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Well, I figured since it was Thanksgiving... 🤷‍♂️

Free Market Capitalism is based on the infinite human ability to create and innovate.

No it isn't. It's based on the infinite human ability to exploit others for personal gain, and its functioning for those who benefit from it is predicated on the existence of a working class that produces more in value than they are allowed to benefit from.

Socialism is not communism. It is based on the idea that workers should have ownership over their work, and it has been put into practice in the form of worker-owned cooperatives, like the Mondragon Corporation in Spain, as well as many that aren't the size of entire small cities. My argument is that an economy organized predominantly by that model would work much better for everybody.

This is good news.

The framing of the organization being called "stop population decline" strikes me as weird given that the global population is far from declining, and either already has surpassed or will soon surpass eight billion. It is true that data is more granular than that: some demographics have more children than others, which leads to shifts over time. All of this is normal and, if not good, at worst neutral. The problem arises when by far the most common voices to say anything about "population decline" or "overpopulation" or anything like that are typically using those terms as dogwhistles for white supremacy/Great Replacement bullshit.

I'll grant that their About page seems to mostly be stuff I agree with, and from a cursory look at their website, I'm not seeing evidence of white supremacy on it. But idk, the vibes are still off for me.

no, that one doesn't look any different either

Amen. Don't have to worry about the house, neighborhood, or city infrastructures supporting your EV if your EV is an ebike that can plug into a standard outlet in your living room, or wherever you keep it. Or if you can just walk a quarter mile and hop on a light rail. Or if instead of driving a Ford, you just use your Chevrolegs. Of course, this does also require development patterns to support it, i.e. roads that aren't fucking death traps for anyone outside a car and stuff being close enough together that you can actually get to it in a reasonable amount of time, but hey, there are also non-car-related reasons we should be doing those things too.

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If this is legit, then it's a fucking game changer.

I hope it's legit.

i got a scar tattooed over in 2021 and have several more scars i'd like to do the same with, i'm currently sitting here drinking and being under 6', and also i don't believe in heaven so i'm super fucked. who's with me

it's rollin' 'round the bend

i also have no kids or desire for kids, and not much of this, other than being able to sleep

Crazy expensive: yes.

Californians are annoying and elitist: well, a disproportionate number of annoying and elitist rich people live here, but I think they give the rest of us an undeserved bad name. That is my personal opinion and not a definitive, objective statement of fact, but I feel like I have a decent read on it as a lifelong Californian.

Has big social problems in cities: name me one state that doesn't.