I’m not as concerned with this as I am with the fascism, because this will at least kill us indiscriminately

Both. Also the hate frenzy. Lots of people swept up in a hate frenzy

That’s horrifyingly low

Looking for an anticapitalist on lemmy is like looking for a lesbian at a Teagan and Sara concert. It’s not everybody, but it’s not a difficult search

Exactly. Money is a useful construct, but if you look at everything associated with it it’s insane. A tool for tracking the value of goods and services has resulted in wall street, crypto currency, and people burying gold in their yards. It’s become a status symbol to hold this placeholder for labor without doing labor.

I’m not necessarily on board with a moneyless society anytime soon, but I am definitely currency critical.

Yeah often “x is a social construct” as an argument means “you’re treating it as if its immutable and a given”

Ok but it would be kinda fitting. Each face represents a phase of America: birth, growth, preservation, and development. He’d just represent destruction.

He’s committed to the “big lie” strategy. And unfortunately it works well for what it does if you dgaf about consequences imposed by reality playing none of your games

Yeah back in the day we made sure no matter who you were and what was going on you had the opportunity to hear our take on it

Mind you I suppose that still happens thanks to us being a very loud and online people, but having an “America says x” channel in a time where people liked us sure was a good idea

Good on the Hungarians

Its kinda wild that we let retail establishments offer credit cards. Like maybe only dedicated and regulated financial establishments should be allowed to offer financial instruments

Bout two months ago at the latest

Or everyone can look at the variety of options and decide what’s best for them at any given time.

Condoms are a great option, and they have the added bonuses of also protecting against STIs and being able to work alongside pharmaceutical contraception. That last bit is big because if you’re absolutely unwilling to have kids and abortion is illegal or something you’re unwilling to do you probably want to be using two methods.

I’m the first to praise condoms especially with people choosing not to vaccinate their children against HPV and with the fact that they’re how one can be certain that they don’t impregnate anyone else. But they too have downsides including that most people aren’t very good at using them.

I’m pretty sure that one is just a socialist speaking to the common moron in their language

Prestige and the perception of impartiality, alongside the ability to serve as fall guys. And to a significantly lesser degree they can tell you things you actually don’t know or make recommendations when you’re stuck because they’re an outside set of eyes.

What this means is when you decide to make a controversial decision they can take the heat in place of experts, and unlike internal experts you don’t wind up in a particularly flimsy situation when you inform them of what they’ll be suggesting. And if it all goes as poorly as it might you can blame them. (And everyone knows this so the consultants are shielded)

And for the situation where you don’t actually know what to do, theoretically thet may or may not be bad at it. If you’re stuck you’re stuck and not only can they possibly help, they can definitely provide cover for a bad call or an unwinnable situation

To a certain degree they’re a result of people in a position to spend large amounts of money whose job is to make calls.

Fair, but like, nothing sells itself like opiates. [I’m actually aware they’re the ones who encouraged the massive ad campaign focused on claiming oxycontin isn’t addictive, though given Sackler previous behavior I believe in their ability to figure that strategy out on their own]

McKinsey likes to hire recent graduates who they suspect will wind up in high places. It builds them strong connections and lets them brag to potential customers as well as customers’ stakeholders that they have cutting edge talent and that they hire the best and to tell potential employees that a few years with them is part of how you move from an elite educational institution into high levels of business or politics.

The worst thing this says about Pichai is that he was the sort of person who seeks to be on the ladder to elite careers.

Yeah I remember when he was a big name doing that shit. Then he recently popped up talking linux. And in between it became a somewhat regular occurrence in my country for people to march with swastika flags. For all I knew it was edgy jokes from an era where fascism was still outside the Overton window, or he just became a low key supporter of modern fascism but without any stunts big enough to get noticed

Less than a month after the attack that began this whole thing new york jews weee marching against genocide with a fair bit of frequency. I only know this because I visited a Jewish friend there at the time and kept hearing complaints about how several of these protests were having the jewishness of them ignored.

New York jews are normal Americans. Unfortunately yes that includes the aspect where they’re likely to mythologize and idealise their ancestral homeland. But much like other Americans, many are incredibly critical of it or don’t care or any other opinion.

“My physical therapist had me walk across the room. He told me I did amazing. Perfect genes, I should be in the Olympics. I challenge Obama to try to walk across the room without even stopping a fourth time. He can’t. SAD”