FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That’s the psyop version meant to divide the working class and make people forget about Blair Mountain.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Amazon literally allows police and ICE access to your Ring camera and Alexa recordings at will. They don’t even have to make a request, Amazon built an app so they can have access to any of it immediately.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
An acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them.
And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
A disaster for whom?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Rednecks were originally the coal miners in Virginia who fought the oligarchs in the battle of Blair Mountain. They wore red neckerchiefs to identify themselves. As with most leftist icons, decades of psyops have perverted the term.
All that to say, it is insulting to rednecks to compare Elon to them.
- Comment on Slay Girl 1 week ago:
Someone one on Lemmy is going to suggest exterminating the tankie ducks now.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 1 week ago:
I dunno man, killing a genocidal maniac makes someone a hero in my book.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 1 week ago:
Capitalism is a mode of production where the means of production (ie. capital) are owned by individuals who then use that ownership to exploit workers for their surplus labor value to turn it into profit.
Contrary to popular belief, “true capitalism” does not require free markets.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
This has deliberately been done to us. The atomization of our society serves no one but the capitalists (who are the masters of ICE).
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
The Black Panthers had so much success at preventing police violence by simply showing up with guns when the cops came that Reagan made it illegal to open carry in California.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, obviously.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
All good points, although I think multiple things can be true, especially when a narcissist like Trump is calling the shots. I suspect he saw the non-renewal as a threat he had to respond to with a disproportionate show of force, and Venezuela happens to tick that box too.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The backbone of the petrodollar is the deal with the Saudis where they agreed to exclusively trade oil in USD. That deal is no longer in place. Furthermore, Iran is reaching rapprochement with the Saudis, and the Trump tariffs have destroyed US trade credibility. The geopolitics of oil are shifting, and not in the US’s favor.
This is the real reason the US wants to steal Venezuela’s oil now. Their global oil hegemony is no longer enforceable through soft power.
So the petrodollar may not be dead today, and it may cling onto life for another decade, but (to my view) the writing is on the wall.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The Petrodollar is dying fast though, with some saying it’s already dead.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
China is going to flip the script very soon. They have already overtaken the USA on some economic metrics, their industrial power is growing while the petro-dollar is in its death throes and American trade power is collapsing on every front.
America’s only real power remaining is the military, which is incredibly strong, but maybe not enough to exert power over a world united behind China’s Belts and Roads diplomacy while simultaneously dealing with a divided populous at home.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 weeks ago:
It’s gotta be less dangerous than letting individuals have it. I mean, look around.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 weeks ago:
Just enough to escape capitalism. 5 million invested in stocks means you would never have to work again. Any more than that and you are part of the problem that everyone is trying to escape.
Honestly though, really we should all be working for an escape for our entire species, not individual escape pods.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 5 weeks ago:
Political posts on shitposts? Who’s got the corn?🌽
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Well the impression I’m getting from you is that you’re an asshole 🤷🏼♂️
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Imagibe trying to police other people’s language in 2025
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 2 months ago:
Predators yes, carnivores no. Things that eat bugs are insectivores.
Honestly though, almost no mammals are purely carnivorous, herbivorous, or insectivorous. The majority of species will opportunistically eat what is available.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
It’s ok to laugh at satire of racists 👍
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 months ago:
It’s especially hard for the state to say no because the state is run by the capitalists themselves. They are the same people.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 2 months ago:
Yep. People love free markets, but they really only benefit billionaires. The idea that free markets lead to a better society is bunk and should be abandoned along with every other capitalist lie.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 months ago:
64 per cent of Russians say life was better in the Soviet Union than now
Data is better than anecdotes.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 months ago:
If you say something is bad, you must have some frame of reference to know how bad it is. So if you say communism is bad, we will want to know, “relative to what?” And since capitalism and western hegemony are the dominant systems, naturally they will draw comparisons. And those comparisons will be unfavorable since capitalism is clearly broken and incentivizes great evil.
So OK, we’re still not really discussing the merits and flaws of communism as they stand on their own, but most of you aren’t ready to accept that almost everything you have learned about communism is a lie and you definitely aren’t ready to engage with the actual historical record.
So instead, the arguments revolve around what-aboutisms. Because most of you deny the evidence of your eyes and just listen to daddy. Long before we can delve into how the soviets actually existed in the world, you have dismissed us as “tankies” and stuck your fingers in your ears.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 months ago:
I think it says more about how Lemmings and other westerners understand authoritarianism. Because capitalist countries are way more authoritarian than any communist country has ever been. Y’all have just been fed lie after lie until you start repeating them yourselves.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 months ago:
You’re hopped up on that US propaganda, bud. The USSR was democratic from the ground up. Working people’s voices had more power there than almost anywhere else at any other point in history.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 months ago:
The USSR never intentionally starved its citizens as the US is doing right now.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
Why shouldn’t I be offended on behalf of other people? You just were…