tocopherol
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- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Yeah because that is the endstate of socialism. That is what the path of communism leads to. It’s not the starting point, it’s after a transition past the capitalist mode of production into a new economic paradigm. It is after the wealthy elite are overthrown in what would likely be a war between the global proletariat and the rich. Like when the king ruled the colonies, one could say “Oh but we have kings all over, we’ve never had a republic. You sound pretty desperate George Washington.” History of society is a progressive journey between different economic systems. We used to be hunter gatherers, then developed agriculture, consolidated factories, and now we can move to a new step.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Any of them, If there is a classless society where everyone’s basic needs are met, a person growing their own lemons or acquiring them and giving lemonade to people in exchange for currency can still be communism and wouldn’t be a problem. They aren’t exploiting laborers by hoarding wealth derived from wage labor. Socialist systems can have markets, and small business enterprises.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Well he was a key theoritician of communism, so partly, but also Engles, Lenin, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Fanon, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, it’d be a shame if I only ever read one author when communism has been developed by multitudes of scientists, fighters, teachers and other thinkers for the last 150 years.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Alright buddy, whatever you say.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
You’re confusing personal property with essential infrastructure. You can have and sell all those things even under communism.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
The American people are the most propagandised on Earth. Our education has been eroded over decades and we are steeped in a media sphere almost entirely owned by the wealthy which constantly discredits anything remotely socialist and tells almost nothing but lies about the outside world. People can’t even usually protest in a serious way without losing their jobs, and therefore their healthcare and housing. When protesters burned down the police station in Minneapolis in 2020, that was ranked with a higher approval rating than nearly any politician elected at the time.
Even if a good candidate is elected, the power comes from the wealthy, they will subvert any thing progressive using their trillions of dollars and surveillance panopticon.
So a lot of Americans did vote for this horrific administration, but most people don’t even know what they are voting for, and voter turnout is egregiously bad because most people don’t feel they can even trust what they are told about politics.
- Comment on Steam machine prices are live 2 weeks ago:
Reorganize our economic system into one in which the means of production, ie factories, farms, etc, are collectively owned by the people instead of being owned by the rich elite who take all profit for themselves.
- Comment on Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors 2 years ago:
It makes sense if that’s the level of contact ypu want, but yeah I would rather talk to someone one on one, or like my family has a group chat through text, I’d rather communicate like that than post my life on IG. The things I want to tell my friends about my life I don’t usually want to post publicly.
- Comment on Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors 2 years ago:
And people look at me weird when I say I don’t like using Instagram much. It’s funny how a lot of my friends don’t like facebook, generally anti-corp, pro-privacy but have no problem being on Instagram all the time.