Ultragigagigantic @ Ultragigagigantic @lemmy.world

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“There are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example.”

― Bertrand Russell

As fucked up as I am, I'm so glad I'm not sick in the head to want to hurt people like this. However, even being the least smelly shit in a outhouse doesn't change the fact that you're just another turd in the pile.

The nation built on indian burial grounds and founded by slave owning 1%ers who didn't want to pay taxes is garbage? Say it ain't so!

blaming the victim of a first past the post electoral system? How american of you

Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.

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I say AI overlords might be an improvement over the human overlords that have persisted throughout human history.

Equal application of the rules

"The Russian oligarchs are taking over!" - US oligarchs probably

How is Moores law doing these days?

Same is true for the printing press.

When will people understand that our tools are not the problem? It's us!

The bell riots, September 2024. See yall there!

"Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”

― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”

― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Interested in a Adam Curtis video on the merger of psychology, marketing, and politics?

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

– Banksy

Bullshit, our insane technological advancement in the last few generations gives us comfort. Imagine the good we could do with this tech if we lived in a equitable and sustainable way. Instead, the vast majority of this benefit is captured by the respective 1%ers of various nations.

I liked your paragraph on focusing on building something better that will draw people in.

When Occupy was huge, I had wished they had not focused so heavily on camping in parks and instead bought cheap land in the middle of nowhere and built "Occupy town". Somewhere people can come and join the movement with their family and not worry about living in a tent.

Make our own jobs in federated worker co-ops like Mondragon, our own community defense organizations, our own public housing, our own city government. If we had picked a state like Wyoming, it would only take about 15k people from each state to move there to take over the entire state government.

I get people were trying to do that in every park and also stay visible in the media, but I felt like it was just to limiting to stay in such locations.

If everything is shared under communism, that would include political power. So that would make communism a direct democracy.

Does that sound like the nation's you have in mind?

Just a reminder, encouraging people to be armed is not encouraging violence.

Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.

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The people who switched to lemmy are most of the deleted