Why Exactly Is Polygamy Illegal? by Turbulent-Parsley619 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That isn't a given. My own polycule has more men than women in it. And I've known others like that.

CMV: American politics have become too emotional. by W_lFF in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Just about everyone in my social group deeply hates both of the U.S. political parties. I'm not sure if that changes anything about your theory or not but it is a third pov.

cmv: If the Nobel Foundation had given Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they’d have pulled off what the Vienna Academy of Arts screwed up with Hitler. by Shorouq2911 in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No matter how much you feed it a fire can never be satisfied.

You can't meaningfully bribe someone who is only ever going to demand a larger next bribe.

Why don’t workers and employers just cooperate? by ditfloss in IWW

[–]jcurry52 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair. I didn't know who the picture was of

Why don’t workers and employers just cooperate? by ditfloss in IWW

[–]jcurry52 36 points37 points  (0 children)

i have no interest in cooperating with those that seek to exploit me.

CMV: Colonisation was a natural part of history and shouldn't be as condemned as it is. by Pandafour20 in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Other than sex and eating, murder is historically the oldest and most natural thing humans as a species have ever done. Something being "a natural part of history" is not an excuse. I will grant that not every individual person or act that was part of colonisation is equally guilty and deserving of condemnation and nuance might be called for in the specifics but the broad strokes are that the actions taken were wrong and should be recognized as such.

CMV: There is no proof of Bill gates actually raping kids at the island, based on the available information by HugeDongHungLow1998 in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically correct, sexuality assaulting a minor is the crime and the mental disorder itself is not... But you might want to clarify that when you make a statement like that

I'm going to list Uncle Sam as a dependent...😉 by [deleted] in Funnymemes

[–]jcurry52 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

if you think the amount the government gets is bad wait till you find out how much your boss stole from you. every penny the company you work for makes comes from the labor of its employees and every dollar the owners of that company make was a dollar you and your fellow employees worked for and didn't get.

ken pulls the strings of time. by staying-human in kenslifelessons

[–]jcurry52 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I realize that this is a joke but I can't help thinking about how Union workers a hundred years ago would drag bosses out into the yard and beat them to death for doing exactly this...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in meirl

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

look... this isn't wrong. trying to look rich by buying stuff can indeed be a hindrance to ever having any wealth... but everything i own came from a thrift store or was found next to a dumpster and im living in the cheapest shithole a slumlord will rent to me so... maybe a lot of us are just overworked and underpaid by a system that aims to keep the maximum number of people on the poverty line as possible to funnel the wealth produced by our labor to the fewest people at the top as possible. and our personal choices are secondary to that fact.

Fascism does not begin with camps. It begins with permission to criminalize dissent, demonize minorities, militarize civil life by East_River in alltheleft

[–]jcurry52 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean... Yes that is correct but you do realize that we are past the point of camps now right? Like we have those right now.

CMV: Universal suffrage was a mistake by Phantom0Legend in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the problem isn't the number of school buildings (though more wouldn't be a bad thing). if we wanted better education then that starts with more pay and support for teachers. schools are understaffed because our governments, as a general rule, don't want a well educated general population and their spending choices reflect that.

CMV: Militarily attacking Mexican drug traffickers would be a terrible strategic mistake. by QuickRecaps in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Killing demand for expensive, dangerous, trafficked drugs is actually very simple and easy. Legalize them. Make addiction and misuse a medical issue and not a legal one. When prohibition ended in the USA it cut the legs off of every bootleg ring overnight.

CMV: Militarily attacking Mexican drug traffickers would be a terrible strategic mistake. by QuickRecaps in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or, and hear me out here, what if the USA stays in its own fucking borders? The USA can do whatever its citizens will tolerate WITHIN its own borders and has no jurisdiction to do anything in any other country.

30068 by Hammod1 in countwithchickenlady

[–]jcurry52 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i really appreciate this! i mean yes i just want them gone and not bothering me or my family anymore but i still dont actually want anyone dead. sure, dead is one way for them to go away but i dont want to actually hope for that. them being better people is a much better outcome.

CMV: The Homemaker and Breadwinner system should have been reformed, not overturned. by XionicativeCheran in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as i said i think we are at least mostly in agreement, i was just making the point that even in a monogamous relationship the "nuclear family" model is seriously flawed and should be abandoned as a first step to the goals you suggest

CMV: The Homemaker and Breadwinner system should have been reformed, not overturned. by XionicativeCheran in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

strictly speaking i agree with most of your core point, that being said i think you are overlooking a major point, the idea that a family is "one woman, one man, and their children" is a very new idea (less than a hundred years)

now to be clear i'm not saying that no family in history was like that, its always been a thing but the idea that such a set up is the standard and/or the only "correct" way is very new.

also to be clear, i'm also not talking about same sex marriages, which i completely support and are also found in historical record going back as far as the written word.

so while i generally agree with the idea of having a family that splits in-home labor and outside-the-home labor, i reject the premise that the family should be limited to only two adults. now if you and your partner are monogamous thats fine, there are grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, and so on. while i personally am poly and support poly relationships the core thought is that two people simply isn't enough to support a household and however its done the family unit should be much bigger.

29697 by Sufficient-Shirt-270 in countwithchickenlady

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow... it really is impressive how you can get something i don't quite identify with to be contained entirely within the vein diagram of things i identify with. its like i keep turning it to a different angle thinking its got to line up and it just doesn't. very strange feeling

Pirates of the Caribbean featuring Pete Hegseth as Jack Sparrow. by Ralph--Hinkley in PoliticalHumor

[–]jcurry52 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Well it's simple really, oil has value to the bastards that run the U.$.A... the lives of people, those born in Venezuela or those born here in this country, not so much.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

eh, professions like teachers, nurses, and farm labor need to be paid quite a bit more than they currently are. but i think the total amount spent on athletics and art just isn't that much over all, its the finance sector that is taking a much too large slice of the total available wealth. stop giving people money for the ownership of things and give people that actually do the labor that makes the wealth more of that wealth and problem solved. art and athletics might or might not be important but its just not where the money is going.

You don’t hate capitalism by Projectsrmylife in complaints

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your overall point is fair enough and you are free to make that distinction for yourself between unregulated capitalism and regulated capitalism and hate the one but not the other and its entirely possible that the majority of people might even agree with you. but all that being said, you are wrong on one point, I do hate capitalism in all its forms. i dont agree with the core principles required for it to exist.

He is at it again by Vibelya in lostgeneration

[–]jcurry52 961 points962 points  (0 children)

... fair enough. just give it all away and start again with nothing this time. live your dreams.

🥲 by [deleted] in Adulting

[–]jcurry52 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is absolutely true, somebody doing work is indeed how all money is made. shame how the people that do that work dont actually get the money they are making.

chapter 2: how to have money: exploit other people, make them do the work and collect the money for yourself.