Doc_Crankenstein
@Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 6 hours ago:
Just to say, they were still semi-anarchist in nature, but not in the modern sense where it means “chaos” rather the political sense where it means “absence of hierarchy and horizontally-structured self-governance”, which is representative of the confederated nature of the Flying Gang where the different crews were considered equal and all had a say in their governance, based in a mutually agreed upon code of conduct. Within the crews themselves, captains were more like delegates who were chosen to take on leadership responsibilities but were at the whims of the crew. Power came from the bottom up, not the top down. If a crew was displeased with how their captain led the ship they were well within their right to depose him and appointed a new one.
Anarchism is not the bad “chaos and disorder” that the ruling class would have you believe.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 7 hours ago:
Really wish more people understood this.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 7 hours ago:
Also, retire early
Lol, what a pipedream. People these days are lucky to be able to retire at all.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 7 hours ago:
Nope then you just get overwhelmed with your lack of access to basic necessities because our society is structured to where, if you do not overwhelm yourself with arbitrary responsibility for the sake of generating profit for owning class bastards, you apparently haven’t “proved” that you “deserve” to live.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 1 day ago:
Was gonna comment this earlier but decided not to. Glad someone else did.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 1 day ago:
Okay. And? Be mean to cops anyway. Don’t let them scare you into submission. That’s how fascism wins.
- Comment on Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
The game has periodic expeditions that have some story to them, and there is the main overarching story plus the “Journey to the Center” bit
But yea, it’s mostly a sandbox where you make cool bases (and now cool space ships) or try to make number go up and grow an intergalactic trading empire.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 1 day ago:
How has no one mentioned Happy Wheels yet?
- Comment on Centipede Simulator Steam Page is now live 1 day ago:
Why does the game footage look like one of those cheap, mobile “game”, scam ads?
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 1 day ago:
I can’t fix her but she can make me worse.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 1 day ago:
Then use one of those sites that gets rid of it if there is a paywall for you.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 days ago:
Economics also plays a huge role in conservation as well.
Sadly the focus is put on making the conservation work for the economic interests rather than the economy working for conservation efforts.
My econ professors did not like me that much when I had to take their classes for my conservation degree.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 days ago:
Just want to chime in and say that Karl Marx was also an econ major.
Yet, being an economist, he also neglected to base his theories in any real science, only in “business science”, which is why I’m a proponent of Kropotkin instead.
- Comment on Mystery surrounds $1.2B Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas 2 days ago:
A mystery? For who? Scooby fucking Doo?
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 2 days ago:
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 days ago:
Oh cool, let’s just condition our youth to be okay with constant surveillance by armed drones. That’s totally not dystopian at all.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 2 days ago:
Yes. The addiction isn’t usually the problem itself but rather an unhealthy coping mechanism for some deeper issue that the body/mind is trying to get relief from.
- Comment on The Roots of To Your Eternity Teaser Visual 5 days ago:
Yoooo more To Your Eternity? Image
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The German “Carpe Diem” basically
- Comment on After trying them in the mountains, I think Carbonated Beverages were better closer to sea level. 3 weeks ago:
Agree. I don’t know if it’s reality or if my mind is making things up, but carbonated beverages have a lot more of that fizzy feeling when closer to sea level, and that is the entire reason I drink them over other beverages.
I have lived both in the mountains of Appalachia and below sea level in New Orleans.
- Comment on Always wanted to do this 4 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s why there is an entire genre of comedy based on it: slapstick.
Any other pointless, moralistic virtue signals you want to add or ya done?
- Comment on Always wanted to do this 4 weeks ago:
“Yes. Do you require a demonstration?”
That usually works to shut em up.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
Its up to the employee to ensure they do not get away with it.
This is literally victim blaming.
You literally do not understand the mechanisms behind systemic exploitation.
The original claim wasn’t that they will simply just “refuse to pay”, it is that they will take advantage of the convoluted system in order to exploit the vulnerable and desperate workers they are responsible for.
Trusting the legal system that was designed and run by capitalists to uphold the interest of workers is braindead bootlicking. Literally. Fuck off your naive bullshit.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
You don’t get paid daily, dipshit. What gives them the impression they can get away with it is because they rely on a convoluted system to obscure their fraud against vulnerable, such as the youth who do not fully understand their rights as workers, and the desperate who are taking bottom of the barrel jobs to make ends meet and don’t want to risk putting their lifeline in jeopardy to stand up for their rights. A legal battle takes time, but rent is due and the fridge is empty right now.
Jesus Christ, you are naive. Holy fuck you’re not even worth talking to. Fuck off with your myopic victim blaming rhetoric.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
Got a love all the victim blaming going on in this thread right mate? I seriously don’t get these people who bend over backwards to lick capitalist boots.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
Placing the blame on the victim to not be taken advantage of instead of blaming the one who is taking advantage of others is myopic as fuck.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
Bud you think fraud doesn’t happen? How naive are you? Businesses will happily commit fraud if they think they can get away with it. And they do, routinely.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
You assume the business isn’t committing fraud by not reporting accurate tips and/or aren’t taking advantage of the naive and vulnerable by convincing them it is in their best interest to not report accurately.
Wage theft is the largest and most common category of theft in the US, after all.
The only real solution is a general strike of all wage staff that prevents these businesses from operating until things change. But that would require massive unionization efforts before it would even be remotely possible.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 weeks ago:
The Business Plot never ended, they just regrouped. All those fuckers involved should have been hung.
The way to fight it isn’t a FDR-style party that will just give concessions to staunch the momentum of the working class, which was rallying behind communist ideology through unionization efforts, that was threatening the capitalist status quo at the time. That status quo is the entire root of the problem. The only way to fight it is to dismantle the system that gives them their power and build something new, not to continue enabling the very systems that keep us on our knees.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 weeks ago:
As a Louisiana resident. I feel ya neighbor.
