Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Anarchist/libsoc. If we’re stuck with a government, it should use its taxes for healthcare and education, not murdering.

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  • Android may be created by an advertising company but they also give you the ability to run whatever OS you want and strip it of Google’s proprietary software completely. These days you can install OS like Graphene by simply plugging in your phone and clicking buttons in your browser.

    That’s like saying since computers come with Windows pre-installed, Microsoft gave you the ability to install Linux. Computers are agnostic to what runs on them, they’re inherently neutral unless made on the deeper level to prohibit side loading. Like a lot of Androids and all iPhones do.







  • The fact that I have to do combersome, confusing registry edits for simple changes on Windows sucks shit. I don’t think I’ve ever once intuitively known where to change something, or the way to do it once.

    But it’s normalized for the people who have to go find the one fine site out of dozens that will steal your info because they’re afraid of learning something new in an era of ensuring no one learns new useful skills so it can be sold back to you.


  • Fair. One of my many issues when Yang was running for the nomination back in 2020 was that he wanted the money from data being sold given back to the person it was taken from. Seemed reasonable.

    But then people pointed out that the data is worth next to nothing, it’s only worth something with millions grouped and bunched together. You and I alone are worth pennies, and that’s on a good day. It costs almost nothing to gather the info and scrape and sell it, the hardest part is storing it for companies like Google and Facebook, as that can be a lot of storage.

    So the idea that you’d get paid back for your data being sold is great, until you realize you as Data Number 495715953 were sold for $0.09 and got it as a check, it would cost more time and money to process that check than it’s worth.


  • If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

    Uneducated minds are great for a country. They do the jobs they are told to do, they elect those the media tells them to, they fight the wars they are told to, and they obey the laws they are told to do.

    Education can bring critical thinking. It can make people question anything, from the shape of the universe, to complex math questions, to themselves. Questioning things is bad for governments, of all kinds and organizations. Questioning why you’re doing something is bad for the company. Questioning why you’re following orders is bad for the war effort. Questioning is bad.

    Keep the people uneducated, struggling to pay for rent, medical bills, groceries, the children they were told to have by decades of media and governments having population issues from lack of immigration, they don’t have time to question. They can only focus on putting in the hours to stay alive. It’s work or starve. Work or be cold. Work or your children go hungry. Work or go bankrupt from debt.

    If you give the workers enough meaningful distractions from their poverty, they won’t want an education because it’s too much of another burden. Debts, schooling, scheduling, studying, reading, taking tests and exams. It can often be worth it, just for socializing with your peers, even learning new interests, hobbies, even better carriers. But the workers who need the income the most barely have time for cooking and sleeping at home, living on money they haven’t made yet.

    By ensuring that only those with decent enough of an income can afford higher education, it ensure those with more money can think for those with less money. The people who went to school for media training can now use it to propagate the new person to hate this month to drive the votes for something batshit insane, never thought possible before.

    It’s a good thing for this system to have uneducated people, because they won’t ever question what they’re doing, they’re just following the orders their boss and government told them to do.