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  • You’ve got a financial incentive to have someone watch 30 seconds of video - so ofc you use all the skeeziest shit straight out of the chum bucket days of the early internet.

    It’s not about attention span: it’s about manipulation and money.

    Not only that but this meme is not about TikTok - they don’t have votes, especially not a downvote. This is almost certainly about Reddit: the only major social media site that has downvoting.





  • Thiel has 2 real fears and he’s been pretty consistently worrying about them.

    1. His own mortality terrifies him
    2. He’s convinced that an apocalyptic end to the USA as we know it is coming any day now.

    A proletariat uprising would be apocalyptic in his view AND he would undoubtedly get the Mao special if one happened.

    There’s 0 chance of one because Americans are way too divided but this killing is the biggest source of existential dread for him and he’s probably been waking up with nightmares about it.

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy



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    29 days ago

    I mean he specifically said prison labor for the “wellness” farms - like prisons don’t have inmates do hard labor on farms (I’m looking at you Louisiana with your fucking slave plantation prisons).

    The idea of a place where you have to work the fields and aren’t allowed access to the outside world is a reeducation camp. He’s saying “you go there voluntarily”… Instead of a standard prison, which Republicans have done everything they can to make as harrowing a place as possible.

    Go to reeducation gulag or go rot in a hole isn’t much of a choice, even if we smear it with the fecal veneer of “wellness culture”


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    29 days ago

    Agreed.

    But the entire point I’m making is there’s nothing wrong with the diamonds, the problem is with the method and the people profiting from it.

    You were saying the diamonds were not fine by dint of origin. I’m saying let’s right the wrong and then use the diamonds.



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    30 days ago

    I mean yeah: if we went and killed every person who benefits from conflict diamonds and closed all blood diamond mines why wouldn’t you be cool with using the resources? Their evil origin has little to do with their practical utility and if the original sin is expiated there’s no reason not to?

    Like yeah conflict diamonds have basically no purpose because we can make diamonds cheaper and better in labs but in a situation where there are more practical uses (cobalt, LLMs) once we cleanse the land of the sinners why wouldn’t we use their ill gotten gains for good?