extradego

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by extradego 7y ago
What a joke. Sometimes I am just amazed America still exists.
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by extradego 8y ago
You read it here. It's hard to see how this is the future without experiencing it in some way personally. Facebook Groups connected me with fans of a particular kind of fringe art about 4 years ago and made leaving Facebook really diff
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by extradego 8y ago
I wish. You people are a disgrace.
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by extradego 8y ago
I do not comprehend the actual point you intend to make. But, remember the left chooses the hard road, not because they can but because it is moral. Regardless, Trump is absolutely a fascist. It seems a bit futile to disagree.
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by extradego 8y ago
Culture generally has a parental relationship to art. The art is of the culture but the culture is not of the art. I think we agree on that, but I totally see where you're coming from here because I am suggesting something else wit
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by extradego 8y ago
I have an opinionated view of American culture, and I'm daily surrounded by other musicians, artists. These are the topics we discuss. I am opinionated as a result. In my previous comment, please note when I say "hip-hop",
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by extradego 8y ago
> throughly modern American You baby-boomers need to speak for yourselves only and keep me out of it. (Assuming you mean "modern" as in contemporary. If you mean the more canonical "modern", sorry for the react.)
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by extradego 8y ago
Right on the money. Before WW2, America was a culture desert. Europeans fleeing the war are the only reason NYC became an international culture hub. Hip-hop is undoubtedly the most progressive Western art form. (Side note: hip-hop's ge
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by extradego 8y ago
> so not necessarily super accurate. Even worse. Many people say they “don’t have anything to hide” because they too haven’t considered the vast consequences regardless of having something to hide. For starters, when the data is inaccu
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by extradego 8y ago
In America, they simply do not know the last 300 years of history.
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by extradego 8y ago
Government funded elections might solve most of our society’s spiraling issues but we can’t have any clue what the value would be until we try it. And of course we can’t make honest claims to democracy until then either.
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by extradego 8y ago
In the USA, this is just how it’s done. I’m not exaggerating; this is business as usual . Penalizing this would be a catastrophe for Americans. I think the sheer volume of the tricks, lies, gimmicks and gotchas cause each one bleed into th
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by extradego 8y ago
The idea of democracy as a “rejection of aristocracy” has been well discredited for centuries now. The topic of discussion here is not “social” but economic mobility. Let’s not mix them up so carelessly. Economic mobility is a measure o
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by extradego 8y ago
I wonder at what point will we stop thinking of Bill Gates as Robin Hood in the flesh. What is the difference between Bill Gates “philanthropy” and a corporate PR campaign? For example, why is “philanthropy” promoting MasterCard across Afri
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by extradego 8y ago
All for labor standards here, but I think you doing a disservice to dirt, something many Native Americans understand as one of the only things they have left.
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by extradego 8y ago
Good one. In case nobody gets the joke: the economic system was the plague.
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by extradego 8y ago
> How do you think the West got rich in the first place? 30 hour work weeks? By profiting on other people’s labor time; not their own. But it also just happens that, in the US, 30 hours is just the right amount to forgo providing benefi
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by extradego 8y ago
Scale. They do it at a larger scale.
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by extradego 9y ago
You're aware of Occupy Wall Street, right? Corporate corruption is the issue at the root of all of the above, very much including this Facebook mess.
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by extradego 9y ago
And at the end of the day, all that matters is avoiding an adult conversation over our absurd campaign finance policies.