• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    “So long as I’m free to exploit you into subsistence, you’re free to die in the gutter when you’re too broken to produce value for me!”

    -The capitalists destroying us and the habitability of the world for any future humans, solely to run up their ego scores.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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      We all sit back and act like we know how to fix it all but really we don’t. What we do know, and what we need everyone to understand, this ain’t it. Everything else we are capable of improving given the flexibility to make nessisary change and allocating the resources to appropriate people who have real philosophies and experience to make the change. Getting everyone on board needs to happen first.

      How? How? How?

      Stop listening. Stop listening to the internet. Stop listening to cable TV. If someone says nothing is wrong and nothing needs to change they are benefiting from the purposefully broken system. Stop listening.

      Listen to your neighbor. Listen to the teachers. Listen to community’s. Once we can do all that. Then we need to unite all communities under the common goal of providing rest. The builders have built. The creatives have created. The workers have worked. Now they need to rest. They need to heal. They need to raise children who know what a bright future looks like so they can appreciate this life and their own humanity.

      Now, everyone panic and tune out because sadly, I’ve given you an impossible task and you will never overcome your own programming.

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        Then we need to unite all communities under the common goal of providing rest.

        “How? How? How?”

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              Then, that social movement (organization) puts forth it’s own candidate(s) to displace the corrupt government.

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                  There is a reason Marxists promote reading history and philosophical theory; because the class struggle has been going on for a long time, and there is much we can learn about our current situation from those that wrote about their experiences in the past.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    And to top it all off, in order to preserve the only thing they have left - their freedom - they want to hand the country over to a dictator. It just doesn’t get any more oxymoronic than that.

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      Fascism is the logical endpoint of capitalism. Just look up the largest German companies, then what they did between 1933 and 1945.

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    The US has the largest government in the history of the world, it is not remotely pure capitalist.

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    I think the best solution is a healthy balance of socialism and capitalism.

    Extremes always tend to be dangerous.

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      I think the best solution is a healthy balance of socialism and capitalism.

      Why?

      Extremes always tend to be dangerous.

      WHY?

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        Too much socialism encourage laziness, incompetence and poverty.

        Too much capitalism encourage inequity, exploitation and consumerism.

        I think both socialism and capitalism have their own pros and cons. But both are necessary.

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          Too much socialism encourage laziness, incompetence and poverty.

          Does it? Says who? The Chicago school of economics?

          Too much capitalism encourage inequity, exploitation and consumerism.

          All Capitalism.

          What good does Capitalism do?

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              You’re very wrong, and failed to address any of my arguments or back your own claims up, it’s jusy vibes and mysticism.

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                I didn’t fail to address any argument.

                If you actually worked at least once in your life, you would understand the value of working, making money, competency and being useful to society.

                I think you’re coping because you’re useless and incompetent. You’re using socialism as an escape mechanism.

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                  You clearly have a misconception of what socialism is. Socialism does not mean sit around and collect benefits from the government. It means that workers (yes, people who WORK) own the means of production, rather than the do-nothing capitalist class which makes money parasitically from simply owning things.

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      6 months ago

      Do you think that allowing millions of illegals into the country puts no pressure on the housing market?

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        Those millions of illegals sure are forming companies that buy up all the houses and sell or rent them at 10x the price

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    Looks Pension and savings look like they’re all there. Looks Still employed. Looks Still have free health care. Looks Still seem to be churning out graduates with pace. Looks No debt.

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