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by rexpop 2y ago
The point of the "war" framing is to manufacture consent for the chronic inflammation that is patriarchal domination via semi-martial law.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Funny, I feel like I'm penalized for not agreeing with conservative, jingoistic genocide-denialism and for not pretending, as conservatives do, that racism ended with MLK's assassination.
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by rexpop 2y ago
I'm saying that calling them thieves is genocide apologia.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> it's a tension in the system Yeah, of course there is "structural" slack (and tension) in any system, but don't forget that "Solidarity Forever" is only two things: 1) a default, initial reaction to manage
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by rexpop 2y ago
> one problem is that union representatives have to fight on behalf of the worst dues-paying members. Without referencing police or prison guard unions, can you explain why this is bad?
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by rexpop 2y ago
> if it's okay on a small scale now, it must've been fine on a large scale then This is literally the opposite of cause-and-effect, and also a horrifically simplistic—even elementary —ethical model.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> This collection is dehumanizing, not my comment. Put up or shut up.
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by rexpop 2y ago
AWS suspended Parler over violent content, not because of political views, and not in collusion with the state. The J&J vaccine was not "taken off the market." It was temporarily paused to investigate rare blood clot cases. Ou
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by rexpop 2y ago
I'm not "try to be a clown," but your choice to recognize some levels of abstraction and not others is absurd to me. > the most desirable city of the world Well it's not like these German residents can teleport to Kua
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by rexpop 2y ago
Or is it their constituent cells? Or their constituent molecules?
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Of course not. Why not? There's a saying about babies and bathwater or something.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Do you likewise idealize chattel slavers' plantations? Eichmann's bureaucracy? What do you emulate from King Leopold's "colorful" subjugation of the Congo? How do you coach subordinates to follow the example of the
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by rexpop 2y ago
> LinkedIn is a weird place where we all post like Stepford wives for our employers. Thank you for this horrifically accurate and insightful characterization.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Pity the rest of us who have to live in the world they make!
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Where does the money the landlord pays in property tax come from? It comes from me. > If that tax doubled next year, what would happen? It would cut into his maintenance budget, utilities would break down, and I'd start paying
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by rexpop 2y ago
Yes, I've shocked myself by referencing it, but if it's not your fetish, it is blackmail, abuse, and non-consensual body modification. It's somebody's literal nightmare.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> This was a fun read It made me physically ill.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> capitalism doesn’t need dismantling I'm not repudiating (in this thread) capitalism, per se. Only whatever system it is that's abusing OP's protagonist. If you think capitalism inevitably punches someone in the stomac
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by rexpop 2y ago
It's fiction in the "second person" perspective, and you should keep reading until you can empathize with the protagonist, purely because it will help you recognize abuse and/or the trappings of professionalism which cau
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Who are you to feel bad about your situation? Who am I? Who are any of us to complain and/or fix things? The answer is: we're the only people who can. Change has to start somewhere. The best thing for people who have it wor
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by rexpop 2y ago
Skip to the first <hr />
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by rexpop 2y ago
I've spent time with several schizophrenics, and this is infinitely more coherent. I envy your inability to digest it. > The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents
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by rexpop 2y ago
I couldn't finish reading this because of the intimately familiar existential nausea it induces, so I scrolled rapidly through it only stopping to observe that it touches on both psychiatry and unemployment in ways that made me glad I
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by rexpop 2y ago
You're saying I'm paying my landlord's taxes? And also Chipotle's? I'll bet my boss' taxes come out of my paycheck, too! Those slippery bastards.
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by rexpop 2y ago
> Maybe that’s the secret of a Deep Life? Not reading news, Oh, OK, let's just uncritically hand our democracy over to whomever, then. Who ever said it required an informed populace, anyway?
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by rexpop 2y ago
Au contraire, if you haven't anyone or anything to bail you out, how can you justify the risk of innovating? Man is not an island.
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by rexpop 2y ago
Appreciate the thoughtful and heartfelt response. > If you're talking about America's GOP, they are inveterate liars who cause untold misery the world over. Well, yeah. I mean, all you're preaching sounds lovely, but eg Pe
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by rexpop 2y ago
"Asking for help from the universe's Creator" is the popular tactic from the world's most regressive, Christian science-deniers and the greatest fools of our day. With all due respect, no one is more diligently ignorant
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by rexpop 2y ago
OP is saying they were underpaid. Giving the money back would only deepen the injury.
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by rexpop 2y ago
ChatGPT has misinterpreted me. By "inalienable unwelt," I mean it in the sense of "inalienable rights" that cannot be removed by external circumstance. By "inaccessible to hegemony," I mean an umwelt which ca

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