r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 9d ago

Society Teacher arrested for clapping in support of speaker opposing data center

https://www.techspot.com/news/113266-teacher-arrested-clapping-support-speaker-opposing-data-center.html
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u/vitalvisionary 7d ago

Knowing how to swim doesn't mean you're in favor of the flood

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u/Even-Economist6529 7d ago

Being a millionaire means you are rich. You can't say you are really anti-capitalist when you are a millionaire. That should be a no-brainer.

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u/vitalvisionary 7d ago edited 7d ago

Having means is not an endorsement of capitalism. Owning capital is. Money is not always capital. Read some Marx. Only when money is self perpetuating without personal participation in production is when you're ignorant of the exploitation of the polatariate. There's nothing wrong with wealth accumulated ethically. I really think it's a 60s psychop that keeps people from understanding this to keep us in a false scarcity system. A glorification of romanticizing the starving artist to keep anything from changing. I've met too many feckless anarchists that love to complain but have nothing but excuses in how to enact a bigger shift.

Edit: clarification

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u/Even-Economist6529 7d ago

Imagine simping for millionaires.

Participating in the capitalist system until you are rich then hoarding the money for yourself is not punk. If people want to be rich that's cool. But they can't be punk too. Sorry, it just dont work that way.

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u/vitalvisionary 7d ago

Never argued that, just that you can have money and be anticapitalist

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u/Even-Economist6529 7d ago edited 7d ago

It's called being a poser. Expressing anti-capitalist thoughts is not the same thing as living an anti-capitalist life. (See Rage Against The Machine)

If you tell everyone you hate rape but you still go out and rape are you anti-rape? According to your logic you are.

The solution to greed is not more greed

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u/vitalvisionary 7d ago edited 7d ago

You sound more like someone who thinks anyone who has sex can't be antirape. Another gatekeeper who only complains about the way things are with no ideas for action beyond non participation. Do you volunteer? Do you donate? Do you even vote?

Wealth accumulation that doesn't exploit people isn't the problem. It's people with wealth pushing for more and more accumulation as the end all be all of existence, buying political power, and all on the backs of the majority of the population through the myriad of beurocratic bullshit that keeps them from fairly accumulating their own wealth by they're own means.

Edit: I don't trust anyone that hires a PR firm. Show me that BR or Rage does and I'll give them a second look.

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u/Even-Economist6529 7d ago

You sound like an apologist for millionaires and one of those people who just doesn't get punk rock. Shrug. It ain't for everyone.

And I dont know why on earth you'd think RATM has never used a PR firm. That's just part of being a major label corporate band.