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grimblee commented on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates   twitter.com/Lewis_Bollard... · Posted by u/bilsbie
akramachamarei · 6 days ago
Capitalism precisely precludes slavery. One of the most important and foundational of its principles is private property. The first, most natural, and universal instance of private property is the ownership of one's own body. Heck, we even have the phrase "private parts." Slavery requires the most basic violation of bodily autonomy. In other words, to permit slavery is to permit the violation of the most basic property right. I struggle to see how slavery could be compatible with capitalism.
grimblee · 6 days ago
Go ask kids forced to work for years in cocoa plants or coltan mins in africa what they think of your little explaination
grimblee commented on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services   neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/im... · Posted by u/speckx
grimblee · 12 days ago
I am pretty sure they know our identity pretty accurately already, through browser fingerprinting and google's gmail data, my real concern is the half-assed security measure with our id cards. The persona breach just recently proved they cannot be trusted and this expose us to identity fraud/theft.
grimblee commented on Whistleblower leaks personal details of thousands of Border Patrol/ICE Agents   rawstory.com/ice-agents-d... · Posted by u/ck2
songodongo · 2 months ago
What purpose does this serve other than to incite violence? Is this not a key ingredient of fascism?
grimblee · 2 months ago
A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerence, lest it gets destroyed by it.

You cannot give anything to fascists, we know what they do, history is there, they didn't change, they're doing exactly the same thing.

grimblee commented on Whistleblower leaks personal details of thousands of Border Patrol/ICE Agents   rawstory.com/ice-agents-d... · Posted by u/ck2
psunavy03 · 2 months ago
While there's more than enough room to criticize both agencies these days, and if I did work for one of them I'd be retaining personal legal representation, doxxing people is not the answer. Sure, if some bad actors can be sued/prosecuted, that's not a bad thing per se.

But we're already living in a world where US Senators and Supreme Court Justices have had to have security provided because of death threats from both sides of the aisle. We don't need to be encouraging vigilantes. No side is so noble that people can't do evil in its name.

grimblee · 2 months ago
I read that during the irish occupation, irish policemen (so, working for the british governement) were rejected and isolated socially, treated as traitors to their people.

Which led them to eventually refuse to continue oppressing their people for money, the revolution, independance, all that.

I kinda see connections, don't you ?

grimblee commented on Whistleblower leaks personal details of thousands of Border Patrol/ICE Agents   rawstory.com/ice-agents-d... · Posted by u/ck2
phs318u · 2 months ago
I kind of agree with you - up until the point that ICE started just shooting people in the face with zero consequences (and please don’t trot out the self-defence BS).

Let’s try your comment in 1938 Germany. Replace the word ICE with Gestapo.

grimblee · 2 months ago
Did you know the early nazis where actually impressed by america's segregation and racism and lamented they couldn't easily do the same? Well, they kinda did in the end.
grimblee commented on Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism and the Silence Is Deafening   religiondispatches.org/el... · Posted by u/tastyface
grimblee · 2 months ago
White men are the most privileged and protected class oh prople in the accident, all this is bullshit.

You have no idea what people outside of it are saying because you don't talk to them, you've just been endoctrined by the media playing on your fears of the unknown and of losing some of those privileges.

But the thing is, the most privilegied losing privileges isn't something horrible, it's simple justice, restoring the balance.

grimblee · 2 months ago
Class of people in the occident*
grimblee commented on Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism and the Silence Is Deafening   religiondispatches.org/el... · Posted by u/tastyface
grimblee · 2 months ago
White men are the most privileged and protected class oh prople in the accident, all this is bullshit.

You have no idea what people outside of it are saying because you don't talk to them, you've just been endoctrined by the media playing on your fears of the unknown and of losing some of those privileges.

But the thing is, the most privilegied losing privileges isn't something horrible, it's simple justice, restoring the balance.

grimblee commented on Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)   thenextweb.com/news/delet... · Posted by u/austinallegro
grimblee · 3 months ago
Well, I've never used linkedin outside of job hunts, and for that it was useful.

The social media part seems trash tier and I want no part of it though.

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grimblee · 3 months ago
A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, lest it gets destroyed by it.

Free speech ends where hatred starts.

grimblee commented on Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit    · Posted by u/MITfather
grimblee · 3 months ago
Meritocracy is the myth the dominant class created to keep us all playing.

Is all about luck and there's only so many seats, you better be born closer to the free ones.

u/grimblee

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