• andys_nuts [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        It's like a half-assed version of poetry. A lot of it's a slog and a bad medium for good communication, but the restrictions of the form do occasionally produce really cool stuff.

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          twitter is the best major social media platform out there tbh

          for all its bad takes and problems, I haven't seen even a fraction of those gems on reddit or elsewhere

          • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            You see different types of gems from reddit, at least. It's the home of the impressive effortpost with all the sources you'd ever need, and that can be useful in the right context. More commonly, it's probably the best forum for approximating "real" back-and-forth conversations.

            Now everything else...

            • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              I still think there's far more good-faith discussion on twitter

              and the lack of downvotes also adds to that, but a lot of it also has to do with the user populace

              • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples' names on it, which is fantastic. Never before have we had a window into the mind of a guy like Chuck Grassley

                • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Twitter also gets you uncut brainworms with prominent peoples’ names on it, which is fantastic.

                  I feel like this is a good thing.

                  The bad takes being short and uncut makes them harder to hide, easier to see.

                  If you can dress them up with a lot of unnecessary jargon, you can make it seem like you have a point, when you don't.

                  • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    100% agreed. It's also a great means of chipping away at the myth that people in power usually get there by being especially smart or capable. If you can see that members of the American aristocracy are on the same page as that dumb guy you know from work, that might translate into a greater willingness for people to radically depart from the "common sense" of that aristocracy.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's baby-level economics to understand, if the global north is profiting off resource extraction then that's less $$$ going back to the country with the resources. The only argument the neolibs even have is "but government-run enterprises aren't as EFFICIENT!!!" Which isn't even true... but even if it was true for say railroads and telecoms, would love to see them explain how it's true for just pulling rocks and minerals out of the ground.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The only argument the neolibs even have is

      It's all an op to deny that "I like my side to be rich", and if you get too close to the breaking point of truth you just get downvoted and no response'd.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Even if the state owned mining enterprise was so inefficient that it dumped half of the gold in the ocean it would still be a better deal for Ghana than what they have now.

  • Kaputnik [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Canada is 3 Telecoms and 99 Mining companies in a suit pretending to be a country

  • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I'm pretty sure Ghana is also responsible for most of the world's supply of cocoa. IIRC reading an article that they only receive 2 billion of the 130 billion dollar chocolate industry.

    Found it: https://archive.ph/RjOlw