Unless the kid brained someone with a tee ball trophy, I categorize this penalty in the “extreme” category.

I demand ham.

Do you masturbate? Watch pornography? Have sexy dreams?

Oh, sorry, we having an internet argument. Let me come down to your level.

You are so very dumb stupid and it is so much that I can’t believe it (because I am not, I am a very smart special boy). I am going to ignore your entire post and hyper focus on one sentence because it is so dumb and offensive that it is smelly and bad like a big poop dumpster on fire. No, wait, that would be an insult to poop dumpsters, so make it two poop dumpsters.

As you can see, my argument is incapable of being critiqued, and I am so good at making my point that you must back away and crown me Best Arguing Boy on the internet.

There. Now I’m glad that we’ve been productive and had good faith discourse and neither of us looks like a pedantic shithead.

That’s not even remotely true.

Have you ever actually spoken to a sex worker before?

They primarily sell intimacy.

People are able to tell and be things around sex workers that they can’t be in their daily lives.

In one of your other posts, you said that sex shouldn’t be commodified. Well, we live in a society where EVERYTHING is commodified while simultaneously alienating people to perform their peak consumption.

Sex isn’t holy. It’s a need that we all have, like water, food, and oxygen. When you make it so that people who are bad at getting it can’t get it at all, you make a population of stressed out, deprived, and desperate people.

Sex workers bring so much more to the table than being a cum dump. A good sex worker gives you a safe place to be yourself and meet your base, primal needs. That’s not just valuable, that’s invaluable.

In this day and age, why aren’t brothels and sex work legal?

Go for it, bud.

Explain it so my inferior intellect can understand.

How do free market economics completely circumvent digital piracy?

I am all ears.

Right. And piracy is legitimate competition that enshitification drives users to.

Just following that free market, right?

Oh, I’m a teacher by trade. You needn’t convince me of the merits of my job.

That point was meant to underline that the most bankable benefit of public education in the eyes of the American public is having the security of knowing their kids will be cared for free somewhere during (most) of their working hours. People are fucking exhausted from work, stress, and fear, robbing them of the potential of seeing it as much else.

Florida’s approach was just to give anyone with a police or military background a teaching license.

They won’t up teacher pay. They’ll just hire shittier teachers because the primary highlight of public education is that it is free daycare for their exhausted, working parents.

It’s almost like the culture war is completely manufactured and the people perpetuating it don’t actually give a shit because they’re just playing the grift for their own benefit.

Remember kids, the only solidarity is class solidarity and rich people understand that better than you.

EDIT: Autocorrect butchered my spelling.

My dude, if you can only imagine one system of social organization as being correct or successful, I don’t think it’s my intellect you need to concern yourself with.

I never implied a necessary return to subsistence farming. I said that hierarchy is not necessary for society to exist, but you continue to equate the two.

Mayans didn’t build highways, because the technology and the necessity were not present. But they did build roads. And bridges. And pressurized aqueducts. And they did it without an “Assistant Director of Construction.”

Y’know. Infrastructure. With limited hierarchy.

Saying that human civilization and the necessary infrastructure to support it is impossible without traditional corporate hierarchy isn’t just wrong, it’s fucking propaganda. And it’s propaganda designed specifically to depress the value of labor.

No hierarchy doesn’t mean the same as no infrastructure and never has.

It’s a commonly repeated lie to equate them as meaning the same thing.

EDIT: Middle management is also a phenomenon of the Industrial Era. Prior to industrialization, humanity (and jobs) existed for thousands of years.

According to some here, that is impossible.

But in all seriousness, think of strikes and the inherent power of labor.

How come management never strikes?

When workers strike and there are no workers in the building, the day comes to a screeching halt and NOTHING happens.

If there are no managers in the building, business continues as usual. Because it happens all of the fucking time. That’s why your manager can go on vacation for weeks at a time and nobody gives a shit, but you’re lucky if you get 5 days in a whole calendar year.

Yes. What ever did humanity do for work before the invention of middle management?

It must have been chaos. Bedlam, even!

As long as you commodify my labor, it has value.

Whose labor generates more value? The worker, who creates the product being sold to generate profit, or the boss who manages them?

Blocking an instance.

When my little sister was a toddler, she was wearing one of those one piece zip up pajama suits.

Just her, me, and my dad home one day. Suddenly smell an awful, gut-churning smell in the house.

Go to pick up sister, sister goes squish in a place that should not squish. Noped out (I was 9 at the time) and told dad.

Dad notices the squish. Takes the toddler to the sink and unzips the pajama suit.

SHE FILLED IT.

UP TO THE TOP.

ZERO SURFACE AREA LEFT UNSOILED.

Several hours of gagging later, we survive.

Pajama suit is now a cursed object. Tossed it in the fire pit outside to avoid the smell being inside forever.

Forever burned into my brain.

I flew Air Canada once and it was the worst experience flying that I have ever had. I fly international on an annual basis.

Never again.

Shoplifting shouldn’t carry a death sentence. Ever.