It's such a genuinely unhinged document. I was reading it after seeing some specific page numbers online and I wanted to see the original source. it's just a fucked view of the world.

Imagine celebrating the idea that you've had no personal growth or made no social progress in twenty years. And not that it needs to be pointed out but it's also bullshit because the right have been marching fast towards fascism.

In the words of the pod, the majority opinion is that "the long tradition of police doing whatever the fuck they want is so important that it outweighs the clear language and intent of a law" that was written to protect women and children from domestic abusers.

Thank god for the Furries.

You know it didn't use to be this way? There was a time when you could be 'A GE man'. You could work at a company for your whole life. You would not get laid off and rehired whenever it was convenient for the company, rather they'd show you some loyalty and you'd show them the same, this would be backed by employee profit sharing schemes, incentivising higher performance.

The heart of this deal between workers and management was ripped out when management chased higher share valuations, with stock bonuses for themselves instead of workers. It became cheaper to fire 1/80th of the workforce because you could break up unions that way, management could write off all those salaries to bump up the quarterly earnings, increasing the stock price and earning themselves bonuses at the expense of workers who as you said, just learn to get by.

The cost of digital advertising cannot be justified by its effectiveness (or rather lack there of). We've collectively spent hundreds of billions of dollars creating the infrastructure for invasive hyper targeted ads that do not get better results than simple billboards and terrestrial TV ads even now. We've created a global economy of marketing, media, advertising and sales solely reliant on technofeudalist overlords who've provided very little actual improvement of anything.

Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance... Is there anything they've ever bought they haven't slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?

"Fraggles don't have any bosses [...] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other." - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock

I have never had any thoughts about anyone in my gym beyond "I hope no-one heard me fart on that last squat."

Are we supposed to believe the largest most dominant military force in the world, Kublai Kahn's Mongol fleet was defeated by some inclement weather... TWICE?? Lazy writing.

National boundaries just divide workers to obscure the fact that they have more in common with each other than with the ruling classes.