Tiger

Capitalism

Of course Trump made it worse faster, but the graph is clearly increasing over the entire time axis, in particular during the Obama and Biden administrations.

This is a symptom of the capitalist class continuously waging class warfare against the working class. Simply changing the figurehead will never be good enough to reverse this trend or any of the 69 bajillion other graphs that show us that for the working class, our world is falling apart!

Community based. I want to cut out all corpo shit from my life.

Damn. Hope y’all get your instance back soon ✌️

Nah it’s all good, I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a privacy angle to this story that I’m missing. 🙂

Yo that’s fucked up, like did you really need to share this? 🤢

Not exactly sure why it’s in /c/privacy, but turbo-based nonetheless

Well…I think the “home” part of homework is also a problem. IMO we should really do review work at school or in some non-home space, and non-recreation time.

Like the 8 hour work day was supposed to be 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, and 8 hours recreation. School + homework + transit regularly exceeds the 8 hours. (And 8 hours work is way too much, we should be working wildly less with the incredible technologies that have been developed since the 8 hours work day concept was created.)

Education is important, reviewing previously learned stuff is important…but homework as a system does absolutely create a situation where kids are spending unbounded time outside of school on schoolwork. Practically, it’s way the fuck too much. IMO school time, like work time, should be bounded.

Apolitical people: please I beg you just pay attention for a few minutes

This is why you don’t mess with corpo shit

Do you think you could work towards ActivityPub integration so it would be able to talk to PeerTube instances? IMO diversity is strength but cooperation is a factor in success. Hope this project goes well and is fun 😁

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴

So what is the difference between this and PeerTube?

Even if we can’t, should we not try?

Of course we should try, that why I said it feels like capitalists can’t be rehabilitated, not that they definitely cannot be rehabilitated and we shouldn’t even try.

Yes I’m definitely biased to predict that almost all of the capitalists wouldn’t succeed in even attempting to rehabilitate themselves, but I’m absolutely not willing to close the door for rehabilitation either.

I mean there are psychopaths out there who don’t do heinous things like these people. Like it would literally be ableist IMO to tar all psychopaths with the same brush as Epstein and company.

There are degrees of sickness, right?

Absolutely, 1000%. And the example you gave, 1000% with you on the possibility of rehabilitation there. Frankly, I think that 99.9999% of people can be rehabilitated in finite time. The other 0.0001% are literally the billionaires and their cronies. (And I believe that this is numerically in the ballpark, since the billionaires number about 3000 and there are about 8.2 billion humans on this planet, and the figure I gave is an overestimate to include their non-billionaire cronies [e.g., Jeffrey Epstein; I believe that he was, numerically, strictly not a billionaire when he died].)

On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.

Yeah that’s really who I’m talking about when I have my doubts about rehabilitation for a very small subset of people, and I believe that worldwide communism would make this subset asymptotically vanish (“asymptotically” to account for the presence of serial killers).

The “monster” framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated.

Maybe this makes me a bad anarchist, but it truly feels like capitalists are monsters that can’t be rehabilitated. Like I really want to believe that everyone can be rehabilitated with enough help, but can we really rehabilitate the few thousand people who are like Epstein in finite time?

I mean I think you make a good critique here.

Think less illness and more…idk…corruption of the mind?

Yeah I’m with you, but I really think it’s crucial to make a distinction between framing it as an illness vs framing it as the logical conclusion of the capitalist mindset, for which we have thousands of pages of prior analysis to understand.