See who you are not allowed to criticise and you will see who rules you.
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So just out of abstract curiosity, where can one acquire these cards?
Their class is united, it's why they win.
Thankfully no one cares when Forbes posts their hit list every year.
Man, there's way more than 52.
He's gonna need a Magic: The Gathering like system for all those fuckers.
Yeah, but I don’t think you’d even need to take out 52. After the first dozen or so, they’ll be more inclined to surrender their wealth and get off the list.
CEOs are all the rage these days, but hear me out here - shareholders?
I agree... What is it like 10% own 90% of the stock market, 1% own 50% or something like that? Major shareholders are the real evil oligarchy... CEOs are just shills they hire to take the bullet, same as politicians but paid better... I'd love to see some playing cards for the real oligarchy... But it's pretty hard to really track them because they hide behind corporations and shit
Really just anyone with a certain amount of wealth should be forced to redistribute that wealth or face dire consequences.
Blackcock and BJ Hornan!
Really highlights the fact that any free speech and naive western sense of freedom in these walled garden is just a button press away from being taken away and that there are no rules or standards. Whenever the owners or their friends feel even slightly displeased, annoyed or god forbid afraid the masks go off and the hammer falls.
Protocols not platforms are the future.
Sadly look at email. Technically you can host it yourself but if you're not one of the 15 or so big providers, good luck not being marked as spam before you even do anything.
The real problem is with the oligarchy controlling everything, service or protocol. This is why Threads was/is dangerous.
And they’ve been systematically shutting down anonymous email services.
Load up Brave with a tor connection, and try to sign up for anonymous email. When they can’t track you reliably, even the “anonymous” services require a confirmation email or phone number.
Man I don't want a future where we doxx ourselves to just be on a PC. Its insane that parents think real ID for gaming is a good idea. Linux might be the only way to escape any of this in the near future.
They pretend it’s to protect us from illegal activity, but it’s really to protect them from whistleblowers.
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Somewhat unfair judgement against emails IMO, especially cause it’s the “trust list” that’s in the control of a few, with no open manner to add more people to the trust list. The protocol isn’t at fault for failing to prevent problems; it’s the ability for corporations to gain significant market share without control, before they are then allowed to put barriers down to disallow or discourage interaction between those in and out, forcing those within to stay in, while those outside to give up on others in order to gain usability.
That was my point too, I guess I wasn't clear enough so thanks for elaborating. The protocol isn't at fault, but something being a protocol (and not just a proprietary service) isn't enough if the vast majority of the market share is being held by a few corporations.
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They've been getting away with their class-war for so long any deviation from norms is alarming. Usually we just talk about black vs white, right vs left, etc.
That is a fair point. I've said it to numerous people talking about this subject: Americans are the most propaganda inundated people on the planet. There's some quote about about how in China people know to not believe in the gov propaganda and here it's just called the news lmao
I mean, North Korea exists. But yeah, Americans are extremely propagandized.
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Here's an image of the playing cards, for anyone who just came to the comments.
With the target on the back, no shit this was removed lmao
Having the suit one corner and the rank in the other is going to make these a bastard to play games with. How would you hold them in your hand so's that you can see both?
Maybe the user was banned because of bad design?
Yeah, at first I thought he was copying the format from Iraq but nope:
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No idea why nobody linked it yet, but you can buy them here: https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/the-playing-cards
Honestly? That very much feels like a "fuck around and find out" situation and a GREAT way to piss off rich people in the event someone else gets blue shelled.
Also: Free speech doesn't apply to social media. You can and will be banned for no reason other than someone with the power was bored.
Oh man blue shelled is perfect
The fucking banks refused to let him take payments.
They'll do that at the drop of a hat these days. It's been a slippery slope since WikiLeaks.
That's fucking bullshit.
Another reason why crypto is the future: to free us from the control of banks.
I think the cards are hilarious but they have something the other referenced sets (Iraqi, COVID) do not: silhouette targets on the back.
I am by no means defending their removal but cards but maybe don't give them a plausible excuse to remove them by implying that these cards are for shooting??
if they didn't want to feel threatened then they shouldn't run their businesses so provocatively.
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Well, yeah, platforms (unless otherwise specified) are for-profit. Anything that would impede their profit stream is naturally going to be censored so that profit can continue uninterrupted.
Can’t have some idiot poor going around making richoids uncomfortable, they’d just pull their money, and that would mean less money going to the platforms.
Step 1: profit. Step 2: profit. All other steps: profit. EZPZ
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Just highlights once more that we are ruled and suppressed by the rich.
So where can these be purchased rn? I got crypto
The site comrade workwear opens with them on the front page, i was curious what type of workwear they had after this article.
I'm looking for a replacement for dickies and another one, their quality has been absolute ass lately. €100 work jeans that get holes in them in a matter of days, those are not work jeans anymore.
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Damn I would buy those too
Oof, the back of those cards is designed as a shooting target. So much for plausible deniability.
Probably technically falls under free speech regardless.
No different from the dozens of other targets made as targets with the face of political figures centered as the bullseye, imo. If one is fine, it's all fine.
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