The slate behavioral euthanasia article really bugs me. Not enough information in it to really make a judgment, but it feels like she was surprised her rescue dog didn’t act just like her childhood dog right out the gate.
Sure, but we’d need another step to show that that was a good thing. Most of human history was sub-optimal.
That feeling of being a sucker is what happens when the value of your labor is being expropriated. You’re not the first to make this kind of point regarding the employer-employee relationship under capitalism. It is similar to the critiques made by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, [gasp] Karl Marx, anarchists, communists, socialists, etc. Although, we tend not to call our fellow workers “suckers”.
Under capitalism, the employers are also known as capitalists. If you despise the employers in a capitalist system, then you despise capitalists. If you despise capitalism’s employer-employee relationship, then you actually despise capitalism. Welcome, comrade! 
Kind of head scratching that you’ve spent the last couple years calling me and other anti-capitalist UP posters names, and telling us that we “have no idea what [we] are talking about”, for expressing similar criticisms of capitalism’s relationships between the owning class and the working class.
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Maybe people should work for themselves and with each other as partners and participate in free markets with others.
See Anarcho-Syndicalism
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A French coastal community has finally cracked the mystery behind the Garfield telephones that have plagued its picturesque beaches for decades.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/australia-mouse-plague-mice/
Straya! #1 most read article on WaPo.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nthnryn/status/1404559862911148037
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattlargey/status/1404498195795828746
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Yeah, this has been a story here for a number of weeks. It’s pretty bad.
life expectancy and capitalism excized.
Don’t you routinely tell us all governments should be abolished?
In after the snip.
So you’re talking about other conversations?
Yeah, but this conversation has been about what capitalism and socialism is and are not. Not about anarchism.
But I have also said abolishing government is exactly the same as abolishing organized crime. Not going to happen. My advocacy is around living one’s own life in the closest approximation of the anarchist (mostly anarcho-syndicalist) ideal. I’m not a revolutionary at all.
Careful - for some reason people get very inexplicably angry when you post her.
Really? I must have missed that drama.
Basically all the replies are people yelling at him about the power grid.
https://twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/status/1404800505575096335?s=21
regardless of his power grid being on fire, where is he getting the money for this