Wow, legislating like this is a society that cares about its own future instead of a piggybank of resources to be exploited for private profit by our oligarchs.
How very un-American. It’s like he doesn’t even care what this will do to billionaire ego scores. Not much, but maybe something perceptible on an earnings report! They’ll never piss down those golden showers of prosperity they’ve been promising for half a century if we don’t give them ALL the value society produces!
It was always a lie by the capitalists to pawn off accountability for their insatiable greed driven decision to continue to terraform our only planet to be hostile towards human life for short term profit.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220504-why-the-wrong-people-are-blamed-for-climate-change
No amount of peasants separating cans and bottles or using cloth diapers would have changed the temperature of today, that was just a way to shift blame from the perpetrator with the bully pulpit to powerless individuals like us.
Should we recycle and consume a lot less? Of course, but never forget, that empty, purpose sapping, depression/anxiety causing consumer lifestyle isn’t simply a choice we get to make, it is pushed on us all day every day at every level both through culture and through mass media the oligarchs fully own and through scholastic indoctrination through policy manipulation as the oligarchs own our politicians. We are raised from the cradle to conflate consumption with meaning. We are taught as children that a thriving consumer economy helps everyone when it really only helps a tiny sliver of the population at everyone else’s expense.
The capitalists, not the self-hating peasant capitalism sycophants, the people that hold significant capital, will continue to blame their victims, even when they have to retreat to the luxury bunker compounds they’ve been building in places like new Zealand to protect themselves exclusively from the damage they’ve knowingly inflicted on the human race.
And watch, their descendants will emerge a generation or 2 later, fully believing they were the ones who were wronged, expecting to lead the remnants of humanity once again. We’ll be dumb enough to let the sociopath’s progeny do it, too. I’ve yet to see my species collectively declare that enough’s fucking enough when the capital hoarders fuck us all over.
Probably because our society has chosen to live in service to our rigged economy, instead of having our economy as a tool to distribute goods and services for the benefit of society as it’s supposed to be.
I wake up every day for work knowing most of my labor will be used to enrich some assholes on Wall Street who consider peasants like me to be subhuman. I wake up every day for work for nothing more than survival so I don’t end up on a street corner, but beyond that, my work saps me of purpose.
That is why I imagine this as it is. Most of us are part of a vast underclass that exists solely to enrich the already rich that underpays us so we cannot even fund the hobbies we could derive any meaning from.
Gee, I wonder why so many struggle to find anything but sadness subsisting as exploited capital batteries for wealthy sociopaths.
Its worse than that. A corporation starts a charity or gives 100k to one. Real nice right? Nope.
They will:
use that to decrease their tax burden, robbing the commons of their share of taxes to repair the infrastructure their semi-trucks and businesses disproportionately use and tear up, the public educated, pre-literate workforce they have access to, and then…
they ADVERTISE how noble they are, spending millions upon millions in ad buys to tell you what how awesome they are for donating that 100k. They use the guise of what is supposed to be giving with no expectation of return, ie “charity,” as a marketing strategy, and then…
They use such initiatives as lobbying tools to explain why their industry doesn’t need to be taxed to institutionally, societally address the issue that is currently subject to the transient whims of charity.
There is nothing a publically traded corporation does that isn’t done out of greed, that isn’t calculated to provide more return than dispursment. Nothing.
Charity with any expectation of return, beyond a warm fuzzy feeling inside, isn’t charity at all, but there is a word for it: a transaction.
That’s the thing though, the Republicans already broke that machine by refusing to consider Obama’s appointment, with no repurcussians of any kind.
At this point, obeying rules and norms and not doing what you can get away with in federal government to achieve your goals just makes you a sucker.
They were. There was a DS9 episode where quark was sure he was goong to die and was pre-selling his body to collectors.
They were a critique of modern capitalists just as the Klingons were of the soviets. Unfortunately modern capitalism has become such a cartoon of insatiable greed, it’s become difficult to satirize.
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It’s what any proud capitalist would want, to have their remains monetized and sold off piece by piece and circulated like the currency they dedicated their life to hoarding, just like the Ferengi do from star trek!
Right?! There’s innumerable dead adrenaline junkies maimed and killed all the time doing something that has a high mortality rate, by design!
Everyone’s just on pins and needles about this particular one because he’s among the global oppressor class.
But just like so many self-serving cultural views our oligarchs have pushed on us, a peasant with a death wish is crazy, a wealthy person with a death wish is eccentric.
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Oof, Billionaire dust, don’t breath this.
You don’t become a billionaire without being cool with exploiting people. Modern society rewards antisocial behavior.
Humans don’t care about humans, silly. Only money.
I hope climate change wins.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna90336
We wasted resources trying to save a billionaire greed class oppressor while we let struggling brothers and sisters who would have been far easier to save drown by the dozens.
Human life means nothing to humanity. Only capital. Only greed. The more you hurt/exploit/oppress other people, the more greedy little assholes will try to keep you alive for your sociopathy.
There’s nothing wrong with that at all.
The US military literally uses Xbox controllers for a lot of their drones and tech.
It’s kind of a rare move by the Pentagon of actually spend smartly.
Why spend millions on R&D to develop something that already exists and has been iterated based on massive operator feedback a dozen times over decades? It’s literally a platform that has been designed and honed to operate vehicles of every shape and size.
I’m glad another rich tax cheat got caught, even if it probably happened for the wrong reasons.
I’m no fan of Biden, but this truly is an unfair attack. He isn’t and hasn’t been involved in his father’s political life. Of course right-wing morons will latch onto it and twist it because of their confirmation bias that our boring ass neoliberal President is involved in the vast conspiracies they made up.
It’s not some vast conspiracy, American rich corporate fancy lad committed tax fraud like most other American rich corporate fancy lads and lasses. The only odd detail here is that he might face some accountability for it, which I grant is fucking Bizaare in the United States. It’s like seeing an American cop help a homeless minority, basically an octuple rainbow.
Cut my hands off why dont ya!
I deleted my Twitter account and haven’t been back since blood diamond heir and purchaser, not founder, of Tesla Elon Musk bought it.
I’m done with reddit. I just hope the anti-capitalist subs regenerate here or I’ll have to find another place to vent (again, not reddit) in that regard.
I’d love to try to make one, but I’m too busy with wage slave survival to be an attentive mod.
The We may only be fucked short term but we’re doomed long term if we stay in charge of ourselves instead of building something more benevolent than ourselves to protect ourselves from our own baked in inner darkness: greed, arrogance, apathy, selfishness, narcissism, schadenfreude, gluttony, etc.
Human beings are the worst at far off threats and warnings. Climate change will have to kill a significant, at minimum double digit percentage of the species before we even begin to consider changing our lifestyles. Even then, we don’t retain lessons. It only took a single human lifespan for the Israelis to go from being the most sympathetic of victims to the unrepentant victimizers, for repentant Germany’s far right to re-emerge, and even for the former saviors like the US and UK to literally court fascism. As a species, we can barely learn and we absolutely cannot generationally retain hard lessons. That used to be fine, until science provided us with tools that make our significant shortcomings destructive on a truly global scale.
We’re aggressive monkeys with nuclear/biological/chemical weapons, and evolution is far too slow to compensate for that recipe for disaster.