I feel like we could better spread this idea if we removed the verbiage of communism from it. I think you would convince more people this is the truth if you worded it more like:

Allowing a few individuals to consolidate wealth gives them a sort of power they can use to bend the rules to their favor which furthers their ability to consolidate wealth which gives them more power, so on and so forth until we are where we are now

I feel like more people would agree with this, whereas talking about taking "surplus value from the worker" will automatically turn off peoples interest in hearing anything from you as they've been trained against this kind of phrasing.

Its not essential ,its just inevitable. Like most of the problems with capitalism, the problem is the inevitability of wealth consolidation that allows the purchase of power that allows further wealth consolidation that allows the purchase of greater power, round and round. Capitalism is an ouroboros, we are just in the stage where its about to finish eating itself.

I'm not entirely sure about your take. If we say that this is fine and allowable, then you give a few large firms a huge lever to control the market with. If robinhood can limit investment to a specific stock, so could everyone, and at that point you allow them to decide the market through collusion, because you wouldn't need too many places to get on board to seal a companies fate.

Get a call blocker app, tell it to block every single phone call, whitelist your contacts. If they are not in your contacts, but its important, they will leave a message.

Pretty sure the idea here is that it was outlandishly overreacting for humor.

The constitution is like the bible for conservatives: Cant be bothered to read it, gladly accepts someone else's interpretation.

Try to get a quick lunch, sit down to eat, asshole in corner listening to tiktok at full volume, imagine murdering this pos through the entire meal.

Dr. Mike Isratel?

Make them poor so Trumps daddy can take them? who knows anymore.

I came to this conclusion around highschool age, my take on the wording of this sentiment was usually "An omnipotent being fucked a women who then gave birth to his son/self, so that the child/clone could die to learn something he didnt before about the humanity he created"

also "I gave you free will, so you better use it to believe this story that you would never believe otherwise"

and finally "If i live life as a good person and get sent to hell because i didnt believe a fake sounding story then god is a pathetic narcissist and i want nothing to do with him anyways"

Im just thankful my parents would always ask "well what do you think?" whenever i asked them about religion. I always try to keep that in mind as a form of sympathy for people who were manipulated in childhood. "Faith" has better PR than "Ignorance".

its a different version of the more used "Come on in, the waters fine" phrase. Its just a colloquialism normally used when trying to convince someone to join your team. In this context Its basically saying "dont worry, there is no downside to thinking my way". Unfortunately the only response to this is to punch them in the throat, not because of the phrase which is harmless, but because they are a nazi, and nazi's get punched in the throat.

Are you using home assistant? Their website says ikea switches arnt compatible with it.

I recently bought a zigbee dongle to use with a home assistant VM. Do you have any advice on products? There is alot of stuff out there and I am trying to make sure I get good stuff.

My current plan is that id buy assorted types of lights to fill the roles of actual lighting and mood lighting, and I would pair that with a 4 button switch to toggle between some different presets. Been looking at Moes for the scene switch buttons and Sengled bulbs, and still need to find a solution for having home assistant to turn on or off non-smart items by delivering power or withholding, but i feel like i am flying blind.

It is a tough situation, because yes it makes complete sense to say "I cant stop them, but I can ensure their safety" since we know abstinence is a pipe dream, but its also not fair to say your ideas on how to parent supersede another parents. Hell this could even be a teaching moment for your child by explaining this in full candor with them so they understand your concerns with the request and why you made the decision you made, it can be helpful for them to understand that just because other people do things in a way you don't agree with, doesn't give you the right to force your ways on them, a lesson in desperate need across the world lately.

All these takes going against this advice feel like we might be being astroturfed by an army of horny preteens trying to manipulate their millennial parents lolol.

I had a friend who ran away from an abusive home

Can we agree "I want to talk to her parents before u fuck their daughter in our house and with our knowledge", is so far from an abusive home scenario that they are in different solar systems?

I am all for trust, but in this scenario we are discussing the honesty of a teenage male trying to get laid, and I wasn't born yesterday, and I was him at one point. The downside of "Your son violated my little girl in your house and you knew about it!!!!" is quite high to let trust take the wheel, especially when all you had to do was ask your son to have her parents call you.

This meme format never shows a scenario that isn't made up anymore.

Ohhh that's a bingo!

That would be a great point if not for the "rabble rabble DEI! rabble rabble Bootstraps!"

Stupid lib!