Message from @halfthink
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A trade organization of a few dozen creators would have a lot more clout with platforms that individuals, and might have some hope of getting policies changed. Or at the very least make them think twice about fucking with members arbitrarily.
You know a lot of people across Youtube and elsewhere, and you're seen as a level-headed, non-controversial, middle-of-the-road kind of guy. While you might not be the person to take charge of such an effort, maybe you could get the ball rolling.
There's the "Intellectual Dark Web", and while the people associated with it are precisely the sort of people I'm talking about they don't have the sort of statement of principles or formal group affiliation which could be used to actually lobby platforms or defend members. A creator trade association would have to be a little more formal and close-knit in order to have any sort of negotiating clout.
That just sounds like communism with extra steps.
Who here has autism and wants to weaponize it?
Somebody should go find clips of Jack Conte saying naughty words and publish them everywhere, get him removed from CEO of his own company
and when I say naughty, I mean slurs
individualism is autism
in a good way
Here's my unpopular opinion of African Americans:
One of the troubles of urban black culture stem from the community's demonization of formal education, it being labelled as "White people shit". This is usually paired with the pervasive mindset that the only paths to success are through sports, rap music, and criminal activity, particularly in the case of gang violence. The enabling of this mindset from a very young age actively discourages aspiring black children from pursuing other means of success like academics, trades, or crafts. The only effective way to combat this is to encourage black children to break from the dangerously narrow "hood mentality" and harmful urban culture that black people have locked themselves into for so many years.
The only unpopular part of that opinion is blaming the blacks for what the welfare state would have done to any community.
French are fucking retarded
https://youtu.be/5iH7dPW7hyU
Le ~~yellow vest~~ commie manifesto.
they can't even imagine the world without a welfare-state
Why should the taxpayer have to pay for the public sector? That's the government's responsibility.
yeah... the government can just print the money and pay for services, n'est-ce pas? 😉
Yeah, why tax when you can just redistribute the wealth by printing more money?
Seriously, the solution to all their problems is simply to end central banking. They are protesting because of constant inflation and wage stagnation.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the government was so small that the money they print is enough to cover for the costs without taxes?
🤔
No, the ability for government to print money only guarantees the constant expansion of state power.
Inflation is just taxation without legislation.
```That socialism has displaced liberalism as the doctrine held by the great majority of progressives does not imply mean that people had forgotten the warnings of the great liberal thinkers of the past about the consequences of collectivism. It has happened because they were persuaded of the very opposite of what these men had predicted. The extraordinary thing is that the same socialism that was not only early recognised as the gravest threat to freedom, but quite openly began as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution, gained general acceptance under the flag of liberty. It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. The French writers who laid the foundations of modern socialism had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. To them socialism meant an attempt to "terminate the revolution" by a deliberate reorganisation of society on hierarchical lines, and the imposition of a coercive "spiritual power". Where freedom was concerned, the founders of socialism made no bones about their intentions. Freedom of thought they regarded as the root-evil of nineteenth-century society, and the first of modern planners, Saint Simon, even predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be "treated as cattle".
-F.A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom.```
can you imagine me being too tired to read that entire paragraph but still being extremely interested in it
There's a cartoon version of the whole book.
The French and most of the west EU countries are force fed socialist propaganda for almost a century. So we can dream of educating them now. But if they cut the "economic" crap out of those demands and leave the anti-immigration only, that still would be better than nothing...
They only need 1 demand: denationalise money!
```"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.```
and what? have a "Fed" like private institution to control that?