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by lurking15 2y ago
Ok so I'm talking with the wrong person and this conversation isn't useful and I won't change your mind. You're admittedly a die-hard progressive and democracy is less of a rational concept and more of a partisan religio
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by lurking15 2y ago
> that's what democracy enables I'm curious how much actual theory you've read about democracy, democracy is generally a gloss controlled by the elite to legitimize their own corruption and rule. The closest you'll ge
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by lurking15 2y ago
> Can't do much about a private enterprise without hundreds of millions in capital they all die generally in less than a generation, governments on the other end have the force of law and can demagogue their electorate and generally
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by lurking15 2y ago
> You now just introduced an entirely worthless layer that was wants to extract money. a little simplistic minded to think that government doesn't invariably tend towards rent-seeking and unchecked growth?
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by lurking15 2y ago
Sure I see your point, I'm not sure I accept it, but it just seems to me like the idea that there's "stigma" is flat wrong. At best the argument is that there's some sort of sleeper-cells like you're saying. Bu
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by lurking15 2y ago
> there is still too much social stigma towards women in STEM honestly I've seen nothing of this as someone who's been through the whole pipeline, it's been relentless pro-woman and every other non-white non-male identity
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by lurking15 2y ago
Yes it is heartless, because it's talking about complete dissolution of communities and swaths of the country due to corporate decisions that are all made under certain regulatory regimes and strategic policies of foreign nations (in m
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by lurking15 2y ago
> what gives it value? scarcity, for most people it's a representation of their labor valued on a market which in a fundamental way represents the energy they express insofar as government whips it up out of thin air, they're s
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by lurking15 2y ago
It's funny how (supposedly liberal) opponents of Trump will strategically whine about economic theory when generally otherwise if you were to make appeals on the basis of economics you're labelled heartless, etc. You know what? I
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by lurking15 2y ago
> Everyone in washington is a capitalist in the sense that Nancy Pelosi and others are enriching themselves through insider trading, I guess
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by lurking15 2y ago
> spending _its_ money They're spending everyone's money. How about we don't enslave people to their government and simply leave us all to spend our own money and resources how we see fit. Don't give me any nonsense
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by lurking15 2y ago
Even if you never got a SIBO diagnosis, look into the mBiota elemental diet course they offer. 2 weeks of it has been proven to normalize the gut microbiome for SIBO patients (methane & hydrogen). I also had a very negative reaction to
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by lurking15 2y ago
> plain and simple, are the reason for the housing crisis we have decades of evidence that policy artificially raised housing prices into unaffordability, and of course everything else worth having that's also been involved with hea
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by lurking15 2y ago
> the money will trickle down and everyone will be better off that's off-base and superficial understanding of "trickle-down" economics, the idea is that the general well-being of society is based in its ability to create
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by lurking15 2y ago
There’s a certain sort of left leaning person who’d be triggered by reading about elite theory and oligarchy and I suspect that’s what I’m up against but sure impugn me as unprincipled.
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by lurking15 2y ago
I think it's really naive to think that Quakers were somehow immune to basic power structures found in every society. Even emphasizing consensus as an ideal or practice doesn't mean there aren't the same oligarchic structures
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by lurking15 2y ago
A sports team isn't a political body like a government or union. It's entertainment and performance can't be faked.
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by lurking15 2y ago
So when I say - point at any organization even supposedly egalitarian ones and you'll see oligarchy. There are rulers and the ruled, rulers are abnormally competitive and willing to use deception and other underhanded tactics that norm
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by lurking15 2y ago
> This screed reads like someone who doesn't do testing. Or who only does end-to-end tests. this response reads like someone who's never worked in any size organization even with testing I've seen all sorts of organization
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by lurking15 2y ago
I don't know look at any organization in humanity, the most obvious one is what happened with the Democrat party, Biden is undeniably feeble and there was an entire oligarchic effort to deny that reality even during his 2020 campaign.
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by lurking15 2y ago
So when Jimmy Carter said he was able to recover a downed plane in Africa only after a psychic helped him, is that fringe?
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by lurking15 2y ago
Oligarchy is the unavoidable state of human society, even in communism as it’s ever been instantiated you have oligarchy
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by lurking15 2y ago
Lue Elizondo has not been fringe for decades, he has a very long and established career in counter-intel. Also Mick West left out key details and context of the Nimitz encounter which is laughable if he's trying to purport his video as
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by lurking15 2y ago
So Lue Elizondo (who is very much not a fringe person, with a lengthy career of service in the military and federal agencies) publishes a book that makes many assertions about the reality of non-human intelligence and now we've got thi
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by lurking15 2y ago
> I'd easily prefer the gradual dissolution of western civilization to my daughter being trapped in an abusive marriage with no right to divorce, being forced to give birth to a child she doesn't want, and so on the dissolution
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by lurking15 2y ago
It's a nice system but far too complicated for the world we live in, where most tech companies, especially banks, are filled with imported labor or outsourced globally. DDD requires a certain discipline and dedication I just haven&#x27
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by lurking15 2y ago
> Welchian capitalism It's a form of stock valuation chasing that's fueled by currency devaluation and inflation from government money policy. When the government forces interest rates low (whether it's 2% but especially w
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by lurking15 2y ago
> your supposition is so fraught that it’s not worth a cogent response > a flag that white progressives like to wave to tokenize Nothing you said makes sense. Celebrating black abortion as a victory ignores that an entire generation o
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by lurking15 2y ago
> in that we’re now intentional and forceful about consentful sex, accessible birth control, accessible abortion etc I guess this is Progressive in the 1920s sense (as much as the faux-sophisticates think they've outgrown the past,
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by lurking15 2y ago
they shouldn't be in the market either, they should be on a non-productive store of wealth that people could depend on and isn't hitched to Congress's penchant for debasing money and arbitrarily manipulating the economy throu

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