Clearly, some people haven’t seen Sam Seder ambush Steven crowder, who quaked with fear.

Oh NO: Sam Seder! What a fucking nightmare!

Good. I hope it bricks their hardware.

I never claimed there was anything wrong with money? As far as I thought, I was arguing that it was a tool so useful it would be reinvented if a society did away with it.

I wouldn’t kill my neighbor? Was that too complicated an example? I think that money, like an axe, is a tool that can be used differently in different contexts. ‘Money’ isn’t the issue. How it’s used is the issue, which is why I think we would invent it. You don’t solve the ‘issues’ of an axe. You don’t solve the ‘issues’ of money. Capitalism uses stand-ins for value to harm people, but I am not convinced it’s an inherent trait of value stand-ins. I think LV’s are money, so I think you think that is true also.

I am aware of this. It’s functionally no different than a dollar bill. The fact that I intend to melt down an axe after I use it to chop a tree down doesn’t make it not an axehead. If I used that same axe to hack my neighbor to death, well, that’s a completely different use. In the case of communist ‘money’, I think we would cease using money to kill our neighbor.

Anything you exchange as a representation or substitute for something else of value. I think communism would reinvent what I consider money but wouldn’t use it as it’s used under capitalism.

I think if we eliminated money, we would just invent it again and call it something else.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s hard for me to contain my incredulity: have you been asleep for the last decade? Has a very obvious pattern of enshitification not been constantly proven as a rule on the tech sector? And an article is… outrage?

Oh god, how will replace a completely basic word processor? Surely there are not numerous replacements?

While I agree with most of what you are saying, I don’t think this is an example of gaslighting. This is just run of the mill dishonesty.

In 2011, there was a lightly steam-punk (Davinci-punk?) Three Musketeers movie with a villanous Orlando Bloom that set up for a sequel. We never got that sequel because only I liked it. It was, by no means, high art. I just like Alexander Dumas.

I was getting off to adust my forks and avoid dropping my skid. My boss told me, ‘Should be fine like that.’ I listened to him, lift the skid, and it IMMEDIATELY tipped over. Your boss isn’t driving. You are.

“Um, obviously, MY opinions aren’t political. Opinions that differ from mine are the political ones!”

Zero. It is well known among those that care for me that if you feel you must, I do not want it if it if I can’t eat it.

Nope. You’re wrong.

Hierarchy must justify its existence, or it must be dismantled.