boredpeter

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by boredpeter 8mo ago
I take issue with "the lack of large scale human rights abuses." Are you ignorant or just deliberately ignoring the genocide of the Palestinian people with an estimated 680,000 dead (~30% of Gaza) that occurred with widespread sup
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by boredpeter 2y ago
It’s not propaganda, Noam Chomsky wrote a book about how media is used to advance otherwise unpopular government policies decades ago and the NYT is mentioned in it. If anything this post is propaganda.
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by boredpeter 2y ago
With the TikTok ban and now this idiotic bill we’re seeing the beginning of a censored US internet.
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by boredpeter 2y ago
And is car dependency not a tax on the poor as well? If the government only builds car-based infrastructure that requires a car then that is a tax on everyone is it not?
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by boredpeter 2y ago
Isn’t the whole point of the 30% apple tax to make sure their App Store isn’t full of garbage?
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by boredpeter 2y ago
Why can a lower limit on age to participate in elections be constitutional but an upper limit not? You need to be 18 to vote and 35 to be president but we can’t legislate an upper age limit on running for office?
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by boredpeter 2y ago
Not only that but also lobby the government to start more wars so there’s a need for their product. https://x.com/snmrrw/status/1717906441925751223
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by boredpeter 2y ago
False. The message is the US government doesn’t want Americans to freely speak out against American foreign policy such as the current genocide against the Palestinians. They want US citizens to communicate on US platforms where they do hav
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by boredpeter 2y ago
Owning a home is a goal because the alternative is lifetime wage slavery to fund a landlord’s lavish lifestyle. People don’t want to be exploited and see home ownership as a way to get out of that cycle of exploitation and building enough w
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by boredpeter 3y ago
I'm in NJ so not sure if this applies but since I'm in another high tax state I thought this would be relevant. One thing that I find interesting that isn't really talked about is the difference in property tax rates between
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Wow the world has nuances. Who would’ve thought?
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by boredpeter 3y ago
I believe that in a free democratic society people should be allowed to read a letter written by an Islamic fundamentalist who orchestrated the largest terrorist attack against the United States. I believe people should be allowed to form t
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by boredpeter 3y ago
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Yes the ultra wealthy shouldn’t be able to conceal wealth that gives them immense power to control a so called democratic and free society. Regular people without that same wealth and power should have some amount of privacy from their gove
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by boredpeter 3y ago
My criticism of there being a few corporate gatekeepers of communication that are bullied by the government to censor content it doesn’t like is valid. You’re free to believe whatever neocon libertarian nonsense you wish.
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Noam Chomsky argues the United States is a leading terrorist state. Does that mean TikTok is going to take down anything related to US foreign policy? Are regular people not allowed to read or share content created by anyone the US governme
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Employees who violate Amazon's RTO mandate will be blocked from promotions(fortune.com)
4 points by boredpeter 3y ago|0 comments
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by boredpeter 3y ago
This reminds me of the concept of predatory pricing which is when a business lowers their prices to below cost in order to drive out all its competitors and create a monopoly. https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competi
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by boredpeter 3y ago
You can’t seriously be blaming consumers for this. It’s not consumers’ job to be scientists and understand whether some factory made ultra processed food is good for them or not. This is entirely because the government is bought and paid fo
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by boredpeter 3y ago
You can’t open source it but the government could nationalize it and make it a benefit to small businesses everywhere without the anti competitive profit seeking motives of a private business controlling it.
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by boredpeter 3y ago
I don’t see any issue with that if it only applies to corporations.
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by boredpeter 3y ago
I’m faulting them because it’s nothing more than a get rich quick scheme. Another comment even noted they are slightly tweaking it so they can get another patent for it. The government should be funding this and making it available to the g
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by boredpeter 3y ago
$20k per dose Jesus H Christ. Rent seeking galore. Hopefully the patent has run out by now and others can get in on the action and make it affordable. There’s no way in hell this could possibly cost $20k. Is capitalism ever going to produce
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Not at all, one individual won’t do anything against a business that large. And what if 1000s more people fly the airline and it becomes so wealthy it buys up all the other airlines? Corporations are authoritarian, tyrannical institutions w
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Or we could give users the choice of default search engine instead of just rewarding the winners with the most money to spend..how do you ever expect a new upstart search engine to compete with google if google can just buy defaults? Or own
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by boredpeter 3y ago
This is why even white collar workers need to have a good look at unionization. Even highly compensated workers at tech companies ultimately have little to no power within a corporation. Corporations are tyrannical authoritarian institution
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by boredpeter 3y ago
The real scam is TurboTax charging over $100 for software that has a fixed yearly cost for development and a negligible cost for distribution and is used by millions.
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Odd common ground is a weird way to say that most democrats are really just conservatives. Both parties bend to the will of big business. Both parties are happy to screw over workers (just look at what Biden did to rail workers). Democrats
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Don’t expect the corporate owned media to ever do any actual investigative work on why workers in the US have been getting shafted for the past 50+ years. It’s just a mouthpiece for corporate interests and government propaganda.
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by boredpeter 3y ago
Don’t forget what happens when they do fail. They get bailed out by the government thanks to all the lobbying they do. The 2008 bank bailouts, PPP loans to business owners. The government will bend over backwards for business owners but god

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