MadhuGururajan

ah ok yeah I agree. Their elites seem to be quite "chummy" as brits would put it.

You can't exactly blame people for being stupid when you realize the conditions necessary for well learned, aware citizens with empathy are always being destroyed by these so called billionaires. It's not a coincidence that private cities and walled estates for the rich are the trend. They live in socialist utopia and sell rugged individualistic capitalism to the masses.

Think about how much industrialization and development happened. Now think about how much we have lost touch with how to live meaningful, fulfilling life without our needs going unfulfilled.

Alas, nothing can last forever. Greed and hubris contribute to the destruction of societies. History teaches us.

First of all these billionaires can afford to replace for their kids; what social media is with actual socialising that is destroyed by fear, nimbyism, and systematic destruction of third places for normal people. that's what private cities and walled off estates are for. They will continue to enjoy the fruits of socialism while selling capitalism for everybody else.

This is not a force to be triffled with or dismissed as so easy to escape from.

and do what? Ensure the U.K also denounces the U.S as an ally?

I don't see how the advice doesn't apply. Do not go to U.S.A

thanks.. I guess santa can put me on the naughty list early this christmas cause I got the presents already!

thanks for the deets I have some thing to do for christmas

thanks for the deets I know what i will do for christmas!

actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don't know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.

I am rusty and don't have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.

good thing my gmail is full of spammy bullshit.

when tech folk get milked by every other merchant and pay extra, while getting ripped off.. we do feel like daily wage workers.

then you're oddly commenting on a thread about striking.. which is secondary to the important step of building organizations and support structures. Its hard to near impossible for people to strike who depend on that pay check to clear debt, pay rent, etc. Participating in regular organizing events is the right advice, and you got off on the wrong foot asking first for people to strike and only when asked questions you revealed people need to organize. without the proper support structures and alternative means of income in place, it is near impossible to convince people to strike. They need the strike because they don't have financial security to stop obeying their boss. You're ignoring the initial situation. That's creating a perception of you being about only what you think needs to happen without considering others.

Edit: I did not mean YOU specifically asked people to strike first but you get the point. I am reacting to "we need to strike" as a sentence on its own.