[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago

Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Per Dr Eleanor Janega, Rome guys are continuing the Roman tradition of pondering the last ‘cool’ empire. Romans pondered the Greeks, now Americans ponder Rome. I think a lot of the Rome/Greek pondering in America was about justifying slavery. Hence why there’s a Parthenon in Nashville. The Romans were a “democracy” with a slave underclass, so it’s actually cool and normal to do that.

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[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

Right? Is the vomit emoji an ancient anti Semitic trope?

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 66 points 5 months ago

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/intercepted-doctor-gaza-interview/

But [Palestinian medical workers], they are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

So it’s “rules based international order” except between armed corporations instead of armed countries. I can’t see how that would ever lead to problems /s

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Butlerian Jihad now

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Reading Giblin and Doctorow’s Chokepoint Capitalism and they used a term “freedom of contract” I hadn’t heard before, and which I realized that I have over-valued in my brain.

I’ve already broken through in a few spots, for instance employment contracts can obviously be exploitative and workers have little ability to negotiating the terms on their own.

Or bank loans, not because of the negotiation so much as the moral stigma attached to defaulting on loans. I can see that the bank took a risk, they can take the consequences too. Why add moral consequences to an action that already carries financial consequences?

I think this loans issue comes back to an association of business contracts with social promises, which I’ve spent some time breaking down.

The employment issue is another kettle of frogs. That comes back to consent and whether a person who is not entirely free can consent. I guess that’s the whole point of a revolution though. Any attempt to make contract law fairer to respect the fact that some parties are signing under duress will be thorny, because all people are under duress under capitalism.

There’s barely a question in there, but … thoughts?

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

Probability understander has entered the chat

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thanks for the background, I had no idea that foreign fish industries were raiding their waters.

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This is showing up everywhere, can’t be a coincidence!

[-] luddybuddy@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago

It’s unclear whether Israel cut off communications by bombing in general or if Israel did it by bombing this specific building. I guess we’ll never know who is to blame who-did-this

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Someone cares about the patch enough to manufacture them, distribute them, and wear them

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