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2023-09-30 03:44:48

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@npub17ha…t8va Personally, I think they should shoot would-be autocrats who try to overthrow the Constitution and destroy democracy.
But I guess that's just me.

2023-09-23 03:11:09

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@npub19kr…8m4r An exaggerated, but still telling, example of the role of monopolistic markets in generating inflation.

2023-09-03 19:10:10

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@npub1grx…uxfe The blogs of the early oughts demonstrated the power and profit potential of digital publishing.
But it didn't take long for wannabe monopoly capitalists to swoop in and co-opt that potential -- basically by recreating the old AOL "walled garden" approach, but on the web.
So all those folks trying to leverage the "network" to promote their content just ended up promoting their own irrelevance.

2023-08-31 20:48:03

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"We are up against a bunch of rich people who don’t want to see #homeless people anywhere near their stuff.”
Which is a real problem, because they define "their stuff" as planet Earth and everything on it.

2023-08-31 04:40:10

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"In the dock [at Nuremberg] there had been quite a metamorphosis. Attired in rather shabby clothes, slumped in their seats fidgeting nervously, they no longer resembled the arrogant leaders of old. They seemed to be a drab assortment of mediocrities."
William Shirer
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

2023-08-25 23:11:04

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@npub1qgg…pvfw A Marxist might call it a classic example of how the economic base determines the ideological superstructure.

2023-08-08 02:33:39

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@npub1l0s…pgrv You would have preferred, perhaps, his fascist opponent, who almost won the last NJ gubernatorial election?
Thoss "square foot maximizing 'burbanites" you're insulting could make it happen, next time around.

2023-08-02 19:34:09

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@npub1hgr…2e7r @npub16sl…e3s3
Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.