Ildsaye

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

squidward-nochill 28% of an oligarch's flesh can be lethal if it's the right cut.

squidward-chill Oh, it's not a tax in kind? Never mind then.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I took the RISK of investing in making workers build the unicycle profit scooper porky-point

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It takes a capitalist bank to do something as stupid as loaning billions of dollars to some guy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Firefox disabled it at one point, guess it came back into their good graces when my eye wasn't on the matter. But firefox is selling out it's users in other ways now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Librewolf not only allows uBlock Origin, but AdNauseam (which Firefox blocked). And AdNauseam has Ublock Origin built into it nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they're even testing, much less made people mask after a positive. On brand for neoliberals to take half-measures too late but only because it's an investment on the line

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hitler Reacts to Biden Dropping Out

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

good-lord Yes, and you say the Democratic Party considers this election the most important of our lifetimes despite the fact that the wavering in the party is obviously top-down

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Cult of Mammon going strong

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Plastics are a byproduct of fossil fuel production, and it was and is inevitable (under capitalism) that the overproduction of plastic would lead to the manufactured demand for massive amounts of plastic goods. There was a major marketing push in the 1950s to sell consumers on the disposability of plastic, to create further demand by erasing their Great Depression/wartime-era habits of saving and reusing. There are many examples of successful campaigns to put the masses on cheap garbage, like corn syrup, that people would not have been drawn to spontaneously. These things work.

Fossil fuel companies are major centers of political power, with deep military-industrial ties, easily acquiring politicians and regulators, and encircling any stubborn holdouts. Something major would have to displace them to free up the kind of political oxygen needed for any serious effort to end plastic's invasive presence in our lives.

A decolonial not-for-profit military answerable to a socialist state could dislodge them, and I don't think anything less could.

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