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siliconia 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's how you build radicals, because it forces their loyalty and the reality is that jack shit will happen to them. They'll feel brave and empowered and now they're 100% radicalized. They will do anything now, because they'll feel like superheros. This is not something we should celebrate, this is actually pretty scary. Escalation is the natural evolution of this.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, I would prefer they made a whole fuckload more money. It would create more competition, and it wouldn't automatically make it a requirement for them to focus on corruption and fraud. The amount of money they make is laughably stupid compared to the power they hold.

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siliconia 2 points ago +2 / -0

Climate change has been integrated into the great reset. Their solution for climate change is massive population reduction. They've got a few tactics they're working out. We could just have a good old fashion world war and that'd do the same without all the nonsense.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Or the people passing out on the streets. When did you ever see that happen anywhere else ever?

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just nuke their countries of origin and that shit'd stop real quick.

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siliconia 3 points ago +3 / -0

Stop trying to latch on to the word fascism to get those negative connotation points. As 239874 stated, that's not what's happening. It'd be more akin to communism, but that's not really what's happening either. What is happening is the end result of both of those systems, and that's an elite ruling class telling a poor class what to do (although at least fascism wasn't necessarily looking to create a destitute class like communism and this new more direct system).

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

I would wager a large sum that this place lost no money and may have even made money off this. I would wager that's the case for all of the larger companies, NGOs, etc.

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siliconia 10 points ago +11 / -1

It's the safe answer to defer judgement to others. However, as a leader, your job is to take in the judgement of the experts around you and make decisions based on all the factors. Trump really dropped the ball on covid by letting others lead, and got played because of it.

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siliconia 6 points ago +6 / -0

There is some truth to people like this being left behind, leaving them susceptible to radical propaganda. The first thing that comes to mind is anti-bullying culture, but it really could be any number of factors. What's interesting is that Christianity didn't have these types of problems and I'm an agnostic atheist.

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siliconia 2 points ago +2 / -0

We shouldn't assume that the reason it's being discontinued is the reason they're saying it's being discontinued simply because it helps the circle jerk. Y'all never believe anything else they say, why this one?

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siliconia 2 points ago +2 / -0

If you assume that they're stupid and don't know what they're doing, you probably don't understand what they're doing and why they're doing it. None of this is happening because they're stupid. It's happening because you're losing.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

You're confusing capitalism with application and one in which we could easily argue is not capitalism at all and absolutely not in spirit. I would even argue that those things have nothing to do with capitalism, but you are framing those issues as only belonging within a capitalist system. You also seem to be under the impression that there is a better alternative that doesn't have the same issues. They all do. Your niche complaints really don't have anything to do with capitalism in and of itself. This is all once again, corruption and fraud.

You're reach all over the place, most likely because each of those topics is a very long conversation and you're highlighting. I will say that each point you're bringing up is boring, not something I espouse and once again isn't to the point.

I do agree that there is a subset of "conservatives" that do believe in business rights for the sake of business rights regardless. Those people are retarded and are equally as boring.

We actually agree, the problem with this world is the elites. They need to be put in boxes. However, what then? How many "elites" will there be until the underlying issue is addressed? The problem isn't capitalism, communism, socialism. It's corruption and fraud and that is a tough problem to tackle. As I've stated before, all systems are inherently flawed and all people will find and abuse those flaws.

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siliconia 4 points ago +4 / -0

Obviously this particular show is meant for the wakanda crowd, but you can see them setting up the great reset nonsense for the whole marvel universe. That's how they'll bring in the mutants and you'll see all sortsa racism pretending it's not racism nonsense.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

You know how this could be avoided. Cops not pulling people over 24/7. It obviously creates a dangerous situation for everyone involved. When you think about it, it's kinda super weird. The majority of the time police are pulling people over it's for nonsense. That doesn't mean never, but it does mean almost always.

Do you know what dumb people have problems with? Problem solving, and especially problem solving and decision making in the moment while people are potentially threatening your life with weapons.

And the whole reason that this weird situation exists is a money making scheme for the city and counties.

Stupid people have rights too. Shouldn't be put in deadly situations at the whim of some half trained nitwit.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Capitalism is rules. And laws are adjustments to those rules based on human nature. All systems work, it's a question of what system(s) people find acceptable when you throw people, human nature, values, ethics, etc into the mix. This dumb conversation you're trying to have doesn't have anything to do with Capitalism, it's how all systems work. All systems are abused, because that's human nature. This isn't about a perfect system, there are no perfect systems in practice.

The other side of your conversation is where I think that the focus should be. The biggest concern of all systems is corruption and fraud, on every level, not just economic systems. There are no economic systems that consider fraud and corruption to be the number one threat that they are.

It's not about self interest of the corporations alone. Nations are a group of people who agree to live by a set of rules and standards, written and unwritten. Each of those individuals have their own self interest and their collective interests. Corporations within a nation also live by their own self interest, within that nation. They are cooperating as set by the rule sets of that nation. They assist in the self interest of those around them, as they are required, in order to exist, fulfill the self interest of those in that nation, aka jobs, supply chains, etc.

Multi-national corporations do not operate within this framework. They might as well be other countries, and should be treated as such.

Are there other problems with generic corporations, sure, but that's not the conversation, and that's what the adjustment to the rules are for.

Side note, Capitalism is a two sided conversation, both parties engage in a cooperative act. Communism and socialism are one sided conversations through words (still backed by threats but it's indirect and implied). Then you have brute force, which is a one sided conversation by threat, such as a dictatorship, etc.

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siliconia 15 points ago +15 / -0

That's because the people who tell them what to do is on the rioters side and not the fair election side.

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siliconia 0 points ago +2 / -2

The police aren't your friends. The police are a necessary evil on the best day. In the real world the police will do whatever they're told by the person who is in charge of them. And in the majority of big cities, the person in charge of them wants to kill you. Which means that this will all be us some day, and sooner rather than later. These are two enemies working together to distract you from the shit they're doing behind your backs.

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siliconia 2 points ago +2 / -0

The problem isn't corporations (at least in this conversation), it's self interest. Multi-national corporations have no self interest for the people in the country they originate from. Therefore they are acting as foreign agents, their own foreign agency. The best way to deal with the problem is to remove the foreign agency. Multi-national corporations should be treated as hostile nations. Normal corporations don't have this problem (at least on the surface), that automatically comes with being a multi-national corporation.

The problem is corruption and fraud, and that's always the problem regardless of the system. All systems are flawed, and all humans try to break those systems.

I have offered my own potential solution to the problem before.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

There are many layers, and in some alternate universe where MAGA citizens actually do things, it would be a good idea for people to focus on niches to disrupt, obtain and leverage power in those different areas. Since we're not actually doing anything productive, might as well bullshit about every topic. Are you so sure that the Great Reset is the final layer? I'd argue that the things you want to focus on are not the top layer. We can move up to multinational investment companies, multinational corporations, and banking. Which could still be moved up to the motivation of the people in those groups.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nationalism is evil, all groupings are evil. So are police, military, governments, politicians, lawyers, etc etc. It's kind of a question of what's necessary based on the realities of the world we live in. It would not be too hard to see nationalism being monstrous. It's a tool, to be applied carefully, never to take seriously, and to always be asking, who watches the watchmen.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

I would also argue that individualism has its own rot in inevitably destroying responsibility and as such, destroying itself and/or becoming too weak and allowing collectivism to win out.

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siliconia 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ah yes, we should take advice from one of the monsters who put us where we are today.

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siliconia 1 point ago +1 / -0

I've laid out comprehensive strategies before and laid out the war that's being fought against us and how we need to join that war. I am not suggesting doing nothing. I am saying don't be so myopic, boring, and stuck in the past.

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siliconia 3 points ago +3 / -0

Trump rallies don't mean shit either. In fact, I would consider them lost opportunity. A leader focused on fighting a war with their army instead of solo, could have used those rallies to build out a network for disrupting, obtaining and leveraging power against the enemy. Instead they're more of an abstract circle jerk. They make the populace complacent, because it seems like something is happening, but is not happening.

I don't actually mean purchasing decisions, although why not. I would imagine an internal network of interconnected businesses and consumers MAGA trading with each other through our own amazon type platform would be actually useful. As opposed to individuals kinda sorta picking what they buy, when they probably have no idea of the chain of resources and man power that was required to get that to your front door.

I mean, everything. Why is there an apple there in the first place. Why not an orange. Who runs the delivery trucks. Where's the corruption involved. Who's invested in the company's stock. How is the apple there part of some CCP demoralization campaign? In what way does this product assist progressive activists, communist, state and local politicians. Of course an apple is an absurd example, or is it. You should question everything, because everything is being used to destroy you. Once you understand the reality on the ground, it stops being abstract, and you realize how fucked you are if you just kinda see what happens or whatever.

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