When you think money is the only thing that matters. 😏 Sounds like those people who told me that I was a fool to marry or work a normal job, when I could make more money with OnlyFans. There is more than one way to prostitute yourself, sirs. View quoted note →

I regularly see people complaining about Flock cameras as "government over-reach" or "commie cameras", but Flock Safety is actually a _private_ security company, from Atlanta. A lot of the stuff people complain about as "commie" is actually private enterprise.

Atlanta Community Press Collective

Flock Safety: AI- powered surveillance capturing license plate data

Flock Safety surveillance database allowed local police to track the license plate of a person who had an abortion in Texas.

You cannot have a system of sound governance (or even self-governance) within a highly-unequal society. That is not a thing. He who has the gold makes the rules.

Anyone else just get a terrifying Terms and Conditions from #Minibits?

This. View quoted note →

Voted, yet? View quoted note →

I actually can remember the time when Libertarianism was a bunch of homeschooling hippies living communally. Planting organic heirloom tomatoes, smoking pot, and unschooling their kids. And then some social conservatives decided to do something similar, but less chill and with Bible Study. And we called that "Paleo-Libertarianism", and I told everyone I was a Libertarian and we all were happily voting for Ron Paul for Pres, and protesting the bank bailouts, and Marching for Life, and stacking silver coins and canned pickles, figuring out how to culture sourdough, and teaching our children Latin and Plato. And then the Big Money moved in and turned it all into a political lobby for the Super Rich, and I checked out. We were the people who made economics work sustainably by loving other people more than money. But that was always a small club and the Super Rich were never in it. I remember.

What is most interesting to me, is that they are both clear that, once everyone has enough to eat, it is relative poverty that destroys the government. I.e. inequality itself is the problem. It is the disparity, that leads to imbalance. View quoted note →