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1. bryanr+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-10-17 11:43:24
>sold by emotionally exploiting people in rich countries under the guise of “fashion”.

only emotionally crippled people like fashion, if they were healthy they would all dress in gray unitards and march in formation towards the glorious future!

hey I too have often been carried away by my own rhetoric but come on!

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2. hcrean+Ad[view] [source] 2022-10-17 13:20:57
>>bryanr+(OP)
This was an amusing comment.
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3. andrep+Cg1[view] [source] 2022-10-17 17:41:36
>>bryanr+(OP)
We definitely don't need to change wardrobes entirely 2x per year, at great cost in externalities such as pollution from all the shipping. I'm sure you understood that this is the point.
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4. bryanr+5i1[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-10-17 17:46:59
>>andrep+Cg1
I assumed that this was the point but that latexr had been carried away by their rhetoric, like perhaps to the point of sounding a little bit loony, hence the line:

>hey I too have often been carried away by my own rhetoric but come on!

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5. latexr+qT1[view] [source] 2022-10-17 21:07:40
>>bryanr+(OP)
> only emotionally crippled people like fashion

Please don’t straw man¹. That’s neither what I said, nor what intended to convey, nor what I believe.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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