Crunk music. Except for one song, i can’t believe I used to like the genre. Me and my school friends loved crunk. It dawned on me that I can’t criticise what children are listening to these days, when our music is just as bad if not worse.

If a person could not handle being monogamous, and the other could not handle polyamory, they should find partners compatible with their desires instead of cheating on one another.

Consent, mate.

It does not work for most people because they couldn’t handle the jealousy.

A one day old account defending imperial capitalism. Sure you aren’t fascist.

Found a fascist.

From cold hard rationale, Hayek and Friedman makes sense, but they do ignore reality that circumstances always change. Deregulation made sense at the time of 1970s oil crisis as the economy and welfare state stagnated, but we’re now in the age of economic prosperity again, but the wealth is hoarded by the few and act as though austerity still matters.

Not entirely sure about why Friedman’s claim that India was costing the British empire more to maintain, but it has also been repeated in many circles. I suspect that the data is not fully contextualised and repeated as if it’s the absolute truth. An Indian historian countered the narrative, mentioning that if we include the period of private control of India by the British East India company, before India was formally taken over by the British state in 1858, the total wealth plundered from India is about $1 trillion. The term “loot” is Indian origin, which became part of the English language after East India’s violent colonisation. When the British public found out of about the brutal occupation by a private company and were enraged by it, the British state took over the formal administration. But this only happened well after committing crimes against humanity, after a state-sanctioned plunder and massacre that made their private owners and their government enablers rich, while the cost of running another country is taken over by tax payers. It’s an early example of “privatise the profit, socialise the cost”.

VICTORIA NULAND!!

How do we even know you’re not working in a troll farm?

Crime of passion? That’s still a thing?

do the billionaires not care about their own children?

Ummm…no? I sincerely believe some people are inherently evil. Look at Elon Musk and how he treats his children.

I was watching a documentary on the nature of evil. There is an incarcerated serial killer who acknowledges what he did is evil and wrong, but he doesn’t feel empathy. CT scan of his brain showed that the part of the brain associated with empathy is not really active. Having said that, I heard that the longer someone is in power, the more that their brain physiologically changes.

Of course it is more complicated and nurture still plays a role on the person’s development, but I think sometimes nature is stronger.

I laughed when Milton Friedman thinks free market could prevent climate change through climate dividends and carbon tax. Good luck, boyo, your “greed is good” bullshit is what led us to here.

70 year old: But I am fast.

Maybe you have ADHD.

My guess is that you’re not in the US like I am, but I hear so many ridiculous stories and laws over there which are privacy-invasive, because it is not a secret that corporations and governments want data to surveil and manipulate its citizens, and then train AI.

They’re not wrong? It’s an open secret in the business world that information is the new gold.

If something is free, you’re the product.

K comrade.

You’re talking about CIA-orchestrated coups and without popular support. Almost all color revolutions tend to be grass roots movement, albeit have soft power influence from outside.

Yes, but the UI in og forums are not great. Better UI and accessibility is the number one appeal of Reddit.

Do you mean propagandise the Russian population? The West is already doing it by way of Radio Free Europe, NED and other NGOs. It is not a discussion that comes up often, but on occasions Russian trolls will bring up about color revolutions in Russian sphere of influence that advocate for democratic reforms, which is catalysed by the West through said media and institutions. Hence, for the Russian jingoists and Kremlin, their own propaganda against the West is justified. But if you ask the trolls what is objectively bad with promoting democracy? You will get crickets. That is certainly better than propping up illiberal and regressive groups.

Catharsis. As on the individual level of “get it out of the system”, the angst and anger also needs to be let out in societal level. Seeing as where the world is heading, the Pandora’s box has already opened and there is no way of putting back the angry genie. It will become worse before it gets better.