And if I have do, I won’t do anything that’s not a necessity, and I will absolutely not make more than the laziest password I can, because that’s how I give up.

Exactly!

Yeah but this is different.

No. All manner of meeting. Long lost friends, coworkers at the water cooler, high noon and moonlight duels, anonymous sex, strangers on a train, roadside banditry, love at first sight, street corner begging and door-to-door sales, all distilled down into a yellow-brown paste, stabilized with a bit of gluten and guar gum, and ground up for your burrito. Its why so much of their stuff is vegan.

No. As pointed out elsewhere; check the handkerchief.

Also, the disparity is larger or smaller in different ethnic/cultural groups. Can be skewed NY excluding certain strongly gender dominated fields (like finance) etc.

I’m pretty serious about death of the author. Sorry, not gonna elaborate.

Do you think mlk was the first or last?

Judi Bari was literally arrested for car bombing herself.

But tjose people are so important to society!

See, the very poor/destitute serve as a triple threat to discipline the working class!

As an example of what happens when you dont crush yourself into a life of being exploited

As a release valve for emergency labor-it doesn’t have to actually be viable, just believable to enough prople

And as a class they can look down on and fear, an enemy to justify the presence of and valirize the practice of policing, especially when they’re forced into close contact. It’s why out of the way camps are violently cleared, but there are tents on sidewalks in major cities.

perfect enemy of the good

And in many cases, you’re right. I think thats the mistake Lenin and Robespierre made, actually; the biggest one at least, being unable to trust anyone else with making a less autocratic world. I do not believe the founders of the united States were trying to be good. I think they were lying, and pretty comprehensively pieces of shit.

takes just one to back stab you

Does it? I think the more you create a tense society balanced on a knifes edge cognitive dissonance of its own contradictions, and the more centralized(undemocratic), the closer it gets to true, but I don’t think it ever gets all the way there.

Yeah they’re not the best teachers.

Edit: also, are evil and literally want to kill me, but thats a personal nitpick.

Yes. And all the politicians who made it harder to fix this.

I just have a particar grudge against western oil companies for proliferating cars. I’m in train gang pretty hard, and the whole battery patent thing that killed electric cars in the 90s honestly deserved a very active gallows.

No, I don’t either, but its because im a terrible avalanche of pathology and trauma masquerading as a borderline functional human; it’s not anything to do with them.

Yes but fighting back doesn’t feel real. Fighting back requires acknowledging the scope of the problem, and is really hard to do without seeing all the other problems connected to it. Its scary. Its a deep-ass rabbit hole, and most people are both conditioned and positioned to not want to fuck with that.

Its cope. Like a weird inversion of the narcissists prayer, excusing their victimizer, because fighting back doesn’t feel real, and they need to feel okay. An urge I think is cultural, because our whole thing is exploitation and grinding horror.

It is, in part; a failure of imagination.

is established next year

Oh honey. Do you know the history of the FBI? Of the american labor movement?

Respect for the home domain BTW. Lemmy needs more porn if its going to grow, thank you for doing your part to nourish the open web.

I’m wondering if the gap will decrease over the next four years

So, good news and bad news.

It wont

They enforce order; laws are only ever a pretense.

A cop infiltrating the notorious terrorist group ‘food not bombs’.

Or watch the movie ‘Judas and the black messiah’. Its a dramatization of a real secret police plot in the 1970s.

I might argue that the initial idealism of America was kinda bullshit; hollow blatantly dishonest propaganda so some oligarchs could get theirs and pay less taxes to Parliament. They never tried, they never cared. Their pretty words were always a foul wind. They kept their slaves. They made sure there was stratification. They crushed rebellions. They defended slavery as an ideal. They built it all on genocide and theft, including of the peoples who sparked the enlightenment their supposed ideals came from.

Which isn’t to say these ideals are always empty, or always lived up to by the people who espouse them hobestly. Just… Bad example.

people can not be trusted

See, I’m not sure. I think our entire social apparatus is deeply antisocial, essential amasdive stochastic conspiracy to make everyone a bastard and trust impossible, and it still fails sometimes. I think if you allow them the opportunity to do good, you can develop them into people worthy of trust. I think if you dont trust the people with their own futures, then you can’t really have better. Not for long anyway; that’s kind of the lesson of Lenin and Robespierre.