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by swed420 1y ago
You're absolutely right. The wrong whack-o-mole focus is ingrained in most people under capitalism. We've come to see endless rotating villains to be acceptable while clinging to an illusory concept of choice. Expecting a company,
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Agreed, and guess how many countries prior to COVID followed our CDC's lead? The answer is most of them. The fact remains that people are slowly waking up to this and altering their behavior even into 2025, since it's not always t
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> I'll try to explain this in a nuanced manner, as someone who dislikes both sides of the narrative. Same, and I agree with what you said, but would also like to expand on it: > So now the Republicans are in charge. They are anti
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So then make a better one. I was only referencing it as a general concept that can be approved upon as desired.
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It would of course need to be legally enforced somehow, with penalties high enough to hurt even the big players.
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> I DO have a major issue with my sites being crawled extremely aggressively by offenders including Meta, Perplexity and OpenAI Gee, if only we had, like, one central archive of the internet. We could even call it the internet archive. T
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> If you believe, as capitalists do, that the highest goal of government is to protect the ability of people to make money, you support this. It's true, and the blatant mishandling of COVID throughout the pandemic (which hasn't
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism > According to skeptics of the "late capitalism" idea, so far there just has not been any real evidence of: > (1) long-term economic stagnation or prolonged
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This is the main reason I browse HN via https://hckrnews.com so that my "front page" cannot be tampered with by HN. Plus, much easier to see where you left off from last time.
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> The beautiful thing about public media is that it can broadcast things that don't have a profit-motive for being broadcast. True, so one would expect to have heard much more about Bernie Sanders when he was making runs for preside
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> One of the worse parts about the COVID-19 pandemic is how it turned some otherwise intelligent people into deranged germaphobes. People who are taking the real risks of COVID seriously understand that COVID spreads through the air, not
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> You've got to be kidding. No one is going to keep wearing those masks, regardless of whether they get reinfected occasionally. Give people the facts about COVID, that it is basically like airborne AIDS, and then let them decide. U
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> What a silly article with zero connection to scientific reality. What a silly comment with zero connection to scientific reality. > Never-ending reinfections were always inevitable when the first carrier left Wuhan, so "manufac
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> Our collective response to COVID was truly the alarm bells going off (vaccine conspiracies, anti-masking, denialism, etc), and now we’re seeing an anti-science (and anti-reality) administration celebrate the gutting of our scientific p
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See? You had no choice but to run sealioning.exe
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It's well sourced. The people who seem to hate/misrepresent him tend to be capitalists, philosophers, religious types, and generally egotistical "individualist" types.
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> Given Marx was famously "not a Marxist" Misrepresenting words out of context to make a point isn't a great approach. http://isocracy.org/content/karl-marx-i-am-not-marxist https://www.soc
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You argue like a true capitalist whose underlying assumption is that free will isn't mostly illusory. Modern science disagrees: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83817782-determined Warning: ego might get b
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> he most relevant piece is probably Theses on Feuerbach. Feuerbach advocated a materialist (e.g. essentially naturalistic) point of view to which Marx objected. One must have a very warped understanding of Marx to claim he didn't a
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> Isn’t this all just Late Stage Calitalsm? Yes, just as Marx predicted with his law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall (LTRPF): https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/a-world-ra...
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If you guzzle US corpo media and nothing else, then your confusion is no surprise.
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Hanlons razor has limits, as exemplified by declassified CIA etc horrors over the decades among other things. Capital incentives make people behave like animals, and even well intentioned ones are often coerced by said animals else face the
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It's not as outlandish as you're attempting to paint it as, considering the author is assuming that capital interests remain in control when making such a claim. And under that assumption, it's a bit crazy to think anything
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The statement directly following your lifted intro quotes is > Everything in this article is supporting information for this conclusion. So, > How can you validate (ie prove) these claims? By reading the rest of the article and its re
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The article is well cited with external references if you're interested in validating the claims made.
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Further reading for the curious https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to...
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China is currently the one setting a good example on the global stage: https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1lvoi0x/theres_a... Meanwhile, US leadership is on team "Drill baby, drill"
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On the HN front page today: U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524749 History tells us it won't stop here.
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The reason the live debate format isn't taken seriously by intellectuals is because it's not a competition in the pursuit of truth but in deception and theatrics. Continue making excuses to not investigate the thing you clearly do
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by swed420 1y ago
They point people who are interested to the information without me having to spoon feed it to them. If you're not interested, don't click.

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