silent_water [she/her]

no, we don’t have downvotes on hexbear and this is what they looked like when we did. it means bad post.

nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.

nah, they’re just good at posting. up your game.

oh interesting. I wasn’t aware of that. thanks!

scaling sort thing? do you have a link describing what you mean?

lol the US security apparatus is bad but it’s not that bad. you might get put on a watchlist though.

a gift economy is also an exchange of goods but it’s decidedly not capitalism - no one earns any profit and there’s no flow converting money into capital and capital back into money.

there’s a balance. arming up and prepping without organizations is pointless - the paramilitaries will crush a lone homesteader. community defense requires a whole community.

it’s a cycle that keeps escalating so long as profits get squeezed tighter and tighter. at some point the whole system breaks and the only question is who seizes power when that happens. if we have orgs and can channel popular discontent, it will be us. if not, we’ll be posting from the camps. the future is not yet written - projecting the present forward into the future is good at telling you what will happen next week but it’s a shitty approximation before you even get out to a year.

acting like you were there and know what happened when you actually sat at home on your ass so you could post about it is peak whiteness.

imagine realizing this and going “they should ban queer people” instead of “banning politics is impossible because there’s no such thing as an apolitical stance”

publicly traded is privately owned - buying common stock doesn’t give the public, most of whom are too poor to afford said stock, meaningful control over the business. the stock owning class have interests that directly contradict those of workers (ie the vast, vast majority of us).

politics? in my treats?

no it’s that a system controlled by the wealthy can’t and won’t fix this. the perpetual culture war prevents working class solidarity and ensures the continuation of exploitation. fascism is just the byproduct of the system working as intended.

learn Haskell, write better code

meat is much less sustainable than non-animal food sources

fair enough

what sounds ridiculous is bigot lips flapping.