antisocial

What you say is true, and yet there’s something more deeply unsettling. The ideology and founding of the U.S. is at its core anti-social. So is the competitive economy (and so on). It’s a dog eat dog structure of things, not just a few dip shits in the <1% (although it is that too)

With those two incredibly low bars you eliminated like 30% of people around me every day, which is a good way of illustrating how insufferable it is to keep moving through this society

Capitalism wants us isolated, sad, and reliant on their products/services. The antidote is strong community.

I whole-heartedly agree, and yet it is virtually impossible to do such a thing as “build community” at this point, at least in the United States. There is like a pervasive anti-community dark magic / anti-matter sort of thing

This person has citied

I don’t think anyone is really chill and alert at the same time.

I do think so. I’ve attained this state. It’s famous in philosophy, spirituality, as a performer, in a “military” or fighting context, and so on.

But I guess it depends what you mean by chill. A better word is calm. It is totally possible to be calm and alert at the same time. I’d say it is a more ideal state to be in, and strive to achieve consistently.

They must be real big beans for 15 of them to last a few days

I do not use mainstream social media. Haven’t in years.

I genuinely don’t understand why people make the switch and then worry about bank apps. Don’t people have cash and credit cards? What about using an internet browser on a PC or laptop for logging in to bank accounts?

So, for example, I could use Maps this way on the GOS?

What do you use for 2FA?

For capitalism to be “good” basically everyone would have to be a saint. That’s why something better than capitalism is needed, because that is far from the case, and actually impossible

I agree but who knows if that will be in 3, 10, or 20 or 50 years

I do vote in the primaries and it still doesn’t amount to much, especially considering the most well funded (corporate and welathy backed candidate) almost always win because it’s a name recognition game, and money buys that message into people’s brains for when they get to the booth.

And guess what, Harris didn’t even have a primary, she was appointed.

Then there is virtually no method (thru established channels) of public accountability once a politician gets into office. That is why in reality almost all of them succumb to money interests, for the few who didn’t already before getting elected.

You place way too much faith in the process of capitalist “liberal democracy” which is the shallowest shell of democracy. The architects of the political system are the rich and powerful themselves. It is an elaborate maze designed to keep the ones in power in power. You blame and direct your ire at the wrong people.

You are not voting against Fascists by voting for Democrats. You are voting for delaying hard fascism in favor of a more subtle fascism and setting up a harder fascism for the next Republican administration. That is how it’s worked this whole time, that is the progression of electoral lesser evil politics in this country.

Reiterated, you don’t understand the systemic problem if you blame virtually powerless voters in this fraudulent “democracy.” If you don’t agree with this, I personally don’t give a shit if you take me “seriously.”

And you can blame me and other voters/non-voters all you want, but that won’t fix a thing, and not only that, it is pointing a finger at the non-powerful instead of the powerful, the individual instead of the system itself, and in this way you are perpetuating “the problem” more than nonvoters, or people who vote their conscience (like I did for Cornell West, the best option in the recent presidential election). Hey, why didn’t you and everyone else vote for the real lesser evil? The better option than Harris? By your logic, I blame all of you for not having a better Administration and better things. “We didn’t vote for the better candidates because they had no chance.” Yeah, because you didn’t vote for them. After all it is everyone’s choice that they could have made. But see how dumb it is for me to blame you for all the problems today?

Oh and maybe you should consider blaming the Democrats for being absolute ass and totally captured by corporate interests, and nobody really wanting to vote for them because they suck total ass and are not a serious opposition and have mostly been in league with the Republicans. Why aren’t you blaming the actual powerful?

Whether you think voting is any kind of solution or not, people who don’t go to the voting booth are definitely not “the problem” – saying that things are bad because of people who don’t vote in a game of shitty choices is a real misunderstanding of the problem

It is to protect themselves by gradually removing people’s ability to spread information and organize pseudoanonymously

Minimalist is not how I’d describe the endless amount of spectacle and triggering but useless “features” on everything

Nothing they would actually do. Correct.

Yeah, that is exactly what I’ve thought of Yanis V’s “critique” as well. Well said

It’s a kind of rebrand of Marxism that is missing out on some important points, even the defining elements of capitalism which are still in place. Like, he is saying capitalism is not capitalism anymore? His idea is that capitalism has been “killed” which is disingenuous at best (if he’s just using it as hyperbole) and completely wrong at worst, since we are indeed still broadly in the thick of it. It does seem sorta like he just wanted to sell a book or hear himself talk etc.