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  • I'm an atheist, I don't try to divine "god's will" when I read the Bible critically. What I try is to understand the struggles of the people who wrote the passages.

    There’s no way to interpret, discard, or contextualize this book properly.

    Art is always open to reinterpretation. At this point you're telling people they can't do something and I'm just laughing cuz I already done it. Cope.

  • Do you think community work is where people go preach?

    It's setting up a neighborhood pantry, showing up to community meetings, rendering aide to my unhoused brethren, helping the local maker space setup an electronics lab. None of that involves preaching.

    And yes, the community work is going well. Does a lot to alleviate alienation under capitalism.

  • Don't worry, my example included both goods and services. Or does Internet service provider not count as a service?

  • Far right isn't the same as right wing. Right wing could be a liberal. Far right is where you start sorting people by their "worth" instead of letting people discover that for themselves.

  • Y'all love to larp when it comes to guns, but never hear about the community work you've done.

  • Damn, well they shouldn't buy any Internet services, cars or bikes made from a corporation then. Unionists are going to walk to work less they be hypocrites.

    It's silly to think you can participate in the economy without dealing with a corporation.

  • The "I don't use Twitter so that's a you problem" is a thought terminating cliche.

  • Basically read the Bible in the context it was written in to better understand its meaning instead of taking the reactionary approach where you work backwards from what you already believe.

  • This reads as more Individualism. We gotta band together, the corporations already have.

  • You can't raise a family on passion, some of us have more mouths to feed then our own.

  • This. Who in their right mind is going to develop their game using Unity after this? Their only revenue source from the point forward is going to be games already published.

  • IDK, vaping in front of a pregnant woman after being asked not to is worse than the headline. She cares for the unborn, just not that one in particular.

  • Me: how about democracy in the work place?

    Reactionaries: but what about Stalin?

    Me: did I stutter?

  • Right now the UAW is going on strike for those higher wages. CEO of Ford says those wages will bankrupt them. Is he telling the truth?

  • We're communicating using the fediverse. I can use my own private instance to connect, but in my case I am using a "collective" instance. While capitalism sees the Lemmy Blahaj as a "private enterprise", it is functionally more akin to a free associative collective where members can take their content with them.

    I would say part of the confusion is because our technology has evolved in a capitalist context, collectivism isn't the default state of being so the solutions made cater towards (corporate) private ownership.

  • IDK, maybe we could decide such things similar to how we're having this conversation and we're able to upvote on what's being said. Totally unprecedented I know.

  • Under a capitalist legal framework yes, but hear me out, it's possible to redefine laws and is really what this debate is about.

  • What kind of competition though? Competing over how little I pay my workers might temporarily boost the standard of living in my own country if I offshore labor, but it seems to turn the standard of living into a ponzi scheme. Where one needs to continually find a cheaper source of labor to maintain the quality of life.