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2024-09-18 10:47:49

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Jesus fucking Christ, that article is such fucking TRASH. Unpacking this much horse shit is gonna take some work.
First off, most of it isn't even ABOUT the pets, it's just trying to rile you up about immigrants in other ways. A few anecdotal stories that may very well be true but are totally unrelated, e.g. crashes. It contributes NOTHING to the topic at hand.
Second, the Haitians are there LEGALLY, but that doesn't stop him from incessantly calling them illegals. That simple fact shows they have absolutely no journalistic integrity because it's fucking TRIVIAL to fact check it. Here's one of the half dozen articles I VERY easily found stating that the vast majority of Haitians are here quite legally: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/
Finally and most damning, HE HAS NO FUCKING PROOF. The best he can say is that people have heard stories from other people, but NO FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS. Meanwhile, they actually FOUND the lady who made some of the first posts starting the rumor. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099
So no, it really doesn't look like I'm wrong. But it does look like you should be embarrassed for trying to pass that off as journalism.

2024-09-02 10:07:31

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You didn't even try. You made it clear what you think the distinction is between capitalism and the current system. You made it clear that this allowed and even encouraged certain behavior. You didn't even attempt to explain why this deserves to be considered a separate system from capitalism. Maybe you have a decent reason, maybe not, I dunno since you never actually mentioned it.
I think you should read what I'm saying more closely and spend less time trying to fill in the perceived gaps. You're repeatedly putting words in my mouth that I don't agree with. You assume that just because I had the gall to question your definition of capitalism, I must also hate capitalism want communism. If you'd been paying attention, I never suggested ditching capitalism *or* adopting communism. You treat capitalism like a religion, where even basic questions are branded as heresy, and it prevents you from properly discussing the subject.

2024-08-31 10:08:53

https://image.nostr.build/e6b0cd4d0310a1c9200cae49f24dc97b2bdc4c0083842aed611d64faa8157c29.jpg
They love to do that shit. "Here's a picture of what's happening right now under #capitalism, probably in your nearest city, but it's totally what #communism will do"
#memes #meme #rightwing #conservative #conservatives

2024-08-29 14:40:57

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I included an article. If it's insufficient, feel free to look for one to your tastes.
Not fucking Trump, that's for damn sure.
Let's be real, this is the sort of question you ask to see how hard you should lecture me, so why don't you go ahead and tell me what you think the right answer is?

2024-08-29 13:01:34

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You'd have to be pretty #weird yourself to not see it.

2024-08-29 13:00:37

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Pretty fucking #weird how they rail against pedophilia... Until it's one of them, and then they get dead silent about it. Sure seems like they don't give a fuck about the children. Or are giving the wrong sort of fuck.
#meme #memes #maga #Trump #Epstein

2024-08-28 18:16:24

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I don't know, but it sure seems like the sort of thing they'd support. If they don't, I'd expect it to be planned.

2024-08-28 17:38:18

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https://image.nostr.build/7b0eefe9930bc79173625d43e188a4ecf4898c98772479a3033d8a0dbd26cb76.jpg
He says the flights were before anyone knew about Epstein, but we knew about Maxwell when he went to her party in 2014 https://www.insideedition.com/robert-kennedy-jr-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell

2024-08-28 15:39:14

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The main difference I'm aware of is markdown support. Long form notes are specifically *expected* to be markdown, so any client claiming to support them must have support for markdown.

2024-08-28 09:03:02

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I wonder what the success rate on this scam is. It's about 8 suckers to the dollar at current exchange rates.

2024-08-26 17:47:43

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Well you're half right. It's not even close to being close. His policies sure as shit weren't good for the poor when he lowered taxes but set them to go back up after he left office just for the lower brackets and not the rich. Gave himself and his rich buddies a tax break, and got you suckers to cheer him on for it.

2024-08-26 15:58:50

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No such evidence exists... Because anyone who understands economies and doesn't want to screw the poor even harder would hate Trump would vote for Harris. If they understand economies and don't give a shit about screwing the poor, they vote for Trump.
So fucking #weird to me that #Republicans spent years bitching about fat cat coastal elites... And then they had to shut the fuck up about it in 2016 when they nominated one. He's a two bit conman with no family values and a feeble, overly aged mind. I'd feel bad for them for getting played so hard (but fucking HOW?!) if they weren't excited to watch him ruin the lives of people I care about.

2024-08-26 12:33:31

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It's fucking #weird how Evangelical #Christians fawned over #Trump. He's a walking representation of everything Christians are supposed to NOT be. He's a lying thief of a shitty conman who lost his charity for misuse of it, he cheated on his wife with a porn star, he doesn't care about the poor at all, he burst in on changing teen beauty pageant contestants, he violently cleared protestors off a church's grounds without permission so he could awkwardly hold a Bible that he basically admitted wasn't even his... He's a lying thief with NO family values who made a mockery of Christian faith for a photo. Jesus would have used him as an example of what not to be, but they love him.
#Christianity #Christian #conservatives #meme #memes

2024-08-26 00:24:09

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I think you don't "follow" yourself in some app feeds, I think including #amethyst. Your notes will still show up if you include a #tag that you're following or if you're on the global feed, but the global feed is a cesspool, I don't recommend it often.

2024-08-25 20:27:10

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I didn't ask how big the room is. I said "I cast fireball".
#meme #memes #ttrpg #dnd

2024-08-25 10:55:21

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Pretty much any exchange that handles fiat currency of any type. Access to modern banking, which will be necessary for users to deposit and withdraw non-crypto, will require KYC on all customers. Or at least all who use fiat, might be able to get around it if you strictly trade crypto since you can ignore banks, but I'm not sure.

2024-08-22 22:56:33

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Kind of, yeah, but I think that'd only be done when they just need a little more, not a huge boost in production. What if they need every machine they can get running 24/7 because it's critical for farming in a drought that could cause a famine, or because it's part of a weapon needed in a defensive war? Modern printers are slow and can take hours to print large objects, so maybe you're willing to wake up every couple hours overnight to start a new piece for a good cause, but what if the printers they need finish a part in only 30 minutes? Are they willing to trust such critical production to run without direct oversight when people might slack off? What if hobbyists can produce enough, but the logistics of shipping them from all over the US (just as a hypothetical, it's big and poses logistical problems) would put excessive strain on postal services or take way more work to properly coordinate? In low stakes scenarios, enticing people to contribute with pay may be sufficient, but when the tool and what it makes is critical, bigger steps may be viewed as necessary and within the authority of the state to take, and they might include confiscating the tools and redistributing them to directly increase production.

2024-08-22 21:27:59

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What Marxist tendencies have I exhibited? I still don't understand what you mean by those words since you don't use their actual meanings.

2024-08-22 21:00:45

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I think you'd be able to own what's needed for you to do your own work. I don't think you'd be able to own what's needed for many to work. So you could own a craftsman's tools, but you couldn't own a factory or a business in which many craftsmen work and you solely own the goods and labor they produce. You might be able to band together and form something akin to a modern day co-op where everyone owns a share of the business, though. I guess it'd depend on how the core ideas are implemented.

2024-08-22 20:58:00

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I can only speculate, and I'm not an expert, just someone who understands the basic concepts, but I'll try as best I can. I'd imagine you could still own a hobbyist 3D printer at a minimum. Industrial ones might be difficult to get, but you could probably get print time on an industrial one as needed. It'd probably depend on how common they were and how important they were. If they were being used to produce important goods and we didn't have as many as we wanted for those goods, it'd get hard to get one. If there's enough that distributing some of the professional printers wouldn't disrupt infrastructure, I'd guess you could get your hands on one.

2024-08-22 20:25:48

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If the right is so much more productive than the left, why are right leaning states in the US more likely to be a net recipient of federal tax dollars than left leaning states?

2024-08-22 16:02:49

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Lmao a failing Kyiv? This was supposed to be a three day "special military operation", but here we are two and a half years later, and Putin's incompetence is plain as day in the simple fact that Ukraine is even able to resist still. Not only that, the stupid fuck allowed the first invasion of Russian soil since WW2 because he left his borders too sparsely defended. Because he needed those troops inside Ukraine. Where he was still failing to conquer it.

2024-08-22 14:06:05

#asknostr is there a good way to filter posts by language? I'm on #amethyst if it matters. I've started just blocking everyone I can't understand, but it feels like a crude solution. I don't really want to block them, but there's so much Chinese and Japanese in my global feed that I just can't understand or interact with.

2024-08-22 09:52:44

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Cool straw man you got there

2024-08-22 09:29:28

I've only been here like 2-3 days, and I've already come across several open #Nazis, and I'm sure there are more who just aren't so brazen. First, to be clear #FuckNazis, preferably with something sharp or explosive. They're a bunch of loser fucks. We proved it in the 40s, and we can prove it again if they start feeling froggy.
Second, I know censorship resistance is a key feature of #nostr, so this probably isn't going to be popular with the people who are already here, but if we want widespread adoption, this place needs some form of moderation. People don't want to ignore Nazi scum around them. They want to not be around it at all. That means some form of moderation. Maybe that comes in the form of a moderated relay, but that starts to fracture the community. It's tricky, and I don't have a solution, but if we expect the average person to want to be here, it needs to be easier to make a community they want to be part of.

2024-08-21 22:35:22

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Nah, I've seen some dumb motherfuckers in crypto, so let's not pat ourselves on the back *too* hard.

2024-08-21 20:00:53

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You act real smug for someone who has refused half a dozen invitations to prove you know what you're talking about. You'd rather try to mock me because it's all you have.

2024-08-21 19:58:59

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Yeah, no problem. If you ever want to try it, climbing gyms have become a lot more common, and this would be considered a VERY advanced route if it was in a gym, so you'd have beginner appropriate stuff to learn on.

2024-08-21 19:43:59

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There might be a more specific term that I don't know, but yeah, we would have still called it a dyno any time you were let go of the wall and depended on momentum to carry you to the goal. Typically feet off, too, so all launches would be dynos.

2024-08-21 19:39:13

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Fuck, that opening is brutal. He's fractions if an inch for meat crayoning a nipple away, and you gotta be ready to whip when you grip. Looks half decent if you make it past the start, though

2024-08-21 19:38:12

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When I climbed in gyms, we called them dynos for dynamic moves, basically any time you have to launch and let go to get to the next hold

2024-08-21 19:36:06

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Maybe, but if we'd gotten Trump, the kid would have popped off a live round.

2024-08-21 19:09:53

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One side wants #Project2025 enacted and one doesn't, I'd say that's a big enough difference to make a choice

2024-08-21 19:07:18

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The mines call

2024-08-21 19:05:14

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Realistically, the US won't accept bitcoin until they're forced to, until it's painfully obviously inevitable to everyone, not just us. Can't give up the power of being the international reserve currency and primary currency for oil sales. We might be tolerated, but we'll never be welcomed by the US.

2024-08-21 18:58:37

I'm on #android using #amber to manage my keys and #amethyst to actually view and post. Is there a way I can use Amber with my PC so I can carry my ID between devices?

2024-08-21 18:56:01

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I wouldn't say I was wrong. I'd say that's not child sacrifice, but I opted to disengage because the type to see that as child sacrifice is the type to "see" Satan's hand in anything that argues against their chosen path. It's delusion, and your religion has no place in American politics, but again, not the type to agree with either point.

2024-08-21 18:48:29

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Ah, so it's an "abortions are satanism" thing. Popular with the "the only moral abortion is my abortion" crowd. If I try to argue against that idea, I'll be doing Satan's bidding, willingly or not depending on how much Christ is still in your Christianity (not enough either way), so I'm just gonna say this one's totaled, write it off.

2024-08-21 18:40:05

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So you have no proof? He did an awful lot on live TV that he got away with. Probably because the American justice system doesn't punish the ultrawealthy owner class unless they fuck with other ultrawealthy people.

2024-08-21 18:32:02

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I think those are all great steps to take. I just don't think it's a binary choice between systems to influence. The changes bitcoin will bring are going to take time to arrive. Years. Maybe decades still to fully realize the potential. Until then, the system we have now is going to seriously impact people's lives, and we're given the occasional chance to nudge it for better or worse. Just because we have hope on the horizon doesn't mean we should stop maintaining what we already have, even if it isn't all that we want or deserve.

2024-08-21 18:25:13

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I wouldn't say her PhD is in the field she sucks at. It's in a very close adjacent field. That's often when PhDs make these huge public mistakes because it's not their expertise, but the feel like they've learned a lot just from how often it's come up, and then they publicly display that they way overestimated themselves.
I agree she sucked and that it's time for her moment to pass. I just don't like this being used as an example of why you shouldn't listen to experts. You generally should listen to them, but only about their area of expertise. They'll like to get real confident about other stuff sometimes, but this is when you ignore them.

2024-08-21 18:16:53

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And how do you propose to answer that question? By what definition and where did it come from?

2024-08-21 18:04:40

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I can agree on the sucking and the nepotism. Can you explain how that'd invalidate her opinion in her actual field of expertise, cultural studies, not breakdancing?

2024-08-21 18:02:52

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You got any proof that any of that is a lie? I bet you don't.

2024-08-21 17:54:16

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"Everyone who disagrees with me is a communist" and other conservative hits

2024-08-21 17:53:15

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I'd actually recommend Marx if you want to genuinely understand the ideology and why it appeals to people. I'm not saying I agree with him. I'm just saying a lot of what people label as communist is just some authoritarian assholery. If communism is really so terrible, we should be able to read what Marx said and clearly see the flaws in it, right?

2024-08-21 17:49:10

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Partially correct, until you get to the individual. Note that this isn't an endorsement of communism, just clarification because a lot of people use the word without understanding it properly. Communism is largely about the means of production, the spaces, tools, and materials requires to produce the things society needs. Personal possessions aren't strictly banned under the ideology. Owning your own home, for example, isn't forbidden under communism, but there may be examples of attempted communist states that made laws to the contrary.

2024-08-21 17:42:51

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Letting covid rage initially because it was killing his political opponents more than his supporters at first. Somehow forcing republicans to abandon the border deal just to avoid giving Biden a win, even though Republicans keep bitching about the border. Just recently trying to talk a foreign leader into prolonging a war to help his election chances, despite not holding any office, so that's super illegal, but like his other mountain of crimes, it'll somehow go unpunished. He mocked a disabled reporter in front if a huge rally crowd on national TV. He tried a fucking COUP to hold onto power but was too god damn incompetent to pull it off. I could go on for hours. And these so far are just the easily verifiable examples. Practically everyone he hand picked to work for him in office agrees he's a sack of shit and has a story about it, but some will argue the stories can't be substantiated, so I won't give examples, just point out how fucking common they are among the people HE PICKED to work for him.

2024-08-21 17:30:47

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Her PhD was in cultural studies, not breakdancing, even if her thesis did talk about breakdancing. She sucked at breakdancing, but that notably isn't her area of expertise. The lesson is only listen to experts about their field of expertise, and accept that even they can make mistakes, but they're still probably a lot more likely to be right than a layman specifically in their field. In everything else, they're just a random schmuck.

2024-08-21 17:22:18

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Oh the irony of you telling me to cope. You gonna try to tell me Trump doesn't wanna fuck his own daughter, too? I've heard the way he talks about her, straight from his own mouth.

2024-08-21 17:21:04

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You're really working hard to spread disinformation, aren't you? This ones kinda clever, it actually has some incorrect stuff mixed in to make you more likely to write off the shit that actually happened.
You go to bat from Trump, but he would NEVER go to bat for you if it cost him literally anything.

2024-08-21 17:19:03

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Did someone get their feelings hurt by someone who actually knew what the fuck they were talking about?

2024-08-21 17:16:19

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Lmao you don't even know what communism is, how can you possibly know I'm a commie?

2024-08-21 17:14:31

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That whiny, draft dodging bitch didn't even get shot. He caught some glass shrapnel and made damn sure to make a spectacle of it.

2024-08-21 17:11:16

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Bye, Felicia

2024-08-21 17:10:50

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Voters want change, sure, but the fact that so many were prepared to vote Biden no matter what proves that they hate that sack of shit Trump even more.

2024-08-21 17:07:23

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Lmao conservatives are fucking DESPERATE to not be the ones branded as weird. If they'd stop doing weird ass shit like preaching family values while voting for the man who raw dogged a porn star while his wife was pregnant, or calling democrats pedophiles and then turning around and voting for the guy who wants to fuck his daughter and barged in on changing teen beauty pageant participants, or railing against gay people and then getting caught getting railed. Sad sacks can't even see how fucking weird that shit is.

2024-08-21 16:59:51

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By what metric am I a Marxist? All I did was point out you don't know what the word communism means. Is having a functioning vocabulary communist now?

2024-08-21 16:58:54

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Can you actually define communism?

2024-08-21 16:56:17

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Fucking lmao people actually believe this shit with ZERO proof

2024-08-21 16:54:09

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Step the fuck up and prove it, then. Prove you actually know what the words you use mean. Is that really so hard? Why have I had to ask you to so many times?

2024-08-21 16:37:02

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And I'm asking you to prove it, publicly, right here for everyone to see. Because you can't. One of us is lying for sure, but it's your dishonest ass.
Who pays you? An honest idiot would at least try if they were going to continue engage, but a shill's job is to maintain an image in public. A shill would need to publicly discredit me but would know they're unable to do so, so they'd only be able to call me names like liar or Marxist. Guess which one you sound more like.

2024-08-21 16:32:42

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It's true that no candidate advocating for sweeping change is going to get the financial backing. But incremental change is better than nothing at all, and every single election, we get the chance to decide if we slide backwards a bit. Sometimes, the alternative is to hold steady, sometimes we get lucky and get a small bump in the right direction, sometimes we get real unlucky and we only get to decide how far back we slide. But every single time, the consequences matter, and over a lifetime, those small gains can add up to meaningful change.
Or you can give up, opt out, and let the rich have their way, which is to fuck you even harder. Your call, I guess.

2024-08-21 16:27:56

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Prove I'm lying, then. I asked you to find a definition of communism that would label Harris a communist. You can't fucking do it. Prove I'm a liar. Please, publicly embarrass me by doing exactly what I'm asking you to do and prove me wrong. It should be easy since you're such a smug shit about it.

2024-08-21 16:25:46

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Damn, Trump was really too fucking stupid to profit off the presidency? You can't tell me with a straight face you think he didn't try. He was charging the Secret Service to stay at his own hotel to protect him, and he stayed there a lot. His son(-in-law? I forget) just so happened to get to manage $2 billion in Saudi investments. He took classified documents and refused to return them when asked, and we can be pretty sure we didn't even get them all back. He fucking promoted products from Goya brand from the Oval Office. He 100% TRIED to profit off the presidency, and you're telling me he was too fucking stupid and/or lazy to pull it off?

2024-08-21 16:17:18

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Dumbass, calling you out for not knowing what the fuck you're talking about when you throw words like communism around doesn't mean I'm actually advocating for communism. If I was a tenth as stupid as you tried to pretend I was, it would be trivial for you to prove me wrong. Your insistence on discrediting me for questioning you without actually being able to defend your ideas is what I'd expect from a shill.

2024-08-21 16:14:56

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Dumbass, I'm not even advocating for communism. I'm just tired of not being able to have nice things like healthcare because if some rich soulless cunt tells you that'd be communism, you believe them unquestioningly even when the most basic fucking research would almost instantly show you the lying cunt is nothing but a lying cunt. Words actually have meaning, and I'm tired of conservative politicians shitting on that so they can scare some ignorant sucker into voting against his best interests.
Notably, even if I gave a shit what some random Bitcoin writer and/or company CEO said about topics of political philosophy, your article doesn't even address the challenge issued. Find a single definition from an even semi-reputable source for communism that would agree with calling Harris a communist. Just fucking one. If words have any consistent meaning at all, this should be a trivial challenge.
The fact that you're ignoring such a simple challenge suggests you know damn well I'm right. That's why you won't directly engage with the challenge and instead desperately try to paint me as a fool.

2024-08-21 15:59:58

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Lol. Lmao, even. Russian soldiers in Ukraine were looting *toilets* at the start of their invasion. Can you honestly imagine taking your chance to loot in war and deciding your best haul, heavy and nasty as it may be, is a fucking toilet? What do you think life at home has to be like for you to decide to voluntarily haul 50+ lbs of porcelain shitter out of a war zone? Let's not forget the reports of soldiers with some rank raping their subordinates, their own fellow soldiers, in an army you could get involuntarily conscripted into. Are you ready to get docked down for Putin before he throws your life away because he's too proud and vain to admit he royally fucked up by invading?

2024-08-21 15:44:31

I can't help but think that if not for zaps, a huge portion of people here now wouldn't have ever bothered to come. It's cool, but fundamentally, it doesn't do anything that hasn't already been done in p2p space, but I do think it may be a unique combo. It's basically a variant of the feed structure of #SSB or #SecureScuttleButt on an independent relay network similar to that of #SimpleX. I'll definitely admit the #relay network structure is better for a public social network like Reddit or Twitter, but I'm not sure it's the best option for more personal social networks like Facebook more for friends and other private content.

2024-08-21 15:13:58

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People who don't understand communism hate experts because they actually check them when they run their mouth utterly unfounded

2024-08-21 15:12:10

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I asked for a reputable source. You gave me another idiot who doesn't understand communism. Does that mean you're admitting you can't find one that agrees with you?

2024-08-21 15:09:36

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Get smug AFTER you learn what the words you use mean. I'm not that sharp, the idiots are just that fucking stupid.

2024-08-21 14:56:48

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I'd already done my own research, which is why I knew there was a 0% chance you'd cite a genuinely communist policy. To drive that point home, I challenge you to do YOUR own research and find just one definition of communism from a legitimate expert source that would coslnsider that policy genuinely communist. I absolutely guarantee you won't be able to do it without falling back on some bullshit source like Fox News or some random ass blogger who talks about this as a light hobby. If that's genuinely communist, you should be able to find an academic source that agrees with you, but no academic that is simultaneously relevant and respectable will agree with that.

2024-08-21 14:32:01

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Since nobody on nostr seems to understand it, could you define communism? I literally haven't seen a single person who actually understands what communism is. Pretty sure the nostr definition is either "whatever I don't like" or "refusing to fellate the super wealthy".

2024-08-21 14:28:59

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How do I find them so I can then my feed off of global? Global feed is 99% trash.

2024-08-21 14:23:40

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I guess it depends on how you want to define toxic. I've only been here a day or two, and I've already found like three Nazis, and I'd consider Nazism a pretty toxic ideology. But if they're being polite about their desire to kill and drive out the Others, can they be considered nontoxic?

2024-08-21 14:20:12

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If you think you can improve your life by moving to Russia, by all means, go. Putin's even inviting people to do it these days. Let the rest of us make coherent decisions uninterrupted.

2024-08-21 14:18:23

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So much fucking Nazi trash on this platform...

2024-08-21 14:16:32

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If you don't choose which you'd prefer, the rest of us will choose for you. It's Trump or Harris. It is inevitable. You can choose to stand on one side, or you can choose to let it happen.

2024-08-21 14:12:03

I really wanna like #nostr, but it really just seems to be a #conservative shithole plus #bitcoin. Bitcoin is cool, but I have other interests, too. I have seen SO FUCKING MANY complete failures to understand basic political concepts like #socialism and #communisms or basic ass #science, and every one of the idiots is fully convinced it's the *other* side that doesn't understand. This place feels like the Dunning Kruger effect personified. The concept of nostr is so cool, but it's so tiring to wade through all the chuds in hope of finding someone to positively interact with, let alone follow.

2024-08-21 13:59:53

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Name her most communist policy.

2024-08-21 13:05:58

What's the most seemingly authentic thing you know about #aliens, #ufos, and #consciousness? Stuff like the US government's Project Blue Book and their findings looking into #ufo phenomena, their Project Gateway researching #remoteviewing, sightings of a #uap or #uaps with lots of corroborating evidence, that sort of thing.
The totally unverifiable and uncorroborated stories are cool and all, but I'm interested in the things that actually have respectable sources.

2024-08-21 12:59:34

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Kamala fucking Harris is a communist? Tell me you don't understand communism without telling me you don't understand communism

2024-08-21 12:32:24

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First off, your own source barely expands the definitions I provided, mainly adding consciousness and redistribution of wealth, which still looks nothing like your definition, so your own source still agrees that you don't understand socialism.
Second off, why should we trust the definition of some random guy who professes in his own bio that political philosophy is just a hobby over the definitions supplied by a dictionary, an encyclopedia, and a Wikipedia quote with no less than *eleven* relevant citations? We can also note that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy *also* agrees with me and not him of you. Everyone who's an actual expert disagrees with you, it seems. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socialism/
Third, any definition of socialism that attempts to include fascism and the god damn Nazis is just wrong. There's no informed approach that leads to the conclusion that those are socialist.
This is a classic case of conservatives bastardizing language and twisting it to mislead people for political gains. Socialism is tangential to communism, and they already made you terrified of communism, so if they can just twist the definition of socialism so that it applies to something they don't like if you squint real hard at it, they can convince you to vote against your interests and in the interests of the owner class, a class that 99% of us will never belong to.

2024-08-21 09:01:56

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Wow, not a single word of that was accurate. As always, the guy bitching about socialism ruining stuff has absolutely no fucking clue what socialism actually is. Let's look at actual definitions. I'm gonna list several so you can't accuse me of cherry picking.
"socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members." https://www.britannica.com/money/socialism
"Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems[1] characterised by social ownership of the means of production,[2] as opposed to private ownership.[3][4][5] It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems.[6] Social ownership can take various forms, including public, community, collective, cooperative,[7][8][9] or employee.[10][11]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
"Socialism describes any political or economic theory that says the community, rather than individuals, should own and manage property and natural resources. The term “socialism” has been applied to very different economic and political systems throughout history, including utopianism, anarchism, Soviet communism and social democracy. These systems vary widely in structure, but they share an opposition to an unrestricted market economy, and the belief that public ownership of the means of production (and making money) will lead to better distribution of wealth and a more egalitarian society." https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/socialism
And because it's long and has multiple definitions, I'll just link a dictionary entry here without copying, noting that none of them resemble what you said at all: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
Socialism is about one thing and one thing only: who gets to own the means of production, the things society needs to produce the food and goods that allow society to function? Capitalism says the guy who has all the money to buy it should own it. Communism says society should collectively own it. Socialism says something in the middle, often that the workers who actually use the means of production to, well, produce.

2024-08-20 22:45:53

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Late stage *socialism*? What exactly do you think socialism means?

2024-08-20 19:53:29

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I had one of the Ancient Mew cards. I think it was a movie promo item? I forget exactly. Unfortunately, all my Pokemon cards got destroyed in a fire, so it's long gone...

2024-08-20 14:55:12

Hey all, #newhere on #nostr and trying to figure out how this all works. I get the gist with relays and whatnot, just trying to turn it into a practical, enjoyable experience. Any recommendations for finding content and users I'm interested in? I'm guessing a lot of it will boil down to refining my relay list. Thanks to those with advice!

2024-08-20 11:10:31

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2024-08-20 09:46:45

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Trump's rule is good from Trump and the rich who help put him there. Trump does not give a SHIT about you. At all. If he could fuck your whole life up for $20, your life would be ruined in minutes. His weird pedophilic, incestuous ass is unfit to handle the authority of being assistant manager at an Arby's.
If you support Trump still, you're either a raging cunt who loves that he emboldens your most cuntish behavior, a complete idiot, or a Russian/Chinese shill. There's no longer a fourth option that I can see.

2024-08-20 09:26:45

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Crony capitalism is just capitalism plus time. Those able to gain excessive wealth will inevitably use it to gain power and even more wealth. That's just basic game theory, the same thing Bitcoin used to lay out its incentive structure to keep miners, nodes, and users honest. Capitalism has no such incentive structure, so it will always inevitably yield economic juggernauts who will throw their weight around and crush honest competition with dishonest tactics. Under capitalism, you disavow kings but merely replace them with CEOs ruling over highly splintered and sometimes overlapping fiefdoms.

2024-08-20 09:19:23

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Sure wish something meaningful had come directly from that. It might have gotten the ball rolling, so it may yield results later, but I'm impatient, tell me about the god damn aliens, Congress!

2024-08-20 08:49:07

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Fair, but also fuck Musk and his Nazi den. EU doesn't have to do shit, Musk's obvious ineptitude is running Twitter into the ground. Decent odds the doors close for goodibefore too long. Dumbass is already suing the advertisers he very publicly told to fuck off.

2024-08-19 23:15:59

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The owner class, as it has been for millenia. The vast majority of our problems can trace their roots back to the insatiable greed of the filthy rich and their subjugation of society.

2024-08-19 23:08:40

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I think the egalitarian nature trends among just about any group that deals with oppression. Those not afforded rights typically find that unjust, and rightly so. In denying women the right to vote, you seek to rule them without allowing them any say in how they are ruled. You set yourself above them by virtue of something other than actual merit because you fear you have no other way to do so.

2024-08-19 21:21:21

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I guess it's easier to ignore a woman's opinion than it is to mold yourself into someone they'd have a positive opinion of. Misogyny is a skill issue. Those who are actually competent don't feel threatened by women with opinions or skills.