FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 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? 2 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? 2 weeks ago:
And the cure is socialism.
- Comment on Conservative values 2 weeks ago:
What are you even talking about?
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
“Global Ecological Collapse” was the phrase used when I was studying biology 15 years ago.
- Comment on Doomer 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
I don’t believe you. No actual Marxist likes billionaires.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 1 month ago:
Why would you think MLs are cool with Chinese billionaires?
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 months ago:
There’s a difference between lone individuals tearing out stop signs and a neighborhood collectively deciding to install one near a park.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 months ago:
- The sample size is stupid small, so it’s a bit dicey to draw definitive conclusions.
This is the part that always gets me when leftists do infighting. Like, guys, we’ve only been doing this socialism thing for like 125 years and there’s only been a handful of projects that even successfully overthrew the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie themselves took 200-300 years to overthrow feudalism and had many failures and committed awful atrocities along the way.
Let’s learn from our mistakes and stop being so puritanical with our ideologies. None of us have any idea what socialism will look like when it is finally successful, the most we can do is just keep working to put power in the hands of the people, whatever form that takes.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 months ago:
Sounds a lot like a bunch of small states to me.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 months ago:
I think it’s more likely that the ruling class owns both the USA and Israel, and use them together to accomplish their goals. AIPAC is just the mechanism of control and Zionists are just the useful idiots.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
That’s the psyop version meant to divide the working class and make people forget about Blair Mountain.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months 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] 4 months 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] 4 months ago:
A disaster for whom?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Someone one on Lemmy is going to suggest exterminating the tankie ducks now.