[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

This dude was in the ship with Greta going to Gaza. He is NOT a Hollywood type. He’s a real one.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

AuDHD and it comes and goes, it comes and goes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Such… fun..? 😫

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

He is “donating” to his own charity, where he won’t have to pay a dime in taxes as his children inherit the foundation… it’s a tax and financial trick, don’t be fooled by it. Gates is not our friend.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I had one friend and we’d basically impromptu improvise live action anime fanfic… so yeah…

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I personally loved it. I finished it quicker than most games I’ve played the last few years. I was actually surprised. It’s not a long game by any means, but still.

I didn’t love that it started a bit more radical and became more lib over time, but I still enjoyed the writing and gameplay quite a bit. It’s silly fun, and it’s not pretending not to be. It does have a message, but it’s not overtly drab or serious.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago

Becoming..? The country founded on the principle that only landowners and capitalists should be represented democratically is becoming an oligarchy?

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I know he is a weird libertarian anarchist (agorist or some other nonsense). But his documentary series “How Big Oil Conquered the World” is really good, and showed me how entrenched oil really is in absolutely everything and how that was engineered by really a handful of people. Sure, if it wasn’t them, it’d be other people. But still, they did do it.

I was thinking recently about the “Rockefeller Medicine” episode, and how John D Rockefeller and Carnegie basically invented the modern pharmaceutical industry, and the vaaaaast majority of medicine nowadays is actually based on oil, petrochemicals.

For some reason, I decided to just ask chatGPT about it and the shitbot actually just repeated all the crazy conspiracy-sounding facts (Corbett always backs his claims with a lot of records and sources, one of the main reasons I like him actually) that I had watched in the “Rockefeller Medicine” episode years ago.

Like “John D. Rockefeller's influence was pivotal in shaping the modern medical and pharmaceutical landscape. By funding education reforms, research institutions, and early petrochemical studies, he helped create a system that prioritized synthetic, petroleum-based drugs. This legacy continues to impact the industry today, as petrochemicals remain a cornerstone of pharmaceutical production.”

That’s the conclusion from chatGPT.

So I guess this is all very public knowledge. But still no one knows, no one talks about it. People never discuss how 90%+ of the medicine they take and are dependent on is literally based on and requires oil. Like it is MADE of oil. And natural medicine was discredited by Rockefeller. Holistic medicine etc. Now it’s all made of oil.

Anyways, James Corbett has many great series with lots of sources for everything. He’s a crazy libertarian, but a good journalist 👍

[-] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this supposed to be an own? This guy sounds cool…

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

Honestly, at this point, we should also stop giving the US any credit for WW2. Fuckers almost entered on the side of the Nazis, funded them while they gained power etc. They only entered the European stage because they know the USSR would steamroll from Berlin to London and create a continent-wide communist revolution and wanted to stop them.

Fuck the USA, 100%, no exceptions.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

It’s not the “fault” of amoral individuals, no. This is simply the system working as intended. A system where capital translates to political power will inevitably lead to capital accumulation. Corporations are only for generating more capital and more profits to their owners. Profits they can turn into more capital elsewhere.

It’s silly to expect a “good” version of this where the people at the top… don’t put their interests first? Like why would they ever do that? If someone at the top doesn’t fight for profit like a shark, they will lose their spot and risk becoming a worker, or dooming their family and future generations to become workers.

These people are just doing what’s best for them. And everybody around says “hey! that’s bad, you should put aside your self interest for our self interest!”.

Bro the problem is THE SYSTEM. As long as we have this system, we will always have the same people in power, the same problems, and the planet will die in 50 years. You can fight reality all you want, but that’s where we’re at.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Portugal has one the highest numbers of houses per inhabitant in the world. Over 40 per inhabitant. There are 700,000 empty homes in Portugal, not counting airbnbs and second homes. A country of 10,000,000 people.

From 2020 to 2023 there was an increase of 400,000,000 euros in international investment in the Portuguese real estate market. It literally doubles in 3 years.

There is a high number of houses that are kept as investments (empty, second houses, airbnbs etc.). This keeps the market hostage to an international investor class, who in every way but literally have infinite money.

This problem will keep getting worse and worse as long as the government doesn’t do something to fix the root of the issue.

Housing should not be a capital market to be speculated on. There should be no investors in housing.

Things people need to survive can’t be subject to market forces.

Homelessness and lack of housing affordability is exclusively an issue of neoliberal capitalism and the infection of every facet of our existence with “the market”.

[-] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago

I don’t want to put a bunch of preludes and explain myself etc.

But man, you really think Russia invaded because of a “land grab”? Does that make any sense to you?

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