cloudfifty

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by cloudfifty 4y ago
That's caricature level gaslighting, even when accounting for your terribly low standards.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
You alone can't do anything about the demographics and their biases here. Buy if you honestly believe that HN is somehow politically neutral you're deluded. It does't require a sociologist to realise that when certain topics
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
What a sad state of affairs when pushing back against the bullshit spread by the very prolific reactionaries, albeit polite (which is all that matters here), of this site sooner or later gets one banned. To add insult to injury most of them
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> considering Marx was a literal man child I must ask. Why, according to you, was he a "literal man child"?
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
It's funny how reactionaries have gone from "it's not really happening", "it's not man made" to "it's too late anyways" in no time. The same goal remains; to keep doing nothing.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
The difference is that it's cheaper by Uber pushing down labour costs, a.k.a the driver's compensation. But since that reason isn't as pleasant, vague rationalizations are used instead.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
I think it would be good if tens of thousands of US health insurance folks lost their jobs too. I'm sure you have something more intelligent to say despite being HN's most prolific shoeshine connoisseur.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
The Netherlands have done just fine before Bezos's new yatch. Bowing down to contemporary kingship is not required.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Free-market advocates really need to decide whether trickle-down economics is slander or something to hold dear. I'm getting mixed signals.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> Given the specific word use makes a particular claim, that is the basis for your other claims, it's extremely important. No, but it's always nice to focus on semantics if you got little else to say. > No, this is just your
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Yeah, the US needs an anti-capitalist opposition that can see through the PR. Like most European countries have. Coopted is surely hyperbole though, as it suggests control, more like riding the wave.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> Like checking to see if the word 'authoritarian' applies to employers Have you never heard someone calling their boss "authoritarian"? I used it as a description of an unfree, undemocratic, top-down system that&#x27
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> You're incorrectly putting a person's right to their property, i.e. their right to make exclusive use of what they produce, into a different category from a person's right to make exclusive use of their body. Yes of cou
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> is the external circumstances that involve no violence or threats of it No, it's common sense. Do you honestly believe asking 100 people on the street that most would deem that voluntary? No, they would just say something like &q
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> as to "who" is the authoritarian left, hmm lets start with this definition. Blue Checkmarks on Twitters, and.or has Pronouns in the bio of any social media platform, and.or rides alone in a car with mask on. Wow. That's
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
You haven't supplied any context into "any position of the authoritarian left". Who are they and what are their positions that you can't disagree with?
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> instead anyone that disagrees with any position of the authoritarian left is now "alt right" Reading that over-the-top hyperbole I firmly believe that you're the one that's been moving around.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> You're not fact-checking and trying to be objective What fact-checking have I missed? In what way do you even begin to imagine that this discussion can be objective? > or a free market economy to operate I wrote Capitalism, not
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
You can't compare an individuals rights with systemic rights and try to draw moral equivalency between those. That's just dishonest. An individuals right starts and ends with that individual. Private property rights however encomp
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> then it's voluntary No, it's forced upon them by external circumstances. That's also in many cases setup and supported by the very persons exploiting them. Put people in a cage of poverty because you've decided and
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> It's a voluntarily assumed dependency. No, there's nothing voluntary about it. Why would anyone accept a coal mining job in the 19th century voluntary? > People being forced by nature to work in order to feed themselves So
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> They are not in any way exploiting the labor and time of others, at least not in any meaningful sense of the word 'exploit', I think some very clearly are. Obviously there's level degrees here. But on the systematic leve
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> You're misdefining "authoritarian" No, the economic sphere is strictly top-down authoritarian where workers is in a dependency situation wrt to their boss. The pandemic has made that abundantly clear. > You're fr
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> The pursuit of captial accumulation is always dependent on the exploitation of someone's labour / time somewhere. So what's wrong here? Are not capitalists exploiting the labour and time of others to accumulate capital?
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> You're making a lot of unsubstantiated assertions that are in the realm of conspiracy theory. Care to say what? > Someone wealthier offering a higher wage than the other options available to a person, and a person consequently
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> Because there is no basis provided for this absurd characterization. Why not? > And Marxist dogma calling profit exploitation isn't? Well, I guess some might be, but not all. Furthermore all critic of exploitation driven on by
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> Characterizing all profit as exploitation is completely baseless, extremely inflammatory, and totally irresponsible. Why? > It's totally irresponsible, and it's unsurprising that every society which has accepted this pseud
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> This attribution of a value system, e.g. consumerism or profit-seeking, to capitalism, is misguided It's not. Capitalism is not exempt from the common sense notion of "You reap what you sow", and the history of Capitalis

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