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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

"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 10 months ago

Homeless person shoots up: Drug Zombie smuglord

Billionaire entrepreneur microdoses krokodil: Brave Stunning Bold so-true

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

Please drop a nuke on these "people".

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Creepier in subtle ways too.

"Hey there alive girl" lord-bezos-amused

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

lech wałęsa is still alive

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

KURWAAAAAAAAAA

[-] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months 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] 27 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

This mask off fascist phase of Elon is something else

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Promise, Tool, Bargain

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Aamon Documentaries

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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.

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