, to prioritize property above human life, to have such draconian sentences handed out so carelessly, not only is it so inhumane, to value human life so little, but it's also just factually and objectively