FlyingCircus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I guess by technical definition. But popularly, if you describe a role that has no power except to communicate decisions of the board and who is not paid excessively, most people are not going to think “CEO.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we have the technology to make direct democracy work, but even with representative democracy, there’s no need for a single leader. There are many examples of functioning anarchic organizations. I’m not really imagining one ideal way to organize enterprises, there are many ways to do it. Hell, you could even do it with a single elected leader, but it wouldn’t be functionally the same as a CEO. In a socialist workplace, the leader wouldn’t have absolute authority nor be payed an outrageously unequal wage. The workers would elect them and be able to recall them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why should it? If the workers themselves are on the board, then they know what the board decides. No need for a middleman CEO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure. Can’t have democracy without democracy in the workplace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CEOs exist to siphon surplus value to shareholders instead of letting the people who produce it retain it. It’s more that the CEO role is unnecessary in worker owned businesses than incompatible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lol what? Even setting aside worker-owned socialist societies, worker-owned businesses exist and prosper in the United States today. It is obviously feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Caitlyn Johnstone was running for office as a Democrat, you’d vote for them, right? Blue no matter who?

  If only libs applied the same level of purity testing to their politicians that they do to anonymous internet commenters, we might have a functioning electoral system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CEOs shouldn’t exist. Workplaces should be managed by the workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’m distinguishing between innately dumb and dumb-by-design. Poor reading comprehension is a result of the intentional dismantling of our education system. It’s not the people’s fault, it’s the capitalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans are no dumber than any other demographic. They have, however, been subject to a century-long propaganda campaign to instill subservience to capitalist ideology while those same capitalists have been dismantling any educational system or media outlet that might break that subservience.

  Beware of the “Americans dumb” rhetoric, because a false sense of superiority is the exact thing that led Americans to accept the propaganda. It can happen to your country, too (and probably is happening, to be real).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Propagandized == Dumb. No one is immune to propaganda, but propaganda can be overcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ed Sheeran’s latest foot in the mouth moment…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you miss the part where he’s already worth hundreds of millions of dollars? Ed Sheeran could play in pubs for the rest of his life and never have to worry about a thing. He’s just being greedy and self-serving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those laws are always temporary under capitalism, just look at the deregulation happening now in the US. Meanwhile China has gradually been improving its worker protections for almost a century, with almost no setbacks.

  And speaking of China, if you are a senior party member of the CPC and you use it to enrich yourself, you get executed. As usual, accusations of communist misdeeds by capitalists are just confessions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think that if a government made a law criminalizing having brown skin that a jury has a moral imperative to find brown people guilty?

  I think the point of a jury is to apply justice to the legal system, and in fact their moral imperative is to acquit people who face unjust applications of the law or are victims of government oppression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Law in capitalist countries is not an effort towards justice, it is an effort towards protecting private property and the rights of capitalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may have trust issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Under Trump’s FDA, she could just make a “donation” and it would be approved. Don’t kid yourself that these institutions are— or ever were —sacrosanct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citizens United was never about helping people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, the uber-wealthy should be excluded from the political process. We should have a government of the working class, by the working class, for the working class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you think there can be red fascists further proves your ignorance. Communism and Fascism are diametrically opposed ideologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ignorance is yours, my friend. And unfortunately you are proving OP was correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have to know what exactly you are talking about to respond effectively, but largely yes, internal USSR records support the idea that anti-communist narratives are largely distorted or fabricated. Almost everything you think you know about the purges, the Moscow trials, the famines, the gulags, Soviet “authoritarianism,” and almost everything other talking point you can bring up falls into this category. And the things that aren’t distorted or fabricated are taken so far out of context as to make them unexplainable.

  The USSR wasn’t perfect, it did some inexcusable things. But the common narrative is almost comically misrepresentative, especially considering the much much worse things that contemporary capitalist nations were doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *the limited and distorted information that the West feeds you about the USSR and China have done a fantastic job of making you hate the words socialism and communism.

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idealistic and naive, in my view. Anarchists have never explained how we get from here to the global classless, stateless, moneyless society that both communists and anarchists wish to achieve, given the context of capitalist power and reaction — at least no explanation that makes sense to me.

  I would be happy to be proven wrong though, as I truly believe that both groups want the same outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it hasn’t been used to oppress millions of people because it straight up hasn’t. The history of socialism that Americans and other Westerners have been taught is filled with lies, exaggerations, and missing context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The opinions shared about socialism in this thread prove you right, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why Americans hate Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of people who are completely ignorant about socialism and communism in this thread is evidence that the first sentence of this tweet is true, and that it was super effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US also has more than 3 parties, but the current system guarantees that only two can get enough votes. The entire electoral system is built to perpetuate this, including the media ecosystem. So sadly, it’s not as simple as just “have a third party.”

  Personally, I think socialist revolution is the only thing that can bring positive change in this country, largely because it doesn’t try to change things within the system, it seeks to dismantle the system entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, now how do you get that enacted within our current framework?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the progressive wing somehow replaces the rightist corpo Dems, the ruling class would never allow us to democratically make the changes we all want to see without a fight. They will respond with fascism, so our communities must be organized enough to pose a bigger threat than what they can buy/foment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my takeaway is that morality arguments for veganism based on subjective perceptions of sentience or suffering are not persuasive.

  Many farms provide far better lives for animals than they would have in the wild. Many livestock species are far more successful and widespread because we eat them. Furthermore, if everyone was to become vegan, some livestock species would go extinct without human care. Do those who insist everyone should be vegan because animals are sentient and suffer think that we should just genocide the livestock?

  Morality arguments totally depend on the perspective. I happen to agree with vegans on many points, but if your prime argument is moral, then yes I expect everyone to do wtf they want. Everyone’s morals are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I thought my sarcasm was obvious.

  We are animals and part of the food web, there is nothing innately immoral about eating any other part of the food web to sustain ourselves.

  There’s certainly stupid ways to sustain ourselves, such as practices that unsustainably harm the environment like factory farming, or practices that would spur other life forms to harm us, like eating other humans.

  But my main point is that “sentience” is a really vague term that can’t be objectively measured.