You overestimate the strength of the cognitive dissonance. These people have somehow found a way to overcome the concept of hypocrisy and the consequences for it. They’re impervious to shame and repercussions.

This is them gathering their strength. The more we care about facts and honesty, the more they win. This is kind of the endgame

Two inches from the best timeline. We got fucked.

What two inches? What was the best timeline that we missed out on so narrowly? 2000? Because Reagan won by a lot, if I’m remembering correctly.

lol get rekt

“Improves productivity for everyone”

Famously only one class benefits from productivity, while one generates the productivity. Can you explain what you mean, if you don’t mean capitalistic productivity?

And making starving artists’ lives even more unlivable. And taking human creativity and joy from humans.

While destroying the environment. It’s so efficient.

A lot of people have pitched ideas, and this one is my favorite.

Doesn’t rhyme and gets right to the point. This has my vote. Mocks the entire idea of having a cutesy catchphrase. But is a catchphrase in itself. And one that isn’t even catchy. Love it.

Interesting, I thought I had tried all the lemmy clients. Don’t think I’ve heard of this one. I’ll give it a shot, thanks.

Do we need a catchy “go Nazi get…____” catchphrase? It was such a g when the right wing did it! They do love a good catchphrase. Easier to remember.

What was the username he stole? Don’t remember that one

Also, don’t forget the disastrous rollout of the blue checks when a few people imitated companies and said Lockheed wouldn’t be doing business with Israel and a few others. But I guess that was the best thing he did, honestly, because that shit was hilarious.

Voyager is my favorite

I mean, I mostly agree with this. You can boil any problem down to existence. And existence down to molecular processes.

But two things: discussing modern problems, it’s all built on systems. And the system we deal with is capitalism.

Human fallibility is the problem, ultimately. But there is no overcoming human fallibility. So building systems that place peoples well being above all else is an actionable solution. Whereas solving human fallibility isn’t.

And secondly, hierarchy in all its forms. Which I would argue is the problem boiled down past the system to look at its problematic parts. Does a system rely on or serve needs in a hierarchical manner? Then that’s the problem.

That’s as far as I think is logical to go. Digging down further to human nature is a problem for a utopian society to deal with, and that we are nowhere near to achieving. So, my point is we need to deal with the first layer of problems. And that would be capitalism. Abolishing hierarchy in all its forms comes second.

The first because the system rewards the worst parts of our nature. The second because it’s almost uniformly led to corruption. Those are the root problems, from my point of view. Human fallibility is, I’m afraid, baked into the cookie. But removing systems that reward those errors instead of eradicating them should be job one.

Yeah, because I consider myself a pretty reasonable person. People have a big problem these days of never engaging with nuance, no matter how much you try to bring any conversation back to it. Things are definitely not as binary as people seem to only be able to conceive of them. The entire world and even the most seemingly clear cut issues have loads of grey area that people just can’t discuss because as soon as you say, “yes, I agree we need to ____! But we need to discuss the trickier parts” it turns into a witch hunt for anyone pointing out anything that might be considered a tricky part because it goes against the “I’m 100% on this side and it’s the only right opinion.”

It’s frustrating.

Proving your point…about what? I was just curious to hear someone’s thoughts who went against the idea that most modern problems can be traced back to the roots of capitalism. But fuck me, right?

I don’t understand this sentence. The two words I don’t know in this context are “gore” and “matrix”

Not trying to get into a whole ugly thing, just curious what your pro-capitalism stance is. Because I would definitely fall into this big Lemmy category of seeing 90-905% of modern problems being rooted in capitalism. So I would (civilly!) disagree, no doubt. Doesn’t mean we can’t have a reasonable discussion!

It was.

https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/rise-wealth-private-property-and-income-inequality-china

In white, pt. 5 font, add “Harvard” and 10 “years experience in ____.” Get past the AI Zane have a smaller pool of applicants against which you’re compared.

Netscape is suing PayPal?

Think the “right to repair” conversation. When you buy something, their argument is you don’t own it. You can’t alter it, you can’t do with it what you want for your own use. It’s theirs and you’re only allowed to look at it in its current form. If it’s broken? It’s your problem. If you fix it, we’re gonna make it your problem. That kinda thing.