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HadMatter [none/use name]

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They literally shut everything down and told everyone to stay inside except for a few people who were tested regularly who brought food to everyone else. The shut down lasted less than a month, and they were back to normal. They also were very strict about letting people in afterwards. If the whole planet did the same thing they did, the virus would have been dealt with by the end of March.

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lol yea I meant Mondragon, but my brain was struggling when I wrote that lol.

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lol…oops. Yes I was. My brain hasn’t recovered from the weekend yet.

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Also just the obvious false premise that only black people get cancer. The real difference between white people and black people in this regard is that when white people get shit like this, it’s removed before it gets anywhere near as bad.

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Barely anyone actually owns their business outright, first of all. Second, why would anyone work for a business if they have to pay the owner to work there? Because they need to be able to eat and want to be able to buy shit they want. People produce because we want and need the outputs of production. People create companies because some (most) things are better made with multiple people rather than one guy by himself. There is no difference between the workers choosing to start a business and sharing in the collective outputs of their labor and a owner buying a a business and finding people desperate enough to exploit themselves for survival, except in the first arrangement, there doesn’t have to be the threat of destitution baked into the functioning of the economy. People want the outputs of labor, so they’ll do labor to get them. Pretty simple.

Edit: In person, the real response is “So you think that Worker-owned businesses like Bob’s Red Mill, New Belgium Brewing (before they sold), Mondragon*, or any of the 400+ co-ops on this list: https://www.usworker.coop/directory/ don’t exist?”

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The difference is you don’t shoot someone unless they’re an immediate danger, and if you’re in immediate danger, you don’t have 45 minutes to wait for someone to come up on acid.

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Carry vs transport varies by state, I believe but if it’s in a locked case and unloaded, I think that counts as transport in most cases.

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Honestly, when you’re talking about getting as big as Destiny, you don’t even have to be good at video games. Hasan’s not great at video games, but he has 16k (ie makes a fuck ton of money) subscribers because he’s entertaining. He mostly just talks about politics and memes and watches reality TV. He plays games for fun, but his audience drops off significantly when he switches over to gaming, generally.

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Destroying ecosystems is still pretty fucked.

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