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Gilbert Gélinas's avatar

If your only solution is to not think about it or whish it away, coming here is pointless

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DECQuine's avatar

I meant your kind of a posts. But as a fan of Caitlin, I have no intention to stop 'coming here'.

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Gilbert Gélinas's avatar

You don't seem to learn much off it but you have a right to your hobbies

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DECQuine's avatar

Yeah, thank you for your personal opinion about what a random poster on Caitlin's blog should & shouldn't do, and whether they seem to learn much.

I'm sure telling strangers your opinion about them is more constructive than pointing the potential benefits of technology and how it's ruined by the profit motive.

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Gilbert Gélinas's avatar

Sorry. I hadn't realized « I think I'll just stop responding to these kinds of posts, altogether » was a constructive argument

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DECQuine's avatar

True enough. We just don't like each other, and may as well accept it.

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Gilbert Gélinas's avatar

I don't know you and therefore can't « not like » you. That is, until you decided to respond the way you did.

My argument was that the profit system wasn't implemented through consensus in the 20th century. It was imposed by a bunch of psychopaths a long time ago and has been maintained by killing a lot of people since. They persuaded a large part of the people to prefer seeing it as the normal way.

That won't go away by arguing that it's out of fashion

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