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- utopian-1
- how are you enjoying your amazon prime account?hotroddy
- how many time are you going to copy and paste your same exact retort?utopian
- I'm sorry that you get triggered so much my lil snowflake.utopian
- as many times it takes for you to own your hypocrisy.hotroddy
- don't apologize. just acknowledge ithotroddy
- PhanLo6
- How the fuck are they allowed to do this?sted
- They will argue that protecting their stock value is critical to America's economy, and they'll get away with it. WHAT A COUNTRYnb
- go get 'em Katie! bust out the charts and wreck shit!!!!!_niko
- Increase. Shareholders. Wealth.DRIFTMONKEY
- It's called Capitalism...Google it or ask Hotroddy.utopian
- Yeah, but we shouldn’t break up FB. That’s anti business.doriangrey
- The Facebook comment is off topicmonospaced
- We should be asking how America lets so many companies get away with so much. GMO's, Monsanto, oil, food, etc., etc. It's systemic.formed
- grafician0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De…
https://libcom.org/library/debt-…
p.s. Graeber died unexpectedly in September 2020, while on vacation in Venice
- On the face of it the claim seams reasonable however our ancestors came from a tribal culture and co-operative communities was largely limited to the 200...Morning_star
- ... or so people in your tribe. Outside that war, rape, murder, slavery and general domination of one tribe over the other was common. Utopia is impossible.Morning_star
- And I fear we will return to those terms sooner than later, as we go thru the climate change crisis and the 6th extinction ongoinggrafician
- And another thing related: https://www.jacobinm…grafician
- kingsteven6
- LOL.
This is great.palimpsest - The objet petit a is the payment of the loan (financial independence), the circus is jouissance.palimpsest
- *sniff*kingsteven
- And so and so on.palimpsest
- Haha. NiceGnash
- Slavo the Clown has a ring to itNonEntity
- https://www.youtube.…NonEntity
- Not enough sniffing and face-smearing.garbage
- this isn't capitalism its about how Nancy got a banker sugardaddy.sted
- And Nancy having a sugardaddy is not capitalism.palimpsest
- Needs more sniffChimp
- @palimpsest yes that's debatablested
- I lollednb
- Nancy has sold her body as her labour.i_monk
- LOL.
- PhanLo-3
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯PhanLo
- Dictatorship is just him eating all the candy bars?shapesalad
- People really don’t get these conceptshardhat
- socialism:f ree candy, capitalism: $1.99 each you little commie shits._niko
- candy from hell.neverscared
- Don’t think about it too much, he just wanted you to see his T-shirttoemaas
- Holy shit we’re politicizing halloween now?scarabin
- I'm actually most upset about the ripoff logo. https://media.titus.…nocomply
- Fuck you candy?OBBTKN
- Would be fun to convince conservatives that Halloween is socialist and watch them cheat themselves out of the whole thing.monospaced
- People really don’t get these conceptsjagara
- People really don’t get these concepts.sted
- Projectile1
- PARKLIFE!Brabo_Brabo
- Buy pizza for the homeless.palimpsest
- okNonEntity
- utopian1
- A Bloomberg investigation found that there was NO evidence of Aloe Vera found in the Aloe Vera sold at Wal-Mart and CVS.utopian
- lol. you read bloomberg and watch amazon prime. yikeshotroddy
- Bloomberg did the investigation. What’s wrong with that?monospaced
- doesnt get more capitalist then bloomberghotroddy
- maybe amazonhotroddy
- i bet he subscribes to wsjhotroddy
- Cockroddy - Never let the truth get in the way of a good story...you lazy, talentless, ignorant, FOB immigrant.utopian
- I struck a nerve, sorry. I know it's hard to reconcile your beliefs. I don't blame you. I blame American public education for your ignorance.hotroddy
- bloomberg... just enough journalism to conceal the propaganda. the Business Insider YT videos are blatant social engineeringkingsteven
- uyghur forced labour bill gonna hurt the economy? make a vid weighing up forced labour against US solar/renewable ambitions so folks think thats the choice.kingsteven
- PhanLo2
- Some even better ones in the thread https://twitter.com/…PhanLo
- grafician-1
- Thank god for this. The poor can sleep easy with full bellies tonight.Morning_star
- Socialism is a wonderful system for extroverts that like to socialise.shapesalad
- grafician2
"The US Is Officially A Banana Republic: The Top 1% Now Own More Wealth Than The Entire Middle Class"
- why don't we all just give all of our money to one person and get this monopoly game over with?Milan
- BANANA REPUBLIC: a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource. - So this is the US?Morning_star
- its typically any country where the majority are exploited for the profit of an elite classkingsteven
- not elite, but criminal or delinquent.uan
- It actually goes back to US fruit companies overthrowing the government of Honduras and establishing a military dictatorship so they could grow bananas there.yuekit
- @ Kingsteven, no it isn't.Morning_star
- There was a guy named "Sam the Banana Man" who hired a private army and invaded Honduras killing hundreds of people. Later became CEO of Chiquita Bananayuekit
- If only language evolved.Nairn
- @yeukit. The whole story behind Honuras and it's bananas is fascinating.
For those who don't know: https://www.thoughtc…Morning_star - https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Ha ha ha, fuck yes.Morning_star
- Banana Republic -- what a lovely name for a store that sells stuff business attire.shellie
- Seems kind of insane that they named the store that considering the historyyuekit
- Their clothes used to look like safari shit. Like a business man going to the banana republic he created and profited on. Ugh.monospaced
- i know where the term originated, but he defines it in the article (or wikipedia, or anything that's not an article about the origins of the phrase)kingsteven
- He redefines it because there is little to no value in the articles content. This is Clickbait or Communist Propaganda as i have redifined it.Morning_star
- hah, zerohedge is a right-libertarian rag is it not?kingsteven
- Zerohedge is not even a rag. It's the blog of a European investment banker that actually signs his posts as "Tyler Durden". So yeah, just an opinion piece.garbage
- I think he's now in the states, and can't do banking anymore because of crimes. So he runs a blog where everyone posts under that name.garbage
- it's not a right-libertarian rag (low quality news source), it's a right-libertarian blog (low quality news source). gotchakingsteven
- It's a right-libertarian blog with a shocking amount of followers.garbage
- In Tyler we trust ;)Morning_star
- organicgrid1
Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism.
Overcoming the climate crisis will require a shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system. The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room. That's strange, because this particular elephant is so large, obvious, and all-encompassing that politicians and executives must contort themselves to avoid naming it publicly. That elephant is called capitalism, and it is high time to face the fact that, as long as capitalism remains the dominant economic system of our globalized world, the climate crisis won't be resolved.
- What's the alternative to capitalism? The article admits that there is very few workable alternatives. It seems the only real solution is to evolve capitalisim.Morning_star
- Post scarcity society living in equilibrium with nature?grafician
- On the other hand without capitalism we wouldn't have made it this far.
You can't really feed the planet without it.grafician - Another evolution, perhaps. There's quite a big difference between Henry Ford's and Amazon's versions of it.MrT
- @MrT I think it IS possible to evolve Capitalism and the current economic environment to be inherently more responsible. I see the green shoots of change...Morning_star
- ...happening through corporate SGE policies and the fact that investors are more discerning about where they put their cash.Morning_star
- I think what's needed is just to have governments fund green technologies and force society to transition. If they can make people literally stay in theiryuekit
- apartments for a month to fight a virus it should be possible.yuekit
- But when they talk about "worker coops" and stuff like that I wonder what the connection actually is to solving climate change.yuekit
- utopian2
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are among the 156 billionaires on the Forbes 400 who have given less than 1% of their wealth to charity.
- Charity is capitalism. They're fighting the good fight.palimpsest
- I wonder how much Jack Ma gave to that cause...or how much he was forced to give.uan
- Tax is extortion.palimpsest
- Leave it to commi utopian. Their wealth is not tied to CASH you fuck$n idiot.Hayoth
- They have tons of cash, hayoth, you socialist pinko shill.monospaced
- And you can’t only donate cash, you fucking idiot. Of course you won’t reply. You don’t have the spine to defend your nonsense.monospaced
- Our village idiot has spo卐en.utopian
- Bezos's net worth comprises $1.34 billion in cash, $9.15 billion in private assets, and $171 billion in public assets.utopian
- Musk's net worth comprises $7 billion in cash, $130 billion in private assets, and $9 billion in public assets.utopian
- 卐 Hayomook 卐 Do your own research!!!utopian
- Plainly put for our fucking village idiot... Musk has roughly 7 Billion dollars of cash on hand and Bezos around 1.5 Billion dollars in his back pocket.utopian
- Hey Mookler - Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.utopian
- Explain to people at home how charity can fight capitalism.
May the truth prevail.palimpsest - Just gonna leave this here: https://www.forbes.c…Morning_star
- Oh...and this...https://www.v...Morning_star
- https://www.vox.com/…Morning_star
- Still less than 1%monospaced
- The welfare of the many should be the responsibility of the individual.
Sounds a lot like an argument for capitalism.palimpsest - he is shooting a useless rocket into space... thats enough help for the poorneverscared
- PhanLo1
- I were him, i'd change driving licence to HGV, move out of london.. then get a job in EU.shapesalad
- also.. bitcoin solves this.shapesalad
- You should message him Shape.PhanLo
- _niko1
why are we so hellbent on battery power for cars, seems so costly on an environmental scale (mining, disposal of batteries, charging) when hydrogen is hundreds fold times more energy dense and millions of times more abundant and cleaner.
danger of hydrogen? difficult to extract?
Energy Density of some Combustibles (in MJ/kg)
- the cynic in me will say it's available to all so no nations or handful of corporations can control the supply_niko
- it seems like everything I read about the cons of hydrogen sounds like paid research from the oil lobby._niko
- I know nothing about this subject at all. However after looking at this one graph i think i'm able to offer the valuable opinion that the science/engineering...Morning_star
- ...isn't advanced enough to provide an economical alternative that maximises both efficiency, cleanliness of the fuel and impactless disposability.Morning_star
- Thank Elonutopian
- could be morning star, but looks like Hyundai is making a big push for it https://tinyurl.com/…_niko
- India is big on developing that kind of clean energy: https://bit.ly/3Al9c…uan
- Godspeed to them! Hopefully they succeed before Saudis with truckloads of bribe money, Israeli assassins or American hostile takeovers shut it down_niko
- batteries just the next environmental disaster waiting to happen. hydrogen will replace mains gas supplies in most of europe by 2050kingsteven
- Yeah no:
https://www.quora.co…grafician - Storage density and material embrittlement are the two main problems of pure hydrogen. Ammonia's an interesting medium route for hydrogen as storage.Nairn
- it will be impossible to refit most other options (heat pumps, district heating etc.) in to existing homes. i've been looking in to it myself (house is 1950)kingsteven
- Whilst Hydrogen has a very high energy density per mole, squishing it so that "a tank's worth equivalent to petrol" is .. tricky.Nairn
- a lot of the mains infrastructure has been replaced with poly pipes, hybrid boilers will be developed so it can be phased in.kingsteven
- will be interesting anyway, i don't think the levels required for residential heating are unsafe but i could be wrong + not sure about cars hakingsteven
- They're trialling a 20% hydrogen mix in the standard gas supply somewhere here in England - doesn't require a change in [mdoern] infrastructure apparentlyNairn
- Apparently ye olde coal gas was mostly, or at least signifcantly, hydrogen. All this has happened before, and will happen again...Nairn
- why aren't doritos on this list?Gnash
- a close friend of mine, a physicist, works in energy industry. Has ranted on several occasions about the pros and cons of Hydrogen. Mostly cons.inteliboy
- The oil industry love hydrogen as it keeps them in control. It requires huge amount of pressure to contain. You need a ton of energy to make hydrogen fuel. etcinteliboy
- Fusion + Hydrogen, problem solved.
And if it doesn't work... Kaabooommm!! (The earth)OBBTKN - Batteries is the only way to benefit from renewable energy (hydropower, wind power etc). In Norway hydropower is 98% of all electricitydrgs
- You woul need to fill a room with home batteries to heat or cool a mid-century house, hard to see that tech progressing to meet the need by 2050kingsteven
- As gas runs out, prices increase and folks move to electricity to heat their homes and run cars you need over 20x the renewable infrastructure to meet demandkingsteven
- batteries and that rely on mining massive quantities of lithium, solar - neodymium and cobalt reliance on china, wasteful disposal or just use hydrogen?kingsteven
- I mean in a cardrgs
- utopian3
How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.
A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
- Already one of the most hated corporations in America, so this shouldn't be surprising, but it still kinda is. It's diabolical how far these ppl will go.BuddhaHat
- < It's almost like a ministry of propaganda under a communist government.Morning_star
- Great. And I was already hating owning their stock. Nothing can be worse than Facebook, though.formed
- I'm switching providers this week.utopian
- utopian2
- We are now DuPont mutants YAAAASSSS!PhanLo
- you understand that capitalism is the fundamental force behind these exposes, right?hotroddy
- How else could u condense information/ studies into bite-size infotainment for Utopian's brain to digest?hotroddy
- Hotrods, that's the brain plastic talking. Stop it.PhanLo
- i think he gets it,
thats why this post has a place here.sted
- PhanLo6
Wonder how many journalists will be murdered after the Pandora Papers reports?
- One of the stories touches Putin so...grafician
- the hackers that keep leaking these kind of files tho'...grafician
- Context: https://www.theguard…grafician
- "None of the named people are American. Interesting."
tho' :)grafician - Gawd Bless Capitalism!utopian
- Crown Estate get a mention again, Lizard Liz laundering more cash.PhanLo
- Mad she got a wee bail out last year https://www.thelondo…PhanLo
- "Putin does not appear in the files by name", but let's put him front and center in the illustrationMilan
- King Abdullah II of Jordan will be a bit upset about folk finding out about his property portfolio. :-(PhanLo
- Read on...
https://www.icij.org…grafician - ^Nice find Graf!PhanLo
- https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- I wonder how all these leaks were obtained...is it an insider leaking the data or hacking?yuekit
- But regardless this group, the ICJJ is doing great work. I don't see any bias, they are hitting pro and anti Western governments and not really sparing anyone.yuekit
- Do your own research.palimpsest
- re: 'wee bail out' - you do know that The Crown Estate doesn't in actuality belong to the family ofthe Queen? It's essentially a quasi-trust.Nairn
- ..that's for the benefit of the country itself. It's the sort of weirdly logical entity a country with a history such as ours would end up with..Nairn
- @Nairn, I didn't bother going to far into it. But they still get 15% of that money, probably come in handy for paying for nonce Andrew's legal fees.PhanLo
- From what I remember when I read up on this a few years back, even that '15%' isn't into their pocket as such.Nairn
- Like, for upkeep of 'National Symbols' etcNairn
- Shit's like a national dividend, owned by no one, indirectly paying everyone. Look to these cunts, if you want to see real parasites:Nairn
- https://en.wikipedia…
Cunt provides nothing.Nairn - I'm no royalist - fuck the cunts, but some other cunts like the cunts, so blessed be the cunts. At least those cunts accomplish something, if not for this cunt.Nairn
- The only way it should go https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Well, tbf, the Romanovs were a different league of cuntery in a country long-drowned in cuntery, to this day.Nairn