FlyingCircus

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not if you weren’t white.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Except capitalism literally both incentivizes and requires people to be greedy in order to be successful. Communism does the opposite.

You will still get greedy people in communism because it is a human trait, but capitalism breeds greed in the same way that shitting in your water supply breeds cholera.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And if you tell them that they don’t capitalism, they’ll just screech that you’re a tankie.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before the revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The French Revolution advanced the idea that property could be owned by anybody and you didn’t have to be “nobility” to have power in society. Pretty frickin huge stuff.

As for Napoleon, his civil laws were extremely progressive for the time. There is a reason that he was beloved by basically everybody in France. In the context of chaos of the Republic, and the tyranny of the Kings before that, most people were relieved by the stability he brought, and ecstatic with the reforms enacted. He obviously wasn’t perfect (especially his abhorrent treatment of Haiti), but Napoleon was a hero of history. It’s all about context.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before the revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The artist has already been payed by the time the game hits the shelf, sales only go to the people on top.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using conservative logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, the Democrats are also conservatives by global standards.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fascism is proof that capitalism is incompatible with democracy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The thing is, there’s no public smoking gun evidence that would put him away for a long time. I think the fact that the unredacted Epstein files haven’t been released means that the evidence does exist, and the oligarchs are using that to manipulate policy. It’s likely policy that Trump himself already wants because he can profit off of it, but I do think there is kompromat out there that is being used.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Israel is used as a destabilizing presence in the ME to prevent the region from uniting against Western imperialism. The point is not to use Israel as a staging ground for direct US action, but to allow it to do its thing so that the region is focused on the immediate threat of Israel and less able to respond to US soft power threats.

“Let us extract your resources, or we will allow Israel to assassinate your leaders and bomb your schools.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.”

A socialist system would guarantee your fundamental needs, while expecting you to contribute back to society in whatever way you are best able to.

Ownership means the power to make decisions regarding how an enterprise operates, including how and where the profits are directed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Socialism is communal ownership of the means of production. Instead of oligarchs owning everything, we all own everything. Instead of the profits of your labor being siphoned off by the rich, you get to keep them. Instead of an endless rat race to survive while the elites amass more and more wealth while killing the planet, our needs are taken care of while respecting the sustainable limits of nature.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And the cure is socialism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservative values⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What are you even talking about?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
While inflated CEO pay is certainly outrageous, it’s the people who own the businesses that we should reserve our most vitriolic hate for. After all, at least CEOs do work that marginally contributes to the running of enterprises. Shareholders do nothing except siphon profit away from the people who create it. Not saying CEOs are good, but let’s not get shortsighted here: the entire system of private ownership of the means of production is what needs to change for things to get better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
And the party’s final and most important command was to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Absolutely correct. Authoritarianism is a propaganda word. “Anti-authoritarians” never consider the context of who holds authority, and whether the authority is used to benefit regular people or just the ruling class. They also easily gulled into thinking that the forms of freedom (e. g. democracy as outlined in the US constitution) equate to actual freedom, instead of analyzing the material reality (that the US is entirely ruled by the wealthy, and that the working class holds essentially no political power).

When you look at these forms and realities, it is obvious that the United States is more authoritarian than China, for example.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No, I’m definitely not management material. If I was, I wouldn’t have been one of the people getting laid off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This is all based on actual science that I went to school for, have a degree in, and studied for years afterwards.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s honestly too late to fix most of it. The environment will continue to get worse for at least a few hundred years due to the damage already caused. Even if we stopped all emissions, pollution, habitat destruction, and overexploitation of natural resources today, we will still see catastrophic changes to the ecosphere we evolved in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
“Global Ecological Collapse” was the phrase used when I was studying biology 15 years ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
My profession has already largely disappeared thanks to AI. I’m not alone, either. Thousands of people are getting laid off each week. The surveillance is a fringe benefit compared to the savings that billionaires can achieve by replacing humans with machines.

It should be our savings, btw. Workers built every last bit of tech that is enabling this, billionaires just stole it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Or just an accurate understanding of what Marxism is. Saying that a Marxist can approve of billionaires is like saying a MAGA can loathe Trump. Like sure, maybe one or two people exist who identify that way, but it’s fundamentally the opposite of the ideology. I think it’s far more likely that you’ve just made up a straw man, if we’re throwing around logical fallacies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t believe you. No actual Marxist likes billionaires.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Why would you think MLs are cool with Chinese billionaires?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah you nailed it. China and the USSR have done soooo much for working people around the world, but because they have states, they are somehow more evil than the capitalist states to these people. They hate MLs more than billionaires it seems.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My favorite are the anarkiddies who will be the first to tell you that corporations and capitalist states are lying propagandists, but when you say something remotely positive about China or the USSR they start talking like a 1950s US History textbook written by the CIA.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US so into Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s also the fear that someone else might take your profit. Honestly, I think this is the primary motivator for these obscenely wealthy types. No amount of more money will make a difference to their lifestyles, but they are utterly terrified of losing their hoards.

Imperialism is an attack on two fronts. It puts more resources into the imperialists’ hands, but it also removes those resources from anyone who might oppose the imperialists.

The Middle East has always largely been oppositional to western imperialism, so Israel was created to make a beachhead from which they could destabilize the region.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like seriously, go get some experience first and come back to me kid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Or, like most people living under capitalism, your ideology/worldview is fractured and inconsistent because the things that benefit capitalists are things that hurt everyone else, so they have to propagandize you to go along with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save me from going down a dark path⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
SMART Recovery is a science-based alternative that uses Cognitive Behavior Therapy techniques. I don’t know what their success rate is, but people I know have been helped by their programs.