markr @ markr @lemmy.world

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Oh I think they (the tech-fascist oligarchs) accept that the current system has hit its growth limit, is played out. They are aware that the ecosystem interface with capitalism has been shredded to the extent that we are in multiple related crisis - all driven by the perpetual growth requirement of the system, and that the end result is a massive die-off anyway. They intend to accelerate that end while they can still control (or at least think they can still control) the transition to whatever the next phase of the system is.

Sure, but more to the point, we need to overhaul the entire socio-economic system. The neolibs experiment in deregulation and privatization and prioritizing profit growth has manifestly failed.

The stunningly stupid thing is that we basically have the tech to automate a huge amount of the labor required to produce all the stuff humans need and to at least try to do that sustainably, the problem is we don’t know how to organize a society that can run on much less human labor.

What keeps me up at night is the thought that one obvious way to reorganize around a much smaller human labor requirement is to have a much smaller population. Isn’t that the radical right end game here? Isn’t that why Very Rich People have gone full fascist?

Yes, which is why a wealth tax needs to be implemented.

More precisely algorithmic gaze harvesting and targeted advertising.

Plastics in general.

Nor do they get outraged about gender affirming surgery like breast augmentation as long as the person is cis.

Please provide a link to the official duties of senators that includes 'representing the people of their state'.

I agree that the US is generally a form of representative democracy, however the senate explicitly represents the states, not the people within the states, and always has. The fact that senators are equally allocated per state, rather than by population, with each state, regardless of population have the same number of senators does not support the theory that it is a representative democratic institution. The intention was explicitly to maintain the power of the individual states within a federation.

Ok. Meanwhile there is no oath that senators take that requires them to represent the people of their state. And further, as I pointed out, the senate does not represent people, it represents states. It was explicitly set up this way, and until 1913 senators were appointed by the states, not elected at all.

Yup. The privatization of everything ends up with every moment of our existence monitored and metered and billed.

It would be equivalently odd if there was another messianic Jew who rose from the dead and was observed by multiple eye witnesses who documented the miracle.

I looked, I could find nothing under ‘duties of senators’ that referenced ‘representing your constituents’. They don’t. They represent their states. There is another legislative body, the House of Representatives, that side represents people. It’s a fucked up system.

So the Jewish people were never enslaved in Egypt. The entire Passover myth is without any historical foundation. The Jewish people were conquered and enslaved by the Babylonians and eventually liberated by the Persian emperor Cyrus. Oddly that real historical event is not celebrated in Jewish culture.

Standard usb connector because despite my having a 50% chance of having it right side up, the first attempt is always upside down.

The senate oath of office says nothing about representing your constituents.

Enshittification is not just for social media platforms.

The problem is obviously the Woke mind virus.

So they could start their own community here or magazine on kbin and be the mods of that.

I’m willing to accept that there might be an experience of being a tree. My food choices aim at the lowest levels of potential consciousness. I am certain that a cow is a conscious being.

Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and Postmodernism by Frederick Jameson. Just finished Lacan’s lectures on the 4 fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and understood about 10%. I’m playing catch-up with the serious people from the last century.

Oh look, a talking gerbil.