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You seem unaware of the history of US foreign intervention.

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

There's a very unfortunate reason only the strongmen last.

If Wikipedia editors were regularly getting merc'd by CIA-funded contras, we'd be talking about how Wikipedia only works in theory too.

Are you saying advertising, marketing and PR have no effect? Because if so, I'll notify those billion dollar industries they've been made redundant.

OP provided two links for context, both of which were clear about being about the US prison system.

Are you arguing that communities should be allowed to artificially inflate their voting population with non-voting prisoners? Do you think that's just and fair?

I like to remind people that "Identity Politics" as envisioned by Barbara Smith and the Combahee River Collective in the 1970's as an approach to left-wing organizing is virtually unrecognizable when compared to today's neoliberal "woke" corporate identity politics. The former is about recognizing individual and group needs while organizing towards a universal, collective goal. The latter is about internecine conflict based on differences and the rejection of a collective goal entirely in favor of means-tested and targeted "reforms".

It's rare in the economic left to reject identity politics entirely (outside of some wretched nazbol twitter types), because people like CTH, Adolph Reed, Mark Fisher, Barbara Smith, Bernie Sanders, etc. all recognize the need for navigating identity in left movements. Where they reject neoliberal identity politics is in accepting a need for a greater collective goal.

The push for diversity is not that sinister, they just want the widest customer base they can get. Neoliberal diversity and identity politics lets them be moral without threatening their power base.

What we've seen from Amazon's anti-union efforts this round is that they are not sophisticated enough to be pulling some kind of machiavellian plot.

If unions are going to work in America, they have be able to navigate a diverse group of people. The American working class is incredibly diverse, more than the country itself. It's a challenge but it's not insurmountable. But the left/union approach to diversity and the corporate approach are completely different from each other and have different material motivations.

| there are plenty of earnest people in the space

Of course there are. Scams wouldn't work if everyone involved was in on it.

Yes, two non-introvert reasons for remote work: Commuting is hell and deep focus is near impossible in modern offices.

For the latter, there are times when you need to think about working, and when you're doing that, being in the office with a group of people and a whiteboard is invaluable. But at some point, you know what you need to do, you just need to get into a flow and do it. And that is near impossible in modern offices. That is especially important for engineers, but it also applies to accountants and designers and carpenters and any productive labor that isn't management.

Introvert/extrovert doesn't come into play, all productive labor needs to get into states of deep focus.

Maybe if engineers all had doors that closed, but for some damn reason we haven't had those since the 1960s.

You make a specific assertion like that, you should have at least a shred of tangible evidence. Believe whatever conspiracies you want, but it's not my fault you can't back them up.

Or, Dustin is lying or remembering himself in the best light.

We'll never really know.

20 years on, it feels like everyone should be strongly considering the Ben and Jerry's model. Even if there is literally no competition in the field, the threat of Google or Amazon or Facebook throwing buckets of money and top engineers to put a company in the grave before it's even properly born is more of a reality than we ever could have imagined in 2000.

Bloat is one unfortunate side effect of trying to monopolize a market.

80% of users need the core functionality, but catering to the other 20% creates a monster.

The whole thread really boils down to missing this key point from 37 Signals:

| 5. Spend less than they make

Had they done that, they could survived long enough to find their niche. But throwing out multiples of your revenue out of your own pocket means you're on borrowed time.

| Lrlourpresident

That's what I looked for. You should have better evidence than a highly active user in a restricted access subreddit before making an assertion like that. Especially considering how wildly popular AOC is, I don't see any evidence of manipulation.

| for what that is worth.

Not much.

| That is where to start to trace down the claim.

I can't find any link between that user and commondreams.

| commondreams.org is behind the /r/AOC and /r/MurderedByAOC subreddits entirely.

Do you have evidence of that?

Have you tried learning to code?

| at risk daily to keep the supply chains functioning

That sounds like crocodile tears to me. I don't see how going to bars and flying commercial would have made the people working in grocery delivery and amazon safer.

And it would absolutely have put the people in my life who are at the highest risk at an even greater risk if I had done so.

| they are realistically at zero risk of severe illness.

I didn't do it for me.

Keep writing and don't give a shit.

Typo on my part, should read

| Yes, they're out of print and the only people who want them are collectors

Much of the reaction is people who want to be transgressive but don't truly have the stomach for it. Especially if twitter chatter can break their spirit.

There are new conventions forming. Writers who want to break them need to learn how to put up their fists. And writing a medium article complaining about cancel culture is not how that is done.

| if one of them does happen to be available, the prices are astronomical

Yes, they're out of print and the only people who want them are collectors, so the prices for collectibles are high. That's not unusual.

What are you proposing be done? Force the Seuss Foundation to publish books it doesn't want to publish?

| It is, quite clearly, literature intended for adults.

In the most pedantic and literal interpretation possible, yes.

But the adult alternative to Pixar is not Pornhub.

| Like 50 Shades of Grey

No, of course not. Is that what you think people are referring to when they suggest you consider the difference between YA literature and literature intended for adults?

The difference between YA and adult literature is a lot deeper than you're illustrating.

It's not about the presence of sex and violence, but how they handles themes, character and moral conflicts.

In exchange for an audience of 1.65 billion.

Mhm. December 10, 2017. Two days after the video was released.

  #BLM Activists Call Attention To Graphic Video Of Daniel Shaver's Death At The Hands Of Arizona Police
  Black Lives Matter is against police brutality of all forms and against all people.

https://blavity.com/blm-activists-call-attention-to-graphic-...

Shaver isn't the only non-Black victim of police violence that BLM has been involved in supporting either. While their focus has always been Black people, they have never operated in an exclusive way at all.

After 10 years of a movement that culminated in protests in 2000 cities in all 50 states and 5 territories that had supermajority support in polls, the people who are still ignorant enough, feigned or otherwise, to say BLM means Black Lives Only Matter are numerically and politically insignificant.

No movement has ever changed anything by seeking to get 100% of everyone on board, least of all those most uninformed, hostile, and acting in bad faith.