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Focusing on a a salacious and improbable event downplays the real “evils” of capitalism

That’s the thing. These events are not just “salacious and improbable”. These events are actually happening in front of our eyes and they need to be taken seriously. These events are happening as a direct result of capitalism, and not calling it out will just allow the right to set the narrative on those issues.

Clearly the system has major flaws that got us here, such as not enabling the judicial branch to enforce laws, first past the post voting leading to a two party system, non-mathematical districting enabling gerrymandering, etc.

The biggest one though, is forming the country around capitalism, which enables people who seek power to obtain it via exploiting people for profit. The now-powerful then use their power to buy the government so that they could be allowed to exploit people further for more short term financial gain.

If the workers owned the businesses they worked for and if we had a hard wealth cap of $50m by taxing everything over that at 100%, no single person would be able to obtain that kind of power/influence to begin with.

These conspiracies come as a direct result of capitalism. Everybody can plainly see when Boeing murders whistleblowers that it is because of money/their image.

Failure to talk about these conspiracies is a failure to point out the specific failures of capitalism.

Also I assume you actually meant conspiracy and not conspiracy theory.

Lefty loosey, righty tighty

That seems like a fake website. Here is the real link: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Firefox isn’t going to solve the issue of overly bloated websites.

Yes, and every time someone is bothered by my language, I change my language specifically for them, like how I call my transfem friends by their name instead of saying “dude”, etc.

Lol “sugarcube”. But yeah, maybe I should take a page from Canadians.

Nobody (including you) should put other peoples’ feeling above your own, as that is an extremely unhealthy thing to do. Being considerate of someone’s feelings and sacrificing your own feelings for someone else are two very different things.

The people I talk to don’t mind the way I talk, and that is how I judge my language. I also make sure that I give them the environment necessary to express their discomfort with my language if they have any.

Do you have any non-gendered alternatives to “dude” and “bro?”

If you’re truly gender-abolitionist and (I will optimistically assume) race-abolitionist, and don’t want to have gender be part of you, congruently, maybe don’t use dude or bro at all anymore?

Gender, race, nationality, and country abolishionist.

I would love an alternative, but the colloquial American English language does not have casual, non-gendered words to refer to people in general other than “comrade”, but I don’t want to call everyone a comrade because then everyone will think I’m a communist (I am, but I don’t want that to be public).

Easy. I’m a straight male who grew up around surfers in California.

I’m a person who calls everyone “dude”, “bro”, “man” etc. regardless of gender. When I talk to a woman using those words, my mentality isn’t that they are necessarilly “one of the bros” specifically meaning “similar to one of my male friends”, but more that I’ve never called anyone “sis” or “girl” in my life, and I’m not about to start. I also don’t like using gendered pronouns in any conversation, regardless of who I’m talking to. For example, instead of “him” or “her”, I will usually say " 'em" (short for them).

To me, I am not talking to a man or a woman; I am talking to a human.

With my transfem friends, though, I usually just call them by their name, since that seems to be a good compromise.

Who knows. Maybe I’ll just start calling everyone “comrade”

That’s actually not a bad idea, but who would hold that money? Elon and Ron DeSantis showed that anyone can just waltz into a government office and steal all their money.

Publicly owned by which government? Because I don’t think YouTube’s home of the US is really a good choice right now.

https://fee.org/articles/economic-fascism/

Just leaving this article from 1994 here

Rupert Murdoch beat him to it by a couple decades.

https://www.scribd.com/document/843031644/Yahoo-News-YouGov-March-2025-Canada-Greenland-Poll

Between 17-19% support the US stealing Greenland and Canada as of late March, so I’d say the bottom is around 17-19%.

I wonder if there’s a money trail that can be traced back to a single source for both the German and US (and probably others as well) media outlets to corporatize/liberalize at around the same time.

The laws here directly reflect the wishes of corporations, including the relealing of the Fairness Doctrine, and there is a money trail showing which politicians took money from who for their political campaigns.

The Heritage Foundation also played a big role in influencing policy during the Reagan administration. These are the same people who wrote Project 2025.

Actually, the thing that is causing me stress is also my source of joy.

I quit weed last week. Going through withdrawals which are pretty bad, but I know in the long term, it’s going to be worth it to have a clear mind.

I don’t think GSM changes the render resolution of the game, but only the output resolution.

At least that was my experience when I tried it last over a decade ago.