Atlas667

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by Atlas667 26d ago
"Freedom" is defined by who holds the microphone, but don't ignore who set up the stage. The liberty he believes in is the one the one-way ratcheting mechanism of individual liberty, for the most powerful individuals that is.
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by Atlas667 2mo ago
This is why ideology is so important. Is the end user viewed as an ISPs client? a consumer of tech companies? The idealistic language is fine but isnt based on any scientific approach to society. Its neutral at best. The internet is for end
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by Atlas667 2mo ago
Damn, so pretentious. I agree with many things, in particular his sentiment about styles and "rules", but his demeanor is uninspiring. He doesnt provide much clarity around good writing and just comes off as rationalizing his own
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by Atlas667 2mo ago
Took the south Florida brightline 3 times, recently, to get to the airport (+2 times for leisure travel) and it was pretty good. Get there by rideshare in 20 mins, trains on time, 1hr to city, 10 min shuttle to airport. On time every time.
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by Atlas667 3mo ago
Monopoly capitalism and finance capitalism took reigns of markets more than a century ago. The state serves these huge interests. Everybody knows AI firms pirated to train, nothing will come of it. A plain example of classist application of
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by Atlas667 4mo ago
Faking sincerity is hard and being sincere gets you fired.
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by Atlas667 4mo ago
There's a few topics I see here: - Human Value - Sincerity - Evolution of technology and social systems with them Do all humans have value? Yes, but not all humans can realize their own value. Your society is the gymnasium that helps y
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by Atlas667 4mo ago
The reason cleaning toilets in america is not that bad is because of socialist and communist labor organizing. Go to Ecuador to clean toilets and you'll see what capitalism does to workers.
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by Atlas667 4mo ago
Comment OP here. The third way is just capitalism with extra "were different" rhetoric. Remember capitalism isnt a vibe its the private control of production for profit. All "third way" people are just capitalists with e
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by Atlas667 4mo ago
Do you really understand class war? Your suggestion is having the state legislate this away as if the state isn't fully compromised by the capitalist class? This is the main lesson of the 20th century that liberals refuse to accept; th
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by Atlas667 6mo ago
Tangentially, this is also the reason why many forms of corruption can be done away with right now with modern technology. Meaning that democratizing our existing political structures is a reality today and can be done effectively (think bl
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by Atlas667 6mo ago
People say that because they are not aware of what Marxism is. Marxism isnt "lets try something different based on ideas of justice" Marxism is "Society evolves through general stages: primitive, slave, feudal and capitalist,
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by Atlas667 6mo ago
The only way to curb something like that is more democratization. Fraud is a common problem in any system anywhere. A reputation score on top would help, only if it can be kept democratically controlled. There is no single solution, but pub
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by Atlas667 6mo ago
It's the tax-payer funded business model, the NGO trap. Subsidies, grants, tax-breaks, credit, deductions, exemptions, etc. A whole class of profiteers live in this sector. Even though academia funding isn't strictly categorized a
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by Atlas667 6mo ago
Almost as if capitalism makes everything into a market, and the profits make it self sustaining. How many will see the connections between this and our capitalist mode of production? Probably few since modern lit/news is allergic to sy
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Everybody hates capitalism, but no one understands that they do. What you promote as a solution is simply a pebble on the path of the people who want to capitalize. There are 3 realistic scenarios for your proposed solution: - it will
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Right, nothing can, but it is harder to corrupt when the state isn't a handful of people with shields of bureaucracy where access to power can only be attained by the richest individuals in that society. Communism isn't "let
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
I believe I have a somewhat unique perspective on this as a communist. Capitalist governments, even theocratic ones, are trash for the working class. That would explain those previous protests. Corruption is a totally normal thing in wester
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Many are protesting because of the sanctions, considered war crimes, imposed by the west onto them. The US and its allies have attacked the currency and the availability of goods for the common Iranian. This is how regime change works. This
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Yeah, dude thanks for the good faith. A lot of people are allergic to this rhetoric and will just assume I have a deep irrational bias, but I was actually a staunch free market supporter before. Once I decided to be more intellectually hone
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
They have the incentive to never chose this. If we force it upon them by begging politicians, corporations still have the incentive to find a way to remove it or circumvent it. Youre playing the cat and mouse game because you've been t
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
> Aren't the politicians or their appointed bureaucrats who'd be making all the decisions if these needs were government owned? Well that would be true under a capitalist government. > Why would state control lead to less po
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Capitalism is the privatization of human needs. As long as these tech platforms are owned privately they will be used to police and make money. This view NEEDS to be central to the tech freedom rhetoric, else the whole movement is literally
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Meanwhile the NSA and Mossad can see you fapping on your phone and scan your face in real time and you're implicitly fine with it This is what lack of options does to a MF
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
The infrastructure is still there. It's the infrastructure that's the problem, the marketing is kind of whatever... Ring has been a problem and it has only gotten worse now.
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Capitalist profit motive strikes again. The invisible hand expands tech and the visible hand keeps making tech worse. People usually respond to this by saying that it would be absurd to suggest the company did this for its own benefit, when
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
I think you may be very shocked when you find out that you are wrong. Fascism was an ideology developed by capitalist industrialists, specifically steel trusts in Germany. But had its birth amongst financiers in Italy. Henry Ford was a big
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
The full term is private property over the means of production. The family farm would only fall into that category if youre employing others for profit. If you're working yourself on it, there is no real social function to it.
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
Because many people railing against capitalism actually dislike private property over production and think it carries many ills. Since that was the bulk of your argument that was the summary of my statement, which I opened with. You conveni
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by Atlas667 7mo ago
This is false and not at all what I have researched and back as a communist. In a communist society YOU control production through democracy. The whole point is for the people to be their own governing force. That is why communists mention

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