ixtli

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by ixtli 4y ago
hmmm you seem like the exact sort of chap i'd love to hire! plz send resume as well as a signed consent for the doors to be locked from the outside while you are inside the (mandatory) office!
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"If i were a coder in my 20s again, i know exactly where i would go work right now. what an incredible moment."
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But what about the sweatshop owners?
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You joke but there are definitely going to be people making this connection for real.
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They ran a very very successful kickstarter. I think people who have them paid into a different reward tier and got stuff early.
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by ixtli 4y ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipper-devices/flipper... perhaps a different reward tier for the kickstarter? it was a massive success. if you check the comment / karma history for people saying they h
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by ixtli 4y ago
All correct. It’s a real shame because there was a more subtly disconcerting thing where if you look at the Jewish groups Corbyn did spend time with, and compare them to the few Jewish leaders who supported the antisemitism claims … you sta
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by ixtli 4y ago
Oh come on. You know well that the interparty collaboration to take down Corbyn was far from due to earnest concern about Jews safety. On the contrary, they are once again using us as a rhetorical cudgel to achieve their ends.
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Exceptional point. I hadn’t noticed this bit when I read just now.
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No. For the same reason I don’t trust VC backed startups that are scaling.
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Yup
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I agree. It’s externalizing vague and poorly analyzed discomfort as something happening outside himself.
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At what point do we expect people to know they’re in for some nonsense if they work for a musk company?
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The border enforcement is not in and of itself imperialist. This is a bad faith engagement with what I think is a pretty clear argument. Our border enforcement is a small piece of a much larger program of imperialism. We overthrow and desta
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by ixtli 4y ago
I am a Jew and I have studied this and visited camps. I just visited the site of one in France. It is quite clear that needing to separate what has happened to children and families on the southern border from that which happened to, say, t
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by ixtli 4y ago
The amount of money made by owners off of the labor of those undocumented people is strong evidence that we're throwing out a very valuable resource if we aggressively deport people.
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You are highly unlikely to ever be in the class of people who are harmed by collective labor action. Further, you are in the group that is doing the collective action.
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This simple reality gets overlooked all the time. A large portion of labor in this country is undocumented. The employers, whos existence depends on this and related labor abuses, are rarely if ever held accountable and its the people DOING
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by ixtli 4y ago
Richard Stallman once said that "geeks like to think they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone." When people imply that there is such a thing as an a-political take on the worl
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by ixtli 4y ago
I think this is best illustrated in the pathological US need for every level of the entire infrastructure stack to be revenue positive. The recent whinging about the post office is a great example. Further, people asking "whos going to
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by ixtli 4y ago
I generally agree that the people you’re talking about are unique in how they obfuscate their intentions when they talk about this stuff. It’s always parsing slogans and decoding in-group concepts.
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They participate in the operation of concentration camps at the southern border so I believe they are deserving of more harsh judgement.
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It has always been conspicuous to me how vocal most Americans are about wanting personal privacy AND about wanting “smaller” government but at the same time not doing much of anything when things like this, the Snowden leaks, and etc come o
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Further he was famous while he was still alive amongst scientists for his writings on this topic. It wasn’t until later that he became an icon of the Mutualist / Anarchist movements.
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by ixtli 4y ago
This isn’t true unfortunately. I recommend reading a biography of the man because he was, amongst other things, an old school Fascist and this ideological belief helped him succeed.
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It was roundly disproven by many schools of naturalism in the 19th century. The notion that competition is somehow inherent to life is convenient to justify zero sum games but not observable, especially within a single species. Peter Kropot
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I would go further and define “efficient.” They are, in western society, efficient at accumulating private capital in the hands of capitalists. No claim is made by anyone to the contrary.
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This is the neoliberal ideology they are talking about, yes :)
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They are mutually exclusive. Solidarity is the opposite of individualism.
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Absolutely correct. And if you look out share of the global GDP has been steadily declining relative to the wealth of other nations since then. The days of American hegemony are numbered, thank god.

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