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Neurodivergent Dad. Accepting info dumps on all channels.

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In what world is a disabled person able to board a car on their own but not a bus or train? And in what world are those busses and trains not staffed with people to help? Are we talking self-driving busses and cars with wheelchair driving options as a standard?

Edit: Seems the response is for the disabled person to: JuSt SpEnD mOrE mOnEy ; but we couldn’t possibly be bothered to spend more on public transit to make it more accessible.

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Putting aside whether terror is strategic, taking hostages is a strategy.

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You can eat anything at least once

More than one-third of millennials believe they won’t get a dime of Social Security when they retire, so they’re taking matters into their own hands (creditnews.com)

Of all generational cohorts, older millennials are most likely to generate enough income to retire comfortably, according to the latest Vanguard Retirement Readiness report....

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Wealth redistribution isn’t a ponzi scheme. Even if we do nothing to “fix” social security it will keep writing checks.

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The program runs at reduced payouts if it’s not “fully funded”. That’s how the law is written and isn’t controversial, just not really talked about in these kinds of doomer articles.

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I was responding to the claim that the program would stop working, not that the program would need larger payouts to eliminate poverty.

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Alternatively: People know Amazon would do this, they’re just surprised that we are all standing around letting it happen

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It’s harder because you have people saying “well at least you’re doing what you love, caring for people” as if it justifies making their job more shitty.

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I have a kid who enjoys their school food because people there care. Fuck anyone actively denying that my kid actually receives a benefit from that service and from people actually caring about doing their job well.

“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes (arstechnica.com)

“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes::“‘Election Integrity’ Team… was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes.

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Ehhh, church is more practical cuz it tends to provide sunday daycare for a couple hours

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Communism is when government does something. Anarchism is when you do fuck all to protect yourself.

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And then a tornado hits, harder

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It’s what capital wishes it could be: an indispensable person

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Bullshit jobs are paying better than shit jobs. Might be a sign corporations are sitting on most of the money.

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“I hope this email finds you” seems to be the go-to intro for ChatGPT lately.

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I just think people shouldn’t be chided for doing what is convenient when so much of our economy is attention based. Kind of like hating the players instead of the game.

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Never forget when people were smuggling eggs from Mexico. We used to make fun of the USSR for that shit.

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Communism provides a theoretical framework to advocate for those things, but it is not the same as doing those things. I think the distinction is important because it allows you to have a plurality or support

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Underbanking is a problem, and so is underinvesting. Both are caused by profit motives because investors rather put in pay day loan services instead of grocery stores in historical redlined districts🤷

But sure, blame the habits of poor people.

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I mean if removing people from the equation is on the table then targeting billionaires with a carbon footprint of small nations would be the logical place to start.

That aside, this meme is calling for collective violent action against infrastructure. Your example is an individual violent action against a person.

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Does self-defense count as violence? Because forcefully dismantling the oil infrastructure can save lives and it would be nonviolent as long as the police don’t start with their violence.

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“Market movers make money” by shipping jobs over seas and busting unions. That’s the part of the CEO’s job description. They work hard at it alright, but a guillotine works harder.

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The market will dictate your worth.

Speak for yourself. I’m priceless.

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Cynbersyn could have changed the world. Rest in power Allende.

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This. Who in their right mind is going to develop their game using Unity after this? Their only revenue source from the point forward is going to be games already published.

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The “I don’t use Twitter so that’s a you problem” is a thought terminating cliche.

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Damn, well they shouldn’t buy any Internet services, cars or bikes made from a corporation then. Unionists are going to walk to work less they be hypocrites.

It’s silly to think you can participate in the economy without dealing with a corporation.

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Y’all love to larp when it comes to guns, but never hear about the community work you’ve done.

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Far right isn’t the same as right wing. Right wing could be a liberal. Far right is where you start sorting people by their “worth” instead of letting people discover that for themselves.

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Don’t worry, my example included both goods and services. Or does Internet service provider not count as a service?

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Do you think community work is where people go preach?

It’s setting up a neighborhood pantry, showing up to community meetings, rendering aide to my unhoused brethren, helping the local maker space setup an electronics lab. None of that involves preaching.

And yes, the community work is going well. Does a lot to alleviate alienation under capitalism.

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If you’re planning to defend against fascism without setting up infrastructure to feed your troops then it’s just a larp. Creating a sense of community is probably the best thing we can do to stem the rise of fascism.

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Far right doesn’t mean more “liberalism”, it means to the right of liberalism. right wing and left wing describe a spectrum within liberalism. Far right and far left are when you step outside the boundaries of liberalism. Whether that takes the form of collectivism or individualism isn’t really material to whether it’s outside the liberal spectrum. What is material is the belief in the democratic process and capitalism.

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You can’t raise a family on passion, some of us have more mouths the feed then our own.

zbyte64 ,
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This reads as more Individualism. We gotta band together, the corporations already have.

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Damn good read. Thanks

zbyte64 ,
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Gee, who decided what is legally equivalent? Certainly not the people with wealth to buy politicians and judges.

zbyte64 ,
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Being responsible isn’t an excuse to own other people’s livelihood. Unless…?

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One point in time does not constitute a robust conclusion. Consider any time before and how collectivism did yield considerable agriculture gains for the USSR. Like do we really think they fought WW2 with the same or less agricultural efficiency they had before their revolution?

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A car can not only belong to one person, but it can be operated by one person.

A key distinction I’ve heard is: whether a property has to be collectively operated or can it be individually operated?

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Wild how even when they were going full-on gulags , their peak imprisonment rate didn’t surpass the United States. And we’ve got plenty of bullets for those that run or resist arrest.

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What kind of competition though? Competing over how little I pay my workers might temporarily boost the standard of living in my own country if I offshore labor, but it seems to turn the standard of living into a ponzi scheme. Where one needs to continually find a cheaper source of labor to maintain the quality of life.

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Under a capitalist legal framework yes, but hear me out, it’s possible to redefine laws and is really what this debate is about.

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IDK, maybe we could decide such things similar to how we’re having this conversation and we’re able to upvote on what’s being said. Totally unprecedented I know.

zbyte64 ,
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We’re communicating using the fediverse. I can use my own private instance to connect, but in my case I am using a “collective” instance. While capitalism sees the Lemmy Blahaj as a “private enterprise”, it is functionally more akin to a free associative collective where members can take their content with them.

I would say part of the confusion is because our technology has evolved in a capitalist context, collectivism isn’t the default state of being so the solutions made cater towards (corporate) private ownership.

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Right now the UAW is going on strike for those higher wages. CEO of Ford says those wages will bankrupt them. Is he telling the truth?

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Me: how about democracy in the work place?

Reactionaries: but what about Stalin?

Me: did I stutter?

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So people don’t vote because they are convinced it doesn’t have an impact, and you’re saying that’s consent? Nah. Us not being on the streets is more akin to consent.

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