Schmoo
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- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
I’ve noticed a trend in some new American media coming out of more openly positive depictions of socialism/communism. The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene, and the new Fallout series has a more centrist/neoliberal take but at least calls out how the right uses communist as a “dirty word,” though she qualifies the statement by first saying “I’m not a communist.”
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 1 week ago:
What you described is just welfare, not socialism. Socialism is collective ownership of the means of production, meaning there would be no need to re-distribute wealth as it would be fairly distributed from the start.
What you’re thinking of is more along the lines of what Scandinavian countries have, which is just capitalism with social democracy and extensive welfare programs.
- Comment on He came with receipts 4 weeks ago:
I hate how well this analogy works.
- Comment on Anon's sister is a NEET shut-in 1 month ago:
It’s just wishful thinking that the solution to our current dysfunctional relationship to labor can be found in the past, ultimately driven by a failure of imagination. Sure a medieval peasant’s relationship to labor might have in some ways been better than today, but in most ways it was not. We can look at the past and learn from the positives only by acknowledging the negatives.
- Comment on the struggle 1 month ago:
Feng shui is a complicated mystical framework placed over “arranging my stuff in certain ways makes me feel good.” It’s an art that gets treated like a science. There is some actual value there if it would drop the scientific pretense and mysticism.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 months ago:
Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn’t decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.
- Comment on Animals 2 months ago:
- Comment on The New York Times Simulator - A free casual game about manufacturing consent 2 months ago:
Coming at this from an IT perspective, a lot of things that people “already know” seem to evaporate when it’s time to actually apply that knowledge. Keeping that in mind, I think a game like this helps to cement the idea in people’s heads in a more intuitive way. It bridges the gap between system 1 and system 2 thinking.
- Comment on Why does this website have a loading screen to process my cookie preferences? 2 months ago:
I would suspect this is an intentional dark pattern. They’re probably hoping most people will get tired of waiting and click cancel, which sets it back to the default of allowing all cookies.
- Comment on Imagine this in your mouth. 3 months ago:
Ok I admit, I barely skimmed your first comment lol. Suppose I should read the whole chain before replying late in a conversation.
- Comment on Imagine this in your mouth. 3 months ago:
Probably because it had its 15 minutes of fame, but you can tell if you just look at it for a second. Look at the words on the drink, or the sign in the top right, or the people in the background.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 3 months ago:
The Finglesham deal discussions will be going well into the night so don’t forget your ham sandwich at half past 3.
- Comment on Hunger 3 months ago:
There would be a much larger variety of toothpaste flavors.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 5 months ago:
There are 6 people who’ve had gay sex that I could find and all but one of them are bi (or at least bi-curious). That seems like a statistical anomaly.
- Comment on I can't argue with his point. 5 months ago:
Or soak them in vinegar and they turn pink.
- Comment on More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists 10 months ago:
No, it won’t really, because all you would be doing is removing the corrupt people from power without changing or replacing the corrupt system in which they operated.
Systemic change happens on 2 fronts, both internal and external.
- Comment on More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists 10 months ago:
Come on, you’ve built a massive strawman going on very little. I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but the position you’re attacking is clearly not the position the person you’re replying to intended to express.
- Comment on More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists 10 months ago:
It bothers me that you’re being heavily downvoted for saying that direct action is more effective/important than voting, so I’m chiming in to say I agree with you.
This isn’t an ‘enlightened centrist’ position here, just a realistic one. I will continue to vote Democrat and encourage others to do the same, but I don’t have any illusions that doing so is anything more than damage control.
Our political system in the US is corrupt, not just the people within it. Changing it will require external support.