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  • What specifically do you want a source for?

    Because I said a couple things, and you were vague so I have to guess.

    And it could legitimately be any of the sentences I typed.

    A good way to be sure you’re asking a question that can be answered is quoting what you’re referencing:

    FSD not noticing something and driving straight into it won’t react itll just act like what it’s about to hit isn’t there right up until the collusion.

    But I mean, that’s just physics…

    Applying brakes before a crash would (well I guess should) obviously lead to a crash with less force.

    Anyways, if you can tell me what exactly you want a source for and what claim you’re even talking about. I can probably find something for you. But it’s not like I had to go look at data in the instant to reference before making that comment. So I have to go find whatever your asking me for.

    This would have all happened a lot faster if you just googled what you doubted. I mean, by now you may have already done that.

    So I’m glad you didn’t just type “source?” But what you did type was just as helpful in telling me what you wanted.



  • Vote in primaries to ensure at least one of the options in the general have a chance of putting people over the wealthy. People who will re-instate the campaign finance laws that Republicans and “moderates” started getting rid of in the early 90s. And from a “apply your own mask first” POV, we desperately need to stop letting our own party keep pulling this “victory fund” bullshit Hillary started, all it does is starve state parties to try and help get a more conservative president than Dem voters want.

    All of that money would be better spent where it belongs, with state parties.

    A lot of our problems are relatively recent and a direct result of being reduced to having to pick between a neoliberal and a republican.

    That’s not a real choice, and it being all we get election after election leads to depressed turnout and Republicans over performing. And no matter which side wins, they deregulate campaign finance and reward wealthy donors.

    We’ve come insanely close, and arguably did it in 08, except Obama ignored the party instead of putting work in to fix it.


  • I know it’s pedantic, but ancient Greece is by no means “western civilization”…

    They heavily influenced western civilization, but they’re separated by multiple eras and thousands of miles.

    And the same thing obviously existed (and still exists) outside of both the geographic and chronological eras.

    So I just really don’t understand where that specification came from, or why later you say outsourcing labor is the same…

    But this isn’t an immutable human characteristic either. The vast majority of people don’t want it.

    It’s just that wealth = power. And with unregulated capitalism the most unethical will accrue the most wealth because they’re the most cutthroat, and the more they have the more they accumulate.

    Your hearts in the right place, but you don’t have the details right.

    And people give me shit about it all the time, but the details are the important part.

    Now more than any other point in my life, we need people to understand what’s really happening. Because it honestly isn’t that hard to fix if we can get everyone on the same page again.


  • Man…

    You’d think you’d have realized that capitalism was the root cause at some point of typing that…

    In our economy, what matters is how much the numbers go up. At a certain point the only way to make profit keep increasing is to outsource and cut quality.

    Like, you think it’s just because they’re dumb, but you’re not looking at the same metric.

    You want long lasting corporations making steady profits and quality products…

    But that’s not what’s best for the people who own the stock. All they want is their number to go up as fast as possible so they can sell when it’s high. Then do the same to another company.

    You want to change that?

    Vote for progressives who want to tax stocks to incentive long term investments rather than the current system.

    This isn’t a tech problem or a even a management problem. It’s an economic one.