Victim of Communism

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.worldHow are you doing?
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    16 hours ago

    There’s a lot of hot takes on this forum that try to correlate neurodivergence with some kind of moral compass.

    It neglects how ideas like justice are social constructs and cultural touchstones, not universal truths and absolutes.

    What’s being described is a dissonance between espoused legal/moral standards and lived ones. But which is “correct”? ADHD doesn’t give you any clarity one way or another.




  • don’t think the average person in 1926 assumed they were an expert on medicine or physics or finance or whatever. If a doctor, or physicist, or banker told them something, they’d generally nod their head.

    So many of those professionals were just professional scammers back then. Until the professionalization of these fields, in the 1940s/50s, you really couldn’t trust them. And avoiding people who claimed to do surgery/treat cancer, while keeping all your money in your mattress was genuinely a smarter move.

    the other half is that they weren’t able to shout it into an algorithm that absolutely loves the controversy it generates, and serve it to billions of people automatically.

    A lot of this shit is amplified and filtered to operate as it’s own native advertising.

    The shit opinions that align with the marketing agenda are the ones that get front-paged.



  • We’re already straining the resource capacity of the globe, and Americans are an enormous consumer endpoint relative to population size.

    Simply issuing more cash won’t create more end products. And when a handful of cartelized retailers control the flow of trade?

    Prices are already artificially inflated to accommodate marketing costs and profit. Why retailers continue to raise prices to catch that additional free cash?




  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml💪💪💪
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    2 days ago

    Both my citations occurred before these territories claimed independence. In fact, these periods preceded efforts to retake the old territory.

    Not unlike the American Confederacy or the South of Vietnam, two territories we’ve got no problem acknowledging as illegitimate.




  • And based on your comment, it could print print money against bonds to fund a better life for all.

    Yeah, but at that point why print money against bonds? Just nationalized the Make Things Nice Industry and start handing nice shit out to people.

    I mean this is a shit post, but I’ve also added that we could feed and house the poor.

    We do feed and house the poor. But then we harass them with bill collectors and eviction notices a few years later. Interestingly, it’s the send bit that’s more expensive.