Put-Our-Rich-Criminals-in-Check Global Emporium

I literally cannot take adblocker off even wanting to contribute to revenue I like because there is no ad service that isn’t garbage. It is basically impossible to browse Chrome on my phone, I have Safari with an adblocker to make it reasonable.

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Yet.

Sooner or later someone will put a strobe in a pants label.

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A lot of times the ads slow the website down until its nearly useless.

Sometimes I get offensive ads.

In either case, I block the ads.

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True. But also. Why was this garment even made? It’s a waste of pricy leather.

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I picked up better looking stuff in the little town outside the Post in Korea.

And it only cost me $40.

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Giant tech corporations would lose their ability to own markets if we took away their exclusive rights to (patent) IP that their owners don’t physically possess.

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You can remove “tech” from that sentence. Disney is making billions on ancient properties - their most popular franchises are almost all older than me.

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Seize the memes of production?

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No, you can’t remove tech from it. It’s patents that give them market control, not entertainment back catalog. For the bits of Disney that are a tech company, though, you can think of it as a tech company.

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Back in the 90s I started having trouble with strobes in some kids’ shoes.

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This is what happens when your ideology rejects necessary tools because they are, for you, only a symbol for your oppressor. Use the tool, see where it is insufficient, create better ones. This is the limit of a socialism-only mental model of the future. Not only is it insuffient, the inability to see any connective tissue between where we are now and where we want to get to creates exactly this kind of self-reinforcing despair:

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What are capitalists thinking? That capital should rule, everywhere, without constraint from morality, democracy, social regulation, or even markets.

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Really getting an Enron vibe off this guy.

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Pretty fucking tired of so many writers being so fucking uncreative and divorced from lives that matter, in addition to being kept creatures of the aristocratic society of murder that they buzz around. A lazy critic reviews a hackish propagandist:

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1930s all over again.

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Don’t libertarians complain about corruption? Or is the problem just the inconsistent application of libertarian corruption?

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