no, people hated each other before the internet…even moreso than they do now. believe it or not, media giants has an easier time bubbling people pre-internet

last time i bothered looking into, literally every EU anti-privacy initiative had links to either Putin or Thiel (or one of his puppets)

you can really tell who has never been to/lived in the EU, when they make it sound like the US is even remotely in the same field as the EU far as QoL is concerned

not physical innocence

this was what i needed, more or less confirms what i already suspected. got a lot of stuff to add to reading list i guess

enough people use crypto now that it’s unlikely to crater entirely…unless western governments finally kick out the neolib types and take back their country’s from private equity/big business

if the strikers had backbone (and proper support from the community) yes. hiring everyone back on and preventing retribution is the first or second demand from any halfway decent labor strike.

this is what the NALC did back in the 70’s…but they’re a shadow of their former selves ever since betraying their brothers in 2008

yes

there certainly were a lot of suspiciously timed, and very risky, trades made immediately before the crashes

if you remove the AI circular spending bubble, we are 100% in a recession already.

and that’s if you trust the data, which arguably has been far too fucked with to be useful for years now.

i’d argue it was more having the first black president running on a campaign of HOPE AND CHANGE

then…doing absolutely fuck all but furthering the status quo, completely unjustified warmongering, unsustainable ratfucking etc.

you definitely can, just take out their funding. the majority are roaches in it for a paycheck. no paycheck and they go back to running scams in their hometown

someones got to spend that $, only way this whole thing doesn’t explode

do you understand just how incredibly easy money is to get in a bull market/bubble? they print a literal infinite amount of the stuff, and the richest of our society gamble with it at digital casinos so they can watch lines go up instead of spending it in the real world.

if you learn the rules to that casino, you would never have to work another day in your life.

that is to say, there are only two types of jobs in this world…those you do for money, and those you do because you no longer need money. this “character” you speak off still believes they can find the latter…perhaps tell them, honestly, that…no, that job your working at now will not bring them any greater fulfillment.

if they are looking for fulfillment from their job they should look elsewhere as to not waste anymore time (the only real finite resource, on the time-scale of any singular human)

wouldn’t be too fast…shit is only getting worse when he croaks.

a live telacast of everyone in congress doing dementia screenings would be fantastic imo

the french model of completely banning even the collection of that information, outside of strictly for facilitating medical care, seems like the best way forward imo.

if you have that information, the race supremacists will use it to their own ends if they ever come into power…as we are seeing right now with ICE

any resources on the subject of deprogramming these people you’d recommend.

i know the first bits is like “build trust, don’t come from place of judgement yada yada” but how do you actually get them to finally start thinking critically?

the entire US public education system was designed around not teaching critical thinking skills, specifically to make compliant factory workers…

but if we start teaching people critical thinking skills they might not make nice compliant factory workers