DreamlandLividity
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
It does not change anything about the fact your definition is so broad it can fit almost anything. So yes, it is nitpicking.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, nitpick on the exaggeration of all things. Extremely good faith argumentation.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What do you mean you defined it?! Stateless? What does that mean? How is anything decided? How are people motivated to do shit without money?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What is? The fact that not one person advocating communism actually dares define what they mean by communism? So they just jump from definition to definition to salvage losing arguments? Sure, extremely bad faith but what you gonna do?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If you consider firefighters communist, you have extremely weird definution of communism.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
communism is a stateless classless moneyless society
So it’s a fantasy where everyone magically knows what to do, how and when. Then does it with no incentive or punishment. No coordinators, police, or anything else required. Ok, clear.
Because if there is anyone who has the ability to order people to do something, either via punishments, that is called a government.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
human nature is not an explanation
Yes, it is handwaving, because I ain’t spending time writing paragraphs of shit anyone with two brain cells to rub together can easily figure out on their own.
communism is a stateless society
Just because you string words together does not mean they mean something. If people don’t own/control the means of production, someone else does. Either you have private capital or a governing body. Calling it “stateless society” means nothing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
We never had communism in the same way we never had a person fly by flapping their arms after jumping of a roof. It’s not that we did not try, it just does not end with a flying person.
To have communism, you have to concentrate all the wealth and power in some sort of government so that people don’t own anything. And when you concentrate all power in the government, human nature produces a dictatorship.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, I don’t think the vetoes are the main issue. In international diplomacy/law, enforceability rules discussions. If all the small countries vote to prevent the US-Iran war and intervene against the US, good luck enforcing it. The vetoes just reflect this reality.
The UN helps coordinate where there is a will to cooperate, but it can’t govern the world, whether veto power exists or not. What could be done to improve this I am not sure, but it is not as simple as removing the veto.
- Comment on A modest proposal 1 month ago:
The Old Bastard have proven the “need” did not exist during World War II. Doubt it existed at any point after that.
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 4 months ago:
They are just unlisted. They are preserved.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 4 months ago:
As a friend often says, “democracy isn’t perfect, but it’s the best thing we’ve got so far”, and I think the same goes for regulated capitalism, with working anti-trust and taxation.
Exactly. I agree. The most important thing is public participation, putting pressure on their leaders to keep the corruption low and well hidden. There are ways for people to hold their leaders accountable. The tragedy is when people are apathetic and don’t do so. When bribes can be received in the open and people just tolerate them calling them lobbying, then there is no hope keeping the system working for the people. The leaders will not stop from the goodness of their hearts.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 4 months ago:
Except that is true with any social or economic system. You unregulate your president, good luck getting that back under control. You unregulate your communist party/planning committee, hello Stallin my old friend.
Humans who accumulate power in any system can corrupt said system. And every system has opportunities to accumulate power.
At least in capitalism it’s slower, giving people more time to react. Even now, the state of US capitalism seems easier to reverse than e.g. the dictatorship of Chinese communist party.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
What coup attempts are you talking about? Let’s try to focus on coups that were at least attempted or has any substantial evidence of being in the works.
I am not talking about coup attempts. I am exactly talking about lack of coup attempts in countries, where you would expect superpowers to start one if they could. But they can’t.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
There is no logic in their claim. It’s an absurd what if. Monarchies were unable to suppress democracies. It’s like saying “what if communism causes the sun to exploded”. That would be bad, but it’s not reality.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension skills. I never wrote anything like that.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
The problem isn’t political systems, it’s superpowers intervening
There can be more than one problem.
Please prove me wrong and tell me how e.g. the coup in Chile 1973 could have been prevented by decentralizing power.
A coup still inherently relies on there being internal forces willing to execute said coup. I don’t dare say being capitalist could have stopped this particular one, perhaps it couldn’t. It it is at least more resilient in general.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.
This whole thread is about communism always collapsing into authoritarianism so quickly it is not even ever “really implemented”.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
What is this bullshit argument? If a lightbulb stops working after 10 years, is it as useless as a lightbulb that breaks after 10 minutes?
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
Do I have to remind you that capitalistic democracies other than USA exist? Plenty of them work decently well. Certainly still far from perfect, but well enough to prove these issues can be overcome.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
Youre saying a political system can only work if there is not a single aspect that can be taken advantage of? Thats equivalent to every single person being controlled 100% in their actions.
I did not say anything even close to that. I am saying a political system can only work if it can’t be easily overturned. It has nothing to do with how much it controls people.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
My entire point is that political systems like democracies are not isolated from economic systems. Democracies fail when combined with communism, because all power is concentrated in the political apparatus.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
I don’t see how what you write relates to what I write other than what-aboutism directing attention to (non-fatal) issues of capitalism instead of addressing the fatal issues of communism.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
A political system is not some random piece of infrastructure, like a solar panel. It’s more comparable to a padlock. It’s entire point is to manage human nature. If all people were benevolent and willing to work for collective good on their own, we wouldn’t need political systems at all. Neither would we need padlocks. A padlock that can’t hinder an intruder is a bad padlock. A political system that can’t handle human nature (greed, lust for power) is a bad political system.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
Even if that’s true, so what? Immortality being impossible does not make the recipe from my example any more useful. You are just pointing out one possible reason why communism doesn’t work in reality. Still doesn’t work.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 months ago:
You are missing an important point.
The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.
Yes. But what does that mean? If I have a recipe for potion of immortality, but anyone that drinks the resulting potion dies instead, it’s a bad recipe even if the promise of immortality sounds good.
If every time you have a communist revolution, it ends up being authoritarian, what does that say about the communist political system?
- Comment on Michael 5 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Michael 5 months ago:
Honestly, in a way, (fast) internet ruined gaming. When you had to buy a physical disks, there was no way to continuously monetize a game, studios had to make new good games. Back then, there were good games for phones as well, because most people did not have phone internet to enable microtransactions.
- Comment on Michael 5 months ago:
The Olympics shouldn’t exist as they are now in the first place.
- Comment on PC Master Race 5 months ago:
I did not even realize you could run games on these GPUs… It would still be hard to spend 5k on the rest of the PC without throwing money away on visuals and other performance unrelated stuff, but I guess you may be able to do it depending on what you still consider performance improvements…