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« Reply #1140 on: June 07, 2019, 04:39:27 PM »
Making $7.20 an hour working outside in the Las Vegas heat and passing out in bar bathrooms :lawd these are my lumpen credentials
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« Reply #1141 on: June 07, 2019, 08:54:29 PM »
Sterilize centrists! :maf
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« Reply #1142 on: June 07, 2019, 08:55:56 PM »
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« Reply #1143 on: June 07, 2019, 11:39:20 PM »
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« Reply #1145 on: June 08, 2019, 11:26:54 AM »
Walking 10k steps a day is a lot better than not walking any steps a day you lazy fucks

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« Reply #1146 on: June 08, 2019, 04:50:51 PM »
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« Reply #1151 on: June 10, 2019, 08:16:13 AM »
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« Reply #1152 on: June 10, 2019, 08:31:42 AM »
https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1137112716592631808

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what's this "we" shit

The question is "are we culpable for the violence we commit when coerced or incentivized by the ruling class", and I would say yeah.

The coercion is relevant, but it doesn't erase said culpability.
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« Reply #1153 on: June 10, 2019, 05:36:26 PM »
our media overlords castigate us for peeing bean water money down the drain while our president literally showers in liquid gold

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1137464817738952704

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« Reply #1154 on: June 10, 2019, 05:54:47 PM »
just stop buying food 4head
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« Reply #1155 on: June 10, 2019, 05:58:28 PM »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sugar-daddy-founder-brandon-wade-abortion-ban-bill-seeking-arrangement-a8945601.html

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Sugar Daddy website founder to pay for abortions of women who need to travel out of restrictive states

'If lawmakers will not step in and help these desperate women, then I will,' says Brandon Wade
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« Reply #1156 on: June 10, 2019, 06:02:40 PM »
great news, GOP congressmen mistresses!

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« Reply #1157 on: June 10, 2019, 06:21:16 PM »
our media overlords castigate us for peeing bean water money down the drain while our president literally showers in liquid gold

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1137464817738952704
https://twitter.com/_lizharvey/status/462344079435526144 (2014 vintage, phew 👀 )

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« Reply #1158 on: June 10, 2019, 06:24:17 PM »
$0.99 coffee at 7/11  :rejoice


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« Reply #1160 on: June 11, 2019, 02:06:15 PM »
Reminds me of that quote ascribed to Julius Nyerere, "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

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« Reply #1161 on: June 11, 2019, 02:33:55 PM »

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« Reply #1162 on: June 11, 2019, 03:41:17 PM »
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/neighbors-pleased-as-odot-replaces-roses-with-boulders-to-deter-homeless/283-0a14979a-d7d4-4ab5-8c96-2f030dc32294


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For neighbors, it is more than just rocks. It is a sign of hope.
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“We've been using these boulders more aggressively, we're probably going to be spending upwards of a million dollars in the Portland area to get these boulders in, which are really the most effective tool we have,”
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« Reply #1163 on: June 11, 2019, 04:04:24 PM »
Dropping the boulders directly onto the homeless may seem harsh to some, but I see it as a sign of hope.
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« Reply #1166 on: June 11, 2019, 10:18:23 PM »
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/5/18653890/podshare-tenderloin-san-francisco-coliving-bunkbeds-startup



$1200 for a bunkbed.  :hmph

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How much does it cost for bare minimum accommodations in San Francisco—i.e, a bed and a roof?

In the Tenderloin, that’ll be $60 per night, or $1,200 per month. That’s what the Southern California-based startup Podshare charges for one of its “pods” at the company’s first San Francisco locale.

According to the company, “A pod is a hand-built, high-end bunk bed complete with your own flat screen TV and night light.”

Renting with Podshare buys access to the bed and the communal spaces in the building in what’s essentially a hostel-like setup—complete with a dearth of privacy thanks to the wide open, multi-pod layout of rooms Podshare offers.

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« Reply #1167 on: June 11, 2019, 11:37:32 PM »
DISRUPTING THE MARKET!
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« Reply #1168 on: June 12, 2019, 12:30:34 AM »
https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/910076298516684801
wow, I thought I was at least semi-original in directly making this kind of joke from an idea I'd seen slightly referenced before in the thread about ResetERA.com, but this tweet predates its creation!

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« Reply #1171 on: June 12, 2019, 03:20:41 AM »
https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/1138490223741026308

FBI should inform themselves and read some classic webcomics about how that nice fast food manager that got fired because of feminazis found a good wife in Southeast Asia.
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« Reply #1175 on: June 15, 2019, 01:18:32 PM »
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« Reply #1177 on: June 15, 2019, 11:15:26 PM »
https://thetakeout.com/inside-black-market-vintage-kool-aid-packet-collectors-1835123510

Sometimes I'd find a koolaid packet that had fallen behind the bread box and was probably like a year or two and I would mix it up anyway and it'll be all clumpy and wouldn't dissolve fully. I can only imagine what those packets are like now.
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« Reply #1178 on: June 16, 2019, 04:00:58 AM »
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“If you can get past the idea that we’re collecting expired food, Kool-Aid is an ideal thing to collect ”

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« Reply #1179 on: June 16, 2019, 07:25:21 AM »
https://thetakeout.com/inside-black-market-vintage-kool-aid-packet-collectors-1835123510

Sometimes I'd find a koolaid packet that had fallen behind the bread box and was probably like a year or two and I would mix it up anyway and it'll be all clumpy and wouldn't dissolve fully. I can only imagine what those packets are like now.

They turned into the Trump kids

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« Reply #1181 on: June 16, 2019, 07:35:46 PM »


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Cape Town is the premier tourist destination in South Africa. Wine tours, beaches, and scenic hiking are all within easy driving distance.

But if none of that sounds appealing, you can take a guided tour of a slum.

Mzu Lembeni runs one of the many tour companies that takes tourists into Cape Town’s townships, impoverished areas that were first created when the Apartheid government forced nonwhites to live in segregated areas.

On his tour, tourists can walk right into people’s homes, drink homemade liquor, play with children at a local school, and take as many pictures as they like.

For some people, this sounds like exploitation. But Lembeni, who grew up in a township himself, disagrees.

“If there was no poverty ... I'll do the township tour, because [of] the culture,” Lembeni says. “I don't sell the poverty, I sell the culture.”

Most of Lembeni’s clients are white Europeans, who have come to see the “real” South Africa. Mzu says his tours are the best way to do that.

In a country where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line, and where the shadow of apartheid still looms over daily life, a township is a pretty good primer on what “real” looks like for a lot of people.

But not everyone who lives in the townships likes the tourists who are constantly wandering their streets.



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« Reply #1182 on: June 16, 2019, 08:46:08 PM »
I think this thread can be closed since we reached peak #latestagecapitalism when a multiple times over billion dollar losing guy won the presidency of the most powerful nation in the world because he was a "successful businessman" who actually made most of his money from a TV show about how he was a successful businessman.

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« Reply #1183 on: June 16, 2019, 09:44:56 PM »
Today in late stage capitalism:

Elon Musk posted some fanart of 2B from Nier Automata on Twitter and people told him he should credit the artist but he didn't want to and was a jerk about the whole thing. I can't be bothered to find the actual tweet or whatever, so just imagine it in your head.
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« Reply #1184 on: June 16, 2019, 09:48:45 PM »
Not even bothering to find the tweet and therefore forfeiting likes is late stage like capitalism. :mjcry

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« Reply #1185 on: June 16, 2019, 09:51:20 PM »
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« Reply #1186 on: June 16, 2019, 10:09:36 PM »
Thank you for posting the 2B art so I could look at it without looking through Elon Musk’s twitter.
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« Reply #1187 on: June 16, 2019, 10:14:29 PM »
He changed to an all black avatar because people were being mean to him about not crediting the artist :lol

Reddit nerds think this guy is gonna save the planet :lol

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« Reply #1188 on: June 16, 2019, 10:38:02 PM »
Dude's got thinner skin than Trump.
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« Reply #1190 on: June 17, 2019, 10:58:17 AM »
LGBTPQ
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« Reply #1192 on: June 17, 2019, 11:54:40 AM »
^ I do the same thing.
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« Reply #1193 on: June 17, 2019, 01:54:48 PM »
That reminds me, that Independent Group - Change UK councilor I talked about in the international politics thread who said that Labour's job is to keep people employed at Lehman Brothers used to work at HSBC.

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« Reply #1194 on: June 17, 2019, 01:59:19 PM »
Thanks for paying my 401k!
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« Reply #1197 on: June 17, 2019, 05:52:26 PM »
I love trashy documentaries, so I watched True Evil The Making of a Nazi - Herrmann Göring.

The documentary made the planned economy responsible for the Germans losing the arms race and their meddling with private companies was responsible for the lack of innovation.  :doge

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« Reply #1198 on: June 17, 2019, 07:08:09 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/business/uber-eats-deliveroo-glovo-migrants.html

Delivery drivers outsourcing their gig economy jobs to desperate migrants. :success

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