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Incentives and consequences mold society. The extreme rich have a near monopoly on the incentives that create government policy via their economic power. They're above the law. Usi…

Fascism was initially a cultural movement that was an attack on the ideals of the enlightenment.

When fear mongering around the national debt occurs I feel inclined to encourage people to research modern monetary theory. I am not an economist but it's obvious that many cultura…

You can't have a functioning democracy without consequences for the bad behavior of wealthy people that mask their sociopathy in mounds of legalese, financial abstraction, bought o…

This is the same tool the right has used to destroy progressive democracy online. Dump tons of money into pro libertarian right wing bots and overwhelm the voices that call for mon…

All the right wingers yelling about elite conspiracies, pedo's etc. Trumpism is a group of them wallowing in plain site. Right wingers sure got quiet. It's called white identity po…

Charlie Kirk was a theocrat. He hid behind freedom of speech with the intent to remove it for everyone else once in power. Freedom of speech is completely incompatible with theocra…

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I'm more concerned with the fact that billionaires have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and can afford to fund large scale social engineering operations to get what…

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Reading this makes me feel that smart muckrakers are a heavily undervalued resource online.

This would be a great name for a tutorial: How to write garbage code until it barely works.

The elephant in the room is the massive transport of wealth from the poor and middle class to the extreme rich coupled with the monopoly on incentives the extreme rich have on poli…

Professor Dave Debates

Write a song about the billionaire social engineer Peter Thiel getting robbed and murdered by a broke minimum wage worker with no healthcare. "That is not allowed by our terms of s…

Most people are smart from within the narrow confines of their own interests and beyond that simply don't give a shit. People conflate "intelligence" and values all the time.

Most tech isn't "Anti worker". What determines pro/anti worker are laws and government policies that reciprocate with the cultural norms we adopt. At the moment, money in U.S. poli…

Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.

I've been using elixir to build an app that lets an administrator add new rss feeds, render the article titles and summaries to a single page, scroll through them and push the ones…

Market yourself as a developer that untangles the mess AI generates.

This site is a cess pool of libertarian axioms and nit picks by people that believe they are the next Mark Zuckerberg. Anything remotely critical of capitalism is piled on. It's th…