yeah capitalism isn’t the problem. it’s the people who own private property.

How did you check?

Anyone else feel sex trade gets brought up disproportionately more compared to other women’s issues on Reddit and Twitter? Wondering if it’s just me.

Edit: Haven’t listened to episode yet but one of the guests, Esperanza Gomez, has a nice essay pertaining to sex work but I can’t find the link for it.

I feel about NFTs the same way I feel about Hunter Biden’s alleged art. Probably just a way for some assholes to launder money or something like that.

Obviously some portion of the transactions are legitimate in nature. But someone buying something like this for millions feels like an intentional ruse to drive up demand.

I have some background in programming and maths but I still feel no motivation to read about this kind of stuff. It feels very latestagecapitalism and moreover the people active in these circles are weird nerds.

He did say that he didn’t help in evicting families though of course it is near impossible to find out whether it is the truth or not.

But at what cost

Seeing anime profile pictures on Twitter triggers a fight or flight response in me

Why would she terrorise Israel like so? Is Hamas hiding between the pages of her books?

Holy shit comrade that is high octane posting

I feel the defense spending of the US in terms of dollars is a bit inflated by the fact that the military industrial complex is in some respects a scheme to funnel tax dollars into the hands of a few. Not saying that the US military isn’t disgustingly strong. But I am pretty sure they don’t get as much utility per dollar as, say, USSR or China.

Not sure if that is better or worse for the US. I lean towards worse.

Mob rule is cool and good

If you are using a bot, have you considered uploading the source code somewhere? Might be helpful for other people.

She talks worse than GPT-3 when it comes to defending herself being an outright reactionary

@folaht@lemmygrad.ml this is meant for you. Just wanted to let you know in case you missed it.

What…what does he want? I have never understood his angle. He just seems like the typical leftist intellectual tasked with peddling anti-communism.

incels are not oppressed

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I think the author of the article linked in the comment you replied to is the one who wrote it.

I was going to write a reply but am too tired. Maybe later.

Edit: how do you define patriotism exactly?

Being patriotic towards the USA is very different from beifn patriotic towards DPRK, Vietnam etc. All the quotes you list talk of patriotism towards oppressed nations.