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Cake day: May 12th, 2020

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  • Uh, no. The phone was made by workers. Workers laid the infrastructure and maintain the networks. Workers run the power plant and maintain that infrastructure as well.

    Profit happens when the business takes more money than is needed to Do The Thing. That money is then given to people who (generally) have nothing to do with Doing The Thing. These people then take their extracted value profits, and increase their holdings so they can get more.





  • One reason and one only: torture is self-defeating. Torture is universally understood by people who have basic empathy as something Bad People do. (That’s why when it was revealed that the US had torture as SOP in their black sites, people would automatically say “The US does not torture” because they couldn’t square with reality and needed to repeat the lie to themselves.)

    It doesn’t give reliable intelligence, and hardens the individual and anyone associated against what you are trying to communicate. Critical support for Vietnamese comrades, but using torture played into the hands of the imperialists by giving them an easy way to say “Look! They’re the bad guys!”

    I’m not of the opinion that one has to “play nice” but using torture is always a bad move.

    Edit: corrected a word.