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@asonix@asonix.dog Ceci n'est pas un toot.
"I don't like self promotion" and other comments
@OsirisSaline And that's totally understandable and valid.
"I don't like self promotion" and other comments
@OsirisSaline I've never been able to figure out how to be comfortable with self-promotion, is my issue. I've seen too many personal social media accounts get subsumed into business hustles as the people try to capitalize on their networks. Classism further weirds my situation, with most of my friends making less in the orthocosm than I do, so trying to sell to them feels exploitative.
@bea Not particularly.
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If someone could only form a first impression of you by reading five novels, what would they be?
Know Me In Five X: Novel-Writing Edition
@jakebe Bonds of Silver, Bonds of Gold, Kristina Tracer
Masks of the Illuminatus!, Robert Anton Wilson
Beautiful World, Kristina Tracer
ME, Thomas T. Thomas
Metropolis, Thea von Harbou
politics
@devurandom@cybre.space @lifning@cybre.space I think the issue here is that in capitalism, people starving in the streets is pretty much a known side effect the economic philosophy that _must_ be patched around, and in socialism, people starving in the streets is usually seen as evidence of some secondary problem such as corruption or authoritarianism.
Five Games to play to know more about me
@Azure I've had Hadean Lands on my computer for years, waiting for time for me to sit down and dedicate to a text adventure. I suspect that, were I to play it, I would replace Spellbreaker with it, but I can't in good conscience list a game I don't know well there. I've put the next best thing for now, and hey...
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Five Games to play to know more about me
Talos Principle
Ultima VI: False Prophet
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Cliff Johnson's Fool's Journey
Infocom's Spellbreaker
@Kentaro I'm glad for alive, at least.
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org Frankly, I'll settle for "UBI will allow all the people I know with medical conditions that the government has decided aren't severe enough to justify disability but which are too severe to let them hold down jobs will stop having to beg to survive."
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@zetasyanthis As you wish. My door is open.
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org I suspect the biggest roadblock to UBI right now isn't selling it to the people; it's convincing the nattering political classes to act upon it without a coup or worse. Not even the Democratic establishment is really in favor of it, and you'd think they'd be salivating over the idea, but the closest we've got is Obama saying "maybe twenty years from now."
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@zetasyanthis You mentioned something about there being no means to establish state control of a large-scale economy without the prerequisite of political control. This is where that political control comes from in a political communist system. Also, I'm not that worried about "large-scale" economies, but we can quibble over size in a future discussion.
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@zetasyanthis The political control of a political communist state comes from every commune electing a represenative for the district, which so on and so forth up to the size of a state itself. The top level of the communist state evolves emergently from below.
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@zetasyanthis 2) All forms of government imply the use of force to implement them. Not a valid argument. That's what a police force is, and that's its ultimate purpose, since there is no means of becoming stateless-by-choice in modern society.
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org Political communism actually ends up being a lot more like a pure republic than a pure democracy, insofar as you have a lot of nested and layered groupings of people who send delegates up and down and across to communicate community intent and voting data and the like, or so I imagine it being.
And yes, I don't think anybody's going to interfere with you buying as many stuffed animals as your UBI will allow.
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@zetasyanthis Okay, give me some credit for being slightly more in-the-know than a wikignome. Communism has a ton of _connotative_ baggage attached to it. I want to know what elements of that connotation you're pointing at and labeling as problematic.
Hot Take, Politics and Religion Edition
@zetasyanthis It's not that. It's that I think A) you have an unreasonable expectation that there be prior art, B) you're pointing at things that aren't communism and calling them communism. So before I dig any deeper into this, I want to know what you think communism is.
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