Louisiana was the only state that didn’t secede because of the issue of slavery per se.

they were afraid that their human breeding programs and slave market/futures market would collapse

if you go to Walmart, Kroger, or Publix and look up the company that produces those big Dora balloons and other cartoon characters, that’s all Louisiana slave labor.

the overton window in Louisiana is firmly in the territory of “well you gotta have slaves though” and probably will be like that forever

i wish for a world where we can communicate with experiences instead of words, we would understand each other so much better.

thanks for the truth, truth guy :)

Tom Sexton likes to say that rich people are poor people with money

if we could expand this conversation, i think that to a degree the reverse is true.

i think the neurotypes (we might call them paraphilias actually but you’d be surprised how many people can be reduced to a paraphilia) that connect sex with power imbalance (age, wealth, intelligence, strength, or just legal context like contracts and political relationships) also tend to hoard (valuable things, money, information, connections, data, favors) and these tendencies strengthen each other in a stronger way than most people understand

if you’re interested in what I’m saying, look up “impunity architecture”, especially if you’re Marxist because i think a lot of people think this is inherent to capitalism and it isn’t at all.

hey folks i got graphene, do i need to worry about this or is this what the sandbox is for?

my college roommate in 2008 was schizo, his handle was NetSecSatan, he predicted all this stuff

but also we keep in mind the sheer size of the largest human government in the world. there’s about 35 million public sector employees

this was so fun, thank you