Hypocrisy is a core component of the capitalist machine.
He was no friend to the middle class
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Dookieman12@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
Political machine
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Capitalist machine
Dookieman12@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Capitalism is an economic system, not a political system. Politics is the means by which capitalist policies and systems are created and maintained.
The US political system could just as easily create and enforce (more) socialist systems and policies, but it doesn’t because it’s been captured by corporate and foreign interests.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unlike the communistic system where the political leaders use the system to enrich themselves?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Unlike the communistic system where the political leaders use the system to enrich themselves?
An actually communist system would not have leaders that could enrich themselves, because communism entails the absence of private property. (including money, owning means of production that aren’t directly from solely your own efforts, etc)
I wouldn’t call myself a communist, but even I know this.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Unlike the communistic system where the political leaders use the system to enrich themselves
Historically untrue of many communist leaders. Ho Chi Minh mended his own clothes. Vladimir Lenin was practically ascetic.
Obviously both are purely economic ideas that can’t exist in their ideologicsl [sic] state in reality.
Capitalism is an economic system that produces commodities: goods that are made to be useful but can not be used until they are bought/sold. Under capitalism, the capitalist owns the means with which to produce commodities and so takes the finished products and ultimately the resulting profits as their private property. The capitalist also makes all the decisions on how workers spend their labor time. On the other hand, the workers, the people that labored to create the commodity, are given a fraction of the value they produce in the form of wages. Capitalism exists here and now, any definition of capitalism to the contrary is idealist.
It’s fair to say that capitalism scales better than communism.
We have examples of socialist states scaling just fine. Perhaps we could have seen the true potential of socialism (and eventually communism) as an economic model; but countries that reject capitalism faced economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, assassination attempts, and retaliatory wars (e.g., Cuba, Vietnam, USSR, Chile [Salvador Allende], etc.)
Private ownership according to your contribution works very well in the realm of society.
You can keep your house and toothbrush under socialism: this is your personal property. The goal of socialism is to turn the private ownership of the means to produce all the things we want/need into public property that the workers own. This is necessary for us to stop producing goods for private profit and start producing them for direct consumption.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile 99% of America would be fired, lose their benefits and be unplugged because they are dead anyway
glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except that one woman who was forced to carry her child to term before they pulled the plug and then charged the family.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clearly their problem isn’t with good wages or quality healthcare, it’s the “universal” part they have a problem with. And I don’t think it’s necessarily because they want some people to go without (although that could be the case for at least some of them), it’s just that they realize that for everyone to have enough, they have to have less, and that’s unacceptable to them.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They believe everything is zero-sum, so they have to be getting less of others are getting more.
The reality is that they don’t actually have to have less of these things for everyone to have more. It just has to be done more efficiently, something the current system is terrible at by design so there can be 5 unnecessary middlemen taking their cut.
searabbit@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I think for a lot of those kinds of people it’s pathological. For example, I remember reading in Careless People (a memoir by a former Facebook/Meta employee) about some of the things the author witnessed about Mark Zuckerberg made it seem like he only wanted to do things because no one else could, not because he personally derived any enjoyment out of it. I’ve seen this personally with philanthropists too. They don’t actually like the disadvantaged kids they’re helping (I’m talking literal racists), but they like the idea that they’re the only ones that these kids can turn to. Basically I’m saying I don’t think they believe life is zero-sum, but they have a pathological need to create zero-sum circumstances where they are the “winners” and the rest of us losers.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They believe everything is zero-sum
Well, they’re right about that. The Earth, and all the resources on it, are finite. The more any one person owns, the less everyone else can own. Now, I would agree that the Earth’s resources are abundant, and that there’s more than enough for everyone on Earth (at our current population level, at least) to not only survive but thrive. But, because the Earth’s resources are finite, it’s not possible for any one person to own an infinite amount of resources, let alone for that person to own infinite resources and there still be resources leftover for everyone else.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
They want to have healthcare tied to your job. It gives the owning class control. In other nations we can change jobs for whatever reason and still get healthcare. If they treat us like shit we can quit and not have to worry about medical bills. People label it as corporate feudalism for a reason.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s some flexibility with your boot kissing.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Even though if you didn't tell them about the part they're missing, they wouldn't realize because it's so little of the whole. But they have to have every damn cent they can grab.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The American people should sue if we’re paying for his benefits. They can keep a corpse alive but deny us for every medical procedure
bad1080@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
it’s called “rules for thee, not for me” for a reason
Aneb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Was anybody else thinking of Mitch McConnell’s health and pto, no I didn’t think so. /s
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Considering no one knows what hospital he’s in. There is absolutely no way that all the RNs, CNAs, APPs, and MD involved that NOTHING would have leaked. HIPAA doesn’t do anything about an unknown anonymous tip.
With all that said. He is absolutely being kept at the house of someone involved in the cover up. Either alive or dead. Most likely dead. Watch for news on August 3rd that he suddenly died.
Master_Suck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
George Washington University Hospital.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll see you August third sir.
I’ve saved this post.
Master167@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Help me understand. Why August 3rd?
RogueJello@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Prevents a special election where Thomas Massie could win, making a huge stink for Trump, who had him primaried.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Video with him alive was just released
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Socialism for me, not for thee. Politicians who vote against social services are more than happy to receive them themselves. You see the same with military members. They are provided so many services from the state they are more than happy to receive but will vote every single time to decrease social services for others.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sick of this tyranny
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Idea’s true but can’t help but push back on this “middle class” as an existing group. There is no such thing just the bourgeois and the proletariat.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If you’re a politician and you don’t report to public for almost a month, that’s like taking a sick leave and not telling anyone. Imagine how that would look like. But since these fuckers are part of the “elite”, they can do whatever the fuck they want.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s not about “the elite” or anything. Jobs as a government representative are different. You can’t be fired from those jobs in a normal way because you don’t have a direct boss.
Imagine if you could be fired by someone, say the president, if you didn’t show up. You know Trump would weaponize that to find a way to fire democrats. It’s the same reason that there aren’t laws that prevent someone with a criminal record from running for office, because that would encourage the president to come up with an excuse for getting their political opponents convicted of crimes, and therefore making them ineligible to run.
As a general rule, most political issues are supposed to be solved by elections. But, unfortunately, that leaves many situations where the public has to wait around for an election to try to right things.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine if you could be fired by someone, say the president, if you didn’t show up.
Imagine if we could actually fire the president. Then he wouldn’t able to that shit.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In my experience in my own country as well as living in other countries (none of which the US, but I believe it equally applies), leftwing policies (universal schooling, worker rights) built the middle class and the Neoliberals (which are generally the two major parties in a country) have been destroying it since Reagan’s days.
For me this was especially obvious in the UK were almost every single pro-people thing (National Health Service, Social Security, Public Housing) dated back to the post-War years of Labour Party government and every single one of then had been under attack since Thatcher’s day including during governments of New Labour (the Labour party after the Neoliberal faction took it over, most obviously with Tony Blair whom Thatcher called “my greatest achievement”).
I think the UK is especially applicable here because it’s the country in Europe that, at least for the last 2 or 3 decades most apes the US (in the bad things, rather than good things).
All this to say that I don’t expect ANY American politicians who has managed to hold to power for so long as Mitch Mcconnell to be anything else than a middle class destroying Neoliberal, no matter what political party they come from.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Thatcher and Reagan were an extraordinary pair for putting the boot on the neck of the working person. Reminds me of a song:
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And against privacy.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Note that he doesn’t need any of these things even if he is alive.
Napster153@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But his subordinates do. They’ll keep the corpse running for as long as possible so until they find a new host to parasitise.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s just lining for the white hoods.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope he’s suffering.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is why conservatives live Ayn Rand. Rail against it then die taking advantage of it.
almost_genocide@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
working class
Fixed that for you.
rayyy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Mitch is dead and sucking money from US taxpayers. Brain dead is dead too.
On the other hand, folks might make some money betting he will “die” in August.islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oh, that’s too bad.
I’m whipping up a nice homemade pizza tonight and a quick salad, nothing too crazy. It should be pretty good 👍 🍕
cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What do you mean, in the context?
Leather@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Look at the Nazi-publicans , cherry picking science with Schrödingers Mitch.
sartalon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t like this bastard at all, but we also have FMLA.
voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Fmla is none of those 3 things. FMLA doesn’t pay for care, or pay while your sick; it doesn’t even guarantee your job, it guarantees a “similar” job. Its enough of a weasel word for employers to fuck with you if they want to over fmla leave.
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why did OP specify “middle class?”
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
“living wage”
Uhhhhh about that one…
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I think america needs to cut this socialist bullshit. If he can’t work, he shouldn’t be sucking benefits out of the taxpayer’s fucking tit.
dan69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn the boomers getting it a taste of it before they die… (sarcastically)
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
No friend to anyone, just a dog for the rich.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I used to hate hit so much until the loser liar orange piece of shit stole the show. I didn’t stop hating this one. I just had new hate that I never expected.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
true, but heaping hatred does not make us any beter. acknowledge the hypocrisy nd ork to end it. don’t waste enerfy in useless hatred.
i had a moment of satisfaction at his end, and felt bad because i let my anger for just a moment make me as bad as these horrible people. don’t become what we fight.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or he’s getting none because he’s dead
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
He’s not dead.
Comatose, non-responsive, vegetable? Probably.
But the hospotal isn’t going to keep a rotting corpse for a month.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Disagree. They made a corpse deliver a baby against the family’s wishes. The people in charge are pure evil
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shit, it’s Kentucky hospital too…
They’re not exactly the best at making that whole “alive or dead” call.
npr.org/…/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-…
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They will if they’re getting leaned on politically, but you are right in that he’s not sitting in a bed, they’ll just shove him into the morge if they have one.
bloogoose@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah and the sitting president wouldn’t possibly fuck a child…
decolo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They aren’t going to let him rot. That isn’t connected to the possibility of him ever regaining consciousness whether a replacement is called for.
I don’t think anyone here thinks he’s literally just sitting out on a hospital bed flat lined.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
They could lie about him being there
RestlessNotions@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, isn’t there some law about social security and brain death…
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
apnews.com/…/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-fall-he…
Stop being like a maga that spins lies.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Keep pushing back. Don’t let these disingenuous, self-righteous Lemmy users skate by without addressing the actual argument.
For the record, I don’t support the Republican Party, MAGA, or Mitch McConnell.
I just find this kind of rhetoric frustrating because it gets reflexively upvoted. It gives people the warm feeling that they’re standing up to oppression without requiring them to engage with whether the claim is actually true. It’s more about reinforcing the group’s narrative than critically examining the argument.