balderdash9
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- Comment on It's that time of the year 5 hours ago:
For me it’s more like: I should watch Hunter Hunter again…
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 18 hours ago:
They said “communistic” when they likely meant “socialist”. People who haven’t read leftist theory run socialism and communism together. We should educate them on the difference between socialism as a transitionary stage and communism as a classless/moneyless/stateless society.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 18 hours ago:
Unlike the communistic system where the political leaders use the system to enrich themselves
Historically untrue of many communist leaders. Ho Chi Minh mended his own clothes. Vladimir Lenin was practically ascetic.
Obviously both are purely economic ideas that can’t exist in their ideologicsl [sic] state in reality.
Capitalism is an economic system that produces commodities: goods that are made to be useful but can not be used until they are bought/sold. Under capitalism, the capitalist owns the means with which to produce commodities and so takes the finished products and ultimately the resulting profits as their private property. The capitalist also makes all the decisions on how workers spend their labor time. On the other hand, the workers, the people that labored to create the commodity, are given a fraction of the value they produce in the form of wages. Capitalism exists here and now, any definition of capitalism to the contrary is idealist.
It’s fair to say that capitalism scales better than communism.
We have examples of socialist states scaling just fine. Perhaps we could have seen the true potential of socialism (and eventually communism) as an economic model; but countries that reject capitalism faced economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, assassination attempts, and retaliatory wars (e.g., Cuba, Vietnam, USSR, Chile [Salvador Allende], etc.)
Private ownership according to your contribution works very well in the realm of society.
You can keep your house and toothbrush under socialism: this is your personal property. The goal of socialism is to turn the private ownership of the means to produce all the things we want/need into public property that the workers own. This is necessary for us to stop producing goods for private profit and start producing them for direct consumption.
- Comment on sudo rm -rf / 2 days ago:
Don’t try this at home kids
- Comment on Every summer 1 week ago:
A good quarter of the states are shit. Another quarter have affordability issues, homeless, and wealth inequality. All are founded on stolen land and built by slavery.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Blatant corporate capture.
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To be fair, you can just change your shortcuts in the terminal preferences.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system… and people still struggle to use the mouse.
Not to larp on the younger generations, but interacting with computers through touch screens is likely a major culprit here. Why would you know how to navigate file structures, or even open a terminal, when they were given an iPad when they were 5 years old?
- Comment on PAWG P-A-W-G 1 month ago:
I mean, gooning is a net negative on my life so fair enough
- Comment on Nice costume 2 months ago:
I almost downvoted this
- Comment on Anon lives the dream 2 months ago:
You’re either buying labor power or you’re a wage slave.
- Comment on What a world 2 months ago:
Clean ur room, donchaknow
- Comment on I'm nit sure tbh 2 months ago:
It’s just sad that no matter what happens, American’s will continue going to work in the morning. At this point, they could drop the unredacted Epstein files and nothing would happen.
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RISA do you have endless greentexts??
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think the reason behind the work plays a big role in our perception of it. If we are building an earthen wall to protect our friends and family from invaders, there is a finite amount of work that ends with a sense of accomplishment. If we are looking through the corporation’s quarterly reports in order to become a fraction of a percent more profitable, the work continues forever and the end result is meaningless.
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If you made it this far
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