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by rexpop 4mo ago
Did you forget that Elon literally bought out an entire major international social media platform and fundamentally re-oriented its algorithmic editorial policy? He did a lot more than "ask". He literally took the thing over a
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by rexpop 4mo ago
Open air illegal drug use, retail theft and illegal encampments are not their own root cause, and "keeping these repeat criminals in prisons longer" will only worsen the socioeconomic conditions which compel others to engage in
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by rexpop 4mo ago
Going forward, I'll consider using the term "apophenic", instead of "schizoid", but my point remains the same—you are burying the lede, re: very real, dangerous ideologies of Yarvin et al. with unserious association
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by rexpop 4mo ago
Not everything that makes a product more expensive to release is the end of the world.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Nice self-sealing beliefs! "Altman" is from the Middle High German alt meaning "old", not from the Proto-Indo-European root al- meaning "beyond." Or is English the language of the fates? Edit: this kind of
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by rexpop 5mo ago
You're confusing neo-feudalist oligarchical propaganda with the will of the people.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Are you trolling? Elections are won by spending, especially since Citizens United. Democracy has not survived oligarchical propaganda.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Everybody starts somewhere. They've taken maybe their first step in the right direction.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Proud of them—it's scary to stand up to the boss, but we set the floor for eachother.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Driving down the street is risky. Owning a home is risky. It's all a matter of degrees, and insurance doesn't deny coverage for 3D printers, QED that's what it's for.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Self-respect is an act of charity.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
You're saying regulation is a moat for monopolists?
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Well, sure. There's more resources than any individual, or even individual bloodline could ever exploit alone. Annihilate your competition, and you won't eat in lean years.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Well, there was an "orchestra" in Auschwitz.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
I stand corrected: https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/photos-palestinian-marathon...
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by rexpop 5mo ago
This is why we cannot abide scabs.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
When? Where? Citation needed.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Cool counterfactual, bro.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
It was held in the U.S., not in Gaza, at Nethermead Lawn in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. There are also other Gaza 5K events in U.S. cities, including Dallas and Milwaukee, depending on the year and location.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
This issue is evident to many smart people, and it would behove you to find a few whose conclusions were more prosocial, and sustainable. One such perspective is Tools for Conviviality , a 1973 book by Ivan Illich. Your ultimatum is imag
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Corporations have no pride. They are soulless, psychopathic accountability sinks. What planet are you from?
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Yeah, I am generally viscerally horrified by the procedures of ICE/CBP but I am still somewhat disgusted by liberals counterargument that we need immigrants to do jobs that are beneath us. Nothing is beneath us, except what's bene
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by rexpop 5mo ago
People need and depend on social relations, and those relations need a medium.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Large surveys and platform studies show that women, especially younger women, and racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately targeted, with particularly high rates for Black women and other women of color on Twitter/X-like pl
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Which part do you find most perplexing?
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Oh yeah, rich whites have a history of oppression that this just adds insult to. /S
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Why?
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Everybody lives in and depends on our shared social substrate.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
I don't party with fascists.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Bingo! Mocking the elite is a deeply rooted historical tool used to challenge the powerful. Historically, the "carnivalesque" tradition aimed to mock all customary kinds of social hierarchy. By donning masks or mocking those in po

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