yeahiknow3 @ yeahiknow3 @lemmings.world

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VOA takes money from US taxpayers, not the Trump administration. Criticizing Trump is about as pro-American as that news organization can get.

Your critical self-reflection is the rarest characteristic of wisdom in these dark times. You actually care about the truth.

Got ’em

I’ve never met an actual Christian in America. They’re all fake as fuck, and there’s nothing about abortion in the Bible. It’s one of the easiest moral questions, one that ethicists don’t even bother to debate anymore: no, we shouldn’t force women and children to give birth to rape babies. wtf.

Sure, that’s one practical aspect of money that lends itself to superficial quantitative analysis. But it’s not the whole picture. Money is fundamentally about the power to get people to do things for you. That’s what it represents. With money I can force people to give me things and do things for me, almost like magic.

Now the origins of money is rooted in debt (and power). When a ruling body exercises a monopoly on violence over a region, it can offer promissory notes (IOUs) that others value, because they have faith that this ruling body can force its citizens to work by extracting taxes from them.

Check out “Debt: The Last 5000 Years,” or similar anthropological work on the origins of money.

Keeping consumers alive as a class is indirectly encouraged in capitalism.

All they want is money, which has nothing to do with consumers whatsoever. Corporations could extract money by devouring each other, or by taking over a nation state, or by hijacking a treasury department, or by issuing their own money a la crypto. Remember that money is an abstraction (or an instrument) of power. Violently subjugating a region is tantamount to possessing that power (which we call money), or the ability to make others do what you want.

This is such a fantastic summary of the theory of money. Holy shit.

Well, yes, but Americans support Zionism, and genocide is something the current president has explicitly endorsed.

Religion is a monstrous evil.

Currently, Palestinians.

The US is also hellbent on exterminating dolphins and every other living creature until we can achieve a Mad Max apocalypse.

The US with Christian Nationalists at the helm.

What a bizarre comment.

Fact checking is censorship apparently.

That’s fascinating and quite shitty. Unfortunately there’s no other communication service with comparable performance when it comes to screen and file sharing, which is what I care about.

Good write up, except Skype is a bad example, because it’s better than any alternative, at least when it comes to screen sharing, audio quality, and file sharing. (Although I’d love to be wrong about this.)

Not at all. Our species is beyond fucked. There’s nothing to be superior about. Maybe you’re someone with an unjustifiable faith in the ultimate goodness of our subhumanity.

Regardless, just do your best to enjoy what will probably be our last century on this planet.

It would be against the laws of physics NOT to talk down to them.

Situations like the one in Greenland are a microcosm of a larger human trend towards self-destruction. Almost every problem that humanity faces is trivially solvable. We could literally solve them tomorrow. But we won’t. Because people are stupid. Our species is just doomed, and now I have to sit here and be nice to these humans while they kill us all.

The fact that 57,000 people, living on an undefended frozen land mass that every world power would love to possess, think it’s a good idea to “seek independence” from one of the very few free nations still remaining on this woebegotten planet tells me everything I need to know about the inbreeding that goes on up there.