In what world is refusing to participate in a system you see as irreparably broken considered condoning its existence?

In a world where refusal to participate is indistinguishable from being too lazy, complacent, or satisfied to participate, and that is the one we live in.

Do you think politicians are going to go check why you didn’t vote? It’s basically as if you don’t exist to them.

In that way, if no other, voting does serve to support the existing system.

The amount and percentage of non-voter signals to most politicians that people tacitly approve of the entire system. After all, if they disapproved of something about it, they would’ve at least bothered to show up and vote, right?

There’s no better “the status quo is fine” indicator than not even giving enough of a shit to show up at the polls (or in some cases return a slip of paper through the mail).

Just because the technology is there and cheaper does not mean that humans can push aside their physiological limitations in a critical situation.

Have you considered the shareholders though?

The best businesses are rewarded with more money while poor businesses fail.

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Yeah I get that, with him it works on two levels.

I know that’s probably a generic insult, but he kinda does look like beaker from the Muppets.

I setup 2FA on Facebook using one of those USB keys ages ago. I tried to login again recently but it tells me to use an authenticator app which I never configured, and when I try to use the USB key it blinks at me. I know the key works because I use it for other things. When I looked into logging in somehow else it brought up some crazy page telling me I’d have to send my license to Facebook or some such shit. Oh well, guess it’s a dead profile now.

Anyone who owns a house is a millionaire.

So we’ve got a tiny number of billionaires in charge.

An ever dwindling number of millionaires desperately holding onto their small privilege

I mean this simply cannot be true.

If everyone who owns a house is a millionaire, then in order for the “number of millionaires” to be “ever dwindling” we would need not only a housing shortage, but an eroding quantity of housing or a drastic drop in home ownership rates. Neither is happening. The home ownership rate in 2024 is 65.8% according to this site: https://www.simplyinsurance.com/how-many-homeowners-in-the-us/ which puts us at a much improved rate of ownership from when the housing crash happened in 2008, when we were running somewhere in the low 60s.

So not everyone who owns a house is a millionaire, or millionaires numbers aren’t dwindling. It simply cannot be the case that what you’re saying here is all true.

We we did do it once and guess what, we are back again. What was the point of spilling all that blood sweat and tears if we just go right back to where we started?

30 years of relative prosperity?

Also, I don’t understand how you think we’d be able to abolish capitalism without much more blood, sweat, and tears than would be spent building a labor movement. I also think that a strong labor movement would be a necessary prerequisite to abolishing capitalism. I don’t see how you build a movement to abolish capitalism with millions of isolated, fractured consumers. By magic? Will AI or crypto solve this? 😄

Partially thanks to media like you, squints eyes fortune.com…

Sounds like the plot from any spy movie where the bad guy wants to nuke the planet in order for a more perfect civilization to be born out of the rubble. Which is to say, I think we can all acknowledge there is some truth to the statement.

Except there’s no proof, let alone a guarantee, that out of the destruction that “a more perfect civilization” will be born. So, sorry, no. There’s no truth here to be acknowledged.

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My “lifehack” is to always eat stuff like this with a ready beverage. You put the bite in your mouth but don’t chomp down on the nuclear-hot explody portion until you have also added some liquid to your mouth to cool it.

I’m beginning to think this Microsoft company might fucking suck.

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“nobody knew that taxation policy was this complicated”

OMG you guys, are we getting poor or something?!

Imagine attacking school children in any way and thinking you’re correct on any issue.

The more I think about it the more I think a lot of the vitriol comes from them being jealous that they can’t just “shake their tits” and have to instead brown nose people.

Release the peepee tape and the NSFW raymour and flanigan pics.