Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 2hIt's about the "manly" feeling that gives the 100%hetero Pete his boner. He likes his men manly and that means he needs the to wave their guns around. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 3hTwo facts that terrify me: 1. The certainty is see of a blue wave before votes are counted. 2. Dems ability to shoot themselves in both feet and fuck up the surest of all sure things. Let's just win. The get seated. And THEN START THE WHAT NOW WET DREAMS. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 3hFuck that. Probably drawn by someone who thinks anyone in the last 100 years has actually said Havens to Betsy. Old ppl aren't a generic thing. Load of bullshit if I ever fucking saw one. Ya fucking whippersnapper.:-) 020
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 3hIt rewards people who have any of various money making skills: building a business, kicking a ball, having a nice ass and passable singing voice, conning others... Many of those require or at least benefit from talent and hard work. Just not your cherry picked list. 000
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Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 8hI'm sick to my stomach and though I never supported him, Trump makes me ashamed to be American. 010
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 11hDonald Trump killed about 200,000 Americans with his idiotic COVID polices and messaging. He took on Netanyahu's genocide and Iran war. Now he wants to kill Ukrainians with more idiotic politics and messaging. The shame he heaps on the us will take generations to heal. 141
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 13hI'm sorry the world has gone 10 steps back. And that Trump shows all the populist conservatives that they don't even need to pretend they aren't lying or or that they aren't dictators Or in his case, even slightly same. It's enough to blame brown poor people and troll all opposition 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 13hI don't think in decades of thinking about this, have I ever seen the conflation of fascism and death penalty as you describe. I'm don't support death penalty. I just wonder what people say they. Murders, rapists, even libs... Sure. I hear that. But fascists? 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It didn't, but ignoring the constitution and law is among things Repubs routinely do. If we win, making sure Repubs can't keep packing courts is good. But I'd be against not letting them be represented as they did to the left, for instance. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oops. This popped up looking like a reply to me. If that's not what you meant, my apologies. :-) 010
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Simplistic? Yet you conflate a memo with rule of law? Curious. 210
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Integrations with Joplin and Obsidian work now but the app works without them. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It let's you dictate on your phone, imports files you already have. And then I'd does various thing to help you see links between thoughts, make study guides or logs, inspire new directions. I you will need to add your phone no in the app to use the dictation. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Any Obsidian or Joplin user out here? Or regular journal or note takers? Students? Experimenters? Writers? Bloggers? Im working on an app. I need help testing it. Right now 2-3 would rock. After that maybe 20ish. All free. This isn't a sneaky sales pitch. Any takers? 200
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026God that's tempting. But the result is no more rule of law. The Constitution will be dead. 110
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026True. But he supported Bush's war crimes in Iraq, war over imagined threat. And he supported tax policies the crippled the middle class. He had more integrity that the current bunch of ass lickers. But I can't think of a single Repub in my lifetime who has been good for the US. Lets not pretend. 060
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Your model where the employee doesn't actually own his shares but only borrows them from the company (the body that must then own them) is whatakes a lot of CEOs very rich. Buybacks. The company buys the shares back so fewer and fewer are owned privately. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Again, socilism is COMMINITY ownership. Not employee ownership. There would need to be a community body that owns it on behalf of the people. You know, like the government. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Žižek disagrees with Marx, Lenin, and the rest of common usage for 150 years. Words have meaning because they have definitions. Without that they're just grunts no one but the grunter understands. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Actually no. It still private ownership. The owners are employees but the ownership is exactly like any other common stock company. Socilism is when the community owns the business. In all national scale versions to date, the government owns it. What happens if someone gets fired? 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sure. Would Hans and Inga prefer a pay cut of just fire half the Czechs and keep their money? After all, inflation has been very high from COVID then the Russian invasion. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The definitions aee taken from Karl Marx, the father of socilism. It safe to say he knows best. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A company starts with... Say 3 workers. They own 100%. Say 10 years later they welcome the 100th worker. How much does he get? And those 1st 3 are incentivised to work hard building their ever shrinking share of profit and influence over direction, how? They might even get voted out? 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They're slow to respond. Chinese care are taking over market share fast. Volkswagen has very high labor costs and legal obligations to keep them in Germany. They can reduce them only by laying off their cheaper labor outside DE. The defenseless one with no votes. 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You'd be the only one then. Look up "socilasm" in a dictionary. Meta, Tesla, and even the local pizza place owned by the cook ate all private ownership and 100% against socilism and firmly in the capitalist corner. 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I see "All " doesn't actually include all, just the subset you prefer? :-) 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fascism is a political model, capitalism a economic one. Capitalism works best in democratic systems. Totalitarian and capitalist share the same flaw we find in all socialist ones: concentrate all political and economic power in the same hands. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026One person owns controlling shares, not because they're financiers. They built the companies. Or the millions of business that are smaller, $100 mil or $1 mil... Most of them because the boss worked their as off. 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But not so good now when China outmaneuvered them. But this doesn't effect private companies or ones like Meta that might as well be. 200
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026True. But that suggests bringing back powerful unions. With mandatory seats on the board. But we stil have the problems of democratic running. Volkswagen isn't far from that model and they work great when times are good. 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But again, why aren't there more collective businesses? Esp with fairly flat pay structure and genuinely democratic leadership? 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A worker may either. How may McDonalds worker care if they continue? There's a lot more like them. I know where your going and sometimes it true, sometimes not. Your image of financiers is way oversimplified. They're as varied and workers. Some pirates, some saviors, some smart...some not. 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Like him or not and despite his dumb phrasing... He's right. 000
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And... A mediocre worker won't kill the bizz. Such a boss, very well might. 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Success is its own proof. It's everyone who does their job right, including managers and, if there are any, financiers. Else, failure is it's own proof too. Nothing stops collective businesses today. Why aren't there many? Or any above a certain size? 100
Nik Page @nikpage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Whoever dream that never saw a socialist country. The worker don't decide shit. The party bosses do and worse, the lower down burocrats who get deciding delegated to them. Corruption world. 100
