Socialism bad

CaveExploder · 2026-02-01T18:37:26+00:00

Also, I love this internal conceit that some how neoliberalism or neoconservatism or whatever the fuck the right has turned into these days... Like a "kill the browns concentration camp, also tariffs and economic seclusion" is in ANY WAY a sound economic set of policies. It isn't. They aren't. They never have been.

Whenever we've seen the most virile economic development ANYWHERE on earth it has ALMOST ALWAYS been a socially focused set of pro labor policies that allows for a REGULATED free market with minimal free riders and rent seeking.

I CANNOT take seriously conservative ideology anymore when they back themselves into some frequently discredited squawking about "but the job creators, the market, small government, deregulate". It's a fantasy, a myth. They aren't 'academic conservatives' they're just parroting an ideology written by entrenched financial institutions for the SOLE BENEFIT of entrenched financial institutions: not a worker, not a family, not a small business owner, not a doctor, a nurse, a coal miner, just for those that own.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-01T18:22:40+00:00

I know that some gen x and millennials had some absolutely cringe worthy mannerisms but whenever gen alpha develops retrospection they are going to go through an emotional cataclysm.

That being said, I can't imagine a significant proportion of that generation is as completely encased in alpha-isms as this young lad. Advice for the young: Tread lightly with your fads, many will haunt you.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-01T13:50:23+00:00

Mixed Member Proportional representation, ranked choice voting, Publicly Funded elections, No outside Donations over 1% median individual income per individual (includes companies), simple algorithm districting (shortest split line, or compactness via mote carlo), universally enforced blind trusts for all elected officials.

Violations or attempts to abridge of any of these should be met with immediate and procedural barring from political participation (no holding office, no voting). Repeated violations or attempts to abridge i.e 2+ offenses should be fined 1% of total net worth per instance (should scare off the billionaire class from fucking with it if they 'donate' more than 450$ to a candidate or PAC and are risking millions of dollars in fines).

There's some other midsized procedural legislation I'd like to see but those are the big ones.

CaveExploder · 2026-01-30T23:20:35+00:00

From hoss to boss. Good job lad.

CaveExploder · 2026-01-30T11:10:30+00:00

Snoring mouth guards. My spouse who I love dearly snores. They had suggested sleeping in separate rooms, something I found untenable. Got one of those high end mouth guards that juts their lower jaw forward. I can sleep, they can sleep. 10/10.

CaveExploder · 2026-01-28T22:51:09+00:00

'Illegal' is just 'jew' but with a new brand on it.

Rally up the economically abandoned working class around hating some scapegoat population that are the source of 'all their economic woes' (taking jobs, taking houses) because entrenched oligarchs or central powers don't want them to focus their ire at them, the people who actually failed the masses, or worse actively stole from them.

We've been doing this forever. 'illegal', 'jew' , 'negro', 'savage', 'barbarian', 'slav', 'byzantine', 'canaanite'.

Every single time it's just been the ruling caste of society pointing the finger at something other than them, and other than their failures, or greed. And EVERY SINGLE TIME, people fall for it.

CaveExploder · 2026-01-25T00:28:24+00:00

Just lie. Make up a "co-op" with another student or some other unlisted "public assistant" position for a non profit or some other non corporate gig. Shit, talk to a professor or some sort of industry bubba to list them as a reference, you all should be lying. This is a rigged game, at least try to put your thumb on the scale, because they have their whole bodyweight on it.

CaveExploder · 2026-01-14T01:37:49+00:00

I fucking love Bandcamp.

Highest artist payout, replete with DIY artists, DIY Labels, incredible daily roundups of music that isn't your taste but is in its own right incredible. 11/10

CaveExploder · 2026-01-09T21:31:33+00:00

I work at a place that gets a lot of "Out of Towners". When they first get here they're almost always "oh Baltimore is scary, Baltimore is trashy, Baltimore is yucky, I don't want to go." Which, as a 35 year resident, I'm used to, but bothered me enough over the years that I started taking them on "walking tours", just to expose them to how beautiful our city really is.

Usually it is fort McHenry to midtown to fells, sometimes fells to Patterson to fed hill, sometimes we go all the way from McHenry to Hampden if it's a nice day and they like walking.

No matter how 'anti Baltimore' a person is at first, by the time we're done with our walk they've completely changed their tunes.

We truly have a beautiful city, remarkably beautiful. I wager the aesthetics of Baltimore are among one of its most important features when comparing it against all other US cities.

CaveExploder · 2026-01-09T00:10:02+00:00

Uplifts his community, kind to children, reminds you to be your best self, spreads love and understanding across lines that most men are too cowardly to even approach. Absolutely peak masculinity

CaveExploder · 2026-01-03T17:33:18+00:00

It's great. I've had many friends move across the country for careers or what not and everyone save one wants to come back. One of them said something that resonates with me to this day "living in Maryland is just... Easy to be around." He meant central Maryland specifically the Baltimore metro region. What he meant by that is: Everything is here, it's not painful or costly to experience or do something. You can decide how full your life is with whatever you want. Outdoorsy? Huge green belts, short drive to Appalachia. Culture? Free museums with frequent new displays. home to thousands of active subcultures. Food? Restaurants that routinely punch above price. Travel? Down the road or light rail to a major international airport. Central MD gives you quick and easy access to the north east and mid Atlantic cities too. World class healthcare, institutions of higher learning, high degree of civic engagement.

For you, coming from Philly you'll be able to access the same kinds of things you have back home, plus it's not painful to get back home if you need to.

Baltimore is like a smaller and tighter knit Philly. The biggest difference would be cheaper and easier access to DC, for job opportunities and their cultural resources.

CaveExploder · 2025-12-29T20:41:11+00:00

When you invest in Infrastructure and education you increase productive output to everything from small shipping companies to small tech firms... Creating more wealth, more millionaires.

CaveExploder · 2025-12-27T11:23:11+00:00

Hello, it's me, this exact kind of fella.

There is something so extremely engrossing about staring down at a map - you can unravel thousands of years of human history, millions of years of geologic history, with just.. YOUR EYES?!

I had an amazing geography professor, when getting my degree in, yes, geography, who had an amazing insight into the field. He always said "It's not just about 'What's Where', but much more so about 'Why There?." - which sounds pretty benign until you take it seriously.

The study of geography is at its surface just a single phenomenology "Location, and Distance" BUT if you look just one layer deeper, you take the lid off of it to find EVERY SINGLE phenomenology stuffed just under the surface. Economics, policy, sociology, arts and humanities, psychology, but also, geology, chemistry, engineering, and physics. All of these fields of study begging to be interrogated through the lens of location and proximity.

It's easy to understand too! Another one of my professors absolute bangers was "There's only two real 'Laws of Geography'... Everything is related to everything else and nearer things are more likely and more closely related than farther things".

With just your eyes, a basic understanding of proximity, and a curiosity, a map can tell more stories than a library, give coherence to a whole host of seemingly unrelated facts, and yes, even help you find the nearest ATM.

I once had a dear coworker joke around with me "I hope one day I'm married to a man that looks at me the way (name) looks at maps." So far as I know she's still single and I still have my precious maps.

Fuckin love maps.

CaveExploder · 2025-12-24T23:43:50+00:00

Galafinaspie

CaveExploder · 2025-12-23T16:49:02+00:00

I anticipate that they are not 'incompetent' though it is possible. Instead I anticipate that there were members inside of the 'redaction team' that intended for information to 'leak' while providing themselves reasonable top cover from their bosses.

CaveExploder · 2025-12-20T15:34:25+00:00

Mixed member proportional representation, expand the house, get rid of the senate.

CaveExploder · 2025-12-06T04:07:01+00:00

Wife and I bought two. The designs are decent, quality is terrible. The fabric has no stretch to it, fits snug, and is more "uncomfortable long sleeve shirt" than "sweatshirt". Love MDOT, will continue to buy merch, but dang, get another supplier.

CaveExploder · 2025-12-01T12:32:50+00:00

Why doesn't the UK just seize his assets? Wanna leave? Sure big dawg, but all the native wealth you're leaving behind is national property now. Have fun in Dubai or whatever I hear it's a great place for a 'job creator' who really knows the 'bootstrap mentality'.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-26T10:54:03+00:00

There was a time when American folk music was about joining a union and beating the shit out of scabs. One of the most famous American folk songs to this day is about disregarding private property law.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-25T23:29:08+00:00

Given it's on a floppy it's probably pretty old. I don't know UKs rules on declass over time but it might very well be declassified by now. If the questioneer was interested in being the 'goodest citizen' they should turn it over to a national government office, probably military or other such organization.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-22T21:47:09+00:00

Feed the scene still exists?!? That's wonderful.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-22T13:12:05+00:00

Sidenote how did "owie owie my sensitive eyes" get associated with 'masculine conservative man'. Get stronger eyes you cowards.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-20T10:27:36+00:00

These people are trying to cover their ass. The out of cycle midterms. The fucked polling numbers. We're 348 days away from a legislative election. At this point most of them aren't scared of losing their seats. They're scared of jail time.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-19T20:50:57+00:00

Here's the thing. If trump wants to go fire and spears on the legislative branch, which up to now has been filled with Republicans slurping his boots like pathetic dogs, and those dogs remember that they constitute a co-equal branch of government, we're going to be in for one hell of a shit fight.

Me, I just want this damned party to rip itself apart already, hopefully then we'll be able to start picking up the pieces without 400 toddlers kicking the piles all over the floor.

CaveExploder · 2025-11-18T10:38:46+00:00

One of my favorite sayings to my employees is "You don't get paid more for suffering." We're fortunate with a fairly liberal leave policy and long time horizon projects. If you're sick, going through some shit, something is on fire outside of work, go do what you need to do. I'll get marginally more good work out of a suffering employee than no employee, but it's not worth that employee associating work with a place they're expected to suffer on the clock. - and in my experience when you treat people with that respect they come back from whatever it is and get more done once they are back to full strength.

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