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.

Affluenza is a capitalist framing. We don’t need to capitulate to capitalist framings (not even the tiniest amount) to say that the capitalists need to have their assets seized and be involuntarily committed for rehabilitation 🙂.

Still, OP is giving into a capitalist framing. Affluenza was popularized during the trial of Ethan Couch, where the argument was 100% literal.

The problem with “affluenza” is that it is used to deflect responsibility from these capitalist monsters for their atrocities. Like it’s not an illness like influenza, you don’t just “catch” it and suffer the consequences through no fault of your own.

Broke: Taxation is theft, therefore it’s bad.

Woke: Taxation is not theft, so it’s okay.

Bespoke: Taxation is theft but stealing from the capitalists is good, therefore taxing the rich is good.

Don’t let your dreams be dreams 🥴

I mean I’m also pissed about the war industry wasting our precious resources on death and destruction. I can be pissed about multiple things! The depths of my hatred for capitalism are literally limitless! It’s just that the “death and destruction part” dominates my opposition of the industry.

Those aren’t zeros, those are α’s — they’re parameters. Set α := 100 for free A+

GIVE IT BACK TO GOD 🙏 /j

Steal it instead!

Fuck RFK but I will never hold being a former heroin addict against him.