This is the RITTENHOUSE video they don't want you to see. Please help spread this. by Canbot in news

[–]LockeDemosthenes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you didnt care you wouldn't a) take it so incredibly personally and b) spend so much of your private time engaged in this discussion.

Weird, you suggested to not fight in a fight you cant win - are you blaming the rioters for starting a fight they couldn't win? It seems counter to what you were saying before. Americans often want to go out and provide aid and assistance to others during demonstrations - you advocating against any form of participation or assistance with demonstrations highlights how little you likely value freedom.

"Capitalism Rewards Efficiency" by EndlessSunflowers in LateStageCapitalism

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Huh?

"Capitalism Rewards Efficiency" by EndlessSunflowers in LateStageCapitalism

[–]LockeDemosthenes 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Now i see why you're way too cowardly to respond to all of the hard points levelled against your thin understanding of the world. You're so dense we're all at risk of being crushed under the gravity. You spew self contradictions and constantly ignore what is presented to you. Won't be surprised to find your account deleted when you get a little older and experience some life.

“I don’t think people who are taking money from pharmaceutical companies should be drafting health care legislation. I don’t think people who are taking money from oil and gas companies should be drafting climate legislation.” by EndlessSunflowers in whatever

[–]LockeDemosthenes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah yes, there's that lack of more than 1 degree of separation you've shown again. You're literally advocating for even more private interest and funding in politics if you advocate for politicians to be paid less. Politicians are already paid far, far less than executive private industry roles. You cant honestly believe that you're going to get a subject matter expert in a political leadership role without paying them well do you? In your own dream world where politicians make nothing, the only people who could afford to be politicians would be people already rich as shit from success in private industry. I guess instead of agreeing with me you're arguing to hire more completely inept non-experts who have been bought and paid for by private industries - the logical outcome of your poorly considered idea.

"Capitalism Rewards Efficiency" by EndlessSunflowers in LateStageCapitalism

[–]LockeDemosthenes 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You're literally advocating for easily 100x to 1000x more industries globally because you plainly refuse to acknowledge the facts. All hail the holy high school level understanding of the world.

"Capitalism Rewards Efficiency" by EndlessSunflowers in LateStageCapitalism

[–]LockeDemosthenes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're looking at only that package in that hand. Small minded and short sighted. There are thousands of fruit suppliers shipping to this plant and then shipping mega-loads of fruity party packs to all countries globally. If you think it's more efficient to have all industries process all products at the site of harvesting, be it fruit, raw materials, etc. you'd quickly realize just how ridiculously less efficient that would be. You sound like a high school kid who lacks more than 1 degree of separation. Your way of thinking is like thinking the car in front of you is always responsible for the traffic jam. Grow up.

“I don’t think people who are taking money from pharmaceutical companies should be drafting health care legislation. I don’t think people who are taking money from oil and gas companies should be drafting climate legislation.” by EndlessSunflowers in whatever

[–]LockeDemosthenes 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds nice on the surface but you really do need subject matter experts to avoid making huge mistakes that end up tanking an industry. Apply this same logic to excluding, say, subject matter experts on what "the internet" is and you get old school republicans whining about a series of tubes making some really, really bad internet legislation. To disconnect a subject matter expert from any income from that field is hard but also the reason politicians should (and do) get paid well.

If you ever felt like doxxing reddit powermod u/Bardfinn... by [deleted] in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]LockeDemosthenes 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Why would you post someone's information and ask to have them doxxed? This is the kind of stuff that really should (and has) backfired heavily on the person posting. Get outta here!

ACLU Comes Out Against Body Cameras?? Files Suit To STOP Police Filming Rioters by Tarrock in politics

[–]LockeDemosthenes 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The ACLU is supposed to be protecting civil liberties of the little guys. Why are they so involved in supporting wacko left wing extremists now? Did they sell to a new owner who decided to abandon their purpose?

‪Man Knifed in the Back by ANTIFA in Portland for being a “Conservative Journalist”‬ by Vigte in news

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Agreed. Headline is very sensationalized to mislead the reader into thinking someone was stabbed for 'being a conservative journalist' when he was clearly stabbed for coming up from behind and putting his arm around someone in what can be perceived as a threatening manner. This is very clearly an issue for a court to decide because the stabbing does not appear necessary and how long this guy was stalking them for and in what way is not necessarily fully understood. It could have been a plan to find a reason to stab him or it could have been just a severe overreaction to the uninvited touching - court issue, person who picked this title is fake new peddler.

Merriam-Webster to revise racism definition after woman’s campaign by [deleted] in news

[–]LockeDemosthenes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Coming soon: Merriam-Webster redefines racism as something, "only white people are capable of."

Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci's Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. The Media Just Doesn't Want You to Know by christnmusicreleases in conspiracy

[–]LockeDemosthenes 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think shuttering small businesses is far more devastating than anything covid will ever do. But... I read the article, went from 'countless' to '600' real fast.

Within 1 hour, Reddit banned 2000 subs-almost all right wing, Twitch banned Trump's account, Youtube banned Stefan Molyneux, Twitter banned Sidney Powell, and the MSM all had long ass articles ready to go to praise it. THIS IS ELECTION MEDDLING. Contact your state reps and demand something be done. by Tarrock in politics

[–]LockeDemosthenes 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit officially killed itself. Embarrassing. This is the largest, most expensive and coordinated media campaign to interfere with an election in US history.

We're fast approaching peak clown world. by [deleted] in news

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So the liberal government claimed that it's "racist" to mandate that everyone equally must wear a mask because the liberal government feels that minorities wearing a mask will be perceived as a danger to society.

So let the minorities die, says the liberal government, to appease the hypothetical "racist" boogeyman. Meanwhile, the premise of the law enacted by those liberals is racist by definition - separate laws to follow base on skin colour alone.

When people complained about their pure, actual racism, they first accused everyone who complained of being "horribly racist" then they followed up by agreeing with them. They dropped the racist rules that they created and still maintain that everyone else is a racist.

Clown world indeed.

Easily Manipulated By Hate And Prejudice by EndlessSunflowers in LateStageCapitalism

[–]LockeDemosthenes 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Horrible, negative, disingenuous meme at its very best - Nobody is mad at the immigrant. They're mad because a politician enabled the employer to abuse the immigrant at the cost of the original employee's livelihood. Memes like this try very hard to convince people that anyone upset with immigration policy is instead upset at immigrants. Deflection and distraction.

Former Digg refugee now Reddit refugee by PopASquatt in Introductions

[–]LockeDemosthenes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not about toppling them, as the end of reddit is guaranteed already. Its about having open platforms where we can argue about things most of us arent experts in without being censored for given opinions. Without that, reddit has happily and enthusiastically jumped off a cliff headed for the rocks below.

Former Digg refugee now Reddit refugee by PopASquatt in Introductions

[–]LockeDemosthenes 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Beginning of the end was banning "unpopular" conservative subreddits from showing up on the front page.

When i saw a thread about some space drone constructor game skyrocket across r/gaming with thousands of superficial comments and 20k upvotes per hour - each one of those superficial commenters having multi-year accounts with posts across NHL, movies, golf, etc. it struck me that these were huge operations astroturfing reddit for money.

Then came star wars, holy shit, the most inorganic fake social media blitz I've ever seen outside of typical liberal reddit political spam until the recent BLM "stuff."

Reddit is done. Other websites will fall prey to this machine as well. The future is either anonymous astroturfing or verified ID accounts. Both suck.

BLM donations go to ActBlue, which then funds democratic candidates for president by magnora7 in corruption

[–]LockeDemosthenes 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is not true. While very sketchy that BLM refuses to reveal where they are spending their money, using actblue as an intermediary between BLM and donors doesn't have anything to do with other campaigns or charities that also use actblue. Focus on real, verified things such as BLMs manifesto on their website detailing their goal of eliminating 'the western nuclear family.'