The patterns of behavior between shareholders, boards of directors, and executives is what’s killing people. The same role can be re-cast with different actors.

It’s not that CEOs need to die, it’s that that larger pattern of behavior that gets rich by killing people needs to end. Maybe this spooks other people who are part of that larger pattern into stopping, maybe it makes them do it more, stealthier, and with bodyguards. It’s hard to say.

At the very least, we should all jump at every chance to help things without hurting anybody, wherever we do find it. “Necessary violence” comes with a big ol heap of plausible deniability, and it’s a pretty big ask for somebody to handle it responsibly.

The justification will be alluring even in circumstances where it is not legitimate.

It’s not even selfish. It bites the people who fight for it in a thousand different ways.

It’s just silly. If they were any good at being selfish, they’d want people to have healthcare, because everybody else’s shit makes your world better or worse regardless of your money or whether you acknowledge it.

Suck that strong conservative ladydick, fellas 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

I don’t know about “with any value”. I think he just thinks he’s the only person. And the other people are…something else. Like people, but not.

You can’t do it and be right, but you can do it and be dumb and wrong.

The US widget buyers in the fantasy scenario are 100% not getting fucked by tariffs, because–again, fantasy scenario–their dollars are not supporting slavery, wage slavery, or some unjustifiable bullshit that’s barely technically not wage slavery. Gutting economic opportunities for bad actors that exploit labor is a win for everybody, and claiming otherwise is evidence of a misunderstanding born of too narrow a scope.

Basically, if I save a buck by poisoning my town’s water, I haven’t won.

That aside, I loved reading this. I already kind of knew it but your version made me know it better. Thanks for writing it.

If guns had a function besides murder, that would be a bad argument, but they don’t. Defense is just the threat of murder.

Shooting at the range for fun, I suppose, but if people are actually serious about that they’d want to store their guns there because there’s no need for them anywhere else.

Yeah, Greenland

You have to be especially shitty to side with the guy after it’s all come out.

How am I supposed to have fun if I’m not better than you???

Edit: ???

People would, in general, really love to pay a reasonable subscription to youtube that gets fairly distributed to the video creators they watch the most.

So if there’s ever a way to do that, they’ll probably use it.

This kind of reads as being addicted to the smell of your own farts?

Nothing in that godawful, arcane, confusing black screen with white text is ever going to be better than clicking on buttons that have English words I can actually understand.

If you were raised by the matrix and like doing things the hard way with memorized commands, that’s fine with me and kind of cool in a way, but it is definitely the hard way.

If any of you find out that any of these people take up independent (ie real) journalism, please post about it a ton on here.

The only way to make money is to convince people to give you money. If you wanna do it by acting like it’s because of some skill you have, that can work.

He’s afraid that if he doesn’t slide us into unlikeability gradually, the shock could kill us.

4D chess?

The internet has been mostly enshittified. The corporations are guaranteed to continue sucking in predictable ways. It’ll never get better or good enough.

The fediverse is something new. It is, at the very least, immune to being reddited and twittered. If the internet has a future, it’s on the fediverse, or on something like it that doesn’t exist yet. Going back to shitty corporate stuff just delays the future.

Your real issue is that spez, musk, etc all suck. That’s what you hate. This is the place where we are free of them, and it can only get better.

What the fuck is this stroke of a title?

Out of the two and only two choices Americans had (thanks, first past the post), she was overwhelmingly and objectively the best.

But yes she was weak on Palestine and that was bad. Ranked choice for actual third parties, please.

It’s like not commenting, but with more effort.

Nazis do this dumb thing where they go “hey that small and therefore relatively defenseless group (badassness of individuals aside) is the cause of all our problems, let’s kill them to solve everything!”

Surprisingly, it never works.

So they do it again with somebody else, and somebody else, and somebody else, until everybody on earth is killed by nazis or somebody stops them.

As for why anybody is dumb enough to fall for it in the first place…it’s anybody’s guess.