theneverfox

Cool? That sounded like it was meant as a rebuttal, but that's my whole argument.

You can't live a truly moral life under capitalism, but you can fight to change the system while living in the system. There's no hypocracy in that, suggesting otherwise is just a mid-wit talking point

Now, if we got together and organized a boycott against Amazon and you broke it, that would be a different story

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just live your life

Anyone with enough money to influence society already has enough money to influence society. Given them another $3 doesn't make you complicit

If they have problematic views but aren't pushing them on society... Well, no one is perfect.

Ultimately, voting with your wallet is a lie. Best sellers aren't the best books, they're the ones boosted by publishers and public figures. Just like the record industry - there's people who are literally choosing the winners and losers

What's the ultimate ethical implication of using ketchup at McDonald's vs buying a dipping sauce? There certainly is one, tiny as it might be. Use that energy to do good things, you'll make a far greater difference calling a senator than buying a lifetime of books

Or just sidestep it all and pirate it or check it out at a library

Yes yes, we're on the worst timeline. That's no excuse for mockery

I loved how he kept calling people up to congratulate for records, and he'd let them speak and they all said "I love my friends" and stepped down. You could see him taken aback, like he thought they were going to glaze him

It was also wild to see him start out giving a normal commencement speech... Then suddenly it was like the meds wore off, he froze for a second, and he just started doing his normal rants. And that was like a quarter of the way in

Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they're falling out of it now

I do find it interesting...I don't think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea

Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with

Let's say it's 2% of a game that made $100M - you're looking at tens of thousands each when it's all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it's not financial security kind of money

And then let's say the game flops or gets cancelled... Well that's not going to help much, so you can't really rely on it

So I think the idea is great, but it's still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism

I'm increasingly convinced that we're already in hell and being taught a lesson

Who gives a fuck about that, it's tied to making the executive branch immune to contempt charges for ignoring the courts, retroactively no less

And it has a soft abortion ban (and maybe birth control too?) by banning any health plan that gets government assistance from providing it

And then there's weird shit... Like indoor tanning is getting a tax cut, as well as gun silencers

Also, there's the stuff on the label... Stripping food and medical care from the most vulnerable people. Which also fucks over farmers, because food stamps are a farming subsidy

This whole bill is really, really bad

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let's them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That's the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don't want to do

Of course - they certainly have to be replaced.

That's what the struggle over the dnc vice chair position is about - someone won who wants to use funds to primary representatives "asleep at the wheel", so they're pulling out procedural reasons to redo it

There's a plan... It's not a sure thing, but it's building a lot of momentum

People don't know what socialism is...Most people's understanding of socialism includes the government doing basically anything

What people want is free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich. We just need to double down on that populist messaging - and when they cry out "that's socialism" we have to stop trying to run from it

Tax the rich. How are we going to pay back our deficit? Tax the rich. Why does everything suck? Because we haven't taxed the rich. What are we going to do in office? Tax the rich. Isn't that socialism? Who cares, tax the rich.

Harris lost by a razor thin margin, and there's legitimate concerns that they cheated (more directly than usual). They lost because they tried to ease up her messaging to avoid alienating the people who were always going to vote for Trump

We need to rally around what everyone wants - free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich to do it. Just chant that over and over. Anyone who does that is going to win