These type of wealth disparities existing before capitalism. In ancient grand societies the wealth was controlled by a small elite almost always and class mobility was non-existent.
The issue isn't capitalism, it's just that the history of our specifies across various society tends to ebb and flow in various directions in response to historical events and contexts. Go read Piketty's work on this.
i have to deal with it IRL. It lead to me quitting some things I used to love doing because I was so sick of psychos telling me if I am not a extremist leftist who is angry and outraged 24/7 I must be a fascist/zionist/pro-genocide/anti trans/bigot/blah blah blah.
My favorite part is pointing out that most israelis are not white westerners, but from other middle eastern countries who were fleeing persecution in those countries and are more arab than western in terms of ethnicity and history.
But that doesn't fit the nice narrative that all Israelis are white colonlizer/invaders from europe or something. Literally never had it acknowledged once, just denied and told that it is zionist propaganda.
they issue is that the lemmy.ml is the lemmy devs instance... and the devs are tankies themselves.
A lot of people don't use lemmy specifically because of the devs politics. and are on other platforms like piefed.
Personally I don't condemn products because of the actions/beliefs of their creators, former or present. I don't practice guilt/shame by association and I think doing so is incredibly toxic behavior. But I'm zionist scum for owning a Soda Stream anyway or something. Probably also for the fact I socialize/date jewish people and israelis regularly in my life.
It's not weird, its' just that this is how cowards and aspiring despots deal with things. You don't address them, or let them be seen/heard, you silence them or shut them out. You certainly don't allow dialogue that might allow for understanding... we can't have that.
Ironically one of the biggest draws for me, to reddit in the early days, and in the fediverse two years ago, was the notion that people can have differenting opinions and exchange them with civility and learn from each other. But I'm a big gay cishet transexual anti-zionist nazi pedo fascist centrist idiot, or so lemmy.ml users has been telling me the past few months.
If we don't allow Nazis because they are hateful and violent, why should we allow hateful and violent communists/socialists/anarchists?
Is it the hate and violence we should ban? Why is a Nazi calling to kill non-whites radically worse than a communist calling for the death of non-communists? Both simple think violence and hate is perfectly justified over differences, real or perceived.
And some of us libtard facists think the idea of killing people over any differences, is what is stupid and wrong, no matter what your identity, ideology or belief.
Yeah because I'm centrist and according to lemmy nutbags I'm already genocidal supremacist by proxy, because to them any ideology outside of marxism-leninism is inherently genocidal or something.
Nor am I naive or arrogant enough to believe I am the singular person who should determine what 'genocidal' means. There are UN organizations for that.
Well I don't think Nazism is one single thing dude. Not all Nazis are the same and think the same things. Every ideology has internal debates and various camps. It all depends on the specifics, which is why I would rather deal with it user by user and judge users for their actions, not their ideologies/beliefs. I also understand the concept of context. Is a community that is making fun of Nazis by using their slogans, promoting Nazism? A lot of people certainly could not draw the distinction. What about a community that wants to talk about Nazism in a historical context? Is that promoting genocide?
You call it 'deflection' I called it being reasonable and not making massive generalizations. Nazism and Zionism are not One Big Thing That is Evil. Lots of people, yourself include, probably have beliefs that are in agreement with several aspects of them, and disagree with others. My beef isn't with an ideology, it's with calls to violence, no matter what ideology they are coming from. And lots and lots of people from various ideologies call for violence and perpetuate hate and rage. I see a buttload of it coming from lemmy leftists of various self-identified flavors. If I am going to assume Nazis are evil and bad them for their violent ideology, then I've got to basically ban communists/socialists/anarchists too, because by your logic both are equivalently evil.
But the main disagreement we have here is that you think ideologies are the problem. I don't. I think people are the problem. If a particular insane of 'Nazis' has self identified and organized itself around violence and hate, sure I'd ban them. But there are tons of contexts in which discussion of Nazis and their beliefs would be totally permissible and admirable. I myself have done various history projects on the KKK and supremacy and papers on the ideology in my academic career. Am I therefore promoting or believing in Nazi ideology?
In a professional context, like say legit hate groups being investigated by FBI or the press, what is targeted is the actions of the group and the individuals therein. That's what I'm interested in policing, not thought or discussion.
That's guilt by association. It's a fallacy. Lots of national leaders and founders were racists and horrible people in various factors. That doesn't mean the states necessarily were or are or forever will be.
I don't claim to be anything. You are making all the claims here about who is what. Where I stand agonizing about genocide and dividing everyone up into pro and anti is simply stupid. My understanding is that the current Israeli government and its hardliner supporters are are engaged in a unnecessary escalated conflict, largely motivated by their own beliefs. However, that has not always been the case and various parties in the government do not agree. The conflict in Gaza is part of a much larger history that goes back centuries and isn't 'Zionism'.
But I'm interested in history and reality, not moralizing catchphrases and moral grandstanding over issues for which my views have zero political relevance or impact. I'm not a citizen of the state of Israel.
it's not. people think you are weird because they can't relate and they can't imagine anyone being content w/o a partner.
desperation for validation and twisting yourself into knots to get it is way more attractive to people. but also why so many people who are attractive are deeply unhappy.
I mean, that's how human beings work. The boss isn't going to hold himself accountable to his own policies... how many bosses have you had that don't make exceptions to the rule for themselves?
The good ones are the ones who make exceptions for other people, and the bad ones are the ones who only do it for themselves.
Nuanced thinking doesn't win popularity contests. At best, it only really exists in academia, and even then not that often.
Tired thoughtless ragebait talking points does. Nuanced thinking is the opposite of a 'rallying cry' that so many on the left, and the right, use to motivate their constituencies.
there is probably a law about them being gamebirds or something.
In my state it is illegal to kill a turkey, outside of designated hunting season w/ license in designated hunting areas.
So if you go to the state park with an orange vest with a gun in November, you're good to kill them. But if you say, beat one to death on your lawn in March, you will get written up on charges and probably face fines and jail time. Both cases, cooking and eating is irrelevant.
No. They aren't. You can only keep them for eggs in some places.
It's also not a national thing. The laws are my city/town/county. Some places they are banned entirely from being kept. Others have very strict regulations about how they can be kept and what they can be used for.
my local subreddit once had a golf war thread. the golfers were adamant about how accessible their sport was and how amazing for the environment it was.
I mean it's like anything, you can argue either way. Depending on how the grounds are kept it could be a net positive or a negative. But a lot of golf courses are massive polluter because they use resource-intensive grasses and lots of fertilizers and water to keep it alive. There are more eco-friendly ways to manage a golf course but those are not popular because they cost more and golfers don't like scrub grasses
Professionally speaking? They should privately dis-invite the speakers or seminar leaders who make questionable appearances in the files, but not make a public hoopla over it. They probably have a ethics of conduct code that might have been demonstrably violated.
But I have no idea what criteria they would be using to make those calls. For all we know maybe they have no codified ethics codes as an organization.
My beef with it is the virtue signalling publicity. Making a big public stink about benefits who exactly? It's little more than grandstanding moralizing PR.
because people are not rational. they are emotional.
and they are VERY emotional about taxes to the point they do stupid crap. a lot of people are very fearful of taxes to the point they make really crazy choices based on that fear.
my own sister is going to move to some rural shitty state, because she is so afraid of paying taxes once she retires. especially property taxes. and when i point out the irony of that when she gets sick there will be zero medical services... she tells me to go fuck myself. she has this delusional belief that if she lives in a cabin in bumfuck nowhere then her life will be amazing because she won't be paying taxes as much.
Yeah, none of that is true. My sister is objectively an idiot, she has millions of dollars and her fear is founded by 'taxes are theft' beliefs. Her SS benefit will be like 5-6 grand a month no top of all her already crazy money. she is a millionaire.
I worked in tax policy. It takes years of willful neglect to get your property seized. Like 10 years of not paying your taxes, and even then most municipalities have programs to make payments on tax debts.
I don't like her either, she is classic greedy rich person. She thinks all of those things are evil that she is forced to pay for by lazy poor people. She is not very grounded or educated, she went to business school and worked for a corporation her entire life and basically thinks anyone who isn't rich like her is a pathetic loser.
But I'm sure she will move to this rural place, and vote to defund the schools and hospitals because it's for poor people and her kids weren't raised there so why should she pay any taxes for other people's kids? She already 'paid her dues' by raising her kids in a city with high taxes.
Yes, she very much believes she is poor and can't afford to pay taxes. She is poor just like Jeff Bezos is. Bezos also believes taxes are unfair and cruel and he can't afford them.
I guess that means I am not allowed to buy groceries or something? Or care and have any interest in how the food supply works? Who is going to stop me from reading books and articles about nutrition and economics and farm policy?
Most people buying pre cooked chickens aren't doing so because it's their only option. They are doing so because it's convenient and they are hood winked by the loss leader pricing into paying more for less.
If loss leader pricing didn't work companies wouldn't do it.
Again, you worked for Hannaford. That's a higher quality more expensive store. You worked for one store under one process, YEARS ago no doubt.
Practices change. Food science changes. etc. It's not sinister, it's business. It's objectively the fact that store bought chickens from Coscto and the like are full of fillers.
No, I'm talking out of a personal interest in economics and the food supply. You are just the one talking our your ass and thinking your personal chicken prep experience from 10-20 years ago is relevant to the market today.
I met a girl on hinge, we hit it off, the conversation was great and we were both really into it. We planned a first date. The date honestly felt magical. It was as if time flew by. We then plan a second date, we meet. At the end of the night we kissed. We continue to text, I plan a third date for this weekend. She agrees, were ...
It's your job to not feel bad about yourself. When you have good self-esteem you don't take rejection personally. You go 'oh that sucks, oh well' and don't ever really think about it.
If you sit and stew in these feelings, instead of realizing how misguided they are, you are going to hate dating.
Dating is 90% rejection. Get used to it.
I've probably bad like 500+ first dates in my life. The amount of women who reciprocated my interest was about 10%. And none of those relationships ever lasted for more than a few weeks. and only like 5 lasted a year or more.
not really. i hire in IT. most applicants we get are not remotely qualified and have zero real experience. then if you give them a helpdesk position, they get pissed off they aren't getting paid big bucks and have the senior admin creds their uni degree told them they deserve. they dont' want to work their way up like the rest of us did because they were told their 'education' makes them an 'expert' rather than a total beginner that they really are.
getting a degree in anything doesn't mean you get senior level pay and creds. but the uni programs like to kids and tell them they will be making 150K to start. They will be making 150K after 10-20 years of working, maybe.
Our starting salary is like 70K. about half what people think it should be. most applicants don't even know how to use command line tools or other very basic tasks. their knowledge is all largely conceptual and very little of is is practical.
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Epstein files: ‘No one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law’; rights experts demand accountability ( news.un.org )
Double standards
It should be a strict rule
When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov
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Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed ( www.nytimes.com )
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I'm 76 and drive for Uber after losing my savings to my wife's cancer bills. I'm not sure how long I can keep driving. ( www.businessinsider.com )
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Avocado toast is out. Rotisserie chicken is in.
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I met a girl on hinge, we hit it off, the conversation was great and we were both really into it. We planned a first date. The date honestly felt magical. It was as if time flew by. We then plan a second date, we meet. At the end of the night we kissed. We continue to text, I plan a third date for this weekend. She agrees, were ...
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