JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@social.cleverlibre.org

@xs4me2 @aldente @godpod and is there currently a war in Europe?

@taylorlorenz

https://youtu.be/aKnX5wci404

@stonehenge @godpod Soros. The guy builds schools all over the world.

@jamesmarshall @joat @godpod I honestly don't know how to address your post. Monopolies tend to have two forms, natural or legal. Natural Monopolies really can not be broken up. And the other ones are legal ones created by the state.

@gzuckier @aldente @godpod No. I mean because those billions don't spontaneously generate, and require income to maintain. If you want to see what happens to 44 billion bucks when the public turns against a billionaire, go check out Twitter.

@aldente @godpod , I just remembered, in the past I would use a label for myself: "Libertarian-communist". I hope that helps. :)

@aldente @godpod furthermore, I don't trust billionaires any more than I trust any random person. I just don't trust them LESS. I do not trust a government with billions of dollars more than an individual. I feel it is blatantly obvious why I don't. It is not blatantly obvious why others don't see this. But, as some have pointed out, it could be an American thing. We seem to love spending billions bombing brown people around the world. I do trust Soros, for example, far more with billions.

@aldente @godpod , I don't label them. I think most labels are constricting, and often used to cast shade. I further feel that all forms of government and social interaction have their time and place, and are the most effective or fair in those times and places. Although that requires the idea that the only goal is species survival over all else.

@MikeJung,already used, but Grebo.

Might not be the best name, but obviously the best fictional cat...

@bradfonseca, my coping mechanism is to pick a religion that has no holidays in December and convert to that just for the month. This year I mistakenly picked Zoroastrianism.

Never mind, I see you are figuring it out... I thought maybe it was a server issue, or something, which can be an issue. Different servers and apps act differently.

Like this??

https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/109565436163660592

@CosmicJellyfish @joat @godpod , I have thought about your post a bit longer. I have come to a few conclusions. One, you added nothing to the conversation, and are attempting to be insulting. If this is how you treat strangers, you are unlikely to be a good person. Two, you jump to assumptions about others, and are very likely highly judgemental, without concrete evidence.

Granted, I am basing this off of a single post of yours, and it is likely I am incorrect. I wouldn't bet on me being incorrect though, but the chance is there. So I should offer you a chance to explain yourself, or I wouldn't be a good person. Feel free to correct me, if you wish to, or you can block me, I can block you, and we can become better strangers.

@joat @godpod every government is such an entity. And I would say demonstrably worse than any individual, with the exceptions of those idividuals who were also the government.

@jamesmarshall @joat @godpod nothing. The subject evolved.

@joat @godpod none of that addresses my initial point. Should government have billions to spend, if they demonstrably spend that cash on killing people, enslaving them, etc, and is that ignorable when pointing out the existence of individuals with a billion or more dollars? I argue that pointing out individuals is an attempt to obfuscate the elephant in the room. And such observations of the lesser of the evils is designed to create noise to hide true evil. Intentionally hide it.

@jamesmarshall @joat @godpod study supply chains. It is an amazingly complex dance of retailers coming to a consensus. You can earn a doctorate in the subject.