New Zealand? It’s called the “Citizen’s Advice Bureau” but it’s free for anyone. Doesn’t go as far as full representation, but it’s something.

Also our conservative government tried to defund it. Fuckers.

I agree with you, but her “exploitation” is basically using the tools capitalism handed her. The worst that could be said for her is that she might be aware of her privilege and not doing anything to give that up. But here’s the thing - what rational actor within capitalism who amasses any power would just give it all up? Benevolent intentions only get you so far, and principle rarely gets anyone anywhere in this world.

Edit: Unless it’s all bullshit, she’s probably done more good with her wealth than any other billionaire I know. Which might not be saying much, but says a lot for her candidacy as “not a complete piece of shit”. Something few ultra wealthy can claim.

We know poor people can’t get elected as well.

How so? Trump’s supporters figured out how people think. No amount of righteous rationalism or appeals to people’s better nature wins elections. Populism is what wins. I mean obviously right?

Yeah. Not because she’s qualified for the job, but because I think she could win it for the left. That is all.

I think there is some reason to believe she actually gives a shit.

Nah, women can. The Democrats just keep picking bad candidates. That’s all.

AOC is great, but probably still a bad candidate.

I would go with Taylor Swift. It’s about charisma and following, and at least some proven progressive credentials. She fits the counter-counter culture narrative perfectly.

This is how they spurn a recovery and Trump and Co all make huge bank. No way they didn’t sell off ahead of the announcement they all knew was coming.

Or do we somehow know they didn’t do this?

I mean not banned, but the standards have to be improved.

Relevant video.

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Ain’t nothing but a snow flake, Ain’t nothing but I free spake, I never want to hear you say…

Brock?

Clinically psychopathic. Sociopathy is the result.

The distinction is important because neurotypical people can be raised to behave in ways that are sociopathic, both directly and indirectly. Most of the ultra wealthy who are born into wealth for example explain away the harms their lives cause others. But they still feel and express empathy in many aspects of their lives

But Musk seems genuinely like he has no genuine empathy, and like he has no comprehension of how to be a moral actor in the world. Trump is the same.

Being reasonable intelligent and born into privilege in the world that rewards sociopathy through the market system… psychopaths seem to disproportionately find themselves in positions of power. It’s perverse.

Always has been.

Surprised so few people are aware of this. It seems equivalent to me when you give it the same permissions Ublock Origin had.

Death is undefined from the perspective of conscious experience. That’s really my point.

It is axiomatic that if there is something that it is like to be dead then you are not in fact “dead”.

Just for fun then, I agree with you in some respects. Panpsychism might be the way the universe works and is in fact my own sense of reality - but the kind of “consciousness” that may persist upon the disintegration of the brain and body, won’t answer to “you” unless there is in fact a soul or spirit that exists separate to the body. Of that, I am not so sure. I’m thinking consciousness is probably something spooky separate to the body, but the idea that this fleeting thing that answers to my identity could have its own potentially eternal or at least much more resilient contingency doesn’t really make sense. More like, we are all part of the same singularity of consciousness that is the universe, dreaming ourselves into existence as discrete conscious actors in a grand play. Something like that, haha.

Life is all we can possibly conceive of knowing. I can’t tell you that you ought to live, but I can tell you that there might not be anything it’s like to be dead. Is it worth the risk?

However bad life might be at any given moment, unless total non-existence sounds “good” to you, death isn’t a risk worth taking. After all, we are always at some risk of dying. It’ll happen eventually.

If you were in the military would you follow orders that are unconstitutional? Which is to say, an order that requires you to suppress the American people?

I would hope service people would see what is happening and say no. But that’s a hope more than anything.