SailorMoss

@SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will outlive us all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate being 10. I wish I was 7 again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s considered the first popular piece of Gen-Alpha internet humor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to monkey then?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it doesn’t matter because the lesson to take away is that in any system the people with power will modify it to what we have now

  Was the system that the peasantry lived under in the commons the same as what we have now?

  All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  Ok?

  The quote you just gave is from famous socialist George Orwell from his book Animal Fram. Which is critical of the structures the Soviet Union created.

  But your comment is actually in direct contradiction to Orwell’s actual more nuanced point. His point was not that every system devolves into capitalism… he was himself a socialist who fought along side communists in the Spanish civil war after all. His point is that we need to think critically about the structures we’re creating to ensure they’re serving egalitarian ends. Something I agree with Orwell on.

  The original reason why I commented was because it didn’t seem you were engaging in the same project of critically examining economic structures in the way Orwell was and the way Smith was. Though I would love to be proven wrong.

  I think you should think more critically about what people tell you about Adam Smith and George Orwell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to monkey then?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adam Smith did not ‘invent’ capitalism. No single person can invent an economic system. He made some early observations and normative assertions about a set of economic relations that were forming independent of him.

  So the economic system we had prior to capitalism was feudalism. The common lands that I mentioned were apart of the feudal system. The system of landlords and rent-seeking were and are apart of capitalism. You can just look around… we still have these things. You do understand that right? Unless you’re saying our current system isn’t capitalist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to monkey then?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Capitalism is supposed to be pro-worker/anti-rich

  Supposed by whom? The rent-seeking behavior that Smith criticized was largely brought about by enclosure; the process of enclosure was foundational to capitalism.

  Hence my comment about people still paying to live before adoption of capitalism

  This is ahistorical, before enclosure the peasantry had substantial rights to live freely on the common land.

  I suppose it does depend on what is meant by ‘pay to live on this earth’. If you just mean that people have to work to take care of themselves then, sure. But that’s not really what this meme is referring to. If it was then the orangutan would be ‘paying to live on this earth’ as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to monkey then?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adam Smith was much more critical of capitalism than he is given credit for. For example, Adam Smith was critical of rent seeking and landlords. It would be somewhat accurate to replace Orangutan with Adam Smith in this meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Care to elaborate?

  The U.S. is currently supporting a genocide in Palestine/Israel. Before that we spent 2 decades in a war —based on a lie— in which the U.S. killed up to 1 million innocent Iraqis.

  We are currently occupying many territories, who we deny equal rights/status as states including Guam and Puerto Rico.

  Over the last century we constantly supported coups of democratically elected governments mostly in South and Central America.

  Not to mention the soft imperialism of the IMF and the world bank.

  China deserves criticism for their genocide of the Uyghur Muslims.

  There may be further valid criticisms if they invade Taiwan. This could go either way depending on what the Taiwanese people ultimately decide. Right now most Taiwanese want to maintain the status quo. Which is strategic ambiguity.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Opinion_polling_on_Taiwanese_i…

  The U.S. record of nationalist imperialism is worse than China’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  China engages in this kind of “social democracy” all the time just like countries like Norway. But when Norway does it you don’t see people saying “rare Norway win”. I would call having a different standard for China vs a European country sinophobic.

  If you’re a left progressive —as most people here on Lemmy seem to be— you probably agree with most of China’s economic policy.

  China does sometimes engage in Chinese nationalism in a way that is worthy of criticism; but pretending they are worse than the U.S. in this regard is detached from reality.

  The American ruling class has already decided they want war with China. They’re just trying to find a way to justify it to us. We as progressives shouldn’t make it easy for them to justify a war between 2 nuclear powers. Such a war could very well lead to the end of the human race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facepalm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used YouTube logged in since they force merged YouTube accounts with Google accounts. This make me a bit harder to track and my data slightly less valuable. I don’t like that my data will still being used to create an advertising profile even if I pay. If one of the features of YouTube premium was they would never sell any of my data across all Google services then I would be willing to pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you hear someone pronounce GIF as 'JIF⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I look like I know what mpeg is? I just want a video of a got dang hot dog!