• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    In the olden times, it was a big point of pride of American politics that a lot of people didn’t want to kill the leaders. It was sort of assumed that in feudal style European politics, of course the common people kind of wanted to kill you, because you were threatening their safety and taking their stuff. In America, the way we did things was to earn the respect of the people you governed. The people actually wanted this person to be in charge. Why would I shoot that guy? That’s who we picked, we like him.

    Of course there are some caveats (slavery large among them). The reality never matched up to the ideal. But we’re going back to where even the approximation of consent of the governed that we used to have, isn’t assumed anymore. Fuckin bullshit

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          22 hours ago

          Every time I post my answer I waste 3 hours detailing my attention economy system just to have a ton of shitbirds settle to harass and get me banned so come up with your own fucking solution

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            20 hours ago

            Same. I can talk about combining Socialism, UBI, with a dash of heavily regulated capitalism that has wealth caps, and downvoters crawl out of the woodwork.

            Anyhow, toss me a link to one of your most detailed posts about this attention economy thing? I can’t promise to like it, but I should see if there are bits that would fit into the “Universal Ranked Income” system that I have been tinkering with.

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              14 hours ago

              Yeah I had a great thread on reddit about it, detailing how the currency and resources would be distributed, focusing on a curator ecosystem that replaces nearly all traditional advertising. It went on for several days with well over a dozen people contributing and mostly positive interactions

              Then later last year reddit permabanned me for saying ‘punching nazis is a moral good’, so I purged all of it.

              Appreciate your curiosity, wish I had a way to fulfill it

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              22 hours ago

              Nope, but I’m not surprised you think it is

              No this isn’t an invitation to a debate or a discussion

              Also, we don’t have democracy right now and haven’t for a bit and no amount of pretending that what is going on now is normal is going to magically roll back fascism

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                21 hours ago

                No this isn’t an invitation to a debate or a discussion

                Judging by the people downvoting me, I’m sure it isn’t for you. You can’t ban me here. All good. I’m not in the mood to discuss it either. I’ll just leave this last comment.

                Name one socialist government that has worked for more than 10 years in the history of the world. You can have the last to say and I won’t reply. It’s all you now. No discussion.

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                  21 hours ago

                  I’m trying to contain a literal caldera of bitter vitriol, I am making a very strong effort not to use words that would get me banned, and I am probably going to fail.

                  Listen you rancid swatch of fasciitis infected distended rectum, there is no point in any of my threads here were I mention socialism. Not fucking once.

                  And this happens every motherFUCKING time I try to point out that rampant capitalism is literally killing the earth.

                  Me: Hey guys, maybe money making money is a bad economy

                  You: FUCKING SOCIALIST!

                  That’s why I have a no discussion rule, because of assmasters like you

                  And now that you’ve done your job of pissing me off to the point I get banned while looking like a cute little innocent angel, I’ll take my ban and you can fuck yourself till your bishop turns blue and falls off

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                    20 hours ago

                    You: FUCKING SOCIALIST!

                    That’s the result of a disappointingly effective propaganda campaign. An entire generation being told to equate socialism with communism, then using USSR/Russian “communism” as the example of what they should be hating. Entrenching that idea further is being told the complete bullshit falsehood that the successful man is the self-made man, and the self-made man worked hard with no help to get where he is.

                    It’s really no surprise that capitalists lack empathy and will dog whistle social welfare as “communism”

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                    I’m trying to contain a literal caldera of bitter vitriol, I am making a very strong effort not to use words that would get me banned, and I am probably going to fail.

                    Listen you rancid swatch of fasciitis infected distended rectum, there is no point in any of my threads here were I mention socialism. Not fucking once.

                    And this happens every motherFUCKING time I try to point out that rampant capitalism is literally killing the earth.

                    Me: Hey guys, maybe money making money is a bad economy

                    You: FUCKING SOCIALIST!

                    That’s why I have a no discussion rule, because of assmasters like you

                    And now that you’ve done your job of pissing me off to the point I get banned while looking like a cute little innocent angel, I’ll take my ban and you can fuck yourself till your bishop turns blue and falls off

                    This is amazing copypasta.