samdamsamm

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by samdamsamm 6y ago
In that case, they must have no clue what ‘proles’ is short for.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
You’re correct. Contrary to characteristically similar protest efforts in the US during the past decade, the protesters on the ground this time care very little about race. That is only the media narrative. Class consciousness is increasing
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
As usual, the most reliable correlate is completely ignored: poverty . That is not a mistake. The ruling class wants race war to distract from their class war. https://nonsite.org/editorial/how-racial-disparity-does-
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Tonight I witnessed a young girl get knocked out cold by a tear gas canister shot into her face from about a 40 ft. range. She was holding her hands up. There was nothing but peaceful protesters standing around, not blocking traffic. No van
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
No, I mean the American psychological industry.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Thank you. This is what I meant.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Stakeholder capitalism is an oxymoron. You either hold capital or you bear the stakes. That’s the point.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
America has a profound ability to diagnose individual problems, and an active inability to diagnose social problems. The American psychological industry cannot be let off the hook. DSM-5 is a handbook for how to blame society’s failures on
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Completely agree. Sacrificing engagement with the social structures and historical progression that we as a species depend on is not an option that can deliver a healthy society. No, “the news”, as in the propaganda emanating from the corpo
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
So the problem is the catastrophic dismantling of the welfare state over the past several decades. Ironically, most Americans complaining about getting the economy up and running again also vote against having a basic safety net. I’d say yo
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
You’re saying: we’re already exploiting foreign labor to some extent, so why not do it more? What kind of logic is that? The global labor trade has proven a disaster for decades on end. It has destroyed the American middle class. There is n
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
I am simply saying there is no moral justification for any of it. It’s important to take seriously because the logical outcome of this turn to remote work will otherwise be greater class divisions than the world has ever known, within the s
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
I have had 4 phone calls so far and I was approved on the first one but haven’t received any benefits. It takes between 1-2 weeks between each call for them to call me back. The last person I spoke with said my case is completely normal (?)
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Congrats on this bold justification you’ve created to justify your role in the exploitation process, but you’re not fooling anyone. There is no moral or material logic for this nonsense.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
In the United States a lot of people I know are eager to get back to work because they don’t want to get evicted or fall behind on car payments and fall into the Spiraling USA Debt Trap that ruins so many lives. I don’t blame them in the le
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Are you paying the same as US teams?
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
This is all exactly right. Taking issue with global trade has been called “nationalist” and taking issue with global labor is called “racist”. It’s the dirtiest political trick in my lifetime.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
We should also acknowledge the desperate lengths to which the US government has gone to soil any honor accrued in any previous wars. On the recent anniversary of the fall of Auschwitz, The White House twitter account claimed it as a victory
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Second to the slaves who produced this country, John Brown is probably the greatest American hero.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
We need more POC CEOs.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
The rich people create the value so they deserve whatever they want.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
UBI doesn’t do that. Unless tied to something like land-value tax, UBI just raises rent cost. Of course it doesn’t happen immediately, but within a year or so UBI will be consumed by rent cost.
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
The media industry makes it extremely difficult to reach useful information and verify it’s integrity. Sure, you can find a bunch of journalist blogs online through Reddit and Twitter, but which do you trust? That takes a lot of work, so mo
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by samdamsamm 6y ago
Right. It’s pretty unbelievable and very sad that the media has been able to somehow convince so many Americans that Joe Biden is some kind of New Deal Democrat. He was a pioneer of the policies we now know as actually existing neoliberalis
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by samdamsamm 7y ago
I moved to Joplin from Evernote a little over a year ago. It has had ongoing development and new features being added the entire time. The development is very iterative, and functionality comes before fashion, but the UI has been getting im