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by rexpop 1mo ago
But Ferraris and private planes are stupid vices.
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by rexpop 1mo ago
They're killing people, and they're driving others into bankruptcy which is also killing them.
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by rexpop 1mo ago
I'm sorry—vapid trappings of conspicuous consumption? You've just named three vacuous toys, whereas GPS and e-commerce deliver real value to working people. Doomscrolling, I agree, is a devastatingly poor substitute for a real civ
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by rexpop 1mo ago
I see, those are some extreme dimensions.
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by rexpop 1mo ago
Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc? I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcas
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by rexpop 1mo ago
I suspect that your one moment of thought follows many years of contemplation. Maybe you can fill us in on some of that background.
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Propaganda in China is distributed, decentralized—ie it's the responsibility of every minor bureaucrat, clerk, and white-collar worker to produce and engage with propaganda. See: https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en&#x2
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by rexpop 2mo ago
The first comment does not suggest "it was always like this", only that it was known, commonly accepted, even declaratively established to be like this. Truly, though, we did used to own many things in common that are now
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Oh sure, but then again look at South Korea! India! Argentina!
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Both are true: modern food systems can improve availability and shelf-stability while still degrading average nutritional quality.
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by rexpop 2mo ago
How is this not a total nonsequitur from the parent thread??
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Depends on if you're scaremongering about Capitalists or Commies.
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Wow, thank you for this! I'd forgotten about enclosure for some years. > The law locks up the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common / But leaves the greater villain loose / Who steals the common fr
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by rexpop 3mo ago
> Myspace is a favela. You've ever been to a Brazilian favela? It basically, politically, represents the structure of Myspace. You've got this remote, distant, old-school Brazilian tyrant. Anti-democratic, wicked mogul, pays no
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by rexpop 3mo ago
"It costs money, therefore it's impossible." You think social democrats never heard of a balanced budget? I don't know how you "fiscal conservatives" take yourselves seriously.
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by rexpop 3mo ago
Vagueposting is much ruder.
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by rexpop 3mo ago
Everything you believe about the police you gleaned from children's cartoons as a toddler.
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by rexpop 3mo ago
> he'd ignore people carrying a kilo gram of weed This is an unequivocally reasonable approach. The prohibition of cannabis is a grotesque charade.
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by rexpop 3mo ago
What the hell are you talking about?
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by rexpop 3mo ago
I was afforded limited exposure to alcohol and sex starting around age 13, and I've got a vastly healthier relationship with the two than the rest of my society. I think the internet, however, is a much greater threat to growing minds.
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by rexpop 3mo ago
Americans, broadly, didn't vote—those who did are obviously brainwashed cultists.
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by rexpop 3mo ago
It's slavery or nothing, eh? Whatever happened to nuance?
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by rexpop 4mo ago
A parent as enlightened as you should have no trouble asking at dinner—without judgement or advice—"and how was your smoke sesh out back of the 7-11?"
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by rexpop 4mo ago
I think it is so funny, albeit frustrating, that prevalent attitudes--both liberal and conservative--consistently lay the blame on the consumer side, and not on the production side. "Their hands are tied!" I have heard so many
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by rexpop 4mo ago
> You know, you know how communism was supposed to be this nirvana where a central authority would collect all the information and dictate all operations for the good of the people? Was it? Really? Doesn't sound like a commune to me
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by rexpop 4mo ago
"a person who measures the value generated by each worker/team" seems... impossible.
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by rexpop 4mo ago
Instead of massive, centralized corporations, consider the highly successful family firms in Emilia-Romagna[0], as a model. These businesses have thrived for generations in a highly competitive global market not through rigid corporate chai
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by rexpop 4mo ago
> The net of law is spread so wide, \ No sinner from its sweep may hide. \ Its meshes are so fine and strong, \ They take in every child of wrong. \ O wondrous web of mystery! \ Big fish alone escape from thee! -- James Jeffrey Roche (18
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by rexpop 4mo ago
> We live in the dystopia we deserve. We have built it with our own hands and it is here to stay. That's a bit unfair. Not all of us who live in it had a hand in building it. In fact, very few of us had the leverage to fight against
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by rexpop 4mo ago
OP is talking about corrupt officials, not charity workers, so how does "running lean" evade or obviate corruption? Edit: my point is just that bribery and blackmail aren't the same as Global Northerners treating charities as

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