rando895 @ rando895 @lemmy.ml

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Wow, infrastructure breakdown left 20,000 without heat for a few days? That's not news. A good storm in the northeast can knock the power system out for days here. Just more mindless propaganda trying to make you think a certain way.

I prefer to only read the top line of a meme then post. And no that's not a Lemmy user, that's squidward

I don't think there is any data to back that up.

1st year econ says something supply demand curve something something price. But that's not true in practice

The US has made itself a great candidate for becoming a vassal state, since there is very little material wealth generated domestically. Imagine if/when American businesses in China/Russia (I can't imagine there are any in NK right?) are nationalized. Especially if China stops exporting to the US. That would devastate the American economy, shortages of everything everywhere, and no productive capacity or expertise to fix it.

Capitalism is abandoning the empire.

This for sure. I've worked for a non-profit, and it was an awful experience. Everyone I know who has worked for one shares a similar experience.

We think it has something to do with the toxic way funding is applied for through the government, and the necessarily low wages/over work.

I have been considering opening a co-op with the purpose of providing stable employment and the tools/ space for workers to be politically active. But it would have to be for-profit given the toxicity and restrictions placed on non-profits.

Violence is the only option, even if you don't like it. Ask Nelson Mandela.

Alternatively, like in Canada, have your people become the majority and give them Independence, and forget about the destruction of the natives.

Liberation will never be given to you by your oppressor.

Probably important to point this out: private property is not personal property.

E.g. An apartment building rented to tenants is the landlords private property. They have exclusive rights to the decisions, especially economic ones, regarding the building and the profits of the rent.

A car, book, house, pizza, are all your personal property so long as you don't owe a lender anything for them.

So no private property might look like:

The people who live in an apartment building own the building collectively and have the full right therein, but the individual units are each their own personal property.

The dictator of the proletariat isn't one guy. It's the group of people who work. As opposed to now where most countries are a dictatorship of the wealthy.

It literally means the workers (like you and I) dictating the rules. If you're a commie it means democratically. Who dictates the rules now? The wealthy.

Red scare propaganda is so exhausting...

You might not, but the majority of people who know what neoliberalism is would.

In my view this should hopefully signal to US "allies" to further move away from dependence on the US, leading to a further crumbling of the hegemony.

You're right, but the work doesn't end at this election. There's a long road of reforms or revolution required to move away from the conditions that made these two the only "options". And your representatives aren't going to do it for you.

But it will not fall on its own. I believe that there are near infinite ways for capitalism to get worse, and it can always find new ways to profit at the expense of people.

If we were to, maybe coax it off the ledge though.....

What do you mean you have an election to keep your country in existence?

Sure. Leaving most of Trumps policies in place as well as supporting a genocide in Palestine. He also hasn't done anything to reverse the genocide on the Indigenous people in the USA, if you want to be spicy. He hasn't done anything about the clearly disproportionate violence against non-white people, and he allows the hate speech and othering to continue unabated, providing a nice scapegoat for the country's problems without him having to lift a finger.

There's also the ongoing imperialism of the USA, and their hundreds of military bases across the planet, asserting control over numerous populations. While this isn't necessarily fascist, the common argument used for invasion into other countries is that "we need to bring them freedom and Democracy, and our Western values". And again, there is still an occupation in Iraq by the USA military, under Biden, where these were clear "reasons" for the occupation.

So, is it fascist to allow the continuation of things that may be considered fascist when viewed together? Probably. Especially when you lead the largest military in the world, and the second largest economy, no one else has the power to sign a paper and end the atrocities. Well, at least some of them.

A neat thing is no one actually needs to even die to meet the definition of a genocide

Yeah, the war was in a sailmate before that. What don't you understand? No one could get boats through thanks to the underwater tubes of semen.

I hadn't thought about that, I still have the (liberal) knee jerk reaction to defend what a government could be, when they complain about the government and taxes. I need to move past this I think, and focus more on how they fuck everyone but big business.

Afterall, the small shop owner has more in common with us than they do with Bozos

I try and treat them like students without being too obvious. Praxis is important. If I can ask a couple of pointed questions based on what they are saying at me, they think I'm interested, but with the right questions it instills doubt into their views.

Then walk away lol

That's a good point. I can talk to a shop owner like they're a shop owner, but they have no idea who I am.

But then why talk politics at me in the first place lol.

Or, hear me out, get rid of qualified immunity. You guys aren't a kingdom FFS. And sorry, Biden is at a minimum fascist adjacent.