Well said. Things will improve when the current dystopia is ash and bad memories.

Not really, this is to subvert crash regulations. These are legally considered light trucks and as such aren’t subject to the safety and emissions standards of vehicles that are legally considered to be cars.

Ah, yes. The Orphan Crushing Machine.

Considering after the Civil War it wasn’t uncommon to convict black men of… being black (seriously no crime listed, they were just made criminals because they’re black and now you have to be a criminal to be a slave) in order to continue the whole institution of slavery I would expect the ‘at some point’ figure to be much higher.

Easy answer for most people here; Capitalism is actively dystopian such that it will taunt us with any progress made in some sectors with the fact that it will never be available to us without crippling debt.

Only if it’s done by one of the god-kings of capitalism who also cares to spend some of their immeasurable power to launder their image.

I’d love to see the whole of the American Dystopia reduced to ash and bad memories.

You can start by becoming a worker’s cooperative wholly owned by the workers. This would be a preliminary step toward earning the kind of trustworthiness that would be needed for me to have even the remotest consideration that talking to you could help.

Essentially every aspect of our modern dystopia is a call for revolution. This however is special, not just a call for revolution but to ensure the perpetuators of our dystopia are properly punished.

This is one of the extremely few cases where I’m not sure if it’s Capitalism made it worse or there was just always some proportion of parents who were thing abhorrent.

• I’m not sure of cases of ‘aEsThEtIc’ being forced on children of times past, though it may more simply have been that their parent’s was the only option not just for reasons of authoritarianism.
• Not parenting one’s children and instead leaving them to ‘thing of the day/age’ isn’t exactly new. I recall stories of children being expelled from the home and left unsupervised until they were expected to come home of their own volition at the end of the day.
• Without knowing what you mean by ‘alarming parenting advice’ I can’t really comment on that but what immediately comes to mind is religious commands to murder children who were insufficiently deferential to their parents.
• Additionally to murder beatings were also prescribed for children in the books of vile darkness.
• This one might actually be some abhorrence unique to capitalism.

Yeah, you don’t get ‘hard-coded credentials’ from some bug. This had to be intentional.

Honestly, fuck profit-seeking behavior in general and especially with insurance.

Finding perverse intensives in a profit-driven enterprise is a function of how hard you look and what industry. Some industries it’s plainly obvious (insurance) and with all industries a sufficiently good look will find something.

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There’s a lot of things that in a non-dystopia would be good and correct that they are available… however that is precisely what we have, happy to twist and distort absolutely everything until regardless of the intention it is some form of cruelty. Then atop it all we’ve the final insult to our intelligence that somehow we’re the “unreasonable” ones or that we’re meant to find the inane position of meeting the advocates for dystopia halfway reasonable.

Only unrealistic part is Human sniper and the warning. It’ll be a drone the moment a drone could make the shot with 50.1% odds. can make the shot in sufficiently few shots that cost of ammo & electricity beats wages for a sniper.

Honestly, at this point the only China/USSR bad talking pointthat comes to mind that I haven’t also found in the USA is bread lines… in no small part because the government here doesn’t care if you starve. If you want help jump through the hoops and be used as part of scarry statistics to demonize the poor.

That’s because the whole of the country is one big, bad, joke punching down on all life on this planet.

Personal Property* Common mistake but the belongings of an individual aren’t private property unless they’re involved with the creation of profit for them. This distinction is important because the American Dystopia cares about Private Property, but only feigns concern over personal property.

The EXCLUSIVE matter of concern for all private enterprises is profit. Whatever it is that they do is at-best secondary to that goal and more likely tertiary behind not being successfully sued for their practices or even quaternary behind that and excluding meaningful competition/having control over the industry.

This is still late-stage capitalism. Capitalism has persisted in opposition to effectively all Human well-being for centuries, since at-least the 1700s. So, it was still very much Late-Stage Capitalism in the 1940s. That we have yet to put this vile system out of all our misery yet doesn’t modify which stage it’s been stuck in for X period of time.

Further it’s been Imperialism in the Colonial or Neo-Colonial style for how long now? Four centuries? Five?