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- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 1 week ago:
the world could genuinely really use a “better than both” system right now, before capitalism kills the planet and then the planet kills us.
having said that, I am not certain how one would even begin to build a system that assholes can not exploit. Assholes will always exist, and frequently team up to be bigger, more effective assholes to everyone else. Communism fails for this simple reason, humans are corruptible. Capitalism is a “winning” system (until it isn’t) for assholes and few others. How do you even begin to formulate a system that works for everybody (or most everybody), that does not just disincentivize or punish but make it entirely infeasible for bad actors to undermine it or game it? One that doesn’t allow starving children and billionaires to exist at once?
Anarchism is all well and good in a world where there are no other governments, but I doubt we get from here, where we are now, to universal mutual aid open bordered bliss, without a lot of kicking and screaming from the die-hard capitalists (read: very successful assholes) of the world. So there must be formulated some system that can compete and exist, not just survive but thrive; in a world filled with manipulative bad actors, entire foreign governments comprised of them and those home-grown; while not being susceptible to the same hollowing out of government function/principles or being conquered militarily.
it’s a discussion worth having, certainly, but I doubt it’s one that would bear fruit in our lifetimes. Sure, I know the divine right of kings ended, and hell, I might even be sitting in a front row seat for watching the end of American democracy – who knows what’ll implode next – but hoping for the end of assholes in power, being able to amass incredible power, something seemingly older than the wheel and recorded history? seems like a reach.
- Comment on No, really, I will! 1 week ago:
I, too, remember candleja
- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 1 week ago:
IT’S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE?
- Comment on thank you Boris 1 week ago:
Boris sounds like a cool guy, I wish I had a Boris.
- Comment on grass 😾 2 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention, fully consenting Latinas! I know “not being a rapist” is a really low bar to clear, but for a wealthy, male, politically-connected American in 2026? Fantastic. Wonderful. Groundbreaking.
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 4 weeks ago:
Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they’ll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.
- Comment on Please please please 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 5 weeks ago:
it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea or Vietnam and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 5 weeks ago:
Precisely what I mean. If it were a high enough dose to notice, we’d all be tripping balls. If it weren’t, I would assume everyone to just be mildly more pleasant. And uh… that is absolutely not what is happening. Nobody is pleasant right now. At all.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 5 weeks ago:
I’m like 50% certain (as someone who has not partaken in the substances which I’m about to talk out my ass regarding) that OOP must’ve simply meant something less… kosher, shall we say – PCP? Bath salts? Cocaine? Some other drug that would actually account for the insanity? As far as I know LSD is a vastly more pleasant experience than whatever the fuck is going on in the world right now, unless you’re taking really massive doses, in which case… I think things would be arguably less coherent, though you’ve absolutely got me stumped as to how the current news cycle could be more insane than it already is.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 month ago:
I’d like to think I’d notice if the world suddenly went all kaleidoscope on me, actually.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 1 month ago:
I’ll never get over how some people whiteknight for soulless corporations that not only don’t give a fuck about them but actively hold them with contempt, yes, the internet is a silly place.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 1 month ago:
no, you don’t understand, as Take Two and R* quite happily also take down free mods.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 1 month ago:
for the umpteenth time, quit making mods for games that are developed by asshats. Take Two/R* very clearly don’t want a healthy community surrounding and supporting their games as evidenced by virtually every decision they make regarding community modding efforts, stop trying to give them one; spend your time making mods for better games.
- Comment on Losing_weight_IRL 1 month ago:
If you have a swiss army knife handy, use the awl to punch a new hole in the belt. Worked great for me.
- Comment on Losing_weight_IRL 1 month ago:
Well, if you have an awl handy you could always just make new notches. That’s what I did when I had a belt that didn’t have a hole at the right spacing for me.
- Comment on Water time 1 month ago:
Counter-counterpoint: if you, on the other hand, wrap your lips around the spigot while drinking – you have exactly ten seconds to get the fuck out of my sight you absolute gremlin.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 months ago:
part of me wants to believe somewhere down the line, days, weeks, months, years – they’ll have a sudden realization in the shower or before bed, and never stop cringing internally
the more realistic part of me knows in my heart that that moment may never come without being gently prodded towards it.
- Comment on Christmas beetles 2 months ago:
my headcanon, ruined!
- Comment on Christmas beetles 2 months ago:
that may be, but the headcanon of someone going “no, actually, I have communed and become one with the beetles and they are totally chill” is funnier to me
- Comment on Christmas beetles 2 months ago:
We know what you’re thinking but this does not want to kill you
Says who? Maybe it desperately wants to but mother nature simply hasn’t given it a mechanism for doing so. Yet.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 months ago:
Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 months ago:
sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
- Comment on Dozens of uncut all-natural cobs, glistening wet with dew, get tossed around, stripped, and roughly power-shucked by multiple gruff steppe farmers [CAWB] [rough-shucking] [vintage] 2 months ago:
keep going, I’m almost there
- Comment on idk abbout this one discord 2 months ago:
I know this is a shitpost, but
“Your details are […] not stored”
"We’ll search for you in our database of breached personal information […]
- Comment on GENTLEMEN... BEHOLD! 2 months ago:
It’s not different at all, is it Steve?!
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 months ago:
I fucking despise this kind of gaslighting. YouTube does it too, with their “experiencing interruptions?” popup that then takes you right to FAQ section telling you to disable your adblocker and that it may cause problems. no, you drooling fucking simpletons, you are causing problems deliberately, problems I will circumvent without disabling anything out of pure spite and rage.
- Comment on Amazing 2 months ago:
[jaunty guitar begins]
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
authentic first-hand piss drinking experience, the kind of content that only lemmy could deliver. excellent
