Post AyPbbeHyqlT7VxswBE by tek@freeradical.zone
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 (DIR) Post #AyPbbeHyqlT7VxswBE by tek@freeradical.zone
       2025-09-20T20:25:14Z
       
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       I loathe these ads trying to convince Californians not to all us to redistrict in response to extremist rightwing states. Yeah, let’s just sit here and let Texas and Missouri and friends totally rig all future elections while we sit here and smile smugly.Taking the high ground when the opposition is cheating is just another way to spell “losing”.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPbbfehllExkjWbEu by cy@fedicy.us.to
       2025-09-20T22:57:33Z
       
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       I just hate them because someone is wealthy enough to pay for ads like that. They could be telling California to abolish private property, and I'd still call for the immediate redistribution of the wealth of everyone involved. That kind of wealth shouldn't be allowed, for this reason. Wealth turns democracy into fascism.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPenBPCMdCBGsS8Ey by scuti@stereophonic.space
       2025-09-20T23:20:27.120682Z
       
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       @cy @tek I sometimes wonder how different politics would be if wealth was distributed evenly. (Not like a Marxist revolution, but a revision of the financial system.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPenCmHGJFbWkG4qu by cy@fedicy.us.to
       2025-09-20T23:31:58Z
       
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       That uh... is a Marxist revolution. They'll literally kill us all to prevent a revision of the financial system. Cities wiped out, mass graves, the lot of it. That's why people revising it seem so extreme.But yeah I do too.... Mostly I just try to help people survive in it, and live without depending on money where possible.CC: @tek@freeradical.zone
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPjWxQN4qZd2z5Fo0 by scuti@stereophonic.space
       2025-09-20T23:34:57.408525Z
       
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       @cy @tek I meant something without political violence and more about compounding interest.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPjWypDrw2xOLicBE by cy@fedicy.us.to
       2025-09-21T00:25:57Z
       
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       Peacefully requiring that (f/i) compound interest be classified as an illegal pyramid scheme will cause political violence, against you. You can't escape political violence because they aren't fucking around. They will end your life if you start fixing the system.Though if they do, the news will swear up and down that it's apolitical.CC: @tek@freeradical.zone
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPtXrGUSiJrm8WvzM by scuti@stereophonic.space
       2025-09-21T00:32:17.284800Z
       
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       @cy @tek Not quite what I have in mind, but compounding interest has interesting effects, sure.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPtXsuaL7zAsmIT7g by cy@fedicy.us.to
       2025-09-21T02:18:34Z
       
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       Same effect as pyramid schemes, quacks like a duck etc. But feel free to disagree, it was just an attempt at an example. My point is the wealthy are violent against any solutions, so any solution is going to have violence.CC: @tek@freeradical.zone
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPxhTNUWoCcP4e3N2 by scuti@stereophonic.space
       2025-09-21T02:28:09.610520Z
       
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       @cy @tek No disagreement. I don't expect people to (accurately) compare the financial system to a pyramid scheme.
       
 (DIR) Post #AyPxhUUcNnUtrSzG7M by cy@fedicy.us.to
       2025-09-21T03:05:07Z
       
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       All I really know is that compound interest gets debtors paying more money than they agreed upon. Just like the ones who thought they were getting a deal on tupperware... or a low mortgage in 2008.CC: @tek@freeradical.zone