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by rexpop 9mo ago
For much of history, laws in many countries were designed to uphold systems of privilege for white men. Segregation, discrimination, and unequal treatment were institutionalized, limiting legal protections for non-white individuals and wome
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by rexpop 9mo ago
There are a lot of racist uncles in tech.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
No one is entitled to being rich or famous.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Good riddance! He was a nasty bigot who promoted racism and misogyny. His comic was never that good. His cultural influence as a celebrity has been massively, disgustingly negative. The world is better off without him.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
It's annoying that you guys clutch your pearls over an imaginary gulag while actual people are being actually rounded up and sent to camps.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
You're foolishly myopic if you think your ideology coincides with the global historical best. Have a little humility and consider that there are concepts you haven't even heard of that might be better.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
If neither option satisfies, we must go up the stack. There is something seriously wrong with a society that drives educated, productive adults to suicide.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
Kant's categorical imperative is bullshit. Everyone can't sleep in my bed.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
Socialized training. Socialized profits.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
Thank you! The OP is being very ambiguous and cavalier with language.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
Even if it's satire, it's still creepy.
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by rexpop 10mo ago
Is this how we are to attribute atrocities? Where does the buck stop?
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by rexpop 10mo ago
You libertarian free market types sure hate it when consumers express preferences for—let alone make demands of—our vendors. Let the invisible hand decide if "provenance" is a differentiator, and lay off the slurs.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Grokipedia is a project motivated by personal grudges and political aims, rather than a neutral technical experiment. The broader context is an intensifying campaign against free and open access information by the world's richest man,
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Only insofar as it's subject to regulatory capture by monied interests.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
My fellow humans' experiences are inherently valuable to me, and believe my contributions are, likewise, valuable to them. This is, as far as I know, a fundamental and universal aspect of the human experience. Isn't that obvious?
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Ugh, your attitude really pisses me off, but I want to help you because my liberation is bound up in yours, so here goes. > It's layers above me that need to hear it Most workers socialized under capitalism feel this way, that the p
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by rexpop 11mo ago
They're "cool"? What does that mean? My drug dealer is cool; a business analyst generates inactionable metadata that doesn't move the needle.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
It's not that homeownership deferred until 40 "doesn't feel good". It's that we've missed out on a decade of housing security—a material condition that impacts both physical and social well-being.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
The jobs lost are "business analyst, data analyst, data scientist, and business-intelligence developer." That's not coding. Those are bullshit jobs.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Insofar as "All ambiguity is resolved by practitioners at the sharp end of the system", a tool that resolves ambiguity higher up the org chart is going to be less impressive to those of us who resolve ambiguity day in and day out.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Hi, Jew here: I was with you until you started slandering dissenters as "rootless cosmopolitans"—a slur has cost my family dearly—from jobs and enrollments to several dozen of our very lives. Yes, NO land is an "economic zone
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Their hypocrisy stems from something akin to the fundamental attribution error; a belief that drugs are degenerative alongside a belief that degenerates are race/class/caste essential.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
Read a book.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
No, it's mainstream, almost universal belief that masculinity is synonymous with domination or the will to do violence. Masculinity has been traditionally constructed in many societies as a set of norms that emphasize strength, dominan
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by rexpop 11mo ago
> ... the left believes, or even phrases their policies to imply, that... There's no meaningful "Left" policy in the US. We only have two Neoliberal parties. There's no "Leftist" Heritage Foundation , say.
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by rexpop 11mo ago
The solution to the struggles of boys and men, masked by patriarchal pseudo-solutions, is fundamentally tied to a revolution of values, the elimination of patriarchy as an organizing principle, and the reclamation of male emotional integrit
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by rexpop 1y ago
I don't follow.
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by rexpop 1y ago
There is something deeply disturbing about the commonality of the "paternalist" conception of government. I've been troubled by the normalization of "daddy" and paternal government rhetoric, especially the "dad
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by rexpop 1y ago
Why is this unfortunate? Urban living shrinks each person’s land and energy footprint by packing people efficiently, cutting carbon emissions through public transit and walkability, preserving open natural spaces, and enabling more efficien

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