DudleyMason
@DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Immigrants are not the problem. Greedy corporate oligarchs — and the politicians they own — are. 5 days ago:
Shame the people stupid enough to blame low wages on immigrants will never be seated by something as woke as facts and numbers.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 6 days ago:
Yes, anyone exploiting the labor of others or seeking economic rents is a bad lesson and part of the capitalist machine.
I appreciate that you’ve made it very clear you’re not actually opposed to the exploitation of labor you just want the pillaged wealth distributed a little more evenly among the pillagers.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 6 days ago:
Or that they understand that everyone who exploits labor, yes even your local mom and pop restaurant, is the same. Maybe if you weren’t so hung up on the top ten worst offenders you could see that too.
Plenty of PoC exploit wage labor to get out of that 60% and into the comfy side of the imperial core. They aren’t less evil just because their evil is less successful.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 6 days ago:
So that’s just a straight up admission that she’d have done exactly what she said and the only difference between her doing it and Trump doing it is that when Trump does it the media puts it right in front of you and when a Dem does it they keep it quiet?
I guess also she’d have operated the orphan crushing machine a lot more competently and efficiently.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 6 days ago:
Did you miss the part where the headline is from 2023 when Biden was President and Harris was VP?
I mean. It’s pretty obvious you missed the part where she ran to the right in the GOP on immigration, the part where she virtually promised a war with Iran and continued escalation of Isntreal’s US funded genocide.
In what way do you think anyone would be better off? Aside from the fact that a compliant media wouldn’t be putting all this in your face to make sure you keep voting for one or the other halves of the Wall St party instead of revolting or voting third party or literally anything but continuing to legitimize the dictatorship of capital.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 week ago:
Yeah, yeah. We know. If she’d won you’d be at brunch.
And that’s the problem, given that the headline here is from the Biden administration.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 week ago:
But in reality, community expenses don’t pay themselves and only whiny lolbertarian babies think that taxes to pay for those things is theft, so it is “arguable”, but making the argument says more about you than about taxes.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 week ago:
That’s embezzlement from the treasury, which is different than pretending that taxes going into the Treasury is theft.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 week ago:
“Taxes are theft” bullshit grift spotted. Tapping the sign.
- Comment on somebody has a case of the Mondays 1 week ago:
“Taxes are theft” bullshit grift detected. Y’all by the sign.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 1 week ago:
The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once for all, but piecemeal by the day, the week, the year, and because no one owner sells him to another, but he is forced to sell himself in this way instead, being the slave of no particular person, but of the whole property-holding class. For him the matter is unchanged at bottom, and if this semblance of liberty necessarily gives him some real freedom on the one hand, it entails on the other the disadvantage that no one guarantees him a subsistence, he is in danger of being repudiated at any moment by his master, the bourgeoisie, and left to die of starvation, if the bourgeoisie ceases to have an interest in his employment
-Engels
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch05.htm
The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.
The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master’s interest. The individual proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence. This existence is assured only to the class as a whole.
-Engels, again
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 week ago:
Greed is not a sickness. It’s a choice. The failure to hold greedy people accountable by any means necessary is also a choice. The real sickness is looking at the state of the world and not being radicalized enough to commit to that any means necessary to hold the greedy bastards accountable.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 weeks ago:
I mean it’s fiction. That part isn’t half as unbelievable as the cops and feds being the good guys
- Comment on Team Car! 2 weeks ago:
Translation: I still can’t rebut anything you actually said, but I hate how it made me feel, so I’m going to dismiss it and stick my head back in the sand now.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 weeks ago:
If by “them” you mean ecocidal narcissists in their stupid pollution powered people killing machines I agree wholeheartedly.
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks ago:
Translation: it really hurts my feelings when you point out all the factual reasons relying on a pollution powered people crusher for my personal transportation is bad for society and the environment, please stop!!
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks ago:
I hope you see how this attitude is just as dumbed as someone who thinks cars are the only solution.
Nope. Bcs at worst I’m annoying some people who’ve embraced ecocidal narcissism. Carbraims are people who are embracing ecocidal narcissism. If you don’t see the difference there, I don’t think there’s much hope for you.
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks ago:
There is also basically no public transit in my state, city or not.
And yet you still choose to live there. That’s the problem.
Hard to believe if all you’ve known is big city privilege,
And as hard as it is to believe with terminal carbrain, I grew up in the suburbs and lived for a while in rural Appalachia before moving to “the big city”. And it was a sacrifice to move here, it sucked for a few years. But now I don’t have to destroy the environment to get to and from work. You should try it. When nobody is willing to stay and pay taxes in car dependent shit holes, the assholes who run them will start “footing the bill” for decent transit infrastructure. Til then, staying just means you value your convenience over a habitable planet just like every other carhole on Earth.
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks ago:
Get a bus pass
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks ago:
this is such a fucking privileged take that it hurts.
From where I’m sitting the privilege belongs to the people making zero changes to their daily lives in response to climate change. Why the fuck do think it’s ok to live 25 miles from work? Why not move? Bcs it would be inconvenient, got it.
People should not live in places where a car is required. Unless they are doing jobs that have to be done outside of the city. You wanna live like a modern hermit? Ok, but you need to get a job working on a farm, in a mine, or at a logging camp.
Otherwise, move your ass to a denser area with good transit or stop pretending that anything but selfishness and a desire to avoid inconvenience motivated you to stay in suburbia.
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks ago:
Anyways nenunna car has already made the decision that their minor convenience is worth the possible death of someone they don’t know and also worth the definite degradation of the shared environment everyone needs to live.
Expecting such a person to give any more of a fuck about the people around them than is necessary to avoid the “hassle” of hitting a pedestrian or cyclistsl is a laughable concept.
Good people don’t drive cars as personal transportation.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
I’m not the one who’d eat poop to fit in, and I’m definitely not the one so bothered by what other people eat that I need to lecture people on the Internet about it.
Now go ahead and draw your false equivalence between calling out ableist bullshit and malding over what other people eat so everyone can see what a serious adult you are.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, “medical issues are fine but fussy eaters are dickheads” = “I am the sole arbiter of whether your disability counts or not”. Because not every neurodivergent person is gonna give your their entire medical history to explain why your shit food isn’t going to work for them.
I swear every Neurotypical alive would eat feces directly from a toilet if someone somehow convinced them everyone else was doing it and it would be weird of them to refuse.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 3 weeks ago:
Actually, given that most pizza joints will happily sell you a pizza for take-out, it just means their laziness of not wanting to go get their own pizza means more than their principles on the matter.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 3 weeks ago:
Good. This is the experience people using these garbage apps deserve, tbh.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
“you’d better learn to like eating food your body will treat like poison so I’m not mildly inconvenienced” is…well that’s certainly a take.
Why does everyone seem to have this insipid hate boner for people whose restricted diet is due to medical factors outside of their control but nobody gives people any shit for their 100% voluntarily restricted diets?
Where’s this kind of energy when people eat Kosher? Or Halal? Or Vegan? Nobody’s entire neurology is fighting against them breaking any of those food taboos, but they’re generally respected by the same Normies who push for torturing neurodivergent kids with inedible food “for their own good”.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
Amazing how easily you can dismiss casual ableism as “just a shitpost”.
- Comment on Housing prices 3 weeks ago:
personally, do want to move away from the city, own a car,
Then you are 100% a part of the problem and aiming to become a bigger part of the problem.
I can keep saving and be…rich
Lol, so you’re not only toxically individualistic, but delusional too.
- Comment on Housing prices 3 weeks ago:
You act like people can’t own apartments, townhouses, or condos. An ideal housing law would require all housing to be as dense as is practicable for the geology and geography of the lot and ban all forms of for profit rental.
- Comment on onions 3 weeks ago:
Because anyone publicly displaying ableism really ought to be ashamed. But most of you secretly agree withost forms of ableism and so you’ll never shame people for it. Case in point: you’re here defending naked bigotry because the people being discriminated against are weird and/or childish in your estimation, so they obviously deserve the bigotry, or at least the bigotry is neutral.
