That's more commonly a US thing and it's like, "Americans saved from America." whether health, education, or some basic social service that's being used for profiteering.
66"Amazing! This group of people crowd-funded a medical procedure!"
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That's the subreddit I'm missing here...
51The problem with these rage inducing subreddits is that they seldom seem to propose or encourage any solution or alternative. So it ends up becoming a kind of circle jerk of learned helplessness.
It seems like a common internet thing. Rage bait and learned helplessness. We learn to accept that there's nothing to do because people and politicians are idiots because "look at all this stuff".
And often this aligns with advertising tech because it makes us engaged and seeking comfort of continued scrolling when we get a steady stream of anxiety injections. It's low key like an abusive relationship.
17God forbid a community focused on showcasing a certain trope actually focus on showcasing that trope...
The old subreddit was associated with leftist political subreddits anyway, so the connection to actual discourse is there regardess
Furthermore, the comments sections always abound with discussions of potential solutions
18Respectfully, I don't think one can just suggest a solution to what is fundamentally problem of decades of economic propaganda and miseducation. The number of morons that believe in Adam Smith and market self-corrections like they are forces as natural as the tide is truly staggering insane, ansld is a direct result of generations of neoliberalism seeping into education.
There's no easy solution. There's hardly a hard solution at this point. The solution is to make memes, and to yell, and to make the issue so readily apparent it can be unavoidable and understood by these very same people let down by their education. So subreddits memeing is good, overall.
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Hey that orphan-crushing machine is a constitutionally enshrined right. I have the right to mount that thing on wheels and drive it around to crush up orphans wherever I want! And if somebody tries to stop me and gets caught up in and jams the mechanism, I have the right to sue his estate for damages!
45Are you on patreon? I've got 20k I'd like to invest in your ideas
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Yeah, because everybody knows the obvious answer. It's untethered capitalism. And no it hasn't always been that way. Politicians weren't always whores for the rich. That's a rather recent development that can absolutely be stopped by the will of the people.
43As much as I respect your argument; the Romans. Or any civilisation really. It literally has always been that way.
23Before Caesar, Rome actually had checks and balances to keep one person from amassing too much influence. For example, they had two consuls, which was the highest political position at the time and acted like as the heads of state.
Until Caesar fucked up those systems by literally declaring himself "dictator for life". So really, it's not always been this way, it's usually just a few individuals that keep fucking it up for everyone else. Until they end up with a knife in their back.
6As much as I respect your argument; the Romans. Or any civilisation really. It literally has always been that way.
[Citation needed]
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If you ever wonder why there's an ORPHAN CRUSHING MACHINE and why they need $20k to prevent the use of it. It was because there's this one llama with a hat that is trying to build a Meat Dragon to impress his mate named paul
29Give man a fish and they call you a communist. Create a baby crashing machine and they call you shrewd businessman. Or something like this.
26No, no, it's asking why he has no fish that gets you called a communist.
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Of course it's a mystery. An honest discussion about why orphan-crushing machines need to exist would lead to an honest discussion about where your society's pain really comes from.
And the owner class doesn't want that discussion to happen. Because it would come out that they don't pay their fair share of the tax burden, which would keep orphan-crushing machines from existing in the first place.
17The radical leftists marxists communists won’t let us crush orphans anymore
Make Orphan Crushing Great Again
Trump 2024
16It's called healthcare now.
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Listen, we here are Orphan Crushing Incorporated are a family business...
9Will nobody think of the jobs in the orphan crushing industry?
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Just read one like that:
8That one showed up just before this post in my feed!
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Great. Now I need to go rewatch cube.
5When you say rewatch cube I think of the movie Cube, but I'm not sure that's what you meant?
2That's the one! Great Canadian cinema. Number 1 n 3. Not number 2.
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I miss Achewood
5I heard Onstad came back and was doing new Achewood content behind a paywall but I have been too poor to pay and see if he has still got the chops.
I miss Ray and Beef and Teodor and Philipe and Cornelius and Lyle and Nice Pete and the rest of the gang, all the way up to Trouble Man and No-No.
Dear god if only he could get the complete Achewood released.
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The real problem is that the orphans need a crushing machine themselves so that they could prevent to be crushed. We must protect the second crushing amendment.
5The only thing that can prevent a good orphan from being crushed is a bad orphan with a... wait what?
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We all could do with less salt in our lives.
4Speak for yourself, I'm not interested in reducing my salary!
8And now I'm thinking about the Roman Empire.
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Orphan Crushing Machines Inc to the moon, no paper hands
4Will nobody think of the jobs in the orphan crushing industry?
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It's called Effective Altruism!
2In short, effective altruism is commonly viewed as being about the moral obligation to donate as much money as possible to evidence-backed global poverty charities, or other measurable ways of making a short-term impact.
Just be the philanthropist that your broke ass wants to be.
Work 120 hours a week so you can receive 15% of the value you generate as a paycheck. Then take the 75% you receive from that after the tax man and donate it to a charity. It's so simple.
You want to be a better human? Just work more, and then donate more.
6Except it's worse than that. The argument goes, if I could donate $1m right now to a charity, or invest that money in subprime mortgages for a year and donate $5m next year, plus keep a little bit of that profit to live on, obviously the optimal course of action is to be a capitalist and not donate right now.
Project this rationalization forward indefinitely and you get all the benefits of the 1% lifestyle while retaining the ability to feel morally superior to everyone else not in your little trust fund cult
3Or just actually work for a charitable organization if you're not super rich. Like a doctor is important to humanitarian aid, but so is getting them to and from the area, so is student loan forgiveness as med school is incredibly costly, they also have to offer their workers a (paltry) salary and per diem, etc, which is where the money is quite important.
Could it be done differently in a better society that we should absolutely be working towards? Yes. Can and should we also congratulate the people in our society for working with what they have? Yes.
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IDK why people are downvoting my post. That's literally what that is.
I visited a talk with Peter Singer in Washington, D.C. a few years ago where people applauded a guy who had considered joining an NGO and decided to become an investment broker and donate to Effective Altruism instead. 🤔
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