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"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."

Cool. We could change that by cutting off subsidy money to the K-Hole enjoyer then.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Homeless person shoots up: Drug Zombie smuglord

Billionaire entrepreneur microdoses krokodil: Brave Stunning Bold so-true

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Billionaire drugs feeemale company at party to attempt mind control experimentation: sex positive, quirky. awooga

(CW: extreme bazinga SV)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Please drop a nuke on these "people".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i cant believe theyre stealing the trans/queer culture of the cuddle puddle and making it techbro and unwholesome popuko-gun

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe we should put them in houses, then, so they aren't homeless.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

NOOOOOO THOSE HOUSES ARE A SPECULATIVE ASSET WHICH IS WHY I NEED THAT MANY TIMES MORE HOUSES THAN HOMELESS PEOPLE porky-scared

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently homeless people are an institution, too. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably following the same line of brainworms thinking that lead that "maga communist" dork to claim that homeless people are the modern equivalent as the landlord class in revolutionary China

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was that related to the "teachers are the ruling class actually" Holden Caulfield-level take?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Being extremely frothingfash pronouns about an unhoused person asking for money and a teacher assigning homework are both super childish and goofy, so yeah, probably lol

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's a tough competition but he really might the most repugnant creature alive

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I'd say he has stiff competition, but benzos can really make that... hard. peterson-pill-dinner

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jeff Bezos is actually worse, he's just smart enough to know when to shut the fuck up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Creepier in subtle ways too.

"Hey there alive girl" lord-bezos-amused

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It's the same narcissist fascist vs competent fascist dynamic just at a different layer of the structure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lots of people are worse, but no-one else is quite as pathetic as Musk is

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

lech wałęsa is still alive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

KURWAAAAAAAAAA

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

drug zombies

Okay hear me out but I think that Elon Musk needs to be allowed to operate until he does create the Torment Nexus, because until we have a Torment Nexus I don't know how we can properly deal with him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Didn't one weird trick temporarily stop his bullying shit when he was a kid and bullied another kid for having a dead parent? stairs

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using the power of machine learning and advanced LIDAR sensors, we have developed an escalator that will keep the subject tumbling indefinitely

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Critical support for that disruptive innovation. only-good-gamer

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh god, at first glance it appears he's so close to realizing that yes, with every cent of increased funding it gets, the DEA directly makes drug addiction both more prevalent and deadly by artificially driving unregulated black market demand for insanely potent, synthetic mu-opioid agonists. Some of the newer RC opioids aren't even based on the structure of fentanyl anymore. When this happens, the drug grey market literally outpaces legislation until the DEA catches wind of things and schedules a defining member of the class.

Of course, this hypocritical piece of shit is actually talking about increased funding for aid directly to the homeless. doomjak

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So why did he get mad at the phrase "defund the police?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I've read it three times and it's just as asinine every time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This mask off fascist phase of Elon is something else

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Serious question - who is Clay Shirky? Some "philosopher" type funded by a billionaire?

I tried to read his Wikipedia page but the text sounds like a moronic redditor trying very hard and failing to be clever...

Shirky asserts that collaborative crowdsourced work results from "a successful fusion of a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain with the users." He states that the promise of what the user will get out of participating in a project leads to a person's desire to get involved.

Collaborators will then choose the best social networking tool to do the job. One that "must be designed to fit the job being done, and it must help people do something they actually want to do." The bargain, Shirky states, defines what collaborators expect from each other's participation in the project. Shirky's 'Promise, Tool, Bargain' premise restates aspects of the Uses and Gratifications Theory of mass media research.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Promise, Tool, Bargain

Sounds like a promise of bargain-grade tools all right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if the page is TV Tropes-like death-by-hyperlink nonsense. "Uses and Gratifications Theory" is a 3,000 word Wikipedia page and I don't understand the point of the "theory"...

Uses and gratifications theory is a communication theory that describes the reasons and means by which people seek out media to meet specific needs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

"How to trick people into buying garbage." Tale old as time. same-as-it-ever-was

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Real "I'm not a professional quote maker or anything but in this moment I am euphoric" energy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

elon musk is literally some fallen demonic subhuman that the demiurge created as one of the main faces of the evil that is currently destroying the planet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Aamon Documentaries

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why did he put homeless in scare quotes? Is there some kind of chud conspiracy that homeless people are actually just crisis actors?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there some kind of chud conspiracy that homeless people are actually just crisis actors?

Yes, exactly that. There's also an ancient chud meme that still goes around that panhandling is more profitable than most jobs.

It's a way to pretend people can't ever be actually poor and in need.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's also an ancient chud meme that still goes around that panhandling is more profitable than most jobs.

To be fair this one does seem like a goal for capitalists.

Welcome back by the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The thing that shuts them up (at least in my experience) is to tell them to just quit their job and become homeless right now if it is so lucrative, they hem and haw about it and make a million excuses, but oddly never agree to do it, despite it apparently being a quick, easy path to success.