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  • Nah, their fortunes would just go to their heirs and you’d still have the same problem with roughly the same number of people. The solution is a system of regulation and taxation that stops incentivizing the pursuit of profit over all else. For example, shareholders should not be able to profit when workers don’t. Real estate owners should not be able to engage in cartel-like behavior, collaborating with each other to fix prices.


  • Tango@piefed.catome_irlme_irl
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    4 hours ago

    I still don’t understand. Are you saying that inter-racial marriage results in an abomination? If you’re attempting to use some sort of rhetorical device, it’s going way above my head.



  • All of the dragon dreams (specifically dragon dreams - not greensight, not woods witch prophecies, etc) we’ve seen in these shows, and most that we’ve heard tell of, have included references to Dany hatching her dragons, the Iron Throne in a ruined throne room, and/or the White Walker threat. In other words, references to GOT. And when I say “most that we’ve heard tell of”, the only two dragon dreams we’ve been told about that I can think of that DIDN’T include a reference to GOT were:

    • Daeron the Drunken’s dream in AKOTSK about a dead dragon falling on Dunk
    • Rhaenyra mentioning that Daenys the Dreamer foresaw the Doom of Valyria

    All this to say, I think HBO just likes using dragon dreams to tie everything back to GOT. Everything foreshadows GOT somehow.


















  • As a fan of Diogenes, I feel obliged to point out that Cynicism is not the same as pessimism. Cynicism is the philosophical belief that society/civilization was a mistake and that humans would be best advised to follow the example of dogs, who are (generally) innately happy creatures who don’t worry about pointless abstract things like real estate ownership and licensing agreements.


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    2 days ago

    But your (our?) generation won’t outnumber young people if young people keep immigrating. Not that “keep foisting the burden of perpetual growth on the young” is ACTUALLY a good plan, but it’s exactly the kind of selfish arch-capitalist thinking that they’d be all in favor of if it was white young people.



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    2 days ago

    It’s not that they’re afraid of society collapsing. They clearly don’t care about that, as most of what they do ignores that.

    What they’re worried about is the “Great Replacement”, where white people become a minority. If that wasn’t what they were really afraid of, then they would consider the problem of declining birth rates to be easily solvable with immigration.