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- Comment on Curious 🤔 1 day ago:
When did you teach the sign? I’m curious from when on they start being able to sign.
- Comment on Cant Stop 💭 1 day ago:
Same but as a lesbian! Others are hot but also aaa it’s hard to get the word out
- Comment on Wait! I Can Explain 2 days ago:
Good luck fool, I’m behind 7 proxies
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm 1 week ago:
Also AnarWiki and ProleWiki.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
For that the FPTP system needs to be changed, which is extraordinarily difficult due to the spoiler effect.
You’d need to change the Dems from within.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 weeks ago:
Hey anon, just in there, hope you’re still there and doing better.
If it matters, I’m somewhat religious, but plenty people I know are non-religious and chill. I hope your mum will turn around. May life go better for you.
- Comment on War attention priorities 3 weeks ago:
There is no tier list for suffering.
- Comment on Yesnt. 3 weeks ago:
Not all of them. Blåhaj excludes all of Threads. I’m not sure about Bluesky or Mastodon, but haven’t seen posts from there yet.
- Comment on Yesnt. 3 weeks ago:
Hi, it’s the Marxist you saw! o/ waves as you go past by
- Comment on If you were looking for one image that explains the american economy, this would be it 3 weeks ago:
If there were an afterlife I’d want to enter wherever Reagan, Thatcher, and all CEOs are, and throw them into the abyss of nothingness.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the French revolutionary calendar. It also did time decimally.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There is, just use Hammertime.
- Comment on Nurses demand immediate reinstatement of colleagues suspended for speaking upat two of its Chicago hospitals 3 weeks ago:
“For-profit” and “hospital” is a bit odd. Shouldn’t hospitals be non-profit?
- Comment on Anon learns about cars 4 weeks ago:
Ahh, it’s lovely to be driving a bicycle
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 4 weeks ago:
I’d prefer for none of them to leave. They want to make it hard for labourers? We can do the same to them.
Let them undergo the labour conditions that they subjected their worst-off servants to. Let them be confiscated of all their wealth and that wealth redistributed among all former wage slaves.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like super yachts need to be sunk.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 4 weeks ago:
Eat the Rich
- Comment on I find these terms acceptable. Socialism vs Billionaire Pedophiles 5 weeks ago:
Lol, council/anarchist communism would be great too. Market socialism as well.
- Comment on Overturn Citizens United (and launch billionaires into space) 5 weeks ago:
The one issue: what if billionnaires try to keep access to their own wealth through those channels restricted? That is, others can’t claim it. They have proxy defence…
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 5 weeks ago:
Rich people also like trade unions, just not if it’s also the poor doing it.
Business cartels are the oligarchs’ equivalent - lobbying for corruption.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 5 weeks ago:
The only good fascist …
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve already accepted that I’ll join the revolution when it comes. I will gladly strive for the communist cause.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 5 weeks ago:
Likewise:
How capitalists think socialism works:
– “My lemonade is set at this price and we make a loss. My boss says I can’t criticise that decision.”
– “Mine too. I’m not going to improve mine.”How (market) socialism actually works: – “We have no boss and we use the lowest price that gives all lemonade workers a fair pay.”
– “Same.”
How capitalists think communism works:
(Same as the socialism one)How communism actually works:
– “We made lemonade and still have some left.”
– “Give whatever is good to those modestly asking for it.” - Comment on What caused this? 5 weeks ago:
Also lots of skyscrapers and little old-city feel, lack of public transit & bicycle paths and mainwalks, lack of greenery.
- Comment on What are some things I can do as an apartment dweller to fight climate change/deal with the coming effects? 1 month ago:
Also getting fewer children. If I were a demographic planner I’d say 3 is the max.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
A public system of all finances of everyone, as is done in some northern countries. Full transparency, so it can be seen who donated to whom. Additionally, no crypto must be owned. No ties to shell companies, no offshore nonsense.
In many countries, it is mandatory to sell your stock and give up bonuses before taking up the job if there is a conflict of interest.
I’d add that whoever earns a combined income higher than 9x the yearly salary of the lowest-paid labourer in their country, must be disposed of all that. Income must be tied to buying power.
But, if you ask me, I’m of the opinion that there are better measures to be taken.
What is given up should be held and owned by an independent worker’s cooperative fund, that will focus on the community’s wellbeing.
I myself joined a trade union, and have thought about setting up an anti-capitalist financial institution. If the Israeli could buy up Palestine, then us labourers also can buy up capitalism and defeat it by itself. We must however also defend our public wellbeing. And that means we must set up our own:
- Farms
- Industry
- Defence
- Economy
- Services
I firmly feel that we must establish our own mutual aid. When we no longer depend on capitalism and are secure, we have sown the roots for our independence from the oligarchs that form CEOs, landlords and private insurers.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
CDs? Compact discs?
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 1 month ago:
No, I disagree. Elected officials shouldn’t have investments in stocks at all, period. Nor should they be multimillionnaires or richer.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
A €10,000,000 income still means the poor may earn only 1/1000th of that.
I think it’s better to look at total net worth, and tax over that, with the prohibition of raising costs onto the labourer.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 month ago:
The issue is the upfront cost. Someone who is rich and can buy a pair of shoes of €150, which last 5 years, will effectively pay €2.5 a month for that.
But someone who can’t cough up €150 on the spot, has to buy €30 shoes that may last 8 months. And they effectively pay €3.75 a month.
It’s a small difference initially, but over the course of 5 years, the poor one will have had spent €225 (buying new ones 7.5 times in total.)
And that’s not even accounting for inflation, which is not relevant for the rich person (as they only buy it once in that period), while the poor person will see costs rise. Assuming a 5% inflation rate (because that’s how shit it is currently), and rounding to the nearest full mark, that will mean the poor person will have spent about €60 more on top of that.
So, €150 versus €285. A difference of €135, almost one full new pair of shoes.