Recently had to make my way he from work I’m a storm. Trip took three times as long as usual because in two separate hills, more than 4 vehicles on each hill had gotten stuck trying to climb and were blocking traffic

You folks were not wrong. Loving the Expanse so far and watching her verbally shred other politicians has been amazing

It would be very funny if they left something like Facebook links as-is

RIP to Holly Henderson’s concept album and probably nothing else of value

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https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/2904719

Opening the link to this thread in browser works though, so maybe it just isn’t federating properly from the piefed instance?

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Douple checked and it is broken in browser from Lemmy.zip, but accessing directly on piefed.blahaj.zone shows a complete image

This would have done numbers in c/badposting

I see what you mean. The conditions necessary for these reforms are close to the conditions in which they are entirely irrelevant

Yeah capitalists have proven how insufferable they can be in perverting things meant to deter them, into weapons in their own arsenal. I guess the assumption my ideas would rest on is enough of a movement to make these changes, but not enough to immediately break capitalist control. So it doesn’t really do anything to get us there

Yeah, it is definitely a dispossession for billionaires, but it would be a more gradual one. If the resulting economy doesn’t offer him a billionaires worth of things to spend his buyout cash on then that sucks for him in the end.

In it, she states clearly that reforms are not fundamentally in opposition to revolution

Very good point. I guess the ideal is reform that furthers revolution, culturally or materially. Something that delivers more control to the people and the workers.

I’m not sure to what end a wealth tax

The wealth tax is admittedly the less thought out and generally worse idea, but leveraging that tax to buy out capital would in essence be a seizure of billionaires funds to then deliver industry capital to the workers control

tax which attempts to convert more companies into so called nonprofits

My thought wasn’t so much converting them to nonprofits, but implementing a tax designed to lead to worker ownership. Costs escalate the more important the business is, gauged roughly by how many people it employs and can be addressed by increasing the number of people power over the company is distributed between.

The thought was to drive a natural lifecycle in which enterprising individuals could begin ventures that they think will make the world better or that they think can sustain themselves without a tax burden, but once you employ more than yourself you begin to pay tax for being the sole controller. Its a reform idea to softly push in the direction of democratized workplaces where every worker has an equal say, but also allow a vision to be established by an individual unhindered. With increased employee ownership, hopefully the imperialist aggression would also abate when there is lower incentive to colonize a people, but imperialism wasn’t in the forefront when I was thinking about this.

Yeah fair enough, as a fan of the series though I would say that as an american author Robert Jordan nailed the distinctive flavor of american fascism

Well I guess I know what I’m bringing to Date Night next week!

She is! I first encountered her in Renfield and when she was announced as Elaida I knew she would do an amazing job with the role. Sadly that got cut short, but I will treasure the bits we got

I would say don’t myself. If it’s a source of gender euphoria for you its not worth changing for someone else. Some people like guys who have shaved all over like swimmers do, but you don’t have to become that if you don’t want to

Sad if this community is a casualty of all the inter-instance drama stirring. I hope you get up and running again soon! I think Lemmy.zip has a piefed.zip and there are few full instance defeds here. You might have to remove a default block or two though.

This looks right up my alley. You mean there is already a shorter total war with worse graphics, sign me up!

RIP to an entrepreneur he died doing what he loved, taking risks

One of the roles in that ritual is the person who plays the legendary waffler Susan Collins

Not disagreeing this guys ‘touch grass’ is not helpful or useful, but it is also very clearly not ad hominem. Ad hominem is a logical fallacy and involves using an arguers characteristics to try and cast doubt on their logical argument. Its a fallacy because even if someone who doesn’t understand what they’re saying gives a logical argument the argument is no less correct for not being understood. Telling someone to touch grass is an imperative statement, and while hostile and rude, does not constitute ad hominem.