[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

This is literally idealism.

You have an idea about a market solution to the problem, and then act like you've solved the problem.

The problem isn't a lack of ideas! The problem is a lack of implementation! You have to get these ideas into the real world somehow, and revolution is the only way you can do that. There are billionaires aligned against implementing these ideas. You have to stop them.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Hopefully I can replace myself with an AI and then she can deal with this shit.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

Well before they were an apartheid ethnostate, sort of like America used to be. Democratic, kinda, but only for some.

I guess this is worse?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The COVID pandemic makes me their plan is to turn New Zealand into a bunker nation and leave us all to die.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Do they have a choice? By hosting an instance, they open themselves up to liability if someone posts child porn. What else could they do?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I'm sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

lol but inflation is being caused by poor people demanding higher wages, right?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a theory that, at one time, "man" was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males "weremen" and obviously women "women"

That probably isn't true, but it's fun to think about a world where that was reversed.

EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Art hadn't been properly commodified yet because the technology for mass produced art didn't exist. They still needed artisans and artists, so they had to fund the arts if they wanted to see any created. They didn't appreciate art more, per se, but they saw it as fundamentally different from other widgets.

This is no longer the case. With the advent of photography, film, digital information, and of course the internet we now see profitable "art" without any need to fund it with philanthropy. Aside from one-off public works projects they can fund by stealing public funds, they can only imagine art through the lens of profitability and have no understanding of the amount of free time and energy that has gone into creating so much of the art that exists today.

There is no Medicis in 2023. Instead you get Marvel.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Actually! There was no website. It was all made up.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Absolutely.

And until that's the case, there's a clear double standard that benefits white people.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

"I want to attend your school just like my grandfather" = This is fine

"I want to attend your school because my grandfather wasn't allowed to" = This is not

Think about that for a second.

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