#capitalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalism, aggregated by home.social.
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We may superficially reject capitalism, but have we internalized its rules so deeply that we fail to see how it shapes our thoughts? Are we afraid of AI "replacing" people because we've learned to value ourselves and others through a purely utilitarian lens?
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We may superficially reject capitalism, but have we internalized its rules so deeply that we fail to see how it shapes our thoughts? Are we afraid of AI "replacing" people because we've learned to value ourselves and others through a purely utilitarian lens?
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We may superficially reject capitalism, but have we internalized its rules so deeply that we fail to see how it shapes our thoughts? Are we afraid of AI "replacing" people because we've learned to value ourselves and others through a purely utilitarian lens?
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We may superficially reject capitalism, but have we internalized its rules so deeply that we fail to see how it shapes our thoughts? Are we afraid of AI "replacing" people because we've learned to value ourselves and others through a purely utilitarian lens?
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We may superficially reject capitalism, but have we internalized its rules so deeply that we fail to see how it shapes our thoughts? Are we afraid of AI "replacing" people because we've learned to value ourselves and others through a purely utilitarian lens?
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Next time somebody lobbies for exploiting British North Sea oil and gas, please ask them if they support a approach, where all profits go into a fund that is used for tackling climate change and supporting welfare. #economy #economics #capitalism #climatechange #ClimateAction #climatecrisis
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Next time somebody lobbies for exploiting British North Sea oil and gas, please ask them if they support a approach, where all profits go into a fund that is used for tackling climate change and supporting welfare. #economy #economics #capitalism #climatechange #ClimateAction #climatecrisis
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Next time somebody lobbies for exploiting British North Sea oil and gas, please ask them if they support a approach, where all profits go into a fund that is used for tackling climate change and supporting welfare. #economy #economics #capitalism #climatechange #ClimateAction #climatecrisis
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Next time somebody lobbies for exploiting British North Sea oil and gas, please ask them if they support a approach, where all profits go into a fund that is used for tackling climate change and supporting welfare. #economy #economics #capitalism #climatechange #ClimateAction #climatecrisis
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Next time somebody lobbies for exploiting British North Sea oil and gas, please ask them if they support a approach, where all profits go into a fund that is used for tackling climate change and supporting welfare. #economy #economics #capitalism #climatechange #ClimateAction #climatecrisis
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Ai Alarmism - “ sound and fury signifying”what ?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/ai-alarmism-sound-and-fury-signifying-what/Image: What #ChatGPT produced when asked to generate an image of #Luddites smashing
#Ai #Capitalism #datacenters #militaryindustrialcomplex #Warfarehubs
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Ai Alarmism - “ sound and fury signifying”what ?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/ai-alarmism-sound-and-fury-signifying-what/Image: What #ChatGPT produced when asked to generate an image of #Luddites smashing
#Ai #Capitalism #datacenters #militaryindustrialcomplex #Warfarehubs
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Ai Alarmism - “ sound and fury signifying”what ?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/ai-alarmism-sound-and-fury-signifying-what/Image: What #ChatGPT produced when asked to generate an image of #Luddites smashing
#Ai #Capitalism #datacenters #militaryindustrialcomplex #Warfarehubs
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Ai Alarmism - “ sound and fury signifying”what ?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/ai-alarmism-sound-and-fury-signifying-what/Image: What #ChatGPT produced when asked to generate an image of #Luddites smashing
#Ai #Capitalism #datacenters #militaryindustrialcomplex #Warfarehubs
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Ai Alarmism - “ sound and fury signifying”what ?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/18/ai-alarmism-sound-and-fury-signifying-what/Image: What #ChatGPT produced when asked to generate an image of #Luddites smashing
#Ai #Capitalism #datacenters #militaryindustrialcomplex #Warfarehubs
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This is how real software looks vs the tech bros corporations BS... I'm looking at you Adobe, MS, Google, Apple, Oracle.......... (And yes that includes all the AI 💩 corporations)
#AI #software #capitalism #greed #oligarchy -
if you ever wondered why things are the way they are in the US... 🤯 the excellent podcast series Socialist History helps put the modern day struggle into context.
#socialism #capitalism #war #SocialistHistory #TheSocialistProgram #BreakThroughNews #ThePeoplesForumNYC
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Atomic Cafe Cinema: Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y & Buster Keaton
Vondelbunker, Thursday, September 24 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y 1997
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
68 minutes
In EnglishThis film is one wild piece of cinematic dynamite. It's a very early work by Belgian artist/filmmaker Johan Grimonprez (Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat) which traces the history of international airplane hijackings in the 20th century, starting from the first transatlantic hijacker Raffaele Minichiello in 1969, up into the mid-90s. This essay film mixes together news broadcasts, pop music, personal reflections and the illuminated science-fiction writing of Don DeLillo (White Noise, Mao ll) in an attempt to explore the birth of this phenomena.
It should therefore be clear this documentary enters into some pretty crazy territory. There are cultural landmines detonating everywhere! Some of the cases deal directly with the Palestinians whose cause wasn't being reported in the mainstream media, and the tactics they used to re-inscribe themselves in history again. Some of the clips and the editing have a joyous sense of humor, and at other times they are totally absurd and confronting. This flick also serves as a razor-sharp critique of the mass media, and how its increasingly sensationalistic reporting of events mirror our own self destruction. So many documentaries these days are so dull and standardised—this one-hour video montage by Grimonprez fuses together archival material, astute analysis, and imagination. No stuffy 'talking heads' formula here, this flick is on the run...
The music score is composed by John Zorn collaborator David Shea, but it is also cranked up with pop and disco tunes. The result is disorientating and exhilarating... it feels like a breath of fresh air. It easily remains one of the most subversive films of the last few decades, and also an aesthetically fascinating one.
+ short film:
COPS 1922
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
18 minutes
English inter-titlesHey let's go back to the poetry of early cinema again, with this brilliant Buster Keaton flick. So much imagination, with hands-on skills that are astounding. The power of a human, rather than technology. It's just the kind of film that ignites your sense of creativity and uplifts your spirit. This particular short film follows a young man (Buster Keaton) who finds himself being chased by the entire Los Angeles Police force. It's about capitalism and class division, but also the age-old story of love versus authority.
ATOMIC CAFE CINEMA @ VONDELBUNKER
(The nuclear fallout bunker under the bridge in the Vondelpark)
Doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30
Entrance: freehttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/atomic-cafe-cinema-dial-h-i-s-t-o-r-y-and-buster-keaton
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Atomic Cafe Cinema: Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y & Buster Keaton
Vondelbunker, Thursday, September 24 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y 1997
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
68 minutes
In EnglishThis film is one wild piece of cinematic dynamite. It's a very early work by Belgian artist/filmmaker Johan Grimonprez (Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat) which traces the history of international airplane hijackings in the 20th century, starting from the first transatlantic hijacker Raffaele Minichiello in 1969, up into the mid-90s. This essay film mixes together news broadcasts, pop music, personal reflections and the illuminated science-fiction writing of Don DeLillo (White Noise, Mao ll) in an attempt to explore the birth of this phenomena.
It should therefore be clear this documentary enters into some pretty crazy territory. There are cultural landmines detonating everywhere! Some of the cases deal directly with the Palestinians whose cause wasn't being reported in the mainstream media, and the tactics they used to re-inscribe themselves in history again. Some of the clips and the editing have a joyous sense of humor, and at other times they are totally absurd and confronting. This flick also serves as a razor-sharp critique of the mass media, and how its increasingly sensationalistic reporting of events mirror our own self destruction. So many documentaries these days are so dull and standardised—this one-hour video montage by Grimonprez fuses together archival material, astute analysis, and imagination. No stuffy 'talking heads' formula here, this flick is on the run...
The music score is composed by John Zorn collaborator David Shea, but it is also cranked up with pop and disco tunes. The result is disorientating and exhilarating... it feels like a breath of fresh air. It easily remains one of the most subversive films of the last few decades, and also an aesthetically fascinating one.
+ short film:
COPS 1922
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
18 minutes
English inter-titlesHey let's go back to the poetry of early cinema again, with this brilliant Buster Keaton flick. So much imagination, with hands-on skills that are astounding. The power of a human, rather than technology. It's just the kind of film that ignites your sense of creativity and uplifts your spirit. This particular short film follows a young man (Buster Keaton) who finds himself being chased by the entire Los Angeles Police force. It's about capitalism and class division, but also the age-old story of love versus authority.
ATOMIC CAFE CINEMA @ VONDELBUNKER
(The nuclear fallout bunker under the bridge in the Vondelpark)
Doors open at 20:00, film starts at 20:30
Entrance: freehttps://offbeat.amsterdam/event/atomic-cafe-cinema-dial-h-i-s-t-o-r-y-and-buster-keaton
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/117288062271374133
With KDE Plasma, Xfce, and other desktop environments* for Linux now going "AI" slop, I wanted to follow the modular approach instead …
… and create my own desktop environment from picking all parts individually: the window manager, the login manager, a tool for taking screenshots, a tool for copy/pasting into the clipboard …
It's a lot of time-consuming work to create your desktop environment from scratch by picking all parts individually. That's often why people doing "real work", like biologists using a Linux computer for researching cancer, just use either GNOME or KDE Plasma, and don't waste their time on "ricing" their desktops like 15-year old kids with a lot of spare time on their hands do on the subreddit unixporn.
A convenient way for the best of both worlds is to combine a window manager (like Sway, Hyprland, Niri, …) with a desktop shell (like Noctalia, Quickshell, …). The desktop shell takes care of all the many "little things" … you know, like being able to take screenshots or have a clipboard for copy/pasting.
The creator of Quickshell was now hired by #DHH to work on #Omarchy.
Other shells have contributions from "AI" agents.
All our tools are taken over by fascists. FLOSS was never built to protect against that.
Open and libre software has its roots in libertarianism, built by people who (as Paulina Borsook writes in her book "Cyberselfish") made their personality defects an ideology.
If you are contributing to open-source software, in most cases you're not building a community or contributing to shape a better world … no, you're just doing unpaid labor for Big Tech who will appropriate the fruits of your work.
FLOSS does not stop fascism. We have to find better ways to create software for a better world. FLOSS is not it.
* a complete "one-stop solution" for those who aren't Linux experts
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"San Diego should not be a testing ground against our will and San Diegans should not be lab rats for an experiment run by tech billionaires."
In general, absolutely nobody should be a lab rat for an experiment run by tech billionaires.
#BigTech #BigCorpo #AI #AgenticAI #BanAI #AIAct #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #Waymo #RideHailing #RideSharing #GigEconomy
https://www.newsweek.com/san-diego-cracks-down-waymo-could-other-cities-follow-12448876
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"San Diego should not be a testing ground against our will and San Diegans should not be lab rats for an experiment run by tech billionaires."
In general, absolutely nobody should be a lab rat for an experiment run by tech billionaires.
#BigTech #BigCorpo #AI #AgenticAI #BanAI #AIAct #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #Waymo #RideHailing #RideSharing #GigEconomy
https://www.newsweek.com/san-diego-cracks-down-waymo-could-other-cities-follow-12448876
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"San Diego should not be a testing ground against our will and San Diegans should not be lab rats for an experiment run by tech billionaires."
In general, absolutely nobody should be a lab rat for an experiment run by tech billionaires.
#BigTech #BigCorpo #AI #AgenticAI #BanAI #AIAct #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #Waymo #RideHailing #RideSharing #GigEconomy
https://www.newsweek.com/san-diego-cracks-down-waymo-could-other-cities-follow-12448876
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"San Diego should not be a testing ground against our will and San Diegans should not be lab rats for an experiment run by tech billionaires."
In general, absolutely nobody should be a lab rat for an experiment run by tech billionaires.
#BigTech #BigCorpo #AI #AgenticAI #BanAI #AIAct #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #Waymo #RideHailing #RideSharing #GigEconomy
https://www.newsweek.com/san-diego-cracks-down-waymo-could-other-cities-follow-12448876
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“MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds.” And yet the living person most responsible for this fiasco has yet another series on BBC2 tonight. Reward for near criminal failure. #ThamesWater #Privatisation #Capitalism
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“MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds.” And yet the living person most responsible for this fiasco has yet another series on BBC2 tonight. Reward for near criminal failure. #ThamesWater #Privatisation #Capitalism
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“MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds.” And yet the living person most responsible for this fiasco has yet another series on BBC2 tonight. Reward for near criminal failure. #ThamesWater #Privatisation #Capitalism
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“MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds.” And yet the living person most responsible for this fiasco has yet another series on BBC2 tonight. Reward for near criminal failure. #ThamesWater #Privatisation #Capitalism
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“MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds.” And yet the living person most responsible for this fiasco has yet another series on BBC2 tonight. Reward for near criminal failure. #ThamesWater #Privatisation #Capitalism
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You don't need to fix #Anthropic.
You need to fix an economic system that only allows billionaires to shape our future.
We create all the wealth.
It's not Anthropic's fault we hand it over to fascists, which they then need to beg for money and use it to make them even richer.
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"Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal"
Big tech exploitation of intellectual labor and human culture is no accident--it's central to the entire business model of generative AI.
They wouldn't have a product at all without stealing our music, art, words, and other works, and they know it.
#FuckAI #AI #Technology #Capitalism #Exploitation #Art #Music #Labor #Microsoft #OpenAI
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"Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal"
Big tech exploitation of intellectual labor and human culture is no accident--it's central to the entire business model of generative AI.
They wouldn't have a product at all without stealing our music, art, words, and other works, and they know it.
#FuckAI #AI #Technology #Capitalism #Exploitation #Art #Music #Labor #Microsoft #OpenAI
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"Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal"
Big tech exploitation of intellectual labor and human culture is no accident--it's central to the entire business model of generative AI.
They wouldn't have a product at all without stealing our music, art, words, and other works, and they know it.
#FuckAI #AI #Technology #Capitalism #Exploitation #Art #Music #Labor #Microsoft #OpenAI
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"Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal"
Big tech exploitation of intellectual labor and human culture is no accident--it's central to the entire business model of generative AI.
They wouldn't have a product at all without stealing our music, art, words, and other works, and they know it.
#FuckAI #AI #Technology #Capitalism #Exploitation #Art #Music #Labor #Microsoft #OpenAI
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"Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal"
Big tech exploitation of intellectual labor and human culture is no accident--it's central to the entire business model of generative AI.
They wouldn't have a product at all without stealing our music, art, words, and other works, and they know it.
#FuckAI #AI #Technology #Capitalism #Exploitation #Art #Music #Labor #Microsoft #OpenAI
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/mps-urge-ministers-thames-water-talks-hedge-funds-special-administration-regimeNo wonder it is in such bad shape: it is run by hedge funds, which exist to siphon money out of businesses.
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/mps-urge-ministers-thames-water-talks-hedge-funds-special-administration-regimeNo wonder it is in such bad shape: it is run by hedge funds, which exist to siphon money out of businesses.
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/mps-urge-ministers-thames-water-talks-hedge-funds-special-administration-regimeNo wonder it is in such bad shape: it is run by hedge funds, which exist to siphon money out of businesses.
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/mps-urge-ministers-thames-water-talks-hedge-funds-special-administration-regimeNo wonder it is in such bad shape: it is run by hedge funds, which exist to siphon money out of businesses.
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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/mps-urge-ministers-thames-water-talks-hedge-funds-special-administration-regimeNo wonder it is in such bad shape: it is run by hedge funds, which exist to siphon money out of businesses.
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“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. #Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the ( #firstNations ) Indian civilizations.”
Re-opened Veins (2026)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/17/re-opened-veins-of-latin-america-this-time-the-algorithm/PDF Open Veins of Latin America - #EduardoGaleano (1971)
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf#Algorithim #Capitalism #Colonisation #Extractivism #LatinAmerica #Slavery #workingclasshistory
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“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. #Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the ( #firstNations ) Indian civilizations.”
Re-opened Veins (2026)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/17/re-opened-veins-of-latin-america-this-time-the-algorithm/PDF Open Veins of Latin America - #EduardoGaleano (1971)
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf#Algorithim #Capitalism #Colonisation #Extractivism #LatinAmerica #Slavery #workingclasshistory
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“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. #Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the ( #firstNations ) Indian civilizations.”
Re-opened Veins (2026)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/17/re-opened-veins-of-latin-america-this-time-the-algorithm/PDF Open Veins of Latin America - #EduardoGaleano (1971)
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf#Algorithim #Capitalism #Colonisation #Extractivism #LatinAmerica #Slavery #workingclasshistory
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“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. #Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the ( #firstNations ) Indian civilizations.”
Re-opened Veins (2026)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/17/re-opened-veins-of-latin-america-this-time-the-algorithm/PDF Open Veins of Latin America - #EduardoGaleano (1971)
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf#Algorithim #Capitalism #Colonisation #Extractivism #LatinAmerica #Slavery #workingclasshistory
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“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. #Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the ( #firstNations ) Indian civilizations.”
Re-opened Veins (2026)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/17/re-opened-veins-of-latin-america-this-time-the-algorithm/PDF Open Veins of Latin America - #EduardoGaleano (1971)
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf#Algorithim #Capitalism #Colonisation #Extractivism #LatinAmerica #Slavery #workingclasshistory
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RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DdZf8cECSd_
This is a narcissist on crack. This guy is obviously bullshitting. It's so blatant that the host asks him to translate it when he's done vomiting up his subconscious.
He spends most of his time attempting to market his company and never answers anything.
He gets paid many millons to fabulate this badly. Many.
Ain't #capitalism grand?
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RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DdZf8cECSd_
This is a narcissist on crack. This guy is obviously bullshitting. It's so blatant that the host asks him to translate it when he's done vomiting up his subconscious.
He spends most of his time attempting to market his company and never answers anything.
He gets paid many millons to fabulate this badly. Many.
Ain't #capitalism grand?
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RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DdZf8cECSd_
This is a narcissist on crack. This guy is obviously bullshitting. It's so blatant that the host asks him to translate it when he's done vomiting up his subconscious.
He spends most of his time attempting to market his company and never answers anything.
He gets paid many millons to fabulate this badly. Many.
Ain't #capitalism grand?
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RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DdZf8cECSd_
This is a narcissist on crack. This guy is obviously bullshitting. It's so blatant that the host asks him to translate it when he's done vomiting up his subconscious.
He spends most of his time attempting to market his company and never answers anything.
He gets paid many millons to fabulate this badly. Many.
Ain't #capitalism grand?
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RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DdZf8cECSd_
This is a narcissist on crack. This guy is obviously bullshitting. It's so blatant that the host asks him to translate it when he's done vomiting up his subconscious.
He spends most of his time attempting to market his company and never answers anything.
He gets paid many millons to fabulate this badly. Many.
Ain't #capitalism grand?