• wombat [none/use name]
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    439 months ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    469 months ago

    One of the chuddiest roommates I ever had once said “just get a loan and start a business.”

    He was a retail worker with very few hours per week, depending upon his parents to pay his rent, and he sided with his boss over the lack of hours, somehow blaming the customers for not buying more slop. marx-joker

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      349 months ago

      and he sided with his boss over the lack of hours, somehow blaming the customers for not buying more slop

      Completely domesticated and servile

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      99 months ago

      Anytime someone says how easy it is to do whatever liberal bullshit, I always ask them “Then why haven’t you done it yourself?”

      This question works great on people complaining about “illegals on welfare” too. If it’s so easy for people outside of this country to scam the government, then why aren’t you out there getting all that free shit for yourself? Just quit your job and collect your caddie and surf n’ turf dinners.

      • Enjoyer_of_Games [he/him]
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        29 months ago

        Most of the time I hear this it’s from some white boomer who got actually did get a job by walking into a random place and giving the owner a firm handshake then getting a low interest mortgage off the back of it.

        They will then go on to complain about how everything is worse now except for it being impossible for anyone born after them to do the same.

  • gaycomputeruser [she/her]
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    229 months ago

    I really dislike the term “corporate greed”. It attributes agency and malice to an nonhuman machine doing what it’s designed to do.

  • GenXen [any, any]
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    349 months ago

    Oooh, you’re a Havard grad who ran with McKinsey before you ran Sony. Yes, tell me more about “that’s life”.

    Right this way to the gui , sir!

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    9 months ago

    go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.

    I presume people were paid some kind of a decent severance package

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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      Just go to college bro

      STEM or nothing bro.

      Learn to code bro

      Learn a trade bro

      Just be an investor bro

      Enjoy below minimum wage gig work forever bro < ————— (you are here)

      Just start your own business bro

      Just be born rich bro

      Join the military bro

      Just hurry up and starve on the streets bro

      • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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        89 months ago

        I feel like born rich, start a business, and join the military were the first three, then we moved on to the college trap. Next step left is hurry up and starve.

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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          Oh yeah, I forgot one more step.

          “Lol JK, engineering or nothing bro.” (Which also falls under the same problem as the rest of STEM. But hey, as someone who dropped out of STEM, it’s a bit of a consolation prize that I would have been fucked either way.)

  • FortifiedAttack [any]
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    399 months ago

    This isn’t being out of touch, this is flexing.

    He knows he can say whatever he wants and get away with it.

    The average freeze-gamer will continue to consume product and pay no attention to such statements.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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      It’s even a bloody meme among the Pokémon fandom. “You’ll buy it anyway.”

      I deadass had to tell myself they’d pull that crap when Violet rolled around. Maybe the anti-gg crowd was right. Gamers may not be dead, but gaming certainly is. I don’t think I’ve played a non “retro” game in about a year except for two games: Hades and Have a nice death. Literally no one has made anything worth playing, especially from the triple A realm.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      279 months ago

      In the most generous reading of this, it sounds like he’s saying the layoffs are temporary and those effected should just do gig work to bridge the gap. This is obviously how-much-could-it-cost ass shit, because CEOs always get these super cushy severance packages.

      • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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        159 months ago

        “I presume people were paid some kind of a decent severance package and by the time that runs out…Well, you know, that’s life.”