You mean arrogant elitism, looking down your nose at your countrymen who were driven to destitution by the very system responsible for your own prosperity, and patronizing fetishization of "exotic" foreign cultures and peoples? Yeah, that attitude among the bourgeoisie does tend to enrage the plebs.
Yet I would not be surprised if you believe in all the (impossible to prove or disprove by repeatable controlled experiment) tall tales and cosmological mythology preached under the banner of "science".
Few and rare indeed are those who can live without some or another form of faith.
Alternatively, his bigotry may result from his experience of dispossession. Being driven into destitution while foreign "guest workers" are imported to take one's former job is surely a traumatic experience.
Some who live through that experience may curl up in a ball and wait to die. That's what the baizou elite like to see. Others who have been disposessed, like the GP, may turn in anger to bigotry and counter productive hatred of their fellow workers.
Yet others may remember that all men are brothers, regardless of color or culture. They may come to recognize that all workers are exploited by the money power, the system of database-driven exploitation, that our fathers called capitalism and we call financialism. They may even begin to think about serious alternatives to that system. May try to imagine a new form of communism that throws off the chains of capital, while avoiding the well-documented shortcomings of Soviet-style authoritarian socialism.
I dunno about of grid guy. That kinda person is rare and interesting enough they might get some physical surveillance. If not an agent to check in on them from time to time, at least periodic drone flyoversâ.
The Amish are completely peaceful and harmless. But they do represent a virtuous traditional âculture that's quite nearly the polar opposite of degenerate financialists.
And they're land-rich. Really nice land. A whole lot of nice land. Land never touched by toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizersâ.
I'm sure there must be at least a few filthy capitalists - with old boy network connections to the security state - salivating over that land. And plotting ways to disposess the gentle Amish who have proven themselves such good stewards of God's creation.
Yee-haw, Uber's having themselves a good old fashioned witch hunt! The big money femini$ts are going to make damn sure the work environment there is VERY hostile for straight men. Remember, next time your commute is delayed by yet another suicide on the Caltrain tracks - thank feminism!
Whatcha wanna bet that 100% of the witches found & fired, for the horrible crime of acting like healthy human beings, were working class "nice guy" engineersâ and paper pushers? And 0% were gropey douchebag management types who went to the right schools and go to the right cocktail parties in Palo Alto.
Actually, Harvard was founded with public money by an act of the Massachusetts legislature. Said historical fact is literally carved into stone on the main gate (Johnston Gate) to Harvard Yard. Administratively and legally it's quite hard to distinguish where various departments of that huge research university end and the State of Mass begins. And of course the university collects vast funding from various different government entities.
For these reasons it seems to me that Harvard in fact IS a public university. Perhaps the pretense of being private is convenient. Certainly few among the citizenry doubt the bullshit they're fed by their intellectual betters. Yet the truth is right there, carved into stone, for anyone to see.
The people of San Franshitsco sure do love rules. Now if only the could pass a rule to prevent the municipally subsidized crackhead population from pissing on the doorsteps of apartment buildings.
I regularly thank God for having delivered me out of that great sewer of humanity. One of my big regrets is having wasted eleven years of my life in the toxic Progressive hellhole that is SF. Oh, and the weather sucks too. And the culture makes LA seem positively intellectual.
Excellent idea! Block the sitting President and watch what little remains of Twitter's relevancy evaporate overnight.
Really, besides Emperor Trump, who still actually users Twitter? I don't know anyone who will admit to it.
Isn't it fascinating how a "private company" can hemorrhage money for a decade and yet somehow, miraculously still remain a going concern? Almost like they were being propped up for some decidedly non-commercial reason.
Very imaginative theory - good work! But how does this relate to the queen of England being a reptile? I can see the extraterrestrial angle to your story. But how does Elvis get involved?
Nice looking architectureâ, but they're still sitting at open plan desks. Guess we know how much Google really values their precious "Googlers". Talk is cheap, but real estate is fucking expensive.
Dude - there's nothing whatsoever inherently totalitarian about limiting the legal rights of state-sanctioned pretend "legal persons". That's just another loudly asserted non sequitur.
Update your ideas to the 21st century and broaden your theory of the state. The state is the sum of all those manmade institutions that press upon the individual and make him act against his will, not just the democratically accountable part we call "government". It's clear that the more powerful and oppressive corporations become, the more powerful and oppressive this broad state becomes. Economic exploitation always requires force. No plebian would pay usury or rent, would consent to be alienated from the product of his labor, were it not for the ever-present threat of police violence.
As far as totalitarianism goes I think you've kinda missed the boat on this one. Totalitarian financialism has already overtaken the United States and many other countries. Shit my brother, in America we've even got our very own Gulag. Packed full to bursting thru the liberal use of coerced confessions ("plea bargains"), just like in the Soviet Union. According to official fedgov statistics, something like 95% of souls interred in fedgov torture camps confessed ! Sure, when it comes to sheer size of the Gulag, good old Uncle Joe Stalin still has us beat. But we're catching up fast!
One more thing. Where can I go to see one of these "free markets" I keep hearing so much about? Traveled around a bit, but I've never actually seen one. Looked in all the history books and I just can't find one in the past either. I guess it's like religion - you gotta have faith.
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You mean arrogant elitism, looking down your nose at your countrymen who were driven to destitution by the very system responsible for your own prosperity, and patronizing fetishization of "exotic" foreign cultures and peoples? Yeah, that attitude among the bourgeoisie does tend to enrage the plebs.
Yet I would not be surprised if you believe in all the (impossible to prove or disprove by repeatable controlled experiment) tall tales and cosmological mythology preached under the banner of "science".
Few and rare indeed are those who can live without some or another form of faith.
A large & visible homeless population is a powerful argument to wage slaves they they should keep on slavin' away.
Alternatively, his bigotry may result from his experience of dispossession. Being driven into destitution while foreign "guest workers" are imported to take one's former job is surely a traumatic experience.
Some who live through that experience may curl up in a ball and wait to die. That's what the baizou elite like to see. Others who have been disposessed, like the GP, may turn in anger to bigotry and counter productive hatred of their fellow workers.
Yet others may remember that all men are brothers, regardless of color or culture. They may come to recognize that all workers are exploited by the money power, the system of database-driven exploitation, that our fathers called capitalism and we call financialism. They may even begin to think about serious alternatives to that system. May try to imagine a new form of communism that throws off the chains of capital, while avoiding the well-documented shortcomings of Soviet-style authoritarian socialism.
I dunno about of grid guy. That kinda person is rare and interesting enough they might get some physical surveillance. If not an agent to check in on them from time to time, at least periodic drone flyoversâ.
The Amish are completely peaceful and harmless. But they do represent a virtuous traditional âculture that's quite nearly the polar opposite of degenerate financialists.
And they're land-rich. Really nice land. A whole lot of nice land. Land never touched by toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizersâ.
I'm sure there must be at least a few filthy capitalists - with old boy network connections to the security state - salivating over that land. And plotting ways to disposess the gentle Amish who have proven themselves such good stewards of God's creation.
A better question would be, is there *anyone* in the United States who has not been subject to surveillance. My guess is no.
Dude - it's too late to impeach Obama - he's already out.
Two sides of the same coin.
Workers have no rights. Accusation is guilt.
Yee-haw, Uber's having themselves a good old fashioned witch hunt! The big money femini$ts are going to make damn sure the work environment there is VERY hostile for straight men. Remember, next time your commute is delayed by yet another suicide on the Caltrain tracks - thank feminism!
Whatcha wanna bet that 100% of the witches found & fired, for the horrible crime of acting like healthy human beings, were working class "nice guy" engineersâ and paper pushers? And 0% were gropey douchebag management types who went to the right schools and go to the right cocktail parties in Palo Alto.
Do you neo-stalinist baizou really think "ewwwww, he's an ASSHOLE!!!1!" is reasonable justification for suppressing freedom of speech and conscience?
Put charitably, it seems juvenile. Less charitably, it seems an obvious projection of the speaker's own temperament.
Actually, Harvard was founded with public money by an act of the Massachusetts legislature. Said historical fact is literally carved into stone on the main gate (Johnston Gate) to Harvard Yard. Administratively and legally it's quite hard to distinguish where various departments of that huge research university end and the State of Mass begins. And of course the university collects vast funding from various different government entities.
For these reasons it seems to me that Harvard in fact IS a public university. Perhaps the pretense of being private is convenient. Certainly few among the citizenry doubt the bullshit they're fed by their intellectual betters. Yet the truth is right there, carved into stone, for anyone to see.
The people of San Franshitsco sure do love rules. Now if only the could pass a rule to prevent the municipally subsidized crackhead population from pissing on the doorsteps of apartment buildings.
I regularly thank God for having delivered me out of that great sewer of humanity. One of my big regrets is having wasted eleven years of my life in the toxic Progressive hellhole that is SF. Oh, and the weather sucks too. And the culture makes LA seem positively intellectual.
The term "copy restriction" is better.
Why not? What our kangaroo courts really need is just a little bit more brazen injustice. #FillTheGulag
Excellent idea! Block the sitting President and watch what little remains of Twitter's relevancy evaporate overnight.
Really, besides Emperor Trump, who still actually users Twitter? I don't know anyone who will admit to it.
Isn't it fascinating how a "private company" can hemorrhage money for a decade and yet somehow, miraculously still remain a going concern? Almost like they were being propped up for some decidedly non-commercial reason.
Very imaginative theory - good work! But how does this relate to the queen of England being a reptile? I can see the extraterrestrial angle to your story. But how does Elvis get involved?
I, for one, live in mortal fear of unpopular opinions. Moar censorship now!!!1!
Does anyone know of a tool that will allow me to write a novel by scribbling with crayons in a coloring book?
I don't see the padded cells in the pictures attached to the story. Where are they?
Nice looking architectureâ, but they're still sitting at open plan desks. Guess we know how much Google really values their precious "Googlers". Talk is cheap, but real estate is fucking expensive.
Dude - there's nothing whatsoever inherently totalitarian about limiting the legal rights of state-sanctioned pretend "legal persons". That's just another loudly asserted non sequitur.
Update your ideas to the 21st century and broaden your theory of the state. The state is the sum of all those manmade institutions that press upon the individual and make him act against his will, not just the democratically accountable part we call "government". It's clear that the more powerful and oppressive corporations become, the more powerful and oppressive this broad state becomes. Economic exploitation always requires force. No plebian would pay usury or rent, would consent to be alienated from the product of his labor, were it not for the ever-present threat of police violence.
As far as totalitarianism goes I think you've kinda missed the boat on this one. Totalitarian financialism has already overtaken the United States and many other countries. Shit my brother, in America we've even got our very own Gulag. Packed full to bursting thru the liberal use of coerced confessions ("plea bargains"), just like in the Soviet Union. According to official fedgov statistics, something like 95% of souls interred in fedgov torture camps confessed ! Sure, when it comes to sheer size of the Gulag, good old Uncle Joe Stalin still has us beat. But we're catching up fast!
One more thing. Where can I go to see one of these "free markets" I keep hearing so much about? Traveled around a bit, but I've never actually seen one. Looked in all the history books and I just can't find one in the past either. I guess it's like religion - you gotta have faith.
If critical infrastructure fallback systems are economically obsolete, it says a lot about the obsolescence of that economic system.
Google is always watching.