Hi there. I’m an artist who gives away everything for free because I don’t personally think it’s ethical to profit from pure human emotional expression. I also don’t think it’s ethical for some faceless corporation to profit from my art. I will ABSOLUTELY fight against my art being used to train AI models, but I have ABSOLUTELY no desire to profit. In fact, I have the opposite desire.
So tell me exactly what is rent-seeking?
Nah, driving is a privilege, not a right. You don’t NEED to d I’ve and you absolutely don’t need to drive while impaired. Even if you think you’re good, you’re not. There are THOUSANDS of cases of people being killed by drunk drivers who thought they were good.
A LOT of important lessons, orgs, new theory, and new praxis grew out of both Occupy and the uprisings of 2020. I promise you, people are ready to use a diverse array of tactics to win this fight, but there’s one crucial thing still missing: critical mass. If you don’t have a large enough group of people, you get bowled over.
Things like No Kings (a reformist effort from well meaning, but status quo-protecting liberals), are largely toothless, but they DO have the positive side effect of radicalizing liberals. It’s like revolutionary Kindergarten.
So stuff like No Kings, while kind of annoying and not really anything, feed into that pool of people necessary to achieve that critical mass.
We’re getting there, but moving too fast can ensure a bloody and ultimately defeated revolution and help to cement authoritarian rule, if you’re not careful.
Start building networks with the people around you. Get to know your neighbors. Lend out your tools. Feed hungry people in your neighborhood. That’s how you build a revolution. The fighting can’t start without people taking care of people.
The creepy new drama teacher was an evil demon the whole time?!?
I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself
I literally did as you asked. There’s no gotcha here. I’m just trying to ascertain whether or not you value democracy or not. That’s a crucial first step to understand why you have such a fundamental misunderstanding of communism. That’s all.
Should people, in your opinion, be ruled by kings?
If you want to REALLY reduce the definition of communism down to its most concentrated form, “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need”, then not only is communism a successful system, it is the only reason our species exists today.
Simple question here. No gotcha: Do you believe that people deserve to be ruled by kings?
Now begins his next 65 years as a private sector lobbyist
Isn’t that a pleasant surprise?
It’s not EXACTLY the same, but this guy does a pretty good job of hitting the same vibes:
Sucks this guy sits in a jail cell for a crime he didn’t commit. I keep trying to tell people that Luigi Mangione was fishing with me and my roommate that day, but nobody listens.
Dairy Queen has been selling food since 1958. They are not “an ice cream store” any more than McDonalds is
middle managers suck.
FTFY
SOME of our hearts are in the right place
Okay, you seem to believe that every American is somehow perfectly reflected by its government, which is reductive but I get it, you’re upset.
But if you live on planet Earth, whether or not it suits you, it absolutely IS your problem. My government is an extractive, imperialist bully. My government’s military is single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and biggest single institutional emitter of greenhouse gases. My government has no qualms about making it your problem.
Pretending it’s not your problem is like pretending the neighbor’s house on fire isn’t your problem. You can get away with that for a while, but eventually you’ll burn too.
Nobody is being quiet about it, though. People are on the ground doing real things to try to change this. Like, ALL kinds of people. It takes time, and saying things like “your country is whack” isn’t helpful in and of itself. Saying “looking at this thing happening in your whack country right now” (like this post) is helpful. I didn’t ask anybody to solve our problems.
I wasn’t familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.