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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • Not op, and any Marxist feel free to step in, but 100% tax is technically communism. And I mean full final stage communism where money no longer exists. If income is taxed at 100%, then money no longer needs to exist since… well you never really see it. The tax is spent on everything. You work if you can and everything that can be, is provided for you. Purely from an economic point of view. This is though an ideal and something that would need to be worked towards over long periods of time.





  • Virtually all of your examples involve US hegemony instigating and winning

    Hmm, I disagree. There are some but I purposely wanted to include the ones where the US was not in change in order to show its been a shitshow everywhere. They obviously had a hand everywhere, since they are considered a superpower but them leading the show every time? That’s a stretch.

    Ive also given examples I personally thought were extreme that happened in that century to paint a picture that it’s been pretty bad for a while now and you can draw your own opinion on whether is better now or not. I don’t wish to compare these events to today’s but I can acknowledge they were there and that they were also, pretty fucking bad.


  • Media bias. Trump is outrage and outrage moves views and views are profit. Trump is the greatest thing to happen to the media - regardless of side. We’re also more connected today than we ever were before so this media gets to everyone in an instant.

    Are evil people really winning globally more than they were in the past? Well… no. We’ve seen more shit in the second half of the 20th century than we are now. There’s still 25 years to catch up though. Heres some shit thats gone down fro 1950-2000.

    • Cold War - though it does seem like we are moving back to this state, we’re far from living like that
    • Korean War, Vietnam War, Kuwait,
    • Cuban Missile Crisis,
    • Basically every Arab nation against Israel - wars galore,
    • Suez crisis,
    • Iranian revolutions,
    • Sino-Soviet Split,
    • India-Pakistan,
    • Soviet-Afghan war,
    • Numerous African civil wars in the 60s, 70s and 90s (till ongoing),
    • South African Apartheid,
    • Numerous south American dictatorships (+ CIA interventions in south America backing right wing dictators),
    • Falklands war - the fucking UK went to war with Argentina in the fucking 80s!
    • All the shit in Yugoslavia (wars, genocide),
    • “The Troubles” in N. Ireland.

    A lot of these have been resolved.



  • Because people are sick and if you put an upload button on any website, the sickness will spread through it. Instagram has content moderators and probably AI to filter it but if you have more sick people uploading this shit than moderators, well it gets through. Believe me, they dont want to host it because its not advertiser friendly and alienates users… there is no incentive to them hosting this, as you said, they arent rotten.