an unbiased mediator and administrator of resources that makes logical decisions to benefit all of humanity, able to find patterns that most humans cannot, process data in ways humans cannot, and not driven by petty human emotion? yeah, why would something like that give me hope?
all those things still have the potential to create a better world, and the problem is still the same: the owner class is using them to benefit themselves only. we have to destroy this dystopia by any means necessary. every day we don’t is another day we doom billions to suffer for the benefit of a few.
property management and real estate firms are an affront to humanity, but i would like to point out that not all of us come to own more property than we need through greedy schemes. my parents bought a lot of real estate in the 90’s to be able to house their loved ones. my mother almost single-handedly provided housing for my grandmother, my aunts, my cousin, my step brothers, and myself even.
as they have passed on, i have either rented or sold that property to other friends and family at very reasonable prices. there is no single act that is inherently evil. there is no one size fits all label. our individual actions and intentions define us.
EDIT: just wanted to point out to the downvoter that she did this as a factory worker earning minimum wage. she was not then nor is she now rich by any metric. she still lives in a shitty neighborhood in MS. she sacrificed her luxury to help others she cared about.
EDIT 2: although i am pretty hard core leftist, i find my peers to be pretty insufferable. there is a reason that most centrists get turned off by you people. most of you would rather virtue signal than think critically.
AI was supposed to save the world.
These sociopaths have taken the only hope i ever thought we had and are going to use it to screw us. I want the money changers out of the temple NOW.
there’s more we can do. united, we can do anything. every great achievement of mankind was because people bound together to accomplish a goal. anybody can organize. governments and corporations don’t have a patent on organization.
we tried that in the early days of the internet. it didn’t work. once grandpa got on facebook, it was over.
look at one of those maps of america showing the red and blue areas. they have an in group that spans the width of the country nearly. we outnumber them but they have an empire of culture.
plus, it’s christian nationalism. they’re not going to give up that position. i’ve been watching it develop for a long time, i only see one way out of it.
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but seriously. meaningful legislation is going to get torpedoed by republicans. the most important fight we can fight is to topple all conservative power.
there’s no point in trying to legislate when they know that everything they do will be sabotaged by the opposition.
bingo. who would care what a cretin thinks. now, the next problem is what do you do when they still get a say in what your life and the lives of others will be like?
their value system is completely opposed to ours. there is no point in any kind of good faith debate. they want in groups and out groups. they cannot be reasoned with. drop that entire concept and ask yourself what comes next if the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
i wonder if it’s possible to know where the stage would be set up in advance. i wonder if you could plant explosives that can evade detection.
But the graduation percentages are all that matters.
capitalism ruins everything. this is literally the money changers in the temple. the only temple that actually matters.
and while i agree that people should get a proper liberal education, higher learning has been watered down to accommodate all the idiots that don’t want to be there but have to have a degree to join the workforce. there are people who actually want to deep dive into their studies but are subjected to dumbed down classes.
so there’s a part of me that doesn’t want them to be there. honestly, i think people should take trade courses for certification and leave higher learning to those who are higher learners.
and both should be free.
and you should have to pass a knowledge test in order to vote.
thank you. i’m glad somebody has a memory longer than last week. this also feeds right back into my belief that it is not the politicians that are the problem (they’re just a symptom), it’s conservatives in general. if we are going to live in a society, they have to be removed from it.
good luck with either.
i expect the idiots to vote for him. the real collective stupidity is that the left seems to have no intention to put up a fight against these morons. apparently, if we lose the election, then “oh well, let me lay my head down so you can mash my face in with your boot”. it really sucks having limp-wristed do-nothings as allies.
exactly. we have to stop them from voting. i don’t care how it gets done, but we really don’t have a choice. they have to be stopped.
i knew that the owner class was the problem all along, and i knew that we needed to topple the owner class in order to utilize these things for their humanitarian benefits. i guess i naively thought people would band together for the hope of a better world. i watched the arab springs and the former soviet states and they gave me hope, but i guess the western world is too weak to do the right thing.
the more and more i watch good people do nothing and listen to arm chair commenters like yourself, the more i think that maybe we deserve this dystopia.