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anton 🏴‍☠️
@atroyn
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
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- living five adults to a two room apartment - being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
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- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet - everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex
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- mandatory workplace political education - productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites
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- deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences - networked computers exist but they're really bad
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- elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges - failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs
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- otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead
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- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users
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RonWatts
@wrongwatch
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@atroyn
This attitude could be resolved if the United States respected its' own borders. Military personnel should be brought home from the HUNDREDS of operations all over the world. The military should protect US citizens, not corporations.