I catch myself going on socialist rants at the slightest provocation these days so I'm thinking maybe Scully is wrong here
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Scully eventually ended up being genuinely wrong most of the time. The show didn't want to drop her "scientific straightman" role as Mulder's foil, but damn the evidence became stacked for the paranormal
what do you think about the craft beer industry consolidation currently going on?
The necessity of the sedentary growing of barley and hops for brewing beer is the only thing that is kind of holding me back from reverting to full on mammoth hunter.
Well I hadn't been up on that one so thanks for giving me another thing to rage about
No prob bob.
IPA sucks anyway.
IPA was a marketing gimmick that everyone fell for and gobbled up hook line and sinker.
IPAs used to be good.
Then everyone and their brother started a brewery and every beer became "oops all hops"
The same thing also happened to sour beers.
It's never lupus. Except in this case it is lupus.
Been discovering these x files memes for the first time and loving them
The entire fandom:
go on...
but they are the good feds. not the bad feds.
The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
We had a big war over this like 12000 years ago, and the wrong people won. It's hard to argue with institutional greed, it spreads like a cancer. Once you start hoard things, shit will just devolve into mine and thine and war and dynastic hierarchies and royal incest and slavery and shit.
As far as I'm concerned I'd rather be hunting deer on the steppe and deal with the lack of medical care and just take it. Give me something to do, keep myself fit, have some purpose. What the fuck am I talking about? Anyway, we still need someone to make beer though but that can be kept compartmentalized. Like Göbekli! Let's meet once a year at the tepe and drink and fuck ourselves into oblivion, and just accept the natural progression of life. I'm sure we can find some herb or root or some shit for the headaches.
'Financial obesity' needs to be a term coined and proliferated into our lexicon. Masses gotta understand this shit somehow,
This is the term I've been looking for. Too much wealth is a symptom of serious underlying problems.
I don't get that statement. "I want to believe" kind of implies you don't believe, but you wanna. You wanna, but you fail, or something.
I think at its roots its like, you have to be willing to consider things first. You have to start with a willingness to believe.
Or at least thats Mulders MO in the show.
Scully is the scientist, the hard nosed skeptic.
If you haven't watched the show, it actually has aged decently, if its a bit campy.
Because
Some of the guys I work with, defend the oligarchs. You see, my coworkers are temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. They explained that the billionaires earned their money (not through the exploitation of millions of people), therefore they should not have their wealth taxed in a fair manner.
Oh, and also, if you work at McDonalds, you deserve to struggle to make rent. My coworkers had to do it, therefore everyone else should have to do it as well. After all, if you want a better job, just go find a better one? If you don’t have the ability to go back to school, that’s on you. If you are unable to pay rent, you deserve to become homeless. What the hell happened to personal accountability? I’m sorry, I thought this was America.
I can’t deal with their ignorant, racist, views anymore. Their inability to empathize hurts my soul. Everything is money to them. When I mention that we are talking about people, they say “Well who’s going to pay for that? Not me!”.
“Except for your desire to be abducted by aliens. That’s a direct result, probably.”
If Mulder was such hot shit why didn’t he catch Epstein
Mulder's boss:
Going to be that nerd.
These type of wealth disparities existing before capitalism. In ancient grand societies the wealth was controlled by a small elite almost always and class mobility was non-existent.
The issue isn't capitalism, it's just that the history of our specifies across various society tends to ebb and flow in various directions in response to historical events and contexts. Go read Piketty's work on this.
"Bad things existed before, so we should not criticize them still existing today" is not a very strong argument.
Putting words into people's mouths is a weaker argument yet.