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moocow said:
Nah, I get the point. The point is obvious and it's just being used as a cudgel to try to embarrass people who don't give a shit (Amazon's leadership) and harvest sympathy points from people who can't do anything to help (random twitter losers).

Like it or not, you do have a few options if you're working in a "sweatshop" in a first-world country, but they all require work and effort to achieve anything meaningful ... except of course the "whine impotently about it and do nothing else" option, which is super-easy, cathartic and wins you some juicy victimhood points. Your other options include trying to unionize, suing your employer over the conditions, getting political about it (beyond posting on twitter), finding a new job, sabotaging things from the inside, torching the warehouse (in minecraft), etc. But those are hard and potentially very risky, and there's no guarantee of success, so nobody ever really does any of that. So they just whine instead. I get not wanting to risk your income, family, livelihood and assets if you're just barely hanging on, but I've always found the "I'm totes stuck and this job sucks and I have no agency in this at all so I'm going to whine online for sympathy and do literally nothing else" attitude irritating.

To illustrate my point, what have you two (@Montalbane and @Toolbox) specifically done to help improve conditions at the Amazon "sweatshops"? Hell, what has anyone here done? The only demonstrable action I've seen so far is posting a screencap of a reddit post of a "yeah! Take that Amazon!" photograph. Finger-waggling by proxy. Sure, it may feel good, but it's no skin off Amazon's back.

So you can scold the "retarded take" if you really want to, but that's not going to help improve working conditions at Amazon's warehouses.
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This is dumb.

How the fuck are a bunch of warehouse workers meant to take on one of the richest companies in the world? Suing Amazon would require money (you're working for Amazon in a warehouse, you have no money). The job prospects are slimmer as more people are born every year than die, and those places you can work end up shipping shit overseas. More people, fewer jobs, creates a nasty feedback loop.

Improving working conditions would require real political capital, but you cannot outspend billionaires. And no other company is going to help you as they would fear someone coming down on them after the fact, so you are on your own up against the majority of people with money.

Who would you take this fight too? Amazon owns a few papers as it is, social media is a wash as they are all in bed with each other and unlikely to do shit about it as they are in the same situation as Amazon and want to protect that.

Sure, the "get a better set of trades and move on from that type of work" is an answer, but that market is filled up with people who thought the same. I am a sparky, and whenever we are looking to hire, we get far too many applications. The market for jobs is very shitty. Not to mention the endless stories of Amazon and the like doing all they can to stop people trying to make it better. We have a similar situation with Sports Direct in the UK, and you should see the shit the fat cunt Mike does to stop any improvement for his workforce. You will notice however that the stories stopped once it became clear he was also paying of people in power to keep his slave labour in line, thus circling back to my point, who the fuck is going to help you in this fight, the system sees nothing wrong with the current set up.
 
whogoesthere said:
This is dumb.

How the fuck are a bunch of warehouse workers meant to take on one of the richest companies in the world? Suing Amazon would require money (you're working for Amazon in a warehouse, you have no money). The job prospects are slimmer as more people are born every year than die, and those places you can work end up shipping shit overseas. More people, fewer jobs, creates a nasty feedback loop.

Improving working conditions would require real political capital, but you cannot outspend billionaires. And no other company is going to help you as they would fear someone coming down on them after the fact, so you are on your own up against the majority of people with money.

Who would you take this fight too? Amazon owns a few papers as it is, social media is a wash as they are all in bed with each other and unlikely to do shit about it as they are in the same situation as Amazon and want to protect that.

Sure, the "get a better set of trades and move on from that type of work" is an answer, but that market is filled up with people who thought the same. I am a sparky, and whenever we are looking to hire, we get far too many applications. The market for jobs is very shitty. Not to mention the endless stories of Amazon and the like doing all they can to stop people trying to make it better. We have a similar situation with Sports Direct in the UK, and you should see the shit the fat cunt Mike does to stop any improvement for his workforce. You will notice however that the stories stopped once it became clear he was also paying of people in power to keep his slave labour in line, thus circling back to my point, who the fuck is going to help you in this fight, the system sees nothing wrong with the current set up.
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good old ted k was right about The System™, who knew?
 
Montalbane said:
We need another world war.
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I'm never sure whether the people who say this actually think a nuclear holocaust would improve society or literally don't realise that weapons have got much deadlier since the 1940s. The difference between WW2 and now is like the difference between then and musket era warfare.
 
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It's like they're satirizing themselves.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Well, they probably aren't. Most of the humour from fundamentalist religious types and Q boomers is laughing at them rather than with them. The people who are funny on the right tend to be a bit less authoritarian.
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Yeah the funniest people tend to be fairly anti-authoritarian. Kind of hard to be funny when you have too many sacred cows.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Well, they probably aren't. Most of the humour from fundamentalist religious types and Q boomers is laughing at them rather than with them. The people who are funny on the right tend to be a bit less authoritarian.
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On the overall, uptight control freaks are the least funny people. It's a wet blanket attitude that transcends political belief.
 
i'll drop these and fuck off to fixing my storage HDD's bad clusters, found these while waiting for my bad cluster scan to complete.

The patriarchy.
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Women's support systems are not "given" to us, we build them and maintain them through A LOT of work. Support systems do not come "easy" to anyone!


Just thought I'd post this
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(gaeness explained to a point that alot of people with a functioning brain can become "homophobic" to these tards)

I'm waiting for a preacher to come out and say that the snow and ice in Texas are God's wrath for supporting Trump and Ted Cruz's role in the Capitol insurrection. (can atheists become zealots? yes, yes they can.)

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marfit said:
Their entire argument about chromosomes reminds me of abortion. It's all about the rapebabies until it's just because she doesn't feel like it.

It's all about complicated genetics until it's just a mentally ill autist lolcow sitting in his room taking shaved thigh pics.
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I've always found the chromosomes argument to be somewhat odd. The examples they describe 1) are abnormalities, 2) are rare, 3) are just a subset of chromosomal disorders, 4) often have a variety of negative effects, and 5) some of what they describe are intersex disorders. Yet they try and act like those things are as normal as hair or eye color. Nor do they ever seem mention how trisomy or having partly or completely missing chromosomes is generally a bad thing.
 
A_throwaway_name62919 said:
I've always found the chromosomes argument to be somewhat odd. The examples they describe 1) are abnormalities, 2) are rare, 3) are just a subset of chromosomal disorders, 4) often have a variety of negative effects, and 5) some of what they describe are intersex disorders. Yet they try and act like those things are as normal as hair or eye color. Nor do they ever seem mention how trisomy or having partly or completely missing chromosomes is generally a bad thing.
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Almost every trisomy disorder has mental impairment as a symptom so maybe they're onto something.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
Well, they probably aren't. Most of the humour from fundamentalist religious types and Q boomers is laughing at them rather than with them. The people who are funny on the right tend to be a bit less authoritarian.
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Norm McDonald is pretty funny and would probably have more of a career were he not somewhat right. Similarly, Dennis Miller was downright hilarious before he kind of lost his mind. I can't think of anything less funny than authoritarian SJW "comedians" though. Even someone who starts out funny who goes full SJW immediately becomes as funny as a rotting mackerel. Actually a rotting mackerel could be funny under some circumstances. For instance, imagine Leslie Jones getting smacked in the face with one.
Lapis Lazuli said:
Are studies nowadays just a bunch of redditors who make shit up on the fly and proclaim it as fact rather than actual scientists or researchers?
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Does it come from anyone the name of whose degree ends in "Studies?" If so, yes. And other "soft sciences" have a great deal of bullshit, although not 100% of what comes from such fields is complete tripe.
 
AnOminous said:
Norm McDonald is pretty funny and would probably have more of a career were he not somewhat right. Similarly, Dennis Miller was downright hilarious before he kind of lost his mind. I can't think of anything less funny than authoritarian SJW "comedians" though. Even someone who starts out funny who goes full SJW immediately becomes as funny as a rotting mackerel. Actually a rotting mackerel could be funny under some circumstances. For instance, imagine Leslie Jones getting smacked in the face with one.

Does it come from anyone the name of whose degree ends in "Studies?" If so, yes. And other "soft sciences" have a great deal of bullshit, although not 100% of what comes from such fields is complete tripe.
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I was more thinking about how the good right wing memes were made by people with a more care free or almost libertarian streak. The religious authoritarians are mostly cringe, like Andrew Torba and his fellow Gab users.
 
I've been using Reddit less and less as it's become more sanitized. The admins are really ramping up the bans for anything that isn't "wholesome" and very safe / advertiser-friendly. They're even mass-banning people for joking about or celebrating Rush Limbaugh's death, lol. (There's apparently some kind of drama about this in r/News)

There are still good subreddits out there, but they tend to be small and very niche. I actually wanted to highlight one I enjoy and ask if you all have any other recommendations.

I'm not particularly religious or irreligious, but when I first came across r/AcademicBiblical I ended up binge-reading it for like a week.
It's a small(ish) sub for discussing Biblical scholarship, archaeology, etc. Theology is banned though, and the mods are pretty good about deleting posts made by Christian apologists or edgy atheists that derail the discussion. Commenters are generally respectful and very knowledgeable, sometimes extremely so (just check out this guy for example).

Anyway, here's a sample of some of the content I found really fascinating:


This is getting long, so I'll just recommend that you look up other keywords (Chaoskampf, Storm Theophany, Divine Council, Documentary Hypothesis, the Synoptic Problem, Historical Jesus) on the sub if any of this was interesting to you.
It's a shock reading through AcademicBiblical for awhile and then taking a peek at other religion subs such as r/DebateReligion, r/Christianity, or r/Bible. The difference in the level of discourse and knowledge will give you whiplash.

I might have to do a write-up on r/Bible sometime... it's practically a lolcow sub. Full of evangelical boomers, grifters/scammers, KJV-only weirdos, and more. They also occasionally have entertaining meltdowns/arguments about "degeneracy", moral decline, the coming apocalypse, the prosperity gospel, whether Catholics (or various Protestant denominations) are true Christians™, Trump, the Antichrist, mask mandates, covid vaccines being the Mark of the Beast, etc.
 
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