Seasoned_Greetings @ Seasoned_Greetings @lemmy.world

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Not obviously, it’s pretty well known that we grow more than enough food to feed pretty much everyone at this point. And what resources are even being exhausted here?

The idea is that the people who want those groups fighting will push that way of thinking. Also, resources in this context dont just mean necessities of survival. Go watch fox news. One of the main views they push there is that "illegal immigrants are there to steal your jobs". They've gone as far as to say things like "democrats are stealing your money" or "those guys are satanists, they're stealing your children!"

It isn't the fact that resources really are greater than demand, it's about stoking the thought that some group is less desirable by pushing the ideology that resources are finite and those groups are taking them.

This is the part where the actual fascists show up to tell us that "we aren't really a democracy"

How can a town that is overwhelmingly black be being controlled by a small handful of racist white people?

I think you know the answer to that question. It's about who has the money. Is that money the fruits of an old racist system handed down over the decades? Probably. But it's likely the reason they're still in charge.

That seems like exactly what that guy would do. The only problem with that is you have to actually be an attractive candidate to be a spoiler. If he runs, he's not really taking any votes from Biden because nobody who votes Biden is going to consider a party-line traitor like Manchin. If anything he'll be spoiling the republican candidates who are looking for a less batshit alternative. But then again, that's not how primaries work.

That's the dumbest part. There's no guarantee that this ipo bid is going to pan out. Huffman is betting big, it's just too bad he's so full of himself that he doesn't realize his actions will probably be what causes this ipo to fail.

He wanted to fly under the radar and make changes that look good on paper while keeping the community relatively the same. Instead he made a splash so big that major news outlets are still talking about it months later, and now he's actively alienating the volunteer work that holds the whole site together.

"Become profitable" is just their stated goal.

I think that their actual goal is to look profitable for the upcoming ipo so that the CEOs can cash a fat check and leave. They likely don't care about what happens after that.

So the "become profitable while simultaneously destroying everything that made it valuable" platitude is more like "they're cutting down the tree for the wood without thinking about the squirrels"

It's because of the concept of successful ambition correlating with the lack of morals or integrity. It just so happens that people ambitious enough to do whatever it takes to rise through the ranks often have to be necessarily immoral to step on people to get to the top.

People who have others' best interests at heart simply don't take advantage of the opportunities as often because a number of those opportunities would involve unfairly stepping on someone else.

So to answer your question, yes, ambitious assholes tend to ride faster and further than good people. Kind of like how a large portion of cops tend to be former bullies.

I see your 75 years and raise you to 100 years. That's now the truth.

Reddit is 1000's of communities. It's just as wrong to say that it isn't progressive and intelligent as it is to insinuate it's all one big community in the first place.

However, it's really not a secret that reddit's majority (at least used to) lean left harder than any other social media. Intelligent is maybe subjective and not accurate, but they were at least more progressive than most other social media sites.

I hadn't considered that. For a moment I thought maybe they were actually doing something for the community by stopping award spammers from inflating their own comments. But no, it's just because they think they can squeeze $2 more out of a user if no one has the option to thrust premium on them and they actually have to buy it themselves.

Except that makes no sense in practical terms because not enough people care about premium to offset the fact that a person can purchase gold awards as many times as they can afford.

Reddit corporate sure does like shooting itself in the foot

If you can't learn how to talk to people, you'll spend your days shouting into a void and wondering why people don't listen.

I'm not saying I'm offended, I'm saying that you're never going to change a single mind by prefacing your point with slurs and insults. You're arguing like a child and making enemies before they even have a chance to hear what you're saying.

Personally, I don't care. You've already lost any chance you've had of changing my mind. This argument ended before it started because any point you're going to try to make is laced with the insinuation that I'm a stupid asshole.

If your goal isn't to change people's minds, more power to you I guess. But you don't exactly command respect by slinging curses like a 14 year old who just discovered the word "pussy" on the internet.

Now, if you don't want to take my constructive criticism for what it is, that's your problem. Please do insult me 10 more times, and then find out by my lack of response how much I care.

I love how you're here expecting to be taken seriously, but you actually can't present an argument without lacing it with profanities and insults.

Of course someone so rage-filled is playing the whataboutism card so hard and repetitively. Why does anyone care what you think? You can't even string together two sentences without devolving into spitting bile at people who simply disagree with you.

There are plenty of reasons to be anti-china. Pointing those reasons out doesn't imply a stance toward America either way. Any assumption is projection on your part.

One of fascism's biggest jobs is to cast doubt on the accusation. To downplay the notion that people should look at the circumstances to form their own opinions and to gaslight the uninformed into thinking it's just a coincidence or misrepresentation.

The fact is, if an administration team is censoring anti-china sentiment, they are either controlled by China or afraid of retaliation.

You can disagree with how China is run without having to agree with what capitalism does. One evil does not justify another.

Typical nazi. "Regulations mean I can't do bad things to unsuspecting people!"

You're really determined to plug your ears and drown out a sentiment that permeates reddit itself, nevermind the big media sites picking up this whole debacle.

Reddit isn't thriving. It's not even profiting, the ceo said it himself.

Your thesis of this being a nothing-burger is disproven by the simple fact that you're here, in a rapidly growing social network (because of reddit) on the comment section of a post stating the exact opposite of what you want to desperately believe.

Look in the mirror, bro.

Spez, the honorary moderator, pimpdaddy awarding public defender of r/jailbait? That spez? You're off your rocker, bro.

7,000+ subreddits and their communities demonstrated that they don't like spez or what he's doing to reddit. You are objectively wrong.