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WampaLord posted:we are a nation full of crabs in a bucket I have a lot of Republican coworkers who go "they don't deserve $15/hr I don't even make that" and they never have an answer for "well maybe we deserve better pay too" Instead they just storm off and continue ranting. The greatest trick the rich pulled was convincing everyone poor that we need to hate each other.
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Len posted:The greatest trick the rich pulled was convincing everyone poor that we need to hate each other. There's a long history, going at least as far back as the original Gilded Age, of capital pitting the working class against itself so that it isn't organized enough to mount a unified defense. "Welfare queens" and "lazy immigrants who take er jerbs" is all a part of the same effort to convince the working class to punch down instead of punching up at the people truly responsible for their plight.
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Apr 8, 2019 00:03
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don't forget prosperity gospel which has been very effective in convincing churchy folks that not being wealthy just means you're not jesusing hard enough you know that jesus fella, always supporting his local megachurch and palling around with the rich
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Apr 8, 2019 00:05
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lol Ray Dalio talking about wealth inequality on 60 minutes total galaxy brain poo poo
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Apr 8, 2019 00:10
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this looks a lot like that robot coffee shop; did they pivot or something? using the same robot?
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Apr 8, 2019 01:21
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the worlds faire but they made it into a lovely city
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Feranon posted:don't forget prosperity gospel which has been very effective in convincing churchy folks that not being wealthy just means you're not jesusing hard enough And the wider culture around spirituality as an endeavor to increase material wealth. I saw a banner ad awhile back that read "can runes help you attract abundance?" And I'm like, do you think the Vikings are known for how they "attracted" "abundance"?
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Well they were pretty good at doing a style of 'The Secret' thinking where they really wanted stuff and made the stuff they wanted their stuff with violence. I guess the secret is 'scrawl some icons in the dirt and butcher the rich and take their stuff'.
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Apr 8, 2019 04:15
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"Reach heaven through violence." Extremely literally.
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I thought robots doing all the hard and tedious jobs were supposed to be a good thing, but nope, the rich managed to gently caress that up too. I used to love robots. I thought they were loving cool. I thought we'd live in a world of fully automated luxury free of want and sorrow, united and immersed in an ever-growing sea of human understanding and compassionate unity, where the untiring hands of our mechanical allies would cradle us with genuine affection -- steel shepherds to guide and protect us. But nope, Jeff Bezos need a smaller yacht for his medium yacht's swimming pool which, itself, is in his biggest yacht's swimming pool, so let's lower taxes for the rich and make things more expensive while denying employment to those most in need. Can we please let loose some of the insane right-wing gunmen in some of these billionaire's homes instead? Like, we're never going to stop these broke-brained short-dicked second-amendment turbochodes from doing murder thanks to our may-as-well-be-non-existent psychological care network, so the least we could do is at least put their insane impulses to constructive purposes.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:02
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Turambar posted:MoonPie is good. Don't know about the rest. no it isn’t
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Apr 8, 2019 05:55
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even the promo picture looks like a frozen white castle with vegetables thrown in there. wow, bet it tastes good.
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Apr 8, 2019 07:45
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Larry Parrish posted:even the promo picture looks like a frozen white castle with vegetables thrown in there. wow, bet it tastes good. never underestimate san franciscan’s willingness to stand in lines for hours for mediocre but “quirky” food.
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Apr 8, 2019 07:47
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Yeah? Well, let's see a robot serve me a hotdog wrapped in bacon at 2 in the morning when I'm wasted. San Francisco is capitalism.city. I'm a chef and I've turned down jobs at 4 different one and two Michelin starred restaurants (one of which has since gotten a third star) because if I took those jobs then I wouldn't be able to pay my rent and also have a social life. I've literally heard a chef say he was thinking about saving up money to go work for a Michelin restaurant. I think he was talking about Benu. But, hey, at least you can see people shooting up and smoking crack on the street while teenagers who make hundreds of thousands of dollars walk passed them in droves completely ignoring them. So at least San Francisco has that. From that burger robot article, it says the founder of that company "started flipping patties at his parent’s Southern California burger joint A's Burgers at age 9..."
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Apr 8, 2019 07:50
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My parents went to visit the US about a month ago and spent most of their time in the Bay Area. All they talk about is how many homeless people there were and I can see from their faces it was harrowing. And if I ask them if they didn't enjoy the trip at all they say that no, it was great but then immediately go back to talking about how horrible it was to see all that misery.
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Apr 8, 2019 07:50
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Good opportunity for neoluddites Goddamn it would feel good to smash up that burg machine
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Powershift posted:Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinda seems like a restaurant run by robots shouldn't have lines, with lines being the result of human's being crap at the stuff robots are supposed to be good at. Especially not lines out the door. Yeah, all the excess customers should have been processed into constituent parts in a timely manner
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Shipon posted:what's great about a city where it's nothing but quirky overpriced food and people stuck up their own rear end either about technology or about being a quirky artist It's real pretty and there's a building with lots of old historic coin-operated arcade machines you can play with I guess It's 50 toll lanes for an otherwise 4 lane road on both sides which is much less interesting
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:There's a long history, going at least as far back as the original Gilded Age, of capital pitting the working class against itself so that it isn't organized enough to mount a unified defense. "Welfare queens" and "lazy immigrants who take er jerbs" is all a part of the same effort to convince the working class to punch down instead of punching up at the people truly responsible for their plight. Gilded Age? Man that poo poo goes back before the American revolution
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Apr 8, 2019 15:54
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Shame Boy posted:Gilded Age? Man that poo poo goes back before the American revolution From Howard Zinn's incredible A People's History of the United States Zinn posted:Page 37
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Testicular Torque Wrench posted:here's an example from 17th century capitalists. I was explicitly trying to not bring up that book but yes that's where I got the idea 
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Apr 8, 2019 16:35
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Alobar posted:Yeah? Well, let's see a robot serve me a hotdog wrapped in bacon at 2 in the morning when I'm wasted. for the punk rock aesthetic that cooks love to cultivate they sure do love licking boots. after two years in fine dining the poo poo i hear from chefs and their lackeys sends my balls into orbit.
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Apr 8, 2019 16:39
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georgia was founded as a place for white slaves and they had a no black slaves allowed policy when it was founded. they were to have border guards and everything. that embargo on african slaves lasted about 20 years. there were strata of indentured servitude and animosity among the classes forever here
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alriiiight i'm movin to cali to get a six figure tech job! go me  wait why is everything so expensive how is this still not enough money aaaaaaaa well.....at least there are homeless junkies and robo burgers. real city life
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Apr 8, 2019 16:53
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Alobar posted:Yeah? Well, let's see a robot serve me a hotdog wrapped in bacon at 2 in the morning when I'm wasted. i didn't think it was possible to get food in sf after midnight
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i didn't think it was possible to get food in sf after midnight The rich are everywhere over there.
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Feranon posted:alriiiight i'm movin to cali to get a six figure tech job! go me Gotta keep track in yospos. Move to cali for the six and a half figgie job That used to be 150k but it's looking more like 316k total comp (10^5.5) nowadays
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i didn't think it was possible to get food in sf after midnight dudes always set up outside of nightclubs and late night bars with portable grills and tacos or hot dogs or whatever, or they did back in 2014
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Screaming Idiot posted:
The last time these United States had left wing loonies running around committing crimes was the Weather Underground bombings and the SLA kidnapping Patty Hearst and robbing banks in the late 60s early 70s. Everything since then has been right wing.
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MRC48B posted:The last time these United States had left wing loonies running around committing crimes was the Weather Underground bombings and the SLA kidnapping Patty Hearst and robbing banks in the late 60s early 70s. Everything since then has been right wing. you've clearly forgotten the gangs of antifa super soldiers and LEFTIST ms-13 turning are cities into whitey killzones
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Apr 8, 2019 18:20
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it's ok, we'll never have to worry about government interference in right wing paramilitary groups again after oklahoma city proved terrorism works
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MRC48B posted:The last time these United States had left wing loonies running around committing crimes was the Weather Underground bombings and the SLA kidnapping Patty Hearst and robbing banks in the late 60s early 70s. Everything since then has been right wing. I mean the right-wingers hate (((globalists))) so if we could just get them to focus on that more than like, mosques and gays it might work... Though that really just means "all jews" doesn't it, so on second thought nah that's a bad idea.
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 MKULTRA had usable and theoretically replicable techniques we just need to find a whole bunch of right wing guinea pigs to turn into sleepers and sodium pentathol. lots of that. and there’s gotta be a couple of goon hypnotists, there’s a goon representative of every profession.
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Apr 8, 2019 18:37
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lancemantis posted:it's ok, we'll never have to worry about government interference in right wing paramilitary groups again after oklahoma city proved terrorism works yep, after getting their asses kicked in court over waco and ruby ridge, the feds decided it was easier to pick on left wing organizations. they don't shoot back.  leftists also don't have a multi billion dollar political propaganda and lobbying machine on their side 
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Methods of advancing your career as an FBI agent 90s: Plan a meticulous raid against one or more right wing psychos holed up in death traps that goes south when all your intel and assumptions of the situation turn out to be bullshit. 00s: Plant a seedy informant who you promised to reduce charges against (larceny/drugs/sexcrimes) within a leftist knitting circle of geriatrics and prevent them taking an activist vacation in Gaza. 10s: Give a cartoon bomb with a trick birthday candle fuse to an autistic Muslim teenager to toss at a Chuck E Cheese, book him as a criminal mastermind, media claims you stopped a terror plot.
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lancemantis posted:it's ok, we'll never have to worry about government interference in right wing paramilitary groups again after oklahoma city proved terrorism works Don't forget Obama giving the Republicans all the excuse they'll ever need (as if they needed one) to gut the poo poo out of the IRS.
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Senor Dog posted:you've clearly forgotten the gangs of antifa super soldiers and LEFTIST ms-13 turning are cities into whitey killzones Can you blame him, American Antifa turned out to be a huge nothingburger.
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