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Joined September 2026
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Replying to @jackvlloyd
Yes. Every complaint about "late-stage Capitalism" is a complaint about early-stage socialism
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Critics are calling it "The most reddit post of the year"
Wil Wheaton telling Hitler's anal polyp to fuck all the way off back to Adolf's shithole wins the internet for me today
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The great liberators overthrew the bourgeoisie (small business owners) and seized the means of production (a PS5) for the proletariat (brown people who have been in the country for 7 months)
Literally nothing has changed but more white people in France hate brown people now. Was that the plan?
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Atheism of the gaps
My hottest take: religion should be disqualifying for political candidates. If you genuinely believe in magic and all-powerful deities, I don't trust you to have the intelligence or cognitive ability to make informed policy decisions.οΏΌ
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I rather dislike "o algo"
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> "Religious people are stupid" > Replies full of atheists being smugly stupid and not getting the original picture
Are all religious people this stupid or just right wing dad?
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Capitalism didn't invent having to do stuff to survive
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The fact that it's "evil" to facilitate detransition according to these types demonstrates that for them it's not about healthcare or being the gender you most feel like, it's about being trans. They glorify being trans as though it's a virtue in and of itself.
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The police are "stronger" than a lone person, but the lone person can finish victimizing you before the police even show up. "Right here, right now" is one of the largest considerations in interpersonal power dynamics.
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It would be less barbaric to give petty criminals a public lashing or beating than to lock them away for several months. And I think that it would do a better job of rehabilitation too. Public social shame is a powerful tool when judiciously applied.
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I'm skeptical that we should have any minimum wage. On one hand, I understand the premise: to protect against unfairly low wages. On the other, I feel like it's an excuse for many employers to default to the minimum that wouldn't otherwise.
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Well I have one theory…
Why does seeing KKK members being shot upset certain people so much?
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It depends on your definition of art. Some see art as the mere product. Personally? I think that art as the artist's communication "encoded" in the product. That makes something made by a human more special than something largely automated.
the double standards are actually insane
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Great analogy to illustrate a point that I often make on the abortion debate. It has never been "my body my choice" as you're both legally and morally compelled already to provide for your infant. The abortion debate can ONLY be about the personhood of the fetus.
Imagine a mother giving birth in a small, isolated, and impoverished town. Six months later, she decides that she no longer wishes to use her body to breastfeed the baby anymore. Nobody in the town is willing to adopt the child, and there are no alternative means to feed the baby. Can the mother invoke bodily autonomy and deny the baby breast milk until the baby dies? If yes, then it seems like bodily autonomy can justify infanticide. If no, then why is bodily autonomy a defense to abortion but not for some cases of infanticide?
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Broads will moralize for weeks about consent and no meaning no, and then get angry that a guy didn't catch the vibes about her no meaning yes
Why don’t men understand that sometimes a girl says stop because she wants you to take the lead? We were making out on the bed, MUMU tried reaching for my pants, and I told him to stop. I wasn’t even struggling with him. This CLOWN actually stopped and ruined my whole mood. DOG , YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO READ THE ROOM.
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This meets the legal definition of sexual assault in many countries: sexual contact without consent. justice.gov/ovw/sexual-ass… police.uk/ro/report/rsa/… eige.europa.eu/gender-based-v…
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The same result can be achieved with humanitarian aid. You know this, of course, but it's not about merely helping them, it's about them being here, specifically.
The net-benefit that our nation receives from Somali immigration is the knowledge that 200,000 people have been saved from famine and needless suffering. If you cannot understand why this is important, you’re missing an important source of meaning in life and deserve some pity
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Do the benefits of a free market apply to healthcare? I'm pro free market on most things, but I struggle to see how emergency services can have benefit the consumer through competition. Can a dying or unconscious person shop around, or negotiate price?
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I want to be clear that I'm not necessarily prescribing socialized healthcare as the best answer to this dilemma. That comes with its own issues. I want to gather thoughts on the topic
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What can humanity hope for, but to be a little less weak and retarded tomorrow?
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