Recent comments in /f/CapitalismInDecay

Vrik_IV wrote

About this one, the notion of waste has much to do with profit, and that which is classified as waste many times isn’t so, even by the standards of industrial practice.

That being said, not keen on the ‘humans’ being more deserving than the ‘animals’, on the appeals of legality and respectability, on the idea of ‘the poor’, and on the expectation of social responsibility on the part of owners, managers and companies.

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Vrik_IV wrote (edited )

About the closing question, yes, but I’d say there is a difference between talking to people directly from the start and exclusionary vibe-checks. That ‘kind of thing’ is that, vibe-checks, not at all a raddle exclusive, of course, and not anything that can or should be controlled, so I may have phrased wrong the ‘addressed’ part, even if some reflection from each might be good. I am trying, however, to interact in such a way that others may also feel it’s okay to not reduce new people on first interaction, that it is not naive to not have barriers.

I am neither claiming to be completely immune to fabricated community nor that raddle isn’t a generally welcoming place. But this is mostly something that is so common it is done without second thought. Just look at the downvotes on this post - or is my interpretation of those as a barrier of speech a reverse equally nefarious reductiveness?

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kano wrote

ah what you are saying about the first one makes sense, I kind of read it as they want to sell something and was like that's strange. but what you said makes sense.

I did not really like their best liked post either. I have to say I prefer the situation where the shop gives me free food every night by leaving it outside in their dumpster than them not doing that. Trash compactors and locked dumpsters are the worst though.

and I was just saying what I saw as potential issues with what they said to guess why people downvoted. I don't really think it that's bad. I pretty much agree with it depending on how you interpret 'possible and necessary changes' at the end.

also for what you said boubugger. I wonder what you mean with 'that kind of thing' more specifically?

I think its fair enough for us to talk about their posts. They put them out there into a public area so presumably they were ok with that?

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Vrik_IV wrote

I interpreted the first post as just an unpretentious small scale exposure of sorts of economic precepts. This description of mine does indeed read pretentious, but you get the idea.

Curiously enough, the best liked post they have so far is to my mind the worst, as it is explicit about corporate charity.

About this one, I don’t disagree with you necessarily, but seems honest enough, to come from experience and not seeking points, and it is not every reformist that would speak in terms of love, whatever one might think about that. Very far from worse than many a popular post, hence me wondering if there was some context.

boobbougger, apologies in advance for this speaking about your posts as if you weren’t here, instead of engaging directly. To be frank, I do think that kind of thing needs addressing around here, not the first time it happens, and it would piss me off a lot if I were you, as it already does in every interaction that drove me to seeking solace here.

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kano wrote

didn't downvote them but their first post is real strange. here I find it kind of annoying that they seem to assume everyone is from USA. Also I don't think the issue with prison is that they charge prisoners or people on the outside to speak w each other. I mean that is not clear to me that they are even critiquing prisons from at least an abolitionist perspective.

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when_you_sleep wrote (edited )

They know that Muslims in certain towns have X marks on their doors and are being asked to leave. They know that Muslims have been ghettoised. And that now people who are accused of actually lynching, murdering Muslims are leading so-called religious processions through these ghettos. They know that vigilantes are out there with swords, calling for annihilation, calling for the mass rape of Muslim women.

Aw hell nah

The rest of the article/interview is way worse, holy shit, India might as well become another Nazi country, if it hasn't already.

The state of India is very precarious, very contested. We have a situation in which the constitution has been effectively set aside.

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roanoke9 wrote

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Boundary testing. Population accepts this affront. Recalculating... what else can they be made to endure without doing more than grumble, complain and wring their hands...

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ano wrote (edited )

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The cancellation will provide an additional three billion kroner (£355m; $427m) to be used on the defence budget, the government says.

… the article only reproduces the government's view. The Ministry of Finance had its calculations outright rejected by one of the members of the Economic Council, saying the consequences cannot be predicted – in general nobody with a background in economics was enthusiastic about the decision at the public hearings: https://www.akademikerbladet.dk/aktuelt/2023/februar/eksperter-tvivler-paa-regeringens-plan-om-at-fjerne-store-bededag

… the article also left out that poll showing 70 percent of voters being against the decision: https://www.bt.dk/politik/i-dag-ryger-store-bededag-men-foran-christiansborg-haaber-ole-og-kammeraterne

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