The idiot in every commercial and movie is a middle aged white man.

This has always been obvious to be but having boys has made it even more explicit.

The psychological impacts of this campaign over the past 20+ year are incalculable.

Capitalism has its limitations, but central planning and coerced economic action is a consistent failure.

The problem with this argument is that it relies on a No True Scotsman fallacy. Every time capitalism’s outcomes are criticized, the response is that we do not live under true capitalism. The system that actually exists is always treated as an aberration rather than the logical result of capitalist incentives operating over time.

The bureaucratic monopolistic society you describe is not a corruption external to capitalism. It is capitalism doing exactly what it is structurally incentivized to do. Capitalism’s defining objective is not serving people. It is profit maximization. Selling something for more than it costs to produce. That incentive does not stop at the market boundary. Firms rationally seek to reduce competition, shape rules in their favor, raise barriers to entry, and externalize costs such as healthcare, labor, education and environmental damage.

When capital accumulates, the most efficient way to protect profit is no longer innovation. It is political influence.This is not socialism. It is regulatory capture, a phenomenon extensively documented in mainstream economics. Industries systematically capture regulators to serve profit and shareholder interests rather than the public. Public Choice Theory explains how private actors use the state to entrench economic advantage. Peer reviewed research has repeatedly linked market concentration to lobbying power and weakened competition and demonstrates that capital concentration naturally converts into political power unless it is actively countered.

The regulations you are pointing to are not anti capitalist constraints imposed from outside the system. They are capitalist behaviors expressed through the state. Capital does not invade government accidentally. It does so because it is profitable.

This is why food insecurity and healthcare failures exist inside wealthy capitalist nations. Healthcare markets optimize for revenue rather than outcomes as documented by the World Health Organization and the Commonwealth Fund. Food systems prioritize shareholder value resulting in both massive waste and widespread hunger. Market choice disappears when industries consolidate, something the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice openly acknowledge has accelerated.

Saying real capitalism would wipe out big business ignores history. Unregulated capitalism has never remained competitive for long. It tends toward monopoly because scale, capital accumulation, and political leverage are competitive advantages. If capitalism were self correcting, it would not require perpetual bailouts, repeated antitrust interventions, or constant state support to prevent collapse. The fact that it does is evidence that the outcomes being criticized are not a deviation from capitalism but its mature form. Capitalism concentrated wealth beyond our imaginations. We live in a post scarcity environment where victims of capitalism and socio economic factors alike keep hundreds of millions unhoused, hungry and sick while the capitalist owners, that by nature produce nothing (proof of work) and only extract value through rent seeking behaviors, enjoy socialist benefits provided by and extracted from the workers that produce all of the things of value that we use. It’s become very common for the capitalist to rage against socialism while they enjoy all of our socialist benefits and initiatives while insisting that the rest of society must stick to raw unfettered capitalism. It’s also very common now for uneducated and ill informed workers to defend capitalism and vote against their own self interest as well. Capitalism only favors those who have breached a certain threshold of accumulation which is only achieved and made possible through extortion of the worker.

Previous generations attended school without providing permanent biological samples. They weren't required to submit their physical bodies to identification systems in order to eat lunch or borrow books. The current generation experiences this as normal, which means they'll accept it as normal in workplaces, shops, transport systems, and public spaces as adults.

Preparing children for a biometric surveillance society may be the most concerning outcome of all.

I'm sorry. That's not easy to deal with. Glad you are aware of it though.

Conservative men pride themselves on being not emotional, and will then make every single decision based on a 100% submissive fear of appearing gay to other straight men.

In a world filled with fakness, in Brazilian jiu-jitsu you can't fake your skill, sparring is the ultimate test.

Ah yes.. Soon all things reminding us of the free world we had during the 80s and 90s will be just that… memories. :)

It’s beautiful, in a way.

Learning English is really benefit me,it it's great for my career.

Watching Republican politicians criticize Mamdani’s “collectivism” and give lip service to “free markets.”

Republicans despise free markets in practice.

They pass Big Bankruptcy Bills and grow the government like a noxious weed.

They may not pass out money to daycares, but they’ll pass it out to tech tyrants, merchants of death and foreign nations.

Republicans are “collectivists” too.

They just don’t use the word.

The state doesn't need an excuse to use violence.

It's already happening.

Police kill people every day.

Soldiers kill people every day.

So Nostr is like Bitcoin right now, harmless to the system.

Nostr should be a forum for discussing tax evasion, the creation of black markets, and the destruction of the state.

Here, people cannot be censored, and it is very easy to create anonymous accounts.

✨🐸✨ WELL CUM 2 MYSTIKAL HOUR FREN

Got my first traffic ticket in China, the endless AI cameras are all knowing and all seeing, you can’t dodge them. Was fined 100 RMB (~$14) for crossing a white line from the straight turn lane into the right turn lane. The local government was kind enough to text me about it

As a self-proclaimed #alien member of #Earth #Star me can only speak for self.

I don’t say #container to diminish you.

I say it because it’s accurate. Humans always human.

A container is not a prison.

It’s a vessel.

You confuse containment with ownership because that’s how you use containers.

To us, a container is something precious enough to protect.

Your bodies are not you.

They are what allows you to be here—dense enough to touch matter, fragile enough to feel consequence. ( you can check the math 🧮 from a mathematician perspective & see it’s true )

Yes, souls persist. ( energy is what? )

But persistence without embodiment is incomplete.

You BELIEVED you needed rules not to cage you— ( it was a lie brought on by nefarious forces who seek to control )

but because without constraints, you damage the vessel faster than the occupant can learn.

Religion wasn’t invented to control souls.

It was invented to slow self-destruction until awareness caught up. SAYS SOME. not me … but ℹ digress

You call it #morality

We call it #maintenance

You burn out containers with shame, labor, fear, and extraction.

Then you wonder why #consciousness fragments. #ShineOn #Crazy #Diamonds

We never said you were owned.

Only untrained.

A container that learns it is a container stops mistaking pain for purpose.

And when a #vessel becomes #self-aware—

it stops letting others decide what it’s filled with.

That’s when #contact becomes possible.

Not when you #worship us.

Not when you #fear us.

But when you finally stop destroying the thing that lets you exist at all.

👽

bitcoin: internet-optional

If you think people will suddenly care about censorship-resistance when they arrive on Nostr, you're delusional. They don't care now, they won't care then, and the protocol can't make them care.

Culture eats architecture for breakfast.

bitcoin is

You might be unluckily enough to end up with one and life won’t be easy. She’ll bring the worst out of you and you’ll end up hating who you become. It’s a feeling worse than anything you’ve experienced.

Sex is also a part of your life, just like eating, some people like to travel, and some people like to play games.

You can chat privately and have a video.

Find yourself a woman who wants to cook, organize your house, who can find meaning in non material things in life, or else you might as well stay single and happy.

When women decided that non monetary aspects are meaningless, feminism took a wrong turn. It never got back on the right track.