( ・-・) I rant because I care.
( ・-・) Capitalism is 5% selfish pricks and 80% deluded victims
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( ・-・) I hear a woodpecker. I want to shoot it to make the noise go away.
( ・-・) Everybody wants to believe they're exceptional. But it's not what you are. It's what you own and who you own. If you don't own anything, then you can't accomplish anything.
>>695
Yes, however capitalism has one major flaw, and that is the construct of employment, which in practice is usually merely slavery with just enough pay to keep alive. The emancipation which the workers of the world need is self-employment.
>>703
Self-employment may only work because sufficiently few other people do the same. Probably, I don't know. Just thought of it. May be economics 101, mea culpa.
But if everyone were self-employed, there would be orders of magnitude more choice if you were in need of a chargeable service. Say, plumbers.
Then the market is essentially diluted, and a couple of things could happen: no plumber can make a living because of the extreme competition (in a world where each plumber is of roughly equal value). Plumbing becomes a cutthroat, penniless business and the world of plumbing self-destructs.
Or, a small number of plumbers are better than the rest, and people learn this and start taking their business to the best plumbers. They get more business, are more profitable, and eventually start having to employ in order to meet demand. Mediocre plumbers are put out of business.
Either way, the dissolution of the wholly self-employed market is inevitable.
Does working at a socially-owned, democratically-run company count as self-employment?
>>705
No, but it sounds better than your typical large corporation.
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( ・-・) I'm going to vote for Hillary because she has a vagina.
( ・-・) I'm going to vote for Sanders because I don't want to work for a living.
( ˃ ヮ˂) Work is for chumps!
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( ・-・) I love the dating game in China. There are already not enough women for men, and women still fall in love with me. That means I fuck up the law of supply and demand even more.
>>705
Sounds terrible. Why the fuck would the workers democratically make decisions when more than half of them most likely have no experience in management or accounting? Privately run organizations allow people who have specialized in their field to do what they know best without the hindrance of people whose good intentions blind them from negative consequences.
The proletariat can suck my dick.
( ・-・) Women shouldn't be allowed to vote. They vote for everything that makes a nation weak and stupid.
> Privately run organizations allow people who have specialized in their field
Except that's not true at all. Control is arbitrarily given on the basis of ownership, not specialized knowledge and definitely not skill. The people "specialized on their field" who "do what they know best" get the short stick invariably. Which is more longer than the stick given to people without specializaed skill; nonetheless they both get shafted.
( ・-・) I think most of the Black Lives Matter protesters just like to yell and break stuff.
( ・-・) The concept from the movie "Escape From New York" and "Escape From Los Angeles" should be certain cities in Michigan.
( ・-・) A judge who's a member of La Raza actually is a problem.
If you don't smoke weed, get over yourself. I don't care how "degenerate" you think weed might be, I don't want to hear your bitching when all I'm trying to do is let everybody know that I'm stoned 24/7. Ruins my vibrations, and what not.
>>720
That's like being served, loudly badmouthing a bystander who came across on your way to court only to find out said pedestrian is actually the judge preceding the lawsuit against you and then calling it a problem.
That shit only happens to stupid assholes, quite frankly.
I think all stoners are complete morons.
( ・-・) I stole secrets from Capcom. I wanted to know how they make so many variants of the same Street Fighter games and get people to pay full price for each one. I intend to use the same strategy on an app I am developing.
( ・-・) Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western civilization.
( ・-・) Institutionalised religion is fundamentally incompatible with the progression of civilisation.
( ・-・) I disagree, >>726. Christianity and Judaism have both demonstrated a strong stabilizing influence on culture that Islam lacks. Cism and Jism both inspire one to transcend one's animal instincts, where Ism encourages one to revel in barbarism.
( ・-・) Also, you're poopy.
( ・-・) Historically, perhaps. However, this is now the 21st century, people no longer live in disconnected tribes, and dogmatic worship of ancient myths and legends is not conducive to civility and cooperation with the other several billion people living on this rock. Just be chill, don't get angry because other people live different lives, etc; you don't need religion to not be a dick.
( ・-・) Also, I know. Sometimes wiping just takes too much effort.
( ・-・) The secret is to take a daily dump in the morning before your shower.
( ・-・) In a way, it all comes down to whether you see yourself as a loyal, capable, family-oriented wolf, or a disloyal, hedonistic, selfish rabbit.
( ・-・) The blonde guy from True Detective was a wolf. Look how that turned out.
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( ・-・) You can give a leftist a fish and he'll eat for a day, or you can teach that leftist to fish and he'll sit pouting in his boat all day because nobody gave him a fish.
( ・-・) I want to be a trans-black woman so I can blame all white men for anything I do wrong.
( ・-・) Just tell people you are, and BOOM! You are!
( ・-・) Now you can molest girls in a Target restroom!
( ・-・) Floral Shoppe is a mediocre sound collage.
( ・-・) I might be not as witty as I think I am.
( ・-・) If you keep an open mind and an observant eye, you'll eventually notice that the Left is entirely populated by neurotic people. Most are pretty harmless, but the power hungry ones really need a good slapping.
( ・-・) I'm somewhat concerned that Christians will be persecuted in the USA in the coming decades. People seem very quick to laugh this off or call me a bigot, which just goes to support the point.
>>740
( ・-・) They already are, for sufficiently broad definitions of "persecuted" and sufficiently narrow definitions of "Christians."
( ・-・) If you actually keep an open mind and an observant eye, you won't end up making sweeping judgements about half the population.
( ・-・) The black people I've met in real life aren't as smart as the ones on TV.
>>745
If one lived his whole life without encountering a black person, just saw them on TV, he'd be led to believe nignogs invented the whole universe
>>746 What are you talking about, that is the complete opposite of how black people are represented on TV. I'm a bit embarrassed by your ignorance and I'd hope new visitors here don't assume we all think like you!
>>746 If he watched the Maury show, he would think blacks were humanoid rabbits.
( ・-・) White people often make pleasant neighbors.
( ・-・) Anybody who read >>749 and immediately thought "that's racist" is an idiot.
( ・-・) The Pings are my Chinese neighbors
>>753 No. Come to think of it, I've never met a dickhead who wasn't white...
>>755 maybe it's you. Are you enough of an ass that people go out of their way to annoy you?
>>756 No, I mean, it's very rare for me to meet someone and think "wow, what a dickhead" but any time I have, they've always had white skin.
As much as I love @, it's not any easier to write than the word "at."
( ・-・) I don't think #WhyINeedPrescriptivism would fly, but I gotta just let it out.
( ・-・) I don't feel attracted to big butts or breasts and will refuse to touch anything that's not firm, shapely and not fat.
( ・-・) Anything more than a handful is a waste.
( ・-・) I genuinely enjoy watching the anime Hetalia
( ・-・) Toga parties are dumb. You're better off staying home and spilling wine on a white sheet yourself.
( ・-・) I'm going to be avoiding the city until the chimpouts stop.
( ・-・) The only way multiculturalism can truly work is if everyone acts white.
>>769 I'm guessing that many people agree with you, but are not going to admit it publicly.
( ・-・) Pizza tastes like crap
( ・-・) pizza is fucking awesome I will fight you
( ・-・) Watching Spaceballs has killed my appetite for pizza for a good while.
( ・-・) I ordered a pizza at an Italian restaurant the other day, and the menu specifically listed "diced tomatoes" on the pizza, as well as basil. They bring it out and its very plain looking, with a few rounds of cheese thrown on it, no other toppings beside a skimpy application of basil near the center. What cheapskates, I thought. I questioned them about the tomatoes and they said that includes the sauce! What nonsense. In any case, I made them bring me a good helping of basil to flavor the pizza. Next time I'll be sure to order from Pizza Hut™.
( ・-・) Leftists really are the locusts of civilization. Once a nation gets wealthy, they swarm over it and devour as much wealth as they can.
( ・-・) On top of that, they're pricks about it.
( ・-・) The political parties I don't align with and their members are the source of my suffering.
( ・-・) I hope Maury Povich has good plans for his retirement.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/the-male-pill-is-coming---and-its-going-to-change-everything/
( ・-・) Have you ever heard someone tell you not to enjoy news about your enemies dying?
( ・-・) I get pleasure from news about my enemies dying, and I get twice as much pleasure witnessing someone die if they tell me not to enjoy the news about my enemies dying.
( ・-・) Time for a celebration:
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( ・-・) I barely watch anime, but I like it as a concept.
( ・-・) Software nowadays is largely developed by irredeemable pricks who have no interest in catering to power users nor creating new ones out of neophytes.
( ・-・) Look no further than the herd of fart-sniffers praising the developers of Chrome for removing Backspace as a shortcut for navigating back a page, with no customization option to get it back save for an extension that doesn't restore the proper functionality.
( ・-・) Google is literally raising a generation of computer illiterates who won't "google" things.
>>785
( ・-・) Good luck with that. The bridge between ease-of-use for the point-and-grunt casual user and high-fidelity programmability and customisability for "power users" (aka experts) must span across a non-navigable gulf emitting high concentrations of sulfuric acid and anthrax. That is so say, nobody has made that bridge successfully. (Windows "power users" are not an acceptable counterexample. They are merely well-conditioned casual users.)
( ・-・) Also, you must work on your generalisation skills. "Software nowadays is largely developed by irredeemable pricks" does not follow from "The developers changed what backspace does in this browser". (Also, define 'nowadays'. Was there a time this supposedly wasn't true?)
( ・-・) Chromebooks suck.
( ・-・) King crab is way better than snow crab
( ・-・) I sometimes release the emergency mittens just for fun.
( ・-・) Boy, Alpacas sure were a flash in the pan, weren't they?
( ・-・) I like exploring nooks and crannies of the internet. One may even call the Elitist Superstructure one.
( ・-・) Words cannot quite convey how I loathe xkcd, but I feel like expressing even the partial extent would jeopardize too many valuable relationships.
( ・-・) It's kind of like if Michael Bolton from Office Space were trying to placate his peers rather than the consultants.
( ・-・) Only go to India if you want to die of exotic diseases. The whole country is a fuckin' open air toilet that's never been flushed.