Google is on the Wrong Side of History.
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And if there is one uniting principle in conservatism, the singular reason why religious dirt-poor common-clay-of-the-West support billionaires, is that they all deeply believe in hierarchies.
Why do they go after trans-women but not trans-men? Because men are naturally higher in the hierarchy than women, thus wanting to exist in male spaces (but not actually crossing into them) is seen as the proper order, whereas wanting to exist in female spaces (read: lowering yourself in the hierarchy) is seen as unnatural.
Why do they fellate the rich? Because the wealthy are better people, which is tautologically why they're rich.
Why are they racist? Because white people are better than not-white people, natch.
Why do they hate atheists? Because the very concept of religion implicitly enforces hierarchy. Sectarian disputes are just an offshoot of this.
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Fuck them
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This is why the stock market was, fundamentally, a trojan horse. It was created so capitalism could intertwine the peoples wealth and retirement funds to the success of the wealth of the oligarchy, making the entire market too big to fail.
Now the entire system is designed to prevent damage to companies, no matter how moral, unethical, or criminal. The success of corporations IS treated as equal to "national security".
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This seems relevant here…
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It's a capitalist corporation that sold its soul to the highest bidder. Of course it's evil. It's based on greed and exploitation.
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I ALREADY DO GOD DAMMIT! (Seriously I have pen pals. I write letters every year. I'm actually late and need to write them!)
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Progressives are much the same way, but with different hierarchies. Progressives seem to love big government hierarchies which a strong executive branch enforcing a bunch of regulations.
That's what you get from a two party system, you get two groups with a fetish for different types of hierarchies.
Reject hierarchy and push for local rule, it's what we in the box like to call liberty.
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Get on it.
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I switched to Tuta for email and calendar and other services for other products. I try to avoid putting too many eggs in a given basket.
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Unfortunately alternatives aren't any better...
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Leave such takes for .ml, please.
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Your right.
Change is difficult so we should just give up.
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You're conflating two unrelated things to make some weird anti-government point.
Conservatives believe that hierarchical structures are the natural order of things. That is, things on top of the hierarchy deserve to be there, because otherwise they'd be at the bottom. Conservatism as a political philosophy requires the belief that some people are just better than others.
A belief that a strong government is required to enforce equality in the population is nothing like that.
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How in the hell is wanting strong regulations the same thing as believing in racial suppremacy?
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Billionaire bad?? How could this be!!? I was told whenever two parties entered into a voluntary agreement it meant both of them mutually improved their situation and that if you got billions out of it, it meant by definition that you did a lot of good!
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Here's a gun to your head, now, it would be beneficial to you to hand over your wallet m'kay?
No bullet in your brain, more cash in my hand, both parties benefit! See how that works?
Oh, you have a lump growing in your thyroid, mmmm.... that is bad. We can cut that out for you and most people we do that to live a lot longer, but first we need you to mortgage your home and give us the proceeds. See how that works?
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There are some offsetting factors that also prevent the "best and brightest" from rising to power: https://dealbreaker.com/2007/10/icahn-explains-why-are-there-so-many-idiots-running-shit
He moves up the corporate ladder, without a single original idea that might make his boss feel threatened by his potential.
Eventually, he gets to be the #2 guy at the company. He's a little dumber than the C.E.O., but the board likes him, so he eventually gets to be C.E.O.
Of course, he assigns a #2 who is a little dumber than he is. "And eventually, we're going to have all morons running our companies," Icahn concluded. "We might not be that far off from that right now."
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And has been so for over a decade at least, probably two
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I didn't say it was. I said it's a similar fetish for hierarchy, just a different kind.
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Progressivism is the other side of that coin, a belief that we need strong hierarchy with the "right people" at the top to have a functioning society. It's the same basic idea that we either need or deserve strong leadership.
For some reason those two are being pitched at the only valid ideas, probably because those at the top benefit from people believing that. There are other ideas, they just don't have that "quick solution" people seem to crave that only comes from top down control.
Just because one side of the coin is bad doesn't make the other side good. Get a better coin.