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by terr-dav 5y ago
Why be mad at either party? They are both making rational choices given their circumstances. I don't expect politicians to act on principles more than anyone else. They are just trying to keep their jobs, and they functionally depend c
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by terr-dav 6y ago
The argument that the number of deaths in the US greater than the baseline from the previous year is roughly the same as the reported deaths where there was a covid infection, so our count seems accurate?
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by terr-dav 6y ago
A tool isn’t bad or good, but capitalism incentivizes people to hoard them and rent them out to make a profit by exploiting other people’s labor. (Sorry, that escalated quickly)
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by terr-dav 6y ago
Apple is a capitalist enterprise; Apple can only afford to maximize profit — everything else is just window dressing. Wokeness, philanthropy, environmental consciousness, branding, origin story, etc.; all of these things are viewed favorab
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by terr-dav 6y ago
And let’s not forget why we have a separate Labor Day in the US: >Labor Day has conservative roots. In 1894, President Grover Cleveland pushed Congress to establish the holiday as a way to de-escalate class tension following the Pullman
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by terr-dav 6y ago
What about for profit hospitals? It’s the marketization of health care that incentivizes suffering and death, not any particular group.
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by terr-dav 6y ago
We really shouldn’t let people become so wealthy that they can make public policy, whether it’s for profit or altruistic reasons.
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by terr-dav 6y ago
It took me 3 years off and on (and mostly at work) to become fluent in Dvorak. Good luck!
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by terr-dav 6y ago
As market logic permeates more and more aspects of our lives (i.e. social media as the marketization of human interaction), expect to see this type of disturbing phenomenon more and more. Also, marketing is social conditioning. It’s psych
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by terr-dav 6y ago
Thanks for the context. In response to Wilson, I’d argue that Marx’s work provides a better analytical framework for understanding government than Darwin though. (;
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by terr-dav 6y ago
AKA: Conflating authority with expertise
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by terr-dav 6y ago
What if you simply changed all your accounts to use a + variant (e.g. johnsmith+official@gmail.com) and filter out everything sent to you without a + in the address?
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by terr-dav 6y ago
If any group is being given special privileges by the state, it's the police... Normally, a union is formed to balance the power of capitalists with the laborers they employ. In the case of law enforcement, there is no capital, nor is
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by terr-dav 6y ago
Wage Labour and Captital I haven't read through it yet, but it's relatively short, and it was recommended to me as a good starter. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/w
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by terr-dav 6y ago
Withholding health insurance is also a powerful tool for breaking/preventing strikes. While it would save employers money, it would also reduce their leverage, and workers would be able to move on to other demands, or quit huffpost.com