BEFORE breakfast, not right AFTER? It looks like I need to adjust my strategy...
Or maybe it being Mezcal made the difference? :-P
OpenStars
joined 2 years ago
I dunno, I want to believe in a future where both can scare a cop. :-)
Your aim: logic.
Their aim: capitalism.
:-(
It took you 30 years to get to where you are today. Rome wasn't built in a day. Be as kind to yourself as you possibly can?
1979 was Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. Reagan did not start until 1980, and while he is famous for breaking the backs of unions, thus crippling their ability to fight back against this trend, he did not actually start it.
Before Carter was Ford and Nixon, both Republicans. Ford pardoned Nixon's crimes, supposedly to help "heal the nation".
According to Robert Reich's "Inequality for All" (free link) - he was the Secretary of Labor under Clinton and previously served under both the Carter and Ford administration so he was very much attuned to what was going on - this trend started due to the rise of corporations, which have super-rights that humans do not have. e.g., taxes on stock dividends were capped at like 13% while payroll taxes can go up to >35%, and while if a human commits a crime they would go to jail, but not so with a corporation. It's a great racket scheme for the rich to cover themselves in a legal fiction so as to avoid pretty much any responsibility for their actions. Hence why we see so many corporations acting so very boldly to destroy the planet - after all, why not? What's the worst that could happen to them in return?
Money exchanged hands though, so it accomplished its purpose (of tricking the buyer). :-(
TLDR: not worth reading the article, it's just a long list of third party apps that are no longer free anymore, totally ignoring matters such as their usage stats and more importantly the content itself that is now flat-out missing from Reddit. Go to any old thread and you'll see the "this content has been removed by" (whichever of the automated software to remove posts was used in that case) messages.
Honestly it reads like a shill to promote Reddit as in "hey, all that fuss was for nothing - you should totally come back now". It got fairly obvious even at the start when it said that the protests ~~lasts~~ (edit: lasted) for "weeks" - not the more truthful "months", not "permanent changes", but the minimum amount they could halfway reasonably get away with stating.
I am biased, and this article is far more so, and less forgivably so bc mine is a personal opinion while this is touted as "news".
Perhaps it was implied, by virtue of it being obviously true:-).
Oh okay, I mean I was joking but... I do believe you are correct!:-)
Speaking of, it gives this old meme entirely new life!
Like, do you take shots before every breakfast...? :-P