Because this multiple species take has been a basis of slavery in the past.

people aren’t realizing this is that crazy guy who thinks he’s a dragon and refers to himself in third person.

but not heeded

Atta boy

“Luigi good”

Damn people have no room for nuance here. The Elon hate is eclipsing rational discussion here and your getting mad down votes. Sucks.

Mostly, I agree with you.

But, I do have a really really big fear that once Elon gets space x in a position to be NASAs only outsourced transportation contractor, they will have a monopoly on hardware and NASA will have a budget that got reduced to pennies of what it is now…

He’s gonna extort them to let him do whatever he wants or he’ll take his toys and go home. The first people on Mars will be scientists, but musks bullshit will be right behind them and he won’t have to listen to a fucking thing they tell him.

I hope that doesn’t happen but realistically there’s nothing we will be able to do to stop it if he wants to.

IMHO it’s his end goal. His reason for being trumps piggy bank right now. He’s positioning himself to be untouchable as a space transportation company in 15 to 25 years. Spacex will be the most valuable company ever if it happens. Asteroid mining is going to be a multi trillion dollar industry and he wants to be the company that develops the infrastructure and can get out there and actually become capable of actually doing it. But this last bit is just a hunch

💀 I also read it that way

Its important to recognize modern capitalist control as a form of hostage taking. “Pay us the ransom or your critical infrastructure get its”, even as we’re receiving fingers and earlobes in the mail with every passing year.

This is so fuckin true.

Solidarity is about liberating these critical components of infrastructure and operating them for the benefit of the public.

BINGO if we have the power to protest effectively then we can actually make them hurt. Right now I feel like we don’t have that power at all. Just citing my example of the railroads, they stepped in quick and made sure the goods kept moving.

The goal isn’t to shut down these institutions, but to run them without profiteers leeching the excess revenue.

Absolutely.

That’s why some of the most effective popular economic protests don’t involve suspending services, but operating them while refusing to collect fees for service.

This is interesting to me I always understood keeping services running for the sake of not harming innocent citizens But I didn’t really think it was effective. I could see a public transport rail system doing that and it working, but how do workers in other industries prevent the corporation they work for from taking in the revenue

Remember when the railroad threatened to strike and nacy pelosi said they would throw them in jail if they didn’t go to work…fucking unreal.

A few take aways:

They need us so fucking bad

They will do anything to maintain control

No one at that level is fighting for you

Solidarity will be hard to achieve because those threats will be too much for people on the ropes in their day to day life to endure.

Or a blow out in a sport competition

Depends highly on the variant. Plain noodle ones are great, but the meat ones are nasty

They are certainly very useful for this purpose.

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Fwiw I’m a gun guy who supports common sense legislation and whatever it is we are talking about here ;) not defending corpos that’s for fucking sure. V for vendetta becoming a history movie would be fine with me. Also fuck uvalde cops and republicans who say “now is not the time to discuss gun laws”

Definitely, but he was the one with the campaign that was named, or became known as “the war on drugs,” unless I’m tripping

I have heard of this. I remember reading once that sailing ships used hemp for their cloth because it was plentiful and durable. No idea where I saw that though

That is a bit older than Reagan, war on drugs is a Nixon thing, but I agree with the general sentiment. Fuckem both.

Gave humanity the ole switcheroo

For me it’s a preference.

The sentiment in question is a response to someone else being weirded out and posting it online… No one is seeking validation lol they’re asserting that it’s normal.

People who act creepy and take videos or pictures of someone out doing something alone and posting it online are the weird ones.

This context should be obvious

Secluded nature wank

No, the wrong one is to do nothing.

But whatever I guess optics and decorum are more important than protecting citizens and the integrity of our democracy…

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