The answer is not to straddle left/right circle jerk on their terms, the answer is to go into opposition on both of them IMHO

Yes king!

it is a sign that the Christo-Fascist right is getting more comfortable and we can’t afford to give them an inch, or they will take a mile of porn away.

Don’t be naive… This has nothing to do with porn or gooners.

Read between the lines

you got beef?!

Intel management spent entire 2010s using R&D money to buy back shares while counsins at AMD and nvidia prepped to run a train on them.

these exec should be prosecuted for treason and given the rope. until these parasite are punished for their crimes, US big business will keep fucking up.

When US treasury gives intel billions then takes an equity steak… the normie investor has a melt down…

When Mega corp bails them out to form a monopoly… that’s proper 🤡

How much state aid did US tax payer provide for this grand capital project?

Did the taxpayer get equity for their capital contribution?

I am using the term civilization in classic history context:

Surplus food supply, specialization and division of labour, political power structures and infrastructure, standing armies.

You are using in terms of social democracies like nordics

But even that context, social democracies are just another regime that’s rooted in the state having monopoly on violence that it is used to protect property of the owner class.

They just happen to treat their in group decently. But even that’s now eroding.

Imagine wasting billions of dollars on stock buy backs for a decade…

Then having to be bailed out by US Treasury and your competitor

List an example of a civilization that was not build by force and labour extraction from the under class.

Cooperation was achieved at a gun point. There is no solidarity even in communist regimes.

So nothing?

If you had have a different experience with the public, please do share

Lol… first they came for …

and mods did the execution…

being a normie is no longer a defense tbh… where we are going you either heil corporate or you get the rope.

I don’t take online discourse personal, all good.

really do mean we have the choice in how our societies operate.

I don’t even disagree here in theory… In practice, it is hard to explain it this way though.

We are ruled, and our opinions mean nothing and most people are unwilling to do any opposition.

So it is just few freedom enjoyer doing their lil direct action while scream into the fedi void while we are increasingly being subjugated by the owner class.

And the normie sees nothing wrong and thinks the freedom enjoyer is the weird one.

Civilization as we know exists due to slavery and violence.

An obscure example does little disprove my thesis…

Calling american wagie a slave, will get you kicked out of the party lol

Most people are denial. Fediverse is not reflective of modern American discourse.

Correct but it makes it the reality that people keep denying

Adam Smith didn’t conflate capitalism and free market which are two separate mechanisms

Capitalism is priavte ownership of key sectors of economy

Free makret is right to contract freely.

Idiots in america and westpid regimes will generally conflaw the two due to heavy regime propaganda that justifies the oligarchy which uses “free market” as justification for their status.