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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

  • Child rapist grasps for distraction from his role in a sex trafficking ring.

  • will evidently focus more on outside spending from organizations and super PACs that supported the Democrats’ presidential bid

    I heard someone saying the democrats aren't a political party, they don't have ideals, they're just a patronage network.

  • LLMs have far more going on than lemmy will admit, and we have far less going on than we think.

    Yes and yes and especially yes on the last bit.

  • People just massively overestimate what goes on in a brain, I think. It's not magic. Consciousness, experience and understanding feel ineffable but they're just chemicals and electricity.

    There's no divine and irreproducible spark, no reason that silicon and metal couldn't produce a system that does everything a brain does.

  • It's just what the evidence from pre-history through history supports.

    The rich are the government - from local 'big men' style rulers, councils of nobles, mercantile empires from Assyria to the US, to local governments that serve property developers.

    The history of the state is the rich working out ever more sophisticated ways of getting what they want without revolt.

  • Surely if anything it's cynical rather than naive.

  • The most powerful in every society are the ones with the most resources and they've always been the ones with the free time to operate a government, which they use to pursue and secure their interests.

    As far back as we have written and archaeological evidence of heirarchical institutions existing, they have been controlled by and on behalf of the rich and powerful.

  • I've got bad news for you, our government is already owned by the rich. Every government is. That's the whole point of having a government, it's how the rich control others.

  • There is no data to suggest that protest non voters swung the results and some recent data from Pew that they did not.

    If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at Dems for choosing policies they knew in advance would supress turnout.

    But again, this election was neither free nor fair. Only those who engineered this coup are responsible for it.

  • Personally, I blame the murderous fascists.

    If we were a democracy then maybe it would make sense to blame the public. But our elections are a cesspit of corruption, vote buying, gerrymandering and rampant open illegality.

    The public have had little to no relevant say in who forms a government for a few decades at least, probably since the 70s. It makes no sense to blame the public.

  • That's more deaths than the Holocaust at a much early stage of fascism too. Of course that doesn't account for inflation - 6m dead is closer to 20m with today's total population.

    But have no fear, this republican regime will do everything in their power to surpass their idols.

  • policies that support growth only exist to further empower the rich, such as deregulation and low taxes

    Fixed it for you, cnbc.

  • Yeah I thought it was monopsony but my autocorrect gave me that incorrect spelling and I didn't bother to double check.

  • Actual farmers are usually held hostage by the agro-giants who buy their product. In most markets there's a Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.

    Industry behavior is driven by these companies who have all the power. They leave farmers with all of the risk and take all the profit for themselves.

  • "If a DSA member like Mamdani were to win ... it would be terrible for the city," reads the Third Way memo. "Do New Yorkers really want socialist city-run grocery stores?"

    According to an April survey by the Climate & Community Institute and Data for Progress, they do. Two-thirds of New Yorkers said they support the creation of municipal grocery stores ... including 72% of Democratic voters ... Third Way executive vice president Matt Bennett insisted in an interview with Politico on Saturday that a Mamdani victory would allow Republicans to attach the Democratic Party "to ideas that are outside of the mainstream" on a national level.

    Just classic establishment Dems here: attacking a wildly popular policy and supporting a corrupt sex offender to avoid fascists calling you a commie.

  • Crucifix.

  • Yeah it really stands out.

    Either it's a lie and feds installed a keylogger remotely after the tip off from the Roblox user mentioned, Or the "matyr" had behavior problematic enough that even their family were concerned.

  • The coup is appointing apparatchiks to solidify their control over the military.

  • This is extra funny because not only is the gameplay shit on purpose, it's shit on purpose as a criticism of capitalism.

    Monopoly is supposed to be frustrating as a reflection of how frustrating life is under capitalism, and here comes capitalism to sell an even more annoying version full of popups and money grabs.

    The death of satire is a well with no end.