• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    And this is why capitalism utterly sucks at providing public services.

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      12 hours ago

      It’s not really capitalism anymore if the CEO runs the government too.

      Idk what else the USA has to do to show the obvious oligarchy y’all have.

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        Even if the politicos unironically started referring to themselves as oligarchs, a significant population of US citizens would likely either take it as a joke and hand-wave it away, or take it as further proof that that’s just what you do to get ahead.

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          8 hours ago

          “Radical feminists” on tumblr are calling themselves fascists because they are happy with the porn ban.

          Masks are off, “radical feminism” was always a front.

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            7 hours ago

            Masks are off, “radical feminism” was always a front.

            You want to see rampant anti-male gender bigotry in play? Bring up - and be in favour of - “paper abortions”, and watch the hate flow.

            Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely in favour of giving women abortion rights. But giving rights to only one gender and blatantly denying those exact same rights to the other is the dictionary definition of gender bigotry.

            And while I may not want porn and smut to be trivially accessible to non-adults - and have absolutely no use for it, myself - I also wholeheartedly support the right of any legal adult to consume that content.

            • I’m very sorry to hear about your aneurysm and how it’s impacted your ability to say anything that’s even vaguely related to the group you’re posting to. I’m also very sorry to hear about your getting hit in the head by a shovel as an infant, thus causing you to say really stupid things as well.

              Thoughts and prayers and healing vibes your way.

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                I’m very sorry to hear about your aneurysm and how it’s impacted your ability *to say anything that’s even vaguely related to the group you’re posting to*. I’m also very sorry to hear about your getting hit in the head by a shovel as an infant, thus causing you to say really stupid things as well.

                Thoughts and prayers and healing vibes your way.

                Imagine being someone so bereft of any viable counter-argument, that the only possible response is an ad hominem.

                And receiving ad hominems is a great way to identify intellectual bankruptcies in others. When the puerile and solipsistic insults come out, you know you’ve gotten under their skin in ways they have no rational or logical adult-level responses for.

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      10 hours ago

      Capitalism is antithetical to public services, at least according to Milton Friedman.

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      9 hours ago

      monopolism* utterly sucks at providing public services (except for some governmental monopolies because those can be democratically controlled)

      once the starlink monopoly is broken this will happen less and less because if they raise prices the customers can switch to a different system from another company and spacex will lose money.