jwiggler

Yup, it's "The Room" of music

my original comment was just meant to be a playful comment about your meme use rather than any analysis about the speech.

Like: "I agree with you, but can we talk about this thing or that?"

But honestly forget about it, next time I wont bother

Corey Feldman's Angelic 2 the Core is without a doubt the worst album I've ever listened to. It is not just mediocre or underwhelming, it is not just a "miss," it is actively and unforgettably horrible. Definitely worth checking out.

Not angry, just disturbed that there are even more lol

I'm literally agreeing with you. Not sure what you're fixing about my phrasing -- I didn't watch the speech, so yes, I am ignorant, but am willing to guess that your comment was totally correct.

I'm also saying your meme-game disturbs my meme-less brain.

But I guess according to you, I have no idea what I'm talking about so in that case...you're wrong? Idk what youre trying to say dude all I know is that just because O'Brien spoke at the RNC doesn't somehow automatically make him a Trump supporter

I'm against any authoritarian structure, China included. At the end of the day, the state is just the threat of legalized violence, an industry monopolized by the police. Communist, Capitalist, doesn't matter. It is unjust and stifles human freedom.

That has little to do with the ethics of profit, which are dubious at best.

Edit: actually it has everything to do with profit, as most profit seeking ventures are authoritarian and exploitative in nature

Hell yeah. Exo one was kinda what I had in mind, something with stupidly simple mechanics. But I am definitely intrigued by POOLS. Looks spooky. Thanks!

omg lmaoooo my bad disregard that last part then

But definitely still recommend The Dispossessed if you like sci-fi or anarchist thought experiments -- it's so good

You should check out Ursula K Leguin's sci-fi novel The Dispossessed. It explores a society that has no concept of ownership at all, and the good and bad that comes with that. It's really really good.

But the whole idea that profit/private property is inherently theft is a major tenant of Marxist theory as far as I understand it, so you saying

I wonder if anyone has ever thought of something like that before.

Is funny because people have been trying to think of solutions for the past ~150 years haha

Edit: behold my inability to sense irony lmaoo

I know you're distinguishing between wage theft vs robbery, but especially since we are in a solarpunk community, and that has some ties to anarchism, is there really much point in distinguishing? Profit is just an owner taking for themselves what is due to the workers who produce the value, essentially stealing it. You could argue that, well the owner created the company with their investment and therefore incurred risk, but at the end of the day the only risk they incurred would result in them having to become a worker, themselves.

Profit isn't illegal, so it's not technically theft in any legal sense. But if a single individual (the owner) takes the fruit of an organizations labor and doesn't distribute the entirety of that fruit to the workers (including themselves) and continual operation of the business, they are essentially stealing what is due to the business and workers. If the owner skimming off the top weren't there, the workers would distribute the fruits equally, and ensure some is set aside for business costs.