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by nilskidoo 8y ago
We may not understand its logic, but that doesn't mean it's logic is beneath us. On a bad day for nature, it makes a two-headed cow. On a bad day for mankind's tech advancements, we get the means to wipe out all life on this
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I'd say that's the standard actually. Landlords steal whatever they like, including deposits, because with most of these situations the tenants are too busy finding the means to continue existing to have any to spare for litigatio
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
But all evidence suggests everyone is indeed an idiot.
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Step 1: Full-on civil war and overthrowing the federal government. People are kidding themselves thinking it will demand anything less.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Politicians are paid to push the laws that they do, and not by taxpayers.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Nothing innovative about being a self-serving chode. Lying, cheating and stealing all require effort, while refraining from those does not. People choose to be dicks, and that's nothing to celebrate.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
As evidenced by the current college admissions scandals. Success in a capitalist culture does not arrive from good intentions, merit or luck. Wealth affords favorable PR.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Legal mumbo-jumob guaranteeing customers for utilities companies. It was obviously livable as I was there for 5 months altogether without issue.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
WL hosts over half a million docs pertaining to the Russian government, and Assange's mentor Gavin MacFadyen was banned from entering Russia under any circumstances for the last 20 or 30 years of his life, but sure. And...the OP concer
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Let's have AWS accidentally decrypt a few more dozen terabytes of DoD datum and then decide.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
It's a purposed UBI, likely coming from the same magic tree as normie UBI. I can't imagine Uncle Sam giving some starving, homeless wretch one hundred bucks on the condition they only spend it on millionaire politicos.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
UBI would have the same effect as raising minimum wage always always always meets with- a raised cost of living. Cap maximum wages instead, and force revenue back down to its origins. As far funding campaigns, I've before suggested goi
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Except for the large antiwar subset.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
On that note, this wasn't so long ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/business/ivanka-trump-chi...
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
I was once served eviction papers by Louisville police over going a full winter without gas in my apartment. It wasn't that I neglected a bill, but that thanks to other obligations I knew I couldn't afford it, so I never opened an
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
This is as good a starting point as any: https://wikileaks.org/ttip/
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
The trio of global trade treaties, TISA, TTIP and TPP had small writing permitting larger corporations to ignore or even rewrite international laws should said laws promote regulations. They also had a clause, as Assange himself wrote about
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
A zillion to one the author received generous pharma grants while she was with the chemistry research lab at Oxford.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
A reminder that absolutely nothing online is permanent.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Exploitation is neither natural or virtuous. It's like arguing that a rapist has no earthly reason to consider what's probably the best interests of the drunken student. It doesn't matter how misguided or caught off guard use
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
This is an environment filled with people who believe adding a prefix or suffix to Capitalism somehow makes a good Capitalism. Thinking outside of boxes only happens offline, contrary to everything the cult believes.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
As long as culture treats celebrities and other self-serving persons like heroes, I think not. It's like taking down Confederate monuments. Obviously they inspire the wrong people, but ideally many more can be reminded to learn from th
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
"Money doesn't grow on trees." And neither wealth or power comes from good intentions.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Means can't justify the ends. "Might makes right" is the same logic used by rapists and murderers. We're seeing the privatization of national security into a strictly for-profit endeavor, in real time, and there's n
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
“The capitalistic profit motive, or answering to Wall Street, is what’s driving the expansion of invasion of data privacy and driving the expansion of a lot of negative outcomes that we’re just not happy with,” he said. “I wish there were g
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Affecting more lives than any terrorist act.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
As with communism, or democracy for that matter, faith in humanity looks great on paper but never actually seems to work out in practice.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
The faithful believe that the very billionaires/trillionaires who have pillaged all their holdings from the public, or who inherited their holdings from persons who pillaged it from the public, will magically be willing to float all of
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
When so many millions of users persist in the face of so many established facts, I'd say that each and every one deserves everything they get of the experience.
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by nilskidoo 8y ago
Democracy and Communism share their biggest flaw though, in that both systems invariably succumb to the greed of the individual, to the cult of Capitalism itself. And when more than half the federal revenue of the USA comes from selling wea

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