MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 2 hours ago:
So did ya read my comment? I’m not suggesting reformism works, just that you should intervene to move the DSA in a more radical direction.
But it just seems like you want to complain from the sidelines 👍👍👍
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 5 hours ago:
I’m not in the US and not super knowledgeable about the DSA, but this isn’t my vibe at all as a blanket statement.
Many members might think what you’re asserting, perhaps, but doesn’t seem to be the organisation’s stated platform at all:
I’m not in love with the ICE collaboration, and using private contractors for “city-run” grocery stores by Mamdani, but the DSA seems faaaaaaaaaaaar better than practically any other organisation with any momentum in the USA.
Perhaps quit your whining and actually do something to push the USA and the DSA organisation, further left. I have no idea what the internal organisation governance is like, but I’d imagine it’d be at least somewhat meaningfully democratically elected.
You and your comrades ought to consider joining to make interventions, which can be even more effective if you do so together.
We leftists should always intervene in the places we can be most effective. (Not an argument for lesser-evilism, an argument for bringing those somewhat further right, further left).
There is no point appealing to the Democratic party establishment in my view, but building a movement via the DSA to essentially take over the Democratic party seems like a decent strategy (the USA having the terrible voting system that is has)
The DSA (to me, from the outside) seems like a good opportunity to make socialist arguments to those who are primed to listen.
Or you know, you can just poo pop them from the outside (and perhaps you’re right to do that, if their aims are completely unacceptable).
They may be a reformist organisation, and not a revolutionary one, but present a very good opportunity to build a working class movement, that eventually becomes revolutionary.
Just some thoughts, you do whatever.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 5 hours ago:
The USSR could theoretically have done so, if they stuck with their vanguard party idea and didn’t pervert it by using the power obtained to oppress people and otherwise commit human rights violations.
What your describing is a benevolent dictatorship. Having a party that’s not beholden to the workers isn’t socialism, in my view. The workers need to have control over society.
They ousted the Tsars and Mensheviks without elections. That’s not democracy.
Sure, but this isn’t a system of government.
Or an even more pure example in theory would be a hypothetical nation of 10 people, 3 of which are oligarchs. 3 people imprison the oligarchs and redistribute their wealth to the other 4, whether they want that or not.
This also isn’t socialism. Socialism isn’t just reappropriation of accumulated wealth, it’s the control of all parts of society by the workers, including the workplace. If you’ve got 3 people deciding everything for the other 7, that’s not socialism, in my view.
You’ll find a lot of MLs online (and one I met in person): oh but China listens to and considers what’s best for the workers and implements that!
- No they don’t (in the case of China)
- Being considered is not meaningful control and is revocable at any time by just not listening…
My conclusion, socialism without democracy doesn’t make sense and isn’t a thing.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 3 days ago:
I’ll never prejudge an individual from Japan or any other nation.
I will however judge the polity as a whole.
Mfs still pretending like they never did any warcrimes.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 3 days ago:
Capitalism is authoritarian on at least the company scale (and more so at a society level, when you identify the coercive control that’s exerted because you can either toe the line or be homeless - as a oversimplification).
So, you are perhaps correct that the problem is with authoritianism, but it’s just that capitalism, as an economic system, is authoritian.
If you can’t vote on who manages your workplace, and have to comply else lose your job (and depending on the country, you house, your healthcare, etc) that’s authoritarian, just in a slightly different context.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 3 days ago:
socialism with zero democracy
I must ask, how? How can you meaningfully have socialism without democracy?
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 3 days ago:
The point is that people will pretend that socialism = authoritarianism, just because there were a bunch of countries claiming to be socialist in history, despite being incredibly undemocratic.
Socialism is the workers controlling society. So by definition (or at least my interpretation), none of those countries were/are socialist anyway.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 6 days ago:
The oil does nothing other than float on top of the water
- Comment on Carenheit 1 week ago:
Probably OOPs engagement bait, it gets me every time I see this meme 😭
- Comment on Carenheit 1 week ago:
No, bad America.
This, pound-mole and thousandths of an inch can fuck right off to hell.
Use metric at that point haha
- Comment on Carenheit 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure you’ve made this up. °C is the unit regardless
How would you “say” this, “Five Celcius degrees more…”?
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 4 weeks ago:
We shall have to agree to disagree then. Calling a healthcare system that doesn’t cover all available healthcare universal just doesn’t make sense.
I can accept that’s what people call it, but that’s about it.
I think they’re wrong.
By this logic the USA has universal healthcare, because a hospital must treat you for emergency, life-saving care, even if you’re unable to pay.
So, the definition is absurd if it’s just that a system covers everyone.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 4 weeks ago:
Universal healthcare means it covers all healthcare. If you’re needing pay pay out of pocket to private providers, and it doesn’t even cover a bunch of things, I refuse to call that universal - and so should you.
Universal means nothing, otherwise.
Medicare defenders really need to dream bigger, damn.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but the first one is not true.
Tired of calling what countries like Australia and Germany have as “universal healthcare”.
It isn’t. Simply isn’t.
In the case of Australia in most familiar with. It’s a weird mix of public and private, with most medical costs covered under a private subsidy model, where your health service can change whatever, and you have to pay the gap between the Medicare rebate and what the services charges.
Doesn’t cover dental, has a small rebate for physio and other allied health (again, private providers, public rebate) and covers a basic check up for eyes every 3 years only, but doesn’t cover most optical.
The hospital system is also and absolute mess of a two-tiered system I won’t get into here.
It’s not fucking universal and I’m sick of people pretending like it is. It’s just kilometres better than the USA, which is the lowest bar ever.
- Comment on Anon makes games 5 weeks ago:
The OOP desperately needs some class consciousness.
Why are
Western devsgame publishers like this? - Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 18 comments
- Comment on bone 1 month ago:
🦀
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 1 month ago:
Nobody wants to spend the money to convert entire industries
There are multiple industries who prove this isn’t a blanket rule.
There’s a reason you buy soft drinks in 2 L bottles and not by quarts or whatever unit you use for that kind of size. Because of alcohol sizes, people also intuitively know 500 mL (which I believe has pretty much replaced 16 floz~us~ bottles) as well as 700 mL bottles for wine, etc.
There are a bunch of other examples where metric is seeping in.
I feel very sorry for US based engineers though, since many industries don’t really have the same push to convert, RIP.
I also LOVE seeing that many American social media creators have started using “grams of protein” (they still say per “serve”, instead of per 100g, which is silly, but in time they might notice that grams per 100g is a percentage and see how much more useful that is for comparison purposes).
There’s even this guy who weighs food to see which is more “justified” for the price. Eventually his viewers will know how much things weigh.
We’ll get ya, in time. In time you will be assimilated, resistance is futile ;)
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 1 month ago:
Europeans
This is the the real way I know you’re American lol.
It’s the WHOLE WORLD other than you (and perhaps special mention to the UK and Canada being weirdos using multiple systems)
- Comment on Stay hydrated, folks 1 month ago:
Either ~4.55 L (imperial) or ~3.79 L (US).
Ugh. Why do they do this to us?
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 1 month ago:
Definitely, but we can’t let this crime against humanity happen in the first place.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 months ago:
You’d think they’d change DNA test methodologies so this sort of thing doesn’t happen again
- Comment on YouTube now 2 months ago:
Practically everyone.
If you were searching for a tutorial, it was a fantastic time saver.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 2 months ago:
Not sure if I’d count what Green did as bad, in any way.
Petty, maybe, but justice demanded grey have some social consequences for their behaviour, and green most certainly delivered.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
We did just fine before these existed. They should just be outright banned, and the existing ones be phased out in some way where the owners are completely screwed (though, if I were being vindictive I’d say tough shit, you shouldn’t have participated in this arms race)
- Comment on Miss me 3 months ago:
Hope things get better, but this is low-key genius
Props to you, it’s not pathetic at all.
- Comment on Getting told by Lemmy to stop taking drugs 3 months ago:
Salvia is not a walk in the park for the dyslexic, damn
- Comment on average red state university 3 months ago:
The more you learn, the greater you are aware of how much is uncertain.
Yes, but similarly, the god of the gaps is pretty hard to ignore.
There will be questions we never will have the answer to, and if you’re actually serious about the scientific method as a philosophy, you aren’t uncomfortable with “we don’t know”.
To me, a mysterious universe is more wondrous than “god did it” and yes, I do very much question religious scientists, despite many great scientists being religious.
If you’re willing to just believe things “just because” then how can I trust you’ll actually apply the scientific method (also a philosophy) reliably?
I can happily coexist and work with mildly religious scientists/engineers, but I would straight up refuse to work with a creationist or someone born again. Religion is anti-scientific.
Religion vs science is not a false dichotomy, despite it being possible to be religious and a scientist at the same time.
- Comment on I have a plan 3 months ago:
To me this attitude is the equivalent of telling a comedian to “stick to comedy” when they make jokes about politics, or how “woke” sci-fi is when they make commentary on society.
These things are intertwined, to a large degree.
- Comment on The future was yesterday 3 months ago:
It’s an apple inspired UI thing. Luckily, the built-in android date selector isn’t stupid anymore.
A banking app I use (on Android) put in a bespoke date/time selector with scroll wheels, with no option to type.
It’s like they went out of their way to make using their app a pain in the ass.
