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- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
It’s funny that “candidates have to support genocide or they can’t win” is motivating you to punch left instead of rioting in the streets against AIPAC
- Comment on MBFC Credibility - High 2 months ago:
that’s quite the theory… does the bot somehow prevent posts from those places? were there more instances of popular posts from those places before the bot?
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
A 160hz refresh rate gives the software a 6ms render budget, do things actually even run at that rate?
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 2 months ago:
so we’re just going to skip past all of those examples got it
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 2 months ago:
What’s your criteria for sport? what’s Golf? Darts? Bowling? Curling? Archery?
Is it that you have to break a sweat? I guess talking to girls makes you an athlete then?
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
There are a lot of unprofitable startups that get purchased speculatively based on other factors like their user count. The idea being the buyer thinks they can monetize.
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 3 months ago:
Capitalism optimizes for profit. Sometimes that has good side-effects like making things available more cheaply or by finding efficiencies in a supply chain. It also means exploiting labor as much as possible and cutting corners as much as possible.
When profit is at odds with any other consideration, the only consideration is profit. This is why fines are just a cost to be paid and companies violate laws they can afford to get away with.
Where do people get the idea that what’s profitable is always what’s good, or that everything should be profitable? At this rate we’ll lose our libraries and free passage on roads because nobody questions this.
Capitalism only cares about profit, all other side effects, good or bad, are an accident.
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 3 months ago:
Setting prices is communism, Marx got it all wrong
- Comment on Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending 3 months ago:
I dunno man you’re like the people that insert politics into every thread, and I say that as one of them.
Sometimes we can talk about a Russian person doing something nice or we can talk about a cat in Istanbul without bringing up genocide.
- Comment on Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending 3 months ago:
You should evaluate why you came to a barely populated thread, and made up a complete straw man to get upset over.
You’re manufacturing outrage for yourself. That’s not healthy.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
Worth highlighting that, at least in my opinion, regulation by a state isn’t the only way to rein in corporate society-destroying impulses. If all “corporations” were worker owned and operated by the laborers you’d have lots of people “in charge” who like havingclean water and air in their community.
This is a critique of capitalism first and foremost, not of the “anarchist” part (again, admittedly debatable).
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
Yikes dawg how does one communicate with someone whose ideological landscape is full of missing definitions and contradictory definitions? There’s a lot to untangle here and I’m not willing or able to do that for you. I can only suggest reading more anarchist sources. I typically share this one as a decent conceptual intro theanarchistlibrary.org/…/peter-gelderloos-anarch… although I don’t agree with everything it says.
I’m finding it difficult to be talking to an “anarcho-capitalist” who doesn’t seem to agree or identify with either anarchism or capitalism nor have confidence in their understanding of the terms.
Maybe don’t be so quick to label yourself, let your mind explore without the baggage of assuming what you are a priori.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
I once spoke to someone who comes across as libertarian at my workplace and asked them why their resistance to oppression and authoritarianism by the state doesn’t extend to the economy, in that private owners run fiefdoms and both oppress and dictate the actions of their laborers.
The answer was that “I guess I just think there’ll always be some oppression”
This is the kind of critical thinking we’re usually dealing with. These people will lick boots as long as they’re not democratically elected and instead just inherited or purchased. They are OK with dictators and kings as long as there’s no DIRECT violence, no matter the actual harm and violence done to the working class.
Mine work should be a valid career path for children not wanting to go to secondary school
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what private property is. Also I’m not sure if you understand exactly where capitalism begins and ends compared to other concepts like money, trade, and markets.
The gap there is again the concept of private property and how economic production capability is owned and operated.
It’s shocking to me how much trouble people have imagining non-capitalist systems, propaganda has successfully conflated the idea of capitalism with economy, and with freedom. You’re more a victim of that than anything else, so no hard feelings.
Anarcho-capitalism is a contradictory ideology and there’s no way to reconcile those two things together. Capitalism must be rejected in any egalitarian society.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
You don’t seem to differentiate private property and personal property and also I learned long ago not to bother debating with ancaps because the rational ones tend to un-cap themselves on their own eventually
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
weird how this flavour of “anarchism” is pretty identical to conservative politics
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized 3 months ago:
Ancaps are like monotheists to anarchism’s atheism. You’ve given up MOST oppression and hierarchy but for some reason you still worship the inequalities of capitalism.
Abolish all hierarchy, end all oppression.
- Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali? 3 months ago:
Around the first French Revolution there were only a few forms of democracy and all of them (including the French Revolution) reverted to monarchy.
Online edgelords at the time might have thought monarchy is the only system that can work and democracy only works in theory
- Comment on Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked 4 months ago:
we sure do twist and cram so many things into a capitalist framework, if only there were another way
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
They’re saying they might ask to collect this additional information. A lot of the information, as others have pointed out, are also common and necessary for some basic operations of a service like this.
This is an overreaction, there are many good reasons not to like this app but misunderstanding their data policy isn’t one
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
It’s because Democrats are not “we.” Both parties serve corporate interests.
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
oh yes I’m not excited about humans being replaced by bias amplifying machines with corporate morals
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
I think it’s unfair to call it poorly-developed, the rush to market it and apply it in every corner is driven entirely by capitalist speculation, the engineers and scientists working on developing these systems are not to blame
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
I feel like the effort to make such a repo and make it popular enough to be cloned and rehosted is a lot more effort than someone manually checking the results of an automated filter process.
The “effort economy” is hugely in favor of the mirroring side
- Comment on Shrimps 5 months ago:
Boomer humour aside how someone can be an adult and not be tired of this kind of joke just from a repetition POV is beyond me.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 6 months ago:
What’s the connection between Uber and China, then? I thought it was somewhat common for tech companies to be unprofitable for very long periods of time backed only by capital, but it may be China. Has anyone looked into this? Does Xi know what I like to order on weekends? Why haven’t we banned this yet
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 6 months ago:
Lol I hope that’s a poor choice of words, maybe you MIGHT have a point if you specified the US government though even that isn’t true en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 6 months ago:
Only Western manipulation please!
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 6 months ago:
We have different ideas of what the left is, I guess
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 6 months ago:
I’d argue that’s true in some cases, for example web apps might work well enough on modern device hardware but they’ll never meet the performance of even mid-tier native apps