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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So just out of abstract curiosity, where can one acquire these cards?

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

CEOs are all the rage these days, but hear me out here - shareholders?

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Really just anyone with a certain amount of wealth should be forced to redistribute that wealth or face dire consequences.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

I agree... What is it like 10% own 90% of the stock market, 1% own 50% or something like that? Major shareholders are the real evil oligarchy... CEOs are just shills they hire to take the bullet, same as politicians but paid better... I'd love to see some playing cards for the real oligarchy... But it's pretty hard to really track them because they hide behind corporations and shit

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Blackcock and BJ Hornan!

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

Thankfully no one cares when Forbes posts their hit list every year.

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 286 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Really highlights the fact that any free speech and naive western sense of freedom in these walled garden is just a button press away from being taken away and that there are no rules or standards. Whenever the owners or their friends feel even slightly displeased, annoyed or god forbid afraid the masks go off and the hammer falls.

They've been getting away with their class-war for so long any deviation from norms is alarming. Usually we just talk about black vs white, right vs left, etc.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 111 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Protocols not platforms are the future.

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 127 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sadly look at email. Technically you can host it yourself but if you're not one of the 15 or so big providers, good luck not being marked as spam before you even do anything.

The real problem is with the oligarchy controlling everything, service or protocol. This is why Threads was/is dangerous.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And they’ve been systematically shutting down anonymous email services.

Load up Brave with a tor connection, and try to sign up for anonymous email. When they can’t track you reliably, even the “anonymous” services require a confirmation email or phone number.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man I don't want a future where we doxx ourselves to just be on a PC. Its insane that parents think real ID for gaming is a good idea. Linux might be the only way to escape any of this in the near future.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They pretend it’s to protect us from illegal activity, but it’s really to protect them from whistleblowers.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That's not entirely true. The push for KYC came because spam started going crazy. You have no clue how bad spam is right now. And believe me, you don't know. Take the worst case scenario you can think of, and multiply that by 100, and that starts to describe the state of spam emails for the past decade.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Did they suddenly put a stop to email spam, and no one told me? My spam folder says otherwise, but I can confirm the hit to privacy.

Maybe combating spam was just the excuse?

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

My spam email gets like 10 a day instead of 900+ a day, significant improvements.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That is definitely a good point.

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[–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Somewhat unfair judgement against emails IMO, especially cause it’s the “trust list” that’s in the control of a few, with no open manner to add more people to the trust list. The protocol isn’t at fault for failing to prevent problems; it’s the ability for corporations to gain significant market share without control, before they are then allowed to put barriers down to disallow or discourage interaction between those in and out, forcing those within to stay in, while those outside to give up on others in order to gain usability.

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

That was my point too, I guess I wasn't clear enough so thanks for elaborating. The protocol isn't at fault, but something being a protocol (and not just a proprietary service) isn't enough if the vast majority of the market share is being held by a few corporations.

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[–] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is a fair point. I've said it to numerous people talking about this subject: Americans are the most propaganda inundated people on the planet. There's some quote about about how in China people know to not believe in the gov propaganda and here it's just called the news lmao

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, North Korea exists. But yeah, Americans are extremely propagandized.

[–] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 1 points 14 hours ago

Lol tru you right. To be fair we did bomb like 95% of their structures to the ground.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 150 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Here's an image of the playing cards, for anyone who just came to the comments.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 15 minutes ago

With the target on the back, no shit this was removed lmao

[–] addie@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Having the suit one corner and the rank in the other is going to make these a bastard to play games with. How would you hold them in your hand so's that you can see both?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe the user was banned because of bad design?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, at first I thought he was copying the format from Iraq but nope:

[–] Player2@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If all the suits have their own color then it would be OK to play with I think. A little annoying at first but playable

[–] Andonyx@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Balatro high contrast mode is a godsend.

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 114 points 1 day ago

No idea why nobody linked it yet, but you can buy them here: https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/the-playing-cards

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The fucking banks refused to let him take payments.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

That's fucking bullshit.

Another reason why crypto is the future: to free us from the control of banks.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

They'll do that at the drop of a hat these days. It's been a slippery slope since WikiLeaks.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 91 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly? That very much feels like a "fuck around and find out" situation and a GREAT way to piss off rich people in the event someone else gets blue shelled.

Also: Free speech doesn't apply to social media. You can and will be banned for no reason other than someone with the power was bored.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

Oh man blue shelled is perfect

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the cards are hilarious but they have something the other referenced sets (Iraqi, COVID) do not: silhouette targets on the back.

I am by no means defending their removal but cards but maybe don't give them a plausible excuse to remove them by implying that these cards are for shooting??

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

if they didn't want to feel threatened then they shouldn't run their businesses so provocatively.

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Just highlights once more that we are ruled and suppressed by the rich.

[–] don@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, platforms (unless otherwise specified) are for-profit. Anything that would impede their profit stream is naturally going to be censored so that profit can continue uninterrupted.

Can’t have some idiot poor going around making richoids uncomfortable, they’d just pull their money, and that would mean less money going to the platforms.

Step 1: profit. Step 2: profit. All other steps: profit. EZPZ

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This story goes way beyond that. The police have been harassing him as well.

It’s one thing to ban him from your own platform. It’s another to make sure no one else can choose to do business with him either.

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So where can these be purchased rn? I got crypto

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The site comrade workwear opens with them on the front page, i was curious what type of workwear they had after this article.

I'm looking for a replacement for dickies and another one, their quality has been absolute ass lately. €100 work jeans that get holes in them in a matter of days, those are not work jeans anymore.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've got some Ariat jeans that are tough.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

I like the pockets from most work pants and hammer hook.

I had some good experience with Jobman 2200 pants, but the last 2 that i bought gave me a similar experience to the Dickies.

[–] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm looking for a replacement for dickies

Maybe check out Duluth Trading Company?

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Aw heck, American website?

It won't allow me to open it, which has been happening more often with American sites lately.

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