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waiting patiently to see people walking around with underwear on their faces

making some assets for gamestop.store

Humans aren't the disease. You're thinking of Lime scooters.

humans are not, in fact, “The Disease”. you fucking weirdo

"Wow Colophon I can't believe you argued against free speech 😢 "

Imagine if every time you ever went to a movie, everyone were allowed to say whatever they wanted to, and you had to bring headphones to plug in to listen to the movie, like you were on an airplane, while strangers in the seats around you argued about the film they aren't even watching, because they're too busy arguing about it. That's approximately the value of the great bulk of comment sections.

Sites which really have no use for commentary at all will stick comment sections in, turning every post into a prompt for position-taking. It's a great way to get repeat ad revenue as people argue for the sake of it. If they make accounts, even better; they'll make a habit of it. Page views go through the roof, and the outlet stays afloat with less effort put into it.

In short, many comment sections are essentially scams designed to get you to waste time pumping up page views and metrics.

Having comment sections on everything under the sun is a really bad idea. Their omnipresence has primed a certain section of the population to force themselves to have an opinion and take a position on things which they don't have any serious thoughts about, for the sake of commentary as a kind of impromptu sport.

You don't actually have to have an opinion about everything under the sun. There's no final tally or scorekeeper. Sometimes it's fine to say "I don't know," or to say nothing.

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Keynes is a pretty vital thinker imo bc his life's work is "how can we make capitalism into a system that works well enough that the workers won't overthrow the bourgeoisie?" this idea of counter-cyclical policies is all Keynes; the public sector steps in to balance out the ailing private sector in times of crisis.

he's more or less the last major capitalist thinker to seriously grapple with the question of how to deal with recessions. it says something that the American economics profession has mostly been dismissing his work for the past half-century in favor of Milton Friedman style charlatans that flatter power much more. and their solution is austerity, which, hoo boy, can't wait to see how that goes in a pandemic. it's going to be a shitshow.

Tfw someone should do a study

tfw the supreme court throws your ballot in the garbage even though you followed the instructions given to you by the state of wisconsin

You'll never be as cool as Ethiopian resistance fighters liberating their country from fascist Italy

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<< By a 5–4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses a lower court order extending the deadline for mail-in ballots in Wisconsin. All four liberals dissent.

The conservative majority just effectively threw out thousands of ballots. Incredible. [...] Tens of thousands of Wisconsinites will not receive their absentee ballots by Election Day BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, THOUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN.

The U.S. Supreme Court's five conservatives just said: "Too bad. You don't get to vote." >>

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1247301011947085825

The Supreme Court just enabled a stupendous act of voter suppression in a fantastically cruel way. They will do anything and everything to entrench the ruling party.

I can't see my country coming back from how fucked we are right now.