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by tonguez 4y ago
“…it is unacceptable to have eighth grade Algebra I classes and gifted education programs that disproportionately exclude Black and brown children.” a definition of exclude is “deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group,
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by tonguez 4y ago
“1-5 tabs gets me a warm fuzzy body high” no one cares
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by tonguez 4y ago
“ It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works.” What makes you say that? I mostly play single-player games” it doesn’t work for the developers. obviously you can play a single player video game.
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by tonguez 4y ago
basically what it means is that when you have all the power, no one is capable of punishing you
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by tonguez 4y ago
“I don't think I follow your point about income level” it makes sense when you consider that TLAs basic function is to preserve the status quo for wall street. we subvert democracy overseas to preserve corporate profits and have been d
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by tonguez 4y ago
“Personally, I don't enjoy the emotion of being angry.” no one cares
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by tonguez 4y ago
belligerence is a bourgeois and pearl-clutchy way to dismiss desperate people writing text on the internet as a part of their struggle to improve the horrible material conditions of their lives and the lives of the people they love. it’s ea
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by tonguez 4y ago
“most people are not cynical/annoyed or any other negative quality” thanks for sharing that valuable information with us
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by tonguez 4y ago
its probably part of a pipeline to make a reliably isolated and scared voting base that will always vote to give big brother more power because they don’t know how to socialize so they are more susceptible to propaganda
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by tonguez 4y ago
“I wouldn't extrapolate on what she has or hasn't read haha, that's just silly” i cringed reading that
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by tonguez 4y ago
the fundamental disconnect is you aren’t actually more important than other people just because you were given more money
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by tonguez 4y ago
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by tonguez 4y ago
“I am not alone, and part of an ever increasing amount of people, that seriously question the anti-consumerism (hence, anti-capitalist, if you're very patriotic) practices employed by the status quo.” this is one of the most bizarre se
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by tonguez 4y ago
“The New York Times Is Right About X” would be a news headline.
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by tonguez 4y ago
“can't figure out how to end a call.” “None of those are exclusive, or even more common in elderly people than the general population.” you’re right, old people are generally just as good with technology as young people. there are no g
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by tonguez 4y ago
“The right side of the bell curve can now program an application worth many dollars per month and zero marginal reproduction costs.” “The inventions of the last 50 years were of smart people for smart people.” building the surveillance stat
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by tonguez 4y ago
because there is no “us”; the people who run the world don’t want to lose their grip on power, so they use tech to make people stupider and thus less capable of challenging authority
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by tonguez 4y ago
would it even be possible for netflix to not block russian accounts? aren’t companies that big always significantly enmeshed with the state?
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by tonguez 4y ago
the alternative is humans decide to invest their energy in improving the quality of life of other humans instead of pure (financial) domination
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by tonguez 4y ago
“Thank goodness Bitcoin wealth isn't distributed evenly among everyone who holds it. Show me a system where that's true (or even close to true), and I'll show you a system controlled by tyrants.” yeah that makes a lot of sens
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by tonguez 4y ago
“People totally have the option of living under this type of government - it exists in top down centralized places like China.” you’re right, i much prefer to live under a decentralized government like the United States.
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by tonguez 4y ago
what’s rampant is billionaires ”amplifying” vapid narcissism because they want a disempowered population with no good role models or values other than the worship of money, and the path to money is being a cog in the western MCI/global
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by tonguez 4y ago
what a bizarre reaction to my comment
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by tonguez 4y ago
so life’s greatest winner is genghis khan
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by tonguez 4y ago
thank you
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by tonguez 4y ago
this advice from twitter users is always the same and its always so bizarre. just invest thousands of hours into cultivating your own feed through the following process: every time you get insulted by some child/idiot/bot, just se
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by tonguez 4y ago
“On top of something like charm” my autismometer just exploded
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by tonguez 4y ago
not sure why you’re being downvoted.
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by tonguez 4y ago
yea god forbid the poors are allowed to talk amongst themselves
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by tonguez 4y ago
“This is probably good for society, as it puts more capital in the hands of people who will invest in things that succeed rather than things that fail.” interesting how in your model wealth inequality doesn’t affect society at all. if one g

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