fucking proprietary bullshit is an ecological nightmare, and that’s why I think Tim cook deserves the wall.

what’s wrong with drugs?

if the community couldn’t afford it, they were being exploited not served. dont pretend these people are being supported by these corporations.

if the prices go up, you should steal too. market pressures, babe.

if this isnt sustainable, then let’s build guillotines and do something else.

nah still fine. if its cheaper than corpo prices, and nobody but corporate ghouls loses, why risk hurting someone over that?

probably not. but let’s try to be real careful about killing innocent people here

billionaires aren’t people. their existence requires a river of blood, and they all deserve death, regardless of the states opinion.

I think its good to remind them they can be killed. I think they forget.

yep! spin the wheel of genocides!

this is why you don’t vote for the “lesser evil” for twenty years. takes electoral politics from ‘impotent’ to ‘suicidal’.

its… well its not cool that this is the only option, but there are other kinds.

fucking seriously. he won’t step aside, and he won’t stop holding it over the abyss.

he wants to make it as painful as possible to vote for him, but I just… I know at this point I can’t, abd I’m starting to see much less radical people than me make that call.

You can’t really condemn Hamas (for offensive actions. Their treatment of other Palestinians isn’t great). They’re killing Nazis. Killing Nazis is always good. If you think otherwise, you are a Nazi.

Fuck, okay, Linux on my phone now, because corporations just spray shit on everything

They betrayed and stole the revolution, almost every other group involved would have done better.

In not shitting on them for being messy. I’m shitting on them for killing all the communists.

not all authoritarianism

Could argue that, and if you brought up Cuba I might lose, but it’s not the argument here.

Tankies, for historical reasons, with their Russia fetish, are reactionary. They fetishize a group of shitty reactionaries who killed all the communists (auth and otherwise). The origin of why we call them ‘tankies’ is a second wave of them being reactionaries who murdered all the communists.

It’s really clear at many levels.

Not formally. Talk to a cop while wearing a red bandana and clothing with a red star or hammer and sickle on it.

(Please don’t ban me for suggesting suicide, I don’t actually want them to do this)

Tankies are reactionaries.

Literally, the Bolsheviks were the reactionaries that suppressed and appropriated the Russian revolution, and said they were doing it at the time. ‘M-L’ is stalinism.

They’re just red star brand conservative reactionaries.

Oh honey that’s not how any of this works. The government is never there to save you.

Cute thought though. I’d like it to be true.

Uh huh. Why do they care though? Its basically an expensive rental.

They’re not going to be punished. Thats not what laws are for. Not unless theres a mob of people with pitchforks and torches, and the parasites need to be rescued with a wrist slap and some community service.

The rich and poor alike are forbidden from stealing bread?

Except if a poor person fails to pay the fine, they get locked in a cage. The rich ‘person’ will fightbitbin court for a century, til they’re long dead.

I was commenting after thatthat had been done. Youre arguing with the wrong person, regardless of how I feel about your points. I’m going to be the bigger person and leave now

Then come back, after a cup of tea, and write this part.

You can be all manner of shitty without religion, but religion as a framework is generally (and they’re not all the same) a tool for getting people to accept and do awful shit-partially, I admit, a (violent) selection pressure, but when you believe blatantly magical bullshit, you’re more easily manipulated against your stated conscience and general interest, and the people willing to do that tend to be the biggest bastards. Its also a mostly static model of reality youre very emotionally attached to, with no or problematic adjustment mechanisms, and those are always dangerous, even when they’re as or more accurate than other options (which none of the big ones are).

Religion doesn’t determine good/bad, but it’s got its finger on the needle. That’s not to say it hasn’t produced things I respect; Spinoza, Hegel, guy whose name I can never remember how to spell who wrote ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’, but I’m not sure how much any of those are attributable to it, and a lot (most? One is too many) of those holy wars (including the worst ongoing genocide I’m aware of at time if writing) serve(d) little/no material interest, of anyone.

So I’m only saying this because you basically walked up and asked me. But also I’m queer and it makes me feel very unsafe. Its a kind of volatility, if someone is, say, any of the abrahamic faiths, that they can just… Turn, almost instantly, for reasons I can’t argue or persuade or accommodate, for no real reason, against my very existence. Ive lost a lot of people to that. And it fucking sucks. No nonreligious person did this to me until ~2016. It took fascism, which I would argue is a (particularly bad) religion.

Missing the point.

A lot of us have been victims of the church(hi); its leaves a bloody trench in its wake.

or tried our hand at activism and been smacked down by religious groups for doing the shit they espouse on paper (not strongly me, in any way I care about) and are understandably bitter.

And it hits harder, because most people grew up hearing these are the paragons of moral virtue, and then then pull this shit.

Plus they won’t shut up and get a ton of special treatment, but almost never use it for good (notice nobody’s talking shit about Harriet Tubman, john brown, or the quakers. Diggers levellers anabaptists, too, not even the ULC or church of Satan).

They paint their own target.