What is an era?
Marxist-Leninist but willing to buddy up with Progressives.
Wants Oregon, or any state, to secede from the American Union to preserve rights. Never found a time where America was great.
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They’ve completely thought this through to their conclusion already. We’re the ones who haven’t.
I think a lot of people are realizing that the richest of humanity is up to some evil shit. A great many people also listened to what these people have said and are incredibly disturbed. You are not alone, I am not alone, and this entire sub is not alone. I think the first steps to take are:
The free market is generally pretty good at allocating scarce resources
I disagree. Heavily. This may be based on my own experiences, but reading about how Capitalism reaches a point of overaccumulation only to collapse, wherein people cannot work, makes sense, and is the reason this year is so gruesome. I have read about how grocery stores will get rid of food simply because they overproduce and then don’t have enough to give out. You should do some reading on the Great Depression and unemployment. The simple question of “why can’t people work even if they really want to?” has much less to do with government intervention and much more to do with the intrinsic parts of Capitalist production.
This is quite long so I have provided links.
Capitalism's Overproduction Problem: A Primer — Hampton Institute
By Prabhat Patnaik Republished from Monthly Review . It is in the nature of capitalism to have “over-production crises”, i.e., crises arising from “over-production” relative to demand . “Over-production” does not mean that more and more goods keep getting produced relative to deman
Not using AI is an INCREDIBLE untapped power source!
Not using AI is an INCREDIBLE untapped power source! - Lemmy.World
This might belong in some circlejerk sub, but I think it’s somewhat clever. Basically, if AI datacenters get shut down, the power that would’ve been used to generate AI slop could be used for magnificent things. I mean, it’s purely clean energy because instead of using gas or oil, you take energy that COULD be used for something useless and put it to better use. Think of all the applications. - We could power countless electric cars, trains, and bikes. - We could power countless medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators. - We could power countless lights in people’s homes. All this could be accomplished by not building massive datacenters. What’s more is that there could be countless gallons of clean drinking water used for surgical cleaning and chemistry that would otherwise serve to cool the amount of datacenter power. Think of all the possibilities! If only Sam Altman could understand this…!
You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact.
What fact? People’s lives are horrible BECAUSE of ICE. They’re so horrible that I considered that nobody would be “on the fence” because either you drank the Fear-Of-Crime Kool-Aid or you are horrified at what ICE agents are doing to children and poor people. The entire reason there are people who don’t think ICE needs to be abolished right now is because Fox News and other right-wing grifters have pumped out propaganda making it look like there is a “crime wave” like it’s the Reagan Era, and people living in the Suburbs not knowing what the outside world is like. Not only do they choose to portray a crime wave, they have to do it, because otherwise people would see their president as the power-hungry maniac he is rather than a savior of order. No riot is actually making people miserable, only the police-reported, sensationalist coverage of protests.
This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.
That’s just the American Suburbs. I hope American states can secede to change this. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, there is a high-speed rail being built. This is not driven by disgruntled people, people with no future, or people who choose not to hate others who have nothing to do with it. Neither is Iran defending itself from an imperialist regime, nor Australia having their left-wing Labour party completely outdo the right-wing Liberal party. America is the villain here.
All of a sudden, so many things are “not protected speech”. I find it tempting to be as ignorant as a Republican, but I’d certainly be caught off guard in that case.
PR for who? Who is on the fence about ICE?
And share them with your friends. Learn from Lenin, learn from the Vietnamese, learn from Alpaca farms.
You jest, but even though I hate a lot about the Trump regime, I’m glad that it is eating out its own military capacity like this. It’s like when you’re incredibly sick in bed, and then it gets a little better for a while.