Doubledee

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Legit had a lib trying to explain to me how subsistence farming and illiteracy was such a peaceful life that most Chinese resent the state for forcibly modernizing them. This because I suggested that maybe Chinese people have buy-in with their system on account of the literacy and modernization and the greatest improvement in life expectancy and standard of living in history.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What facilities is the sector most in need of currently? I've arrived with a modest amount of resources.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's funny that Dickens was also making fun of Malthus from a lib angle.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they're interested in converting people you might be able to take one for the team by appearing interested and distracting them with, basically, bait.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

When my overpriced gadget might be damaged if I took measures to protect my health.

die

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I just kept thinking how all those landlords should've been killed

sicko-wistful

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

soviet-chad Using your labor power to read Capital on your boss's dime. Great work comrade!

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

very-smart me showing up for my scheduled class like a good boy.

Thanks as always, comrade.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

I mean I'm not a philosopher or an expert but I don't think you can read Capital and not conclude that Marx is at least partially motivated by moral outrage. Page after page of examples of children doing dangerous and exhausting work, rigorously documenting just how little food workers are getting, he even waxes poetic at times to make it clear how bad he thinks the capitalists are when they defend these realities as necessary or moral.

It's not strictly necessary for the theory to be useful (hell, it seems like the worst capitalists clearly understand the theory, even if they don't articulate it in the same terms) but Marx isn't, in my opinion, neutral as to which side is good. Even if he would say it's best to assume a scientific detachment I think he has picked a side, and not merely for material reasons.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are cissies "work/government issue" or "copied a friend's"?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm trying to decide what version of volume 2 to get. I'm worried that if I have to try to read it on a screen it won't work out, and I'm not confident that I could listen to the audio format and understand it.

I wish there were 3 volume sets that weren't like $1000.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your favorite place to go to/you have been to? I guess those could be separate answers.

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