That’s fair, sorry I assumed the worst from the language I used. Weathy Libertarian Freeloaders …i suppose I understand the term being applied to them.

Selfish nihilists is what I call them, values-free economic nihilists.

The consequences don’t just effect one side. Musk now has his own town, Starbase, Texas. Marc Andreeson isn’t far behind.

There is no being smug, the precedents will have far reaching effects.

MARC ANDEREESON wanted to buy up farm land in Solarno CA, for his “California Forever” private owned town.

Thiel has expressed similar.

Musk has his own corporate town (Starbase, Texas).

Bezos has an area of Malaysia.

Zuck has parts of Hawaii.

Sam Altman invests in a private town in Honduras.

…they ALL want private towns, fifedoms to rule over in America. And by rule over, I mean SETTING THEIR OWN LAWS.

This is happening.

Anyways, I’m sure this story on Trump bankrupting farmers is completely unrelated. I certainly have no evidence it’s related. But I think it’s concerning (farmers refusing to sell large tracts of America is what held up the “California Forever” project).

You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns

He also said Mars would have self-driving cars by 1997.

His statements aren’t worth the oxygen.

The standard that “you must be in total exhile to not be a freeloader” is clearly totalitarian, because A) if we apply the same absolutism to the other categories we get the idea that the first group must all care absolutely and about the exact right “meaningful” things (which is clearly not true), and that the Shameless group must equally be absolute in their evil, and can have no redeeming facts.

And because B) even using the term “freeloader” is totalitarian.

Not only are their people who societies exist in order to support and have “freeload” on them, such as orphans, the disabled, the elderly, babies, children, the poor and incapable, the uneducated and deprived. The huddled masses.

But also because: everyone makes some contribution. It’s impossible to exist in society and not. Whether it’s artistic, spiritual, intellectual, consumer based, no matter how minor, be it buying shampoo and thus contributing to GDP and taxes, or making someone think via a comment… Or wearing a lovely outfit on the street…

Human existence is a contribution.

So I disagree with your outlook, I think it’s totalitarian, anti-humanist, and ugly. I disagree with anyone who uses terms like loser or “freeloader”, and I concede that even people I strongly disagree with, are still contributing in their small humanistic and social ways (which all people naturally have).

So I’m not sure you understand the meaning of human society. Why it is, and how it inevitably will continue to be. Where ever we are, it is - “freeloaders” most definitely included.

P.S By the way, most poets, artists, actors, and comedians - cultural workers that is to say - are unemployed bums and “freeloaders”. There is no humanity without them. Stop demonizing the poor and people who just want to be left alone.

Let me rephrase; neither of them make it into my regular listening cycles.

… lots of “great bands” don’t, because their music got saturated long ago. The culture listens and remembers which makes it impossible for me to because music for me, is something to escape with, be taken away by… Not something to conjure a sense of being in a mall decades ago, or a particular TV advertisement or sequence in a movie trailer.

That’s the curse of popular music. It becomes commercial, gets over used, and loses it’s emancipatory weight.

A few years ago he said “Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic” - this REALLY HELPED criticism be heard at all.

Yeah but he was a HUGE VOICE for saying “Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism” a few years back, which did A LOT towards others being able to be heard when calling it a Genocide.

Corporations these never dying Zombies that exist beyond and regardless of the lives operating them…

ARE THE BIGGEST EXISTENTIAL RISK TO HUMANITY, DEMOCRACY, AND ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET

We need to let corporations know they can die, and be killed. We need to take their immortality back, and give the people back their right to individual humanity.

Overlooks the third and largest group: “Leave me alone.”

Into the rightwing grave yard, I look forward to the replacement versions… Maybe we’ll get Vine back.

Obama’s reluctance to criticize a fellow member of the Presidents club has really highlighted Obama’s known flaws as a centrist Neo-Liberal leader, as well as the dangers of centrism in general.

Yes, most major brands. They’re often used in meeting rooms, lobbies, and public places (places you don’t want pop-up ads that you aren’t already being paid for). Not to mention that you can get LED video walls that are modular and snap together.

Truth is always the first victim in any authoritarian political regime.

I don’t like either of them.

He’s a kind of nutty conservative, and nothing will be lost for greater humanity when he dies, because despite having the means - he’s really contributed very little to the health and well-being of society, to the quality of life for most people, or to the equilibrium between rich and poor.

Human knowledge, art, culture, loses nothing when Thiel dies, in fact we’ll likely be better off for having him gone.

Yes, we should all associate this killing with Charlie Day.

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Alright, Lemmy is just Reddit now. I’m out.

The Crane Fly also gets called a Mosquito Hawk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

In colloquial speech, crane flies are known as mosquito hawks or “skeeter-eaters”, though they do not actually prey on adult mosquitos or other insects.[7][8] They are also sometimes called “daddy longlegs”, a name which is also used for arachnids of the family Pholcidae and the order Opiliones. The larvae of crane flies are known commonly as leatherjackets.[7]