• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    I’m tired of everything being reduced to a token that may or may not have value. “Fireman saves lives!” not “Fireman saves lives, but at a cost of 1.3 million dollars!”. WTF?

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    Company is named: “Communication Device That Was Abused for Spying, Control and Manipulation” guys… Doesn’t it raise any red flags?

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    Killing the palantir CEO would be good for business too, but there is a reason why we don’t do certain things, like these, for example…

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    Someone should commit war crimes against the Palantir CEO and all its investors, since he thinks it’s totally okay to do so.

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      Wasn’t there a study showing a large correlation between CEOs actually being psychopaths? Supposedly that’s the trait that makes them hyper successful since they only care about themselves?

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        I can confirm this. I’m working with a billionaire as ceo and they are assholes + have serious mental issues (especially when it comes to money e.g. loss aversion)

        They are constantly aggressive towards their workers and cannot formulate at least one understandable sentence, they are also not hearing alarm bells from their workers

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        Our systems reward that. Capitalism is about becoming the winner and taking more than everyone else, thats how companies grow - they kill weaker companies.

        We have essentially created a system that works like the animal world, except animals also only kill what they need to survive, so we are worse.

        All this intelligence and this is what we do with it. :)

        I often think of what humanity could achieve if the old consciousness would disappear and we worked together to create a society of happiness rather than capitalism.

        It would be a dream planet. We have everything we need to do that. Everything.

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          Except we don’t have this dog eat dog capitalism you’re talking about. We have communism for the rich because these big companies aren’t allowed to fail and are taking unlimited subsidies from us to destroy us. If they do start to fail the government gives them unlimited bail out money without any provisions against them giving the money to themselves . If by some freak chance a company does fail or fails because the shareholder class grifted all the wealth out of a company the CEO’s get huge handouts because the wealthy aren’t allowed to fail. Even failing is winning when everything is a grift paid for by the working people. The system you described is what workers have cut throat capitalism. If you lose you literally die.

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      Accurate. Tech executives often see themselves as so far ahead of the rest of the world that they’re truly a different species. They see a world full of legacy stupidity and think they know better. The constitution is an artifact to them, not an ideal. Their actual ideals are unhinged nightmares of uploaded consciousness and the like. They don’t consider themselves human but post-human, or at least eager to become so.

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    I say we should make it constitutional to hang billionaires.

    Actually, we should hang them first and then change the constitution.

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    The connection to Israel is becoming increasingly obvious. Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, was also involved in setting up this fascist enterprise - with the kind assistance of Jeffrey Epstein!

    Many thanks also to the politicians here in Germany who first signed a completely illegal contract with these bastards and then specifically amended the police law to undermine the constitutional rights of citizens after the fact.

    It really is a terrible world we live in, because no one is stopping the most unscrupulous of all people. Well, this is what the end stage of the free market economy looks like.

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      It is incredible how zionists have said ‘hey you know that bullshit conspiracy that we run everything? Wouldn’t it be cool if we added some truth to it? Also say that we represent all Jews when we do it for effect!’

      We are at a time when either we will break from it, or be doomed to another 1000 years of hell.

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        Yes, Israeli Zionists have been playing the anti-Semitism card for decades. It is a perfidious, self-reinforcing strategy: the more completely legitimate criticism of Israel’s inhumane actions is silenced with this argument, the more it feeds actual anti-Semitism.

        This is supported by the Mossad’s skillful intelligence work, which obviously gathered a lot of dirt on politicians around the world - there is simply no other explanation for how a small, rather insignificant state like Israel has gotten away with the most heinous atrocities for decades.

        This is mainly attributable to the US, but also to Germany, my home country, where the anti-Semitism card has an even stronger effect due to its terrible past. As a German citizen with an awareness of history, it is all the more repulsive for me to see how obvious war criminals shamelessly use the Holocaust in order to commit genocide themselves.

        Yet it is quite simple: Israel is not Judaism. It is a criminal but sovereign state that commits genocide. This has nothing to do with religion, but exclusively with the inhuman ruthlessness of their criminal regime.

        And yes, this is also supported by the population, just as it was in the Third Reich, since Israel is also a deeply authoritarian state, but these are not “the Jews”, but the citizens of a State, the citizens of Israel, a country that commits the most terrible war crimes and tries to justify them by referring to history - it is a scandal that this still works, it is a crime against their own ancestors and has absolutely nothing to do with anti-Semitism; except that it very deliberately promotes anti-Semitism in itself in order to portray Israel’s actions as the views of “the Jews” - which is, of course, not at all the case.

        They have even introduced absurd concepts such as the “self-hating Jew” to prevent Jews from insisting that they want nothing to do with the deeply racist, inhumane Zionism of Israel.

        It couldn’t be more unscrupulous.

        These people are truly the scum of the earth - and by “these people”, I don’t mean a religious group, as these people would like to portray it, but Netanyahu, the Israeli government, and all their henchmen.

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    If Democrats, my former party or current party, or however you want to look at it, ran someone who agreed with me, even in private, they would win. So, you know, maybe you should stop winning in the faculty lounge and start winning

    Fuck me

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      This is like an admission to election fraud. I don’t think they did the 2024 elections in favor of Trump (Musk did manipulate his platform enough to sway the chances into Trump’s favor, so is Kamala trying to appeal to “moderate conservatives”), but wouldn’t surprise me if it was their “security experts”.

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        so is Kamala trying to appeal to “moderate conservatives”

        That’s just called campaigning. Not the same thing as Musk’s massive propaganda machine and million dollar offers.

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    https://lemmy.ca/post/56017413

    “If Democrats, my former party or current party, or however you want to look at it, ran someone who agreed with me, even in private, they would win. So, you know, maybe you should stop winning in the faculty lounge and start winning,” Karp said. “We’re apparently not supposed to say anymore, but we always said we’re cold in the streets and hot in the sheets. Democratic Party should think about that a lot.”

    This is a lie. Zionist Absolutists shifted to Trump because he explicitly supported absolutist genocide. Biden/Harris didn’t want to Kent State anti-genocide protests, but their absolutist devotion to Zionist rule over the US was definitely a DNC purpose. His continued BS about “progressiveness” is the German 1930s NDSAP anti-communist supremacist absolutism gaslighting.

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    Karp quoted a political scientist to say that the “rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion… but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.'”

    Literal nazi ideology

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    Can’t look it up right now but Edit: Full interview here I couldn’t make it past the first 10 minutes. He is so fidgety and never seems to finish an entire thought. Beyond that, can’t stand looking at the asshole.

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      He’s a drug addict that regularly uses disassociatives (ketamine). It simultaneously makes him feel more powerful and makes him a giant target for manipulation like Musk.