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mysharona1987 · 28 days
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blackcat-brazil · 7 months
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unimatrix-420 · 1 year
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commiepinkofag · 4 months
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depressedmonster99 · 5 months
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Don't let the world go back to normal. The show must not go on. The show ends here.
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By Sally Jane Black
These capitalists make their fortunes destroying the environment, automating factories, and investing in for-profit health care. They make their fortunes intentionally worsening conditions for most of humanity. They profit off human suffering, and they know that right now, that suffering has escalated all over the world. They know that those conditions breed resistance. They know that people are angry and that anger has to go somewhere. The best thing they can do to keep that anger from showing up at their doorstep (where it belongs) is to push a scapegoat.
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nando161mando · 8 months
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"I'm so sick of the "Powerful Woman CEO" "Girl boss" crap. Just because the ruling class is racially/gender diverse doesn't mean they're good, because what makes them bad is the very fact of them being a ruling class."
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feckcops · 11 months
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No, capitalism isn’t democratic
“The progress brought by democracy and capitalism was supposed to give rise to yet more democracy. Checks and balances would put an end to corruption. An educated population would choose the ‘right’ leaders. And rather than campaigning based on outdated ideologies, those leaders would compete for votes by appealing to the ‘median voter’, bringing moderation to previously divided societies.
“Instead, corruption is on the rise, ideology is back, and people keep picking the ‘wrong’ leaders. Perhaps the creation of societies so stratified that the ruling class can barely comprehend the concerns of ordinary voters was not such a foolproof recipe for democracy after all ...
“Despite the fact that it is blindingly obvious that capitalist democracies require some measures to reduce inequality while tackling climate breakdown, the progressive capitalist vision for the future stands no chance of being implemented.
“There’s only one conclusion left to draw—that capitalism and democracy were never really all that compatible to begin with.”
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kentonralphtoews · 3 months
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sataniccapitalist · 2 months
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"We are living through a frenzy of conformity, in which the opinions of a minority of activists are falsely presented by the media, political and corporate classes as though they reflect an established consensus."
-- Andrew Doyle, "The New Puritans"
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b0bthebuilder35 · 16 days
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blackcat-brazil · 4 months
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theaskew · 23 days
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thesolarfandom · 1 year
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Got any headcanons in this trying time?
Absolutely I do! A few up front disclaimers though:
1. These will include spoilers up to the halloween special
2. They aren't cutesy, my neurodivergent brain thinks up deep lore instead
3. They're not original! Though not all, many have been discussed with or adopted from others. I can't help it, I love to talk about these aliens lol
Okay so my 2 biggest headcanons:
The asteroids that destroy Shlorps aren't random or from the Silver Cops, but from Shlorp's own elite ruling class.
Since the teams are named "ballochory", a term for seed dispersal that relies on explosive self-destruction, this implies that the asteroids are entirely intentional. And yet, it seems most Shlorpians (the working class, "bred for duty and servitude") saw the asteroid as a freak, unpreventable incident that cruelly destroyed their homeworld. Meanwhile, the ruling class was told about the asteroid in advance and went to the planets that would eventually be terraformed.
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My theory is that the ruling class takes over other planets and depletes them of their natural resources until they are no longer viable to sustain their leisurely lifestyles, then intentionally destroys them to wipe away any evidence while going to new planets to start the process over again. The working class is left unaware of this scheme, continually destroyed and recreated by pupas, kept in belief of a strict religion and government that punishes any dissent and free thought. It is, essentially, "slavery with more steps". While the Silver Cops are aware of this scheme, they aren't aware of the class distinctions.
Chris the red goobler is still shrunk.
At the end of "The Booster Manifold", Korvo and Terry hit Chris with not just one, but two guns that shrink him down.
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While Chris has clearly grown a LOT since this incident, he still exhibits some dwarfed anatomy that Combo Funbucket displays when shrunk.
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Though it should be noted that the guns used to shrink Chris are different from the gun used to shrink Combo Funbucket and people in the Wall, the humans display no evident dwarfism, while Combo Funbucket does.
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My theory, then, is that if Chris were not shrunk, he would be a monster bigger than Combo Funbucket-- which makes sense, since red gooblers are supposedly meant to kill the Shlorpian they came from. This also means that any future red gooblers made by our Opposites family will grow to these enormous sizes if not shrunk twice.
Feel free to ask for more! I'm full of them 😅
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By Gary Wilson
An Artificial Intelligence gold rush has fueled a meteoric rise in technology stock. Paired with the AI mania is the war industry bubble.
Rises in the stock market don’t mean gains for the working class — the rich guys at the top own stocks. So to say that the stock market is doing well is to say that the 1% is doing well.  
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