@sullybiker@Moon Man-made CO2 emissions are not causing significant warming of the planet. Climates change, it's natural. The "climate change" narrative is unscientific and false, but it functions well as an enormous scam for billionaires and tyrants.
@lain I saw a yogurt I wanted to buy at the grocery store, and then noticed that it had Minions branding/theming, and said to myself "I can't buy that, that would just be unethical." Then I wondered whether I was being ironic or not. I didn't buy the yogurt.
All the evidence is there. It's like catching a serial killer and they say "well the victim is already dead, so what difference does it make at this point to lock me up? It's just more suffering." So the police agree and let them go, then later suprisedpikachu.jpg
I'd think the notion of "the next COVID" would motivate people, but truth and confronting powerful interests makes them uncomfortable.
@thendrix@mia@lain a king can operate with the freedoms espoused by ancaps, but to paraphrase a Skyrim jarl: "It's good to be the jarl, you should try it sometime"
Sorry, it just bugs me because sometimes I see lolbertarians idolizing Bill Gates because he rich, and being rich is capitalism, or something, and that's what's presented to the public as libertarianism, when it's about as capitalist as Nancy Pelosi. It's a caricature made by anti-capitalists.
@thendrix@mia@lain the single family home didn't lobby for eminent domain and special exemptions. By that logic, the Mickey Mouse Protection Act (Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) was also AnCap, and so is Google by lobbying to be a platform and a publisher at the same time.
None of this is AnCap or capitalist, it's just corporatist, buying the ability to cheat from the government by getting cozy with the government.
@thendrix@lain it's not very ancap to get special exceptions from laws from the government so that your monopoly can monopolize more. It's subsidy and getting cozy with government to gain a anti-competitive advantage and make the market less free.
@lain I can't even react to headlines anymore, because more often than not the article proves the headline to be a outright lie. Is this just "control" as in "stop controlling"? Where someone disingenuous will portray ending a subsidy as government intervention and overreach?
@noyoushutthefuckupdad revert definition of vaccine back to what it was before they changed it to include the mRNA therapeutic "vaccine", then strip the companies of immunity to liability lawsuits for damages caused.
In a free market, they would be sued into oblivion. With government regulation, they have a liability-free cash-cow so big that they start mutating covid to keep it going.
@7@icedquinn@furgar I think it's that they've swallowed the "overpopulation pill", where they think that in order to save the world, population must be reduced. All problems can be seen through this lens, with:
"that problem isn't as important as saving the world, and to save the world we need to reduce the number of humans."
Therefore the solution to war: more of it! The solution to disease: more of it! WWIII could lower population! COVID could lower population! Nuclear winter could lower population! Starvation could lower population! Making society miserable and offering MAID could lower population! (this also means Hitler and Mao did nothing wrong, other than stop)
One might argue they should kill themselves first to lower population, but it doesn't work that way, because then the remaining people would not be in favor of population reduction. Their long-term solution has to involve killing those against population reduction (not themselves) first.
It's anti-human and evil. It's false and unscientific. But I think it's the brainwashing that has been done to a lot of the top 0.01% wealth people.
>31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News
Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for /@nytimes /@wapo and others
@Moon@Hyolobrika@MischievousTomato@animeirl@rbreich so the journos at least who were involved in this literal conspiracy, were disingenuous liars when they said "It's a private company, they can do what they want"
Also the "It's a private company, they can do what they want" is part of a pattern to me, where leftists and democrats only appeal to right-wing and republican values and principles, and never mention any of their own or bring up any of their own as arguments.
Another example of this is when I brought up Fauci's previous funding of lab experminets involving dogs having their faces eaten off by flies, while still alive, with their vocal chords slit. A response I got on fedi from a leftist was along the lines of: "How can you complain? Republicans would be fine with this sort of thing." Like (a strawman of) Republicans sets their bar.
@Hyolobrika@MischievousTomato@Moon@animeirl@rbreich it was part of the operation to convince reporters to report that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. An the "journalists" propagated that lie, and Twitter banned the New York Post for reporting on it, just before the 2020 election. We also know that the FBI knew it was real, while pushing this.
@Moon@animeirl@Hyolobrika@MischievousTomato@rbreich > when it flipped back to affecting left wingers it became a free speech issue for them again. Did it really become an issue for them again? I've seen them argue that they don't like it, or that Elon Musk is <slur>, but I haven't seen them use the term "free speech" or appeal to a principled similar concept.
Also the elephant in the room is that Twitter IS/WAS NOT a private company, and much of the censorship was done at request of gov or directly by gov agents with their own login portal that requires a gov email address.