Shalakushka

gluck gluck gluck please let me pay even more money for the privilege of not being advertised to, corpo-daddy

Holy shit you must be 13 if you think RvB is from the 90s.

Any news about Musk ventures should inspire cynicism.

In what fucking universe are mergers and acquisitions difficult my man

People said the same about Kanye’s EVA foam marshmallows

Fucking despicable.

And if you think this is a just India thing, that Twitter is not trying to tip the scales toward fascists in your country’s elections, you should think again. This is important to consider wherever you are.

When were you born, 1950? Who the fuck has a pension at this point?

It can be designed ridiculously

Like 12 idiots on the Internet who then decided to never shut the fuck up about it.

People need to expect to pay reasonable prices on a reasonable basis for art and entertainment, and pretending everyone should be cool with fifty different streaming services and never owning anything again is its own sort of immorality and lack of ethics.

Agreed. Capital, states, etc all have issues in the same way. I just think the state can work for the people and I’m not convinced of the alternative. Both libertarians and anarchosyndicalists have some wild basically religious ideas about how everyone will basically just work together and not dick each other over because of… Social norms, I guess? I just have a hard time believing it.

It is, a lot of people just have pseudo mystical beliefs about how people will act when there is no state. They like to imagine everything bad about humans is capitalism/the state/insert Boogeyman, not that the state and laws exist because we tried the alternative and no system at all always does work out to might makes right. A warlord always moves in to fill the power vacuum.

Some people are bastards and any system you create has to be created with the explicit assumptions that people are bastards. Some people just want to believe no one is a bastard or that there are not enough bastards to hurt the reasonable people. I think those people are wildly optimistic, and removing power structures does not remove the temptation to exert power or the ability, only one specific means.

Decades of austerity and a party that desires no government at all made the US a shit hole, and Assange tipped the scales for that very party in 2016.

Maybe we would believe he was an impartial whistleblower if he acted like one. But, instead, he acted like a political operative because he is one. He can rot for all I care, maybe Putin can help him.

If you think science fiction is laser fights in space, this opinion makes sense. If you like characters and setting, it’s probably some of the best sci fi on TV.

Are you okay with being the one in perpetual darkness for all working and living hours while someone on the other side of the world gets to live “normally”?

He didn’t say it was the case for most of the world

It’s cheating and the fact that you are asking shows you know it is.

Lol, no steam engines without stealing from the worker, got it. 🙄

Industrialization lifts people out of poverty, capitalism sinks them into poverty by stealing the value of their labor as profit.

Also what’s with the phrase “lifted out of poverty?” The fuck does that mean? Why is this same phrase repeated anytime some criticizes capitalism? It’s like a stock phrase or talking point that makes you sound like a robot.