wallabra

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair and consistent with socialism as worker ownership of the means of production, which is my definition too.

  That being said, a politician is not capable of doing that without being removed, which means socialist politicians won’t exist without a revolution. And a revolution is not currently exactly the most practical thing to get done without revolutionary fervor, which we don’t really have enough of, and without logistics like a stockpile of food and stuff for strikers to have, and… it’s just a whole can of worms.

  Anyway I’d argue ‘socialist’ is someone who is IN FAVOR of getting there at some point somehow, and ‘capitalist’ is someone who is in favor of capitalism, and I don’t think Mamdan is someone who’s in favor of capitalism, just because he’s forced to play the cards he’s dealt.

  But if you wanna go by Stafford Beer’s “the purpose of a system is what it does”, which is fair, then yeah, Mamdani’s not really going to be changing it meaningfully by himself. Then again we’re kind of about to see modern civilization go through a heck of a tribulation because of a severe lack of oil (oil bad but fully replacing it is hard and needs a proper transition, not this) and because of climate crisis and a ton of other stuff coinciding. So if anything’s going to be toppling capitalism, it’s itself from the inside.

  Sorry if I was rude earlier. Just tired of purity tests within the left wasting everyone else (in the left)'s time and energy for no good productive reason towards any better outcomes. I suppose that that has made me a bit too prone to lashing out at signs of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, what would Mamdani have to do in order to be a socialist then, by your precepts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that I don’t really want to argue about this with you because it’s a waste of time. If being a socialist obligatorily means opposing reform or deeming it contrary to revolution, I don’t want to be a socialism, and neither would Marx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, have fun in the corner over there, I’ll go do some more organizing and soup kitchen service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Zohran Mamdani’s victory seems to show a developing change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's rigged⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything it did the opposite!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're all in this together"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft apps have been incredibly terrible at, uh, working, lately. Outlook periodically logs me out on its own for no reason. The mobile apps are especially shitty, at least on Android - they either crash/segfault themselves out right after opening, or they just stay stuck infinitely while futilely trying to log you in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're all in this together"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s just the packaging part!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And toxic in large amounts!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elite ball knowledge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His theory was certainly expanded upon by a great deal of European thinkers later on, though he provided strong foundations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marx was an economist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason this sounds like an euphemism and I love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just say intersection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m experienced in having experiences