HadMatter [none/use name]

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  • HadMatter [none/use name]toPost Maine On Maindating libs?
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    4 years ago

    I'm dating a lib, but she's for M4A, trans rights, etc, so it's really just the capitalism bit and to what extent we should tolerate shitheads that we disagree on, so it's not as bad as defending slavery, but honestly it's not too bad.



  • HadMatter [none/use name]toPost Maine On Main*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I believe starting in the 70's and continuing into the 80's and 90's, people were talking about a new ice age caused by widespread use of aerosols, and between the 40's and the 70's, there was some cooling happening, and some scientific papers suggested this would continue, though they were in the minority even at that time, as the effects of GHG's were expected to overtake the cooling caused by aerosols by basically any reasonable model even back then.. However, the "ice age" story was signal boosted by a lot of people in the MSM at the time. So, if you dad formed his opinion on the topic in the mid 70's and just never really looked into it or was never really reading scientific papers, it's easy that he just thought the one article he read on the topic from Time or Newsweek was still relevant...

    Or it could just be the MAGA chuds at his work.. and maybe they read it once in Time or Newsweek in the mid 70's.. Or they just made it up because they needed to combat the ACC science.








  • Also just the obvious false premise that only black people get cancer. The real difference between white people and black people in this regard is that when white people get shit like this, it's removed before it gets anywhere near as bad.


  • HadMatter [none/use name]toPost Maine On Main*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Barely anyone actually owns their business outright, first of all. Second, why would anyone work for a business if they have to pay the owner to work there? Because they need to be able to eat and want to be able to buy shit they want. People produce because we want and need the outputs of production. People create companies because some (most) things are better made with multiple people rather than one guy by himself. There is no difference between the workers choosing to start a business and sharing in the collective outputs of their labor and a owner buying a a business and finding people desperate enough to exploit themselves for survival, except in the first arrangement, there doesn't have to be the threat of destitution baked into the functioning of the economy. People want the outputs of labor, so they'll do labor to get them. Pretty simple.

    Edit: In person, the real response is "So you think that Worker-owned businesses like Bob's Red Mill, New Belgium Brewing (before they sold), Mondragon*, or any of the 400+ co-ops on this list: https://www.usworker.coop/directory/ don't exist?"





  • HadMatter [none/use name]toPost Maine On MainWorth a crab?
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    4 years ago

    Honestly, when you're talking about getting as big as Destiny, you don't even have to be good at video games. Hasan's not great at video games, but he has 16k (ie makes a fuck ton of money) subscribers because he's entertaining. He mostly just talks about politics and memes and watches reality TV. He plays games for fun, but his audience drops off significantly when he switches over to gaming, generally.