FlyingCircus
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- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 5 days ago:
A former high-up at Google has stated that they intentionally made the search engine worse a few years ago so that people would see more ads and click on more sponsored links. Now, the best result is #15 in the list, on average.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
In a sufficiently capitalist society, it is impossible to distinguish the dumb from the propagandized.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
Except not. Tell me more about how ignorant you are about political economy theory and how China actually functions.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
In the last 50 years, US sanctions killed 38 million people.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s why it’s not communist. But it is socialist, because the working class controls the government and holds the reins of the economy.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
Rapid industrialization has a cost, which anyone in any western country could have told you 150 years ago. But China is continually improving, and I would expect them to be similar to US working conditions of 20 years ago within the next decade. And I say US conditions of 20 years ago, because our conditions have backtracked since then, and will likely continue to backtrack because capitalists own the government and good working conditions are a barrier to profit.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, agreed. That’s why I said “until socialism is achieved.”
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Would you rather everyone be unemployed and destitute while you beg the capitalists to give you money?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, which is why organization and political education is so critical, and also why MLs place importance on vanguard parties. The capitalists are never going to give us the time for everyone to realize we can demand better, so those of us who already realize it need to step up and help guide those who don’t.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
That’s never going to happen under capitalism though, so until socialism is achieved, I’m going to do the best I can to ensure that my fellow workers have as much access to good paying jobs as possible.
- Comment on AI girlfriends VS Egirls 3 weeks ago:
I’m saying that the person buying is making a bad choice and is exploiting the sex worker.
- Comment on AI girlfriends VS Egirls 3 weeks ago:
Crazy how you think that the customer is the exploited one in a sex work situation. Loneliness doesn’t excuse contributing to a situation where someone must sell such an intimate part of their humanity to have a good life.
I feel for the lonely person, too, but I don’t excuse their bad choice to engage in prostitution.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
Who stays at a job for 6 years? Almost everyone I know who is trying to climb the ladder changes companies at least every 3-4 years.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 1 month ago:
Not if you weren’t white.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Fascists don’t do revolutions, they do coups or takeovers. Revolutions advance society, fascists only regress it.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Yes, the Democrats are also conservatives by global standards.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 month ago:
Fascism is proof that capitalism is incompatible with democracy.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 months 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 months 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 months ago:
And the cure is socialism.
- Comment on Conservative values 2 months ago:
What are you even talking about?
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.