I too piss everywhere, just in case!

The audacity lmao

I think you’ll find that it’s spelled “audible” 😉

How many smartphones are even signed by that many parents? 2?

Talk about banning unicorns!

Fun fact: those are the wrong way up

And then you need hyena water to deal with the dog water

Corporate profits are higher than ever largely because corporations have been able to get greater productivity out of workers without increasing pay. If wages had kept up with productivity, profits wouldn’t be nearly as high.

the reason this is a mystery to so many mainstream economists is because they don’t want to reconcile with one simple fact: in order for profits to keep going up, worker wages must be suppressed while also increasing productivity.

That, and they don’t want to/are psychologically incapable of the self-awareness required to admit their own complicity in the increasing oppression and exploitation of the very people without whom everything falls apart.

Why do you think so many billions of dollars are being spent on AI development? Many see it as the key to ever increasing profits, because the worker, and their pesky demand for adequate compensation can be removed entirely.

Spot on again.

Except corporate profits are higher than they’ve ever been. Only thing falling is the workers’ share of the obscene dragons hoards of riches.

Convert them to audiobooks

You can just do that? Easily and in halfway decent quality?

Which is of course itself an example of how effective the “propaganda only works on stupid people” messaging is at isolating victims of misinformation from any arguments pointing out misinformation.

It’s maddening, and the only remedy is more effective messaging about verifiably true information.

Which is in turn made more difficult by the truth tending to be much more complicated than plausible lies made into slogans and sound bites.

Example:

“Transfer municipal funds to other professionals better equipped to handle certain tasks in an effective and nonlethal manner than police officers are” is much more unambiguous about what most people want than “defund the police”, but good luck fitting that on a sign or getting to say that on the news before being interrupted!

Being dumb or not is completely irrelevant here

Especially when you factor in that propaganda is much more effective than most people are aware of/willing to admit.

You don’t have to be an idiot or insane to be fooled by effective messaging and messaging doesn’t have to make sense in order to be effective.

Otherwise, the fascist Republican party would have no chance of getting CLOSE to winning any major elections, let alone the presidency.

That’s too specific and made by a deranged fascist, though 🤷

I never said he was GOOD at it 😉

Because the person quoting Marx is a capitalist trying to make him look bad? 🤷

Grew up in a country with mandatory German classes in school, can confirm.

I didn’t mind the capitalization of all nouns anywhere near as much as the unholy mess that is German grammar, though 🤷 😄

the Fabio game.

You mean Goose Dodging Simulator?

Holy shit, 2 Fast 2 Furious is already 21 and a half years old?!

They were a founding member in the way Musk “founds” companies: joining later and getting a lot of influence due to wealth

you cancel all that goodwill out when you give the cashier The Look

What, you DON’T tip cashiers by handing out late 80s hit singles? Weird…