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We don't even have to zoom in, to be honest. What children? What park? The presence of a park pre-supposes a political society that has prioritized parks, the budget to enact those…

> Some people hold a point of view that there is something other than democracy serves their agenda better. Well, since they don't believe in democracy, I suppose they won't be too…

I also wonder if it includes the part where mark paraphrases the 14 words. We're at the "White nationalists have some good points" stage of discourse.

Feels like the kind of headline that would briefly pause in front of the camera to establish how the world got "like this".

I disagree. Capitalism is a very specific, recent invention. You are living out the actual quote. I don't care if its nature - in my estimation, it fucking sucks! Your argument wor…

I am going to try to respond to the middle chunk later, because I don't really understand the lines you are drawing and how they map to my argument. In some sense, you are describi…

> Right now if I step out into the street, I can flag a taxi, I can buy a coffee. In each case these are direct peer to peer transactions, where the price is agreed between us base…

Do you mean trade or mercantilism? Capitalism - a system by which the means of production are privately owned - has only been dominant for the last few hundred years, broadly exace…

IMO, this is the right idea. I've worked on small projects using Jira primarily as a means of ticket management, and I've worked on giant orgs with scrums and groomings and all tha…

> what for almost all of human history, is something so far beyond the imagination as to be bordering on the grotesque. Citation needed

There are whole swaths of still living people who would gladly give up their wombs. Trans men, for example. Not that there's any amount of polite progress that won't cause insane p…

Damn, it's almost like Gender is largely vibes and any attempt to root it in a strict biological standard is as patently ridiculous as it would be trying to do the same to horoscop…

Racist fears of "replacement", mostly.

>You mean that when they send people back to their home countries because they're no longer welcome here? > I don't like bullies, but when they do the "made you flinch" thing, part…

Imagine the organization you are imagining in your head. Now imagine there is a Super-boss, who is exactly like the "people running the business" (attribution needed), but one leve…

Because the marketers oversold it. That is why you are seeing a pushback. I also outright rejected them because 1) they were sold and marketed as end all be all replacements for hu…

It was a sideways reference to an old line from a detective movie. I'm trying to say that the emperor is nude, and you are arguing that the threads might be so small as to not see …

What about your own lying eyes?

> I don't think it's necessarily evidence of being anti-democracy in his leanings. This is either willful ignorance or something else.

> Either way, I think a pro-Democracy attitude will oppose growing power of unelected officials, regardless of political leanings. DOGE is headed by an unelected official, from a p…

Absolutely - there are many who are actively complicit, and I don't mean to give shield for everyone.

Many of them are trapped by work visas.

The same number closets you'd need to build before you've build a house.

I would agree! Let us both continue to trust our eyes. It was a nazi salute.

Who do you trust, the Party, or your lying eyes?