That’s exactly my belief. Stationary bandit theory is very strong. So the best you can do is a democracy where at least you can kick out bad guys every so often.

That seems fine, if distasteful? Like I’m in support of free expression

What is with hexbear and lemmygrad…why are people calling these out

This is the twitter and reddit ethos. Everyone is Super Smart and You Are Wrong Ha Ha.

On reddit you can find smaller communities where people are more normal and it’s closer to having a discussion at a bar than it is going on to /r/politics or something.

People DEFINITELY don’t like showing up at a new place and posting stuff and people piling on with snark and stuff.

At a certain point you’re at a local maxima and incremental changes just don’t work. They have to be big changes to knock off the hill to another valley and then society has to do the hill climbing again. Sucks and painful but no other way IMO.

Okay, so Luigi didn’t cut healthcare costs. Did you working with people locally cut healthcare costs?

I volunteer in a few things in my neighborhood but I basically do it for warm fuzzies and because I want to make/keep my neighborhood nice. I don’t have any aspirations that it’ll become grander.

When you allow people to buy things freely - in this case a limited resource - this was inevitable. Nothing to do with capitalism, i.e. private ownership of means of production. It would have happened under any system in which people can spend their money on whatever they want.

Here’s where you point out credible alternatives at national scale, where the powerful machinery of state which even Lenin requires doesn’t get taken over by dictatorial narcissist psychos

One thing to remember is that Trump is at the peak of his popularity right now. It’s all downhill.

Remember they have cameras

People don’t want to organize around homeless outreach, that’s why the huge, costly, and incessant efforts in most cities never turn into literally any useful political action. Most people are more selfish than that, and it’s also unclear how giving away donated food and socks translates to anything, anywhere else, in society.

Parents/teacher groups and labor unions are a lot closer to the mark because that stuff has actual impact on the people involved. Although I’m skeptical - the parent/teacher zeitgeist is now one of conflict after the COVID school closures. But it’s a place to get traction.

The old school anarchists used grand acts of violence, i.e. propaganda of the deed. Luigi tried that, seems to have dissipated.

Everyone’s just rich enough to not care about shit like this any more.

Green subsidies and techno-futurists made this guy the richest man on earth, hope you all are happy.

This entire thread is bubble people threatened by peeking outside their bubble.

I doubt it. Even moderates understand that the richest man in the world getting his own White House department is novel and worth discussing.

Like punching someone in the dark

Zuck sucks but this open letter is embarrassing. Dial back the smarm and self-righteousness a couple notches. I get it’s marketing and not really an open letter but still, cringe

Believe me I have thought about figuring out a way to make a tire shredder that won’t trigger for even the heaviest e-bike, but would for cars. Don’t think it’s worth the risk. Primary goal is not to hurt anyone.

I looked it up and an 80 pound bag of concrete needs about 3L of water. That all seems doable.

Anyone know how long it would take to set?

What of the purges, staration, and slaughter

They reject being labeled by the left, it’s the same how the left doesn’t like “woke” any more.