See who you are not allowed to criticise and you will see who rules you.
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Their class is united, it's why they win.
So just out of abstract curiosity, where can one acquire these cards?
CEOs are all the rage these days, but hear me out here - shareholders?
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
Really just anyone with a certain amount of wealth should be forced to redistribute that wealth or face dire consequences.
Blackcock and BJ Hornan!
Thankfully no one cares when Forbes posts their hit list every year.
Man, there's way more than 52.
He's gonna need a Magic: The Gathering like system for all those fuckers.
Yeah, but I don’t think you’d even need to take out 52. After the first dozen or so, they’ll be more inclined to surrender their wealth and get off the list.
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.
Protocols not platforms are the future.
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.
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.
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.
They pretend it’s to protect us from illegal activity, but it’s really to protect them from whistleblowers.
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.
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?
My spam email gets like 10 a day instead of 900+ a day, significant improvements.
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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
I mean, North Korea exists. But yeah, Americans are extremely propagandized.
Lol tru you right. To be fair we did bomb like 95% of their structures to the ground.
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Here's an image of the playing cards, for anyone who just came to the comments.
With the target on the back, no shit this was removed lmao
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?
Maybe the user was banned because of bad design?
Yeah, at first I thought he was copying the format from Iraq but nope:
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
Balatro high contrast mode is a godsend.
No idea why nobody linked it yet, but you can buy them here: https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/the-playing-cards
The fucking banks refused to let him take payments.
That's fucking bullshit.
Another reason why crypto is the future: to free us from the control of banks.
They'll do that at the drop of a hat these days. It's been a slippery slope since WikiLeaks.
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.
Oh man blue shelled is perfect
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??
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.
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
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.
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