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anarchiddy

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  • Ethical consumption, 1860

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  • Sure, except a part of the critique is an acknowledgement that exploitation begets exploitation - most of the working class has only a limited amount of time, resources, or energy to participate in this level of market research before buying anything.

    I find this satire to be similar to Milton Freedman libertarians who think consumers should simply know what theyre buying instead of having government consumer protections.

  • Ethical consumption, 1860

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  • I dont really know what to make of this mene, but this isnt really what 'no ethical consumption' is intended to communicate.

    The challenge isn't to abstain from unethical practices directly like owning a slave yourself, the challenge is to avoid consumption that involves exploitative structures at all. It's a structural critique, not an individualized one - exploitation is so pervasive in capitalist production that it's nearly impossible to avoid entirely even if you're an activist with complete knowledge and can dedicate a large amount of energy perfecting ethical consumption

    It bothers me how cynical this meme is, honestly.

  • Decomposed body in handcuffs, Nazi paraphernalia found in Stamford, Conn. gunman's home, police say

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  • Not at all saying the guy didn't deserve to get clapped, but not for non-payment of his mortgage.

  • Decomposed body in handcuffs, Nazi paraphernalia found in Stamford, Conn. gunman's home, police say

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  • Nazis can rot in fucking hell, but so should landlords who want to kick 60 year old couples to the street who cant afford their apartment because of medical debt and illness.

    The guy was shooting at officers coming to evict him.

  • Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza Horrors

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  • That is where they were learning about what happened on October 7th, what happened in the days, weeks, and months to follow.

    You missed the part being referenced in the headline. She isnt just talking about Oct 7 but everything that took place following it. Her complaint wouldnt make sense in any other context, and it's the same complaint Netanyahu and Blinken have made, too.

  • China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home

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  • A perfect example of how and why capitalism creates and entrenches poverty.

  • Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the american president.

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  • Oh my god they're actually doing the south park bit

  • China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home

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  • China could literally solving world hunger and the US press would complain about it being a plot to ruin US farmers.

  • Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

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  • In theory, sure - it's only a concern if you have a work-managed device.

    In concept, though, there are more parties with partial control/access to your device from whom you only have a tenuous protection at-best.

    Normalizing the practice of automatic archival of encrypted communication is bad. I don't think that's a particularly spicy take. "They say it won't be used except in these specific circumstances" is no better than a fig-leaf, especially when those types of promises have been repeatedly broken.

  • Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

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  • An archiving feature that highlights a reality that many people arent already aware of - that encryption is meaningless if you dont have ultimate control of the device you are decrypting it on.

  • Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

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  • Each morning I wake up and think to myself, "what fresh new hell awaits me today?"

    There are no caveats to this that can make me feel better about it. This is a normalization of what I already new to be true - that my phone has never actually been mine, and any controll I thought i had can and will be taken from me at any moment.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • Does it really? I don't find it to be a challenging distinction at all

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • private property, distinct from personal property.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • The exploitation of private property is derived from the exclusion of labor from its product - maybe you have a different understanding of what 'theft' means, but it's the principled exclusion of what labor produces from the labor producing it that is the basis of marx's claim of 'exploitation'

  • US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report

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  • identical morally

    I think you are reading a different comment.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • AI is theft in the same way that all private property theft. It isnt the piracy of media, it's the alienation of labor from its product, and withholding it for profit.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy

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  • You know shit's bad when US media starts using the 'China bad' classic "but at what cost?" byline toward US consumers

    Im guessing there's a sister article somewhere on Forbes reporting lower than anticipated earnings for US phone manufacturers

  • Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support

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  • I consider it to be a function of when I grew up with video games and how my family restricted them broadly, but I have honestly never understood the appeal of competitive online games that require intense anti-cheat controls.

    I grew up playing largely single player games, and the few online games I payed were limited to ones I played in private lobbies with friends i knew.

    Any game that requires this level of policing for competitive play is an instant turn off for me. I realize I'm in the minority here, but I have no problem with a console that doesn't support kernel level anticheat- to the contrary i find it to be a huge advantage

  • Zohran spanked Trump today. Look how smitten he is...

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  • Mamdani is a fucking wizard. I heard some of this press conference - trump was actually defending mamdani against both liberal press and fox news questions

    I want so badly to have been a fly on the wall for that meeting. But ultimately it does kind of make sense: they are both "anti-establishment" candidates in their own ways, and trump desperately needs a popularity boost.