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Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by volak on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:53PM (#22873259)
Framing the debate as "your grandma or your 401k" is precisely the gas lighting that prevents rational discussion on this topic
Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by eropple on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:57PM (#22873294)
I submit that you don't know what gaslighting is. Further, I submit that you're attempting to coopt the language of marginalized groups to buttress a weak and selfish viewpoint.

I shall not buy what you are selling.

Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by nate_meurer on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:21AM (#22874789)
Right, it's not exactly gaslighting. Rather, it's a fucking strawman made in bad faith.

The stakes are not "my stocks". The stakes are civil society, which as you may or may not know, can't exist for long without a functioning economy.

Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by eropple on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:44AM (#22877587)
You're right, the stakes are civil society. Which you no longer get to claim you have when you sacrifice the weak and the sick to Moloch for pseudofictional accounts in a computer somewhere.

We must take care of each other, it is our basic obligation as citizens of a civil society, and this is the only way we can do that right now.

Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim... by nate_meurer on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:33PM (#22885774)
If that's what you mean then fucking say it. Tarring folks who express concern over the economy with a bullshit strawman just makes you the asshole.