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The purpose of a system is what it does.

-Cybernetic gang

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I only heard this saying for the first time a few weeks ago and it’s so good

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I’ve been saying my own version of this for at least a decade. It doesn’t matter what the intent is. If the results are consistently counter to the intent, the results are the intent.

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57 points

Social-capitalist

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27 points

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82 points

What is it with liberals and writing like they’re a child who wears a suit to school?

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they are that child

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59 points

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Cmon, Vincent Adultman had a level of emotional intelligence and compassion that I haven’t seen any redditor display.

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44 points

yeah, he managed to have a stable, long-ish term relationship with an adult woman. that’s more than 90% of reddit is capable of

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6 points

New emoji, please

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32 points
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They believe that using more syllables inherently gives you more credence, not realizing that it can also make you look like a robotic clown.

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23 points

i learned a new word in church and im about to logically distroy tankies with it.

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They have been told so often of their intellectual superiority, i’m guessing they know their own limits but think no one will notice.

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Sounding smart and verbose is how you win arguments 🤓

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8 points

It’s more insufferable when they get all “cromulent fuckcrustable of a day” in the middle of it. Their 9 year old level swears make me want to cringe into a singularity

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36 points

that social-capitalist is working off a month-long lemmy.ml ban rn

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The social-capitalist thought hexbear would be a good place to try after getting rule-1’d from lemmy.ml

“Flood of migrants” guy…

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