Two days ago an otherwise sensible friend, a political organizer, earnestly
and then angrily tried to convince me that purchasing stock in Gamestop was
somehow striking a blow against capitalism.
I was and remain very perplexed at how people could believe such a thing.
ONE WEIRD TRICK THAT BANKS
that to the extent that people have begun to die because
of this ideology, we can consider ourselves living in a collapsed state. RIP.
-Sam Dwyer
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To the extant that makerism(!) was a movement, it is under-appreciated that
the widespread availability of 3d printers happened after the patents held
by Stratasys (parent of Makerbot) on Fusion Deposit Modeling expired in
2009, and the price of 3d printers plummeted from $10,000 to a little more
The question I would ask is, *need the left meme?*
Addressing exclusively the word-picture-hahas, the power of memes is
I think largely in the condensed arguments they offer; the format of
memes force a certain clarity of expression: short, punchy, funny.
These features are rewarded in any
> fuck you for making me one of you.
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...well this rock concert sure ended with a whimper.
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We must compassionately consider the plight of the inane and opinionated as not
a choice, but as a sad, symptomatic consequence of the capricious capitalist
mechanism. All too frequently, surplus idleness is thrust upon those who are
ill-prepared to receive the burden.
Can you not understand
