Hell yes

Anti-immigration policy won't protect your job. They can still just outsource jobs to other countries. The major IT layoffs of recent years were mostly from outsourcing IT to India. Fair trade is the magical policy that protects your job.

In case you don't know, democratic socialism means implementing socialist policies that the people have democratically voted for. Trump is calling to arrest citizens for how they vote, and to arrest politicians for implementing the policies that people voted for.

I had an idea for a dystopian novel set in a world where any time a technology was invented that meant less work needed to be done, it resulted in financial hardship for many people. I realized it was a dumb concept. No one would ever tolerate living in a society that works in such a stupid way.

The average plastic bag is used for 12 minutes. It is then part of the environment for around 500 years. How long do you think we can keep this up?

Why do people give such long-winded definitions for capitalism? Capitalism: When someone without capital does work, someone with capital gets free stuff. There. Done. Quick and easy.

Saw this meme and got an urge to upgrade

It's annoying how The Tragedy of the Commons is a real thing that is a huge problem, but the name is wrong. It does not happen in commons-based societies and only happens in individualist societies where each actor blindly pursues self-interest. Just rename it to The Tragedy of Individualism.

"Taker not a maker." Gotta start using that to describe the parasitic asset-owning class

Manic Pixie Dream Girls are just women who take the lead, but do so while being adorable. The dude gets to follow instead of lead. But because the leadership is done adorably, it covers up and distracts from the threat to prescribed gender roles.

I used to think propaganda works by reducing the complicated and nuanced into something simple. Sparing the intellectually lazy (or people who are exhausted) from having to think. I just realized that Fox and online influencers have found a trick for fooling people by introducing complexity 🧵

Main Character Syndrome exists because too many stories have a hero with goals and a villain who *gasp* has contradictory goals. All the other characters are props who don't really have goals that the hero would need to consider or adjust to. Stories need to raise the bar on this.

I grew up hearing about "poor" countries and "undeveloped" countries. Then I learned to call them "unindustrialized" countries. Nah, I'm gonna start calling them exploited countries, colonized countries, extracted countries.

I guess if wealth went to people who earned it then we could call it labourism instead of capitalism.

I would love to see what project you would start if you didn't have to worry about grinding for food/shelter/bills and you didn't have to care whether the project is profitable.

Defense is important but maybe silicon valley bros might consider leaving it in the hands of someone who knows what the security dilemma is

I want to watch a movie where the microplasticpocalypse is at hand, so they develop the microbe that can decompose plastic, but it gets out of hand and so the plastic turns back into dinosaurs.

I gotta stop saying stuff like Titus built the Colosseum Vanderbilt built Grand Central Station King Louis built Palace of Versailles None of those guys built shit. Telling someone to do something isn't doing it.

Bad take: I don't care about politics Equally bad take: Sociologist and anthropologist aren't real jobs We desperately need well-paid sociologists and anthropologists to be informing us. And to be in positions of power making decisions. Because

We are in a class war. A real, literal, war is happening. Fought with violence. Each side in this fight has different types of weapons, so each side's violence is different. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-insp...

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When someone talks about "freedom," my question is "freedom for whom?" A slaver says that anti-slavery laws take away his freedom to enslave. Any pro-freedom policy will always mean removing somebody's freedom to harm or coerce others. Libertarianism is freedom for the few, chains for the many.

I would be happy with many of the alternatives to capitalism. Please can we just get rid of the capitalist idea that 99% of people do all the work while 1% do no work, get all the wealth and make all the decisions about what work gets done and how.

Leftists keep trying to explain "intersectionality" to right-wingers whose eyes are glazing over. Might I suggest a simple explanation: We live in a system. Some of the rules are rigged against you. Some of the rules are rigged in your favour. Let's get together and remove all the rigged rules.

If the left squanders the opportunity to expand class consciousness while MAGA is in a state of receptivity, don't be surprised when liberals scoop them up and we lose a once in a lifetime chance at strengthening our numbers. 1/2

I just spent the last half hour researching how to DIY peat-like soil for some houseplants so that I don't contribute to harming wetlands where they harvest peat for plant soil. Meanwhile, this douche

As a kid I thought Monty Python was just surreal humour. Re-watching as an adult and it's dawning on me that Monty Python is full of satire and social criticism

"Back when the science community used to deny climate change... Human caused climate change was looked skeptically for decades.... then the fact driven data forced all honest science literate skeptics to concede ..." www.facebook.com/groups/96164... via The Climate Realism Community

It's so politically correct to say someone has "employees" or "stocks" or "passive income." Just say they're welfare queens who are too lazy to work. Just say they're dependent on free handouts that the government takes from people who work.

You guys remember how they discovered an island with a secret billionaire child rape cabal? I'm pretty sure it was in the news or something. Kinda felt like a big deal at the time. Ever think about that?

The word "ignorant" is individualist propaganda. Implying there is something wrong with a person, that they should be ashamed because they didn't receive knowledge. An "ignorant" person is not a failure. It's someone who has been failed.

Listening to 99 Red Balloons. It feels a lot more visceral today than when I heard it as a kid. "Bugs in the software" registering some harmless balloons as an aerial attack, starting a war.

I grew up reading dystopian sci-fi novels, but I never read one where an evil AI constantly adjusts to perfectly manipulate and make everyone addicted to it.

The bourgeoise need us to believe that we are the only good person in a sea of reactionary hate, so we give up on reaching out to each other and organising against them.

"We have the opportunity to prevent it, but the window to act is closing fast." This video was posted 7 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9...

"If you were 10 years old in 1952, while you were 10 years old in 1952, some men were already planning that when you were 18 years old, you would have a gun in your hand in Vietnam." ~Kwame Ture, on how our lives are controlled by a few powerful men

After 12 years working in engineering, I'm 100% sure this happened in the early stages of LLMs Engineer: We design the LLM with an ethics core, so it's impossible for it to kill. The core will be so integral that the LLM won't work without it. MBA: No, that would delay TTM and dilute market value.

If you say you hate big government, then I guess you support open borders and defunding the police and military right

Trump read children's stories about trolls that go hang out at bridges and demand money from anyone who needs to cross, and Trump was like...that's good business

Does anyone have a solution for payments? How can I send some money internationally to an artist for example?

Stalinism is when you can walk to a grocery store

For a century, feminists have said that scientists in powerful positions shape scientific publications and science education according to their unhinged agenda. And everyone was like oh so feminists are anti-science then, huh? Feminists want moon goddess stuff instead of the scientific method, huh?

Alt right content is basically just Hey boys, do you want to have friends and be part of a community? Try fascism! Hey girls, do you want to bake bread and do some gardening? Try giving up your civil rights!

Sure, I kick puppies, but you called me a puppy-kicker and that's just as bad.

Um... It makes ICE look worse if their victim is crying? They are deceiving the public just to make themselves look worse. People aren't kidding when they say the cruelty is the point.

I'm also enjoying the show about the rugged avoidant cynical dude whose daughter dies, but he becomes a father figure to a powerful and politically important young girl, but he struggles to let go of his role as a brutal protector when humility and tenderness is what is needed from him