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I got so used to Hexbear's pocket universe that I forgot how terrible internet liberals actually are. (hexbear.net)
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I assumed it was just "hire more LGBTQIA+ prison guards!" so-true

It's worse than that. What I've seen recently because of federation is "(verbal performative) support for disadvantaged people as long as they maintain a successful small business in a disadvantaged area for no less than three years and aren't anywhere to the left of Bernie Sanders!"

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[โ€“] 52 points 3 years ago (4 children)

The idea of enforcing scarcity onto inherently nonscarce digital "goods" is one of the purest expressions of capitalist brainworms

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  • [โ€“] [S] 43 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The cryptogrifters assume that their internet funny money will automatically sell and build castles in the sky by planning for how to exploit that automatic success and enshittify it before it even exists.

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  • [โ€“] 31 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    In my more conspiracy-brained moments, I sometimes think NFTs are a plot to get people to accept DRM by buying into it in the same way homeownership got people to buy into capitalism in the US and UK.

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