@admiralwonderboat Economic incentives of capitalists tech firms conspire to kill alt platforms.
And the domination of capitalist media platforms isn't just an individual consumer choice, its an established domination of infrastructure and tech. They conspire to enforce a default.
Viewing the world as the product of voluntary, individual choices is peak liberalism & a fundamental misunderstandings of the social forces that HAVE shaped our world.
@[email protected] @rbreich Where will the billionaires billions go? Or where will their control of production go? Nowhere. They'll just use their influence to revert these reforms and well be in the same place or worse.
You claim I'm MAGA but you're a pro capitalist liberal who doesnt understand basic social power dynamics. Good luck voting for your next well manicured capitalist politician and praying they do right by you.
You trust your life and political will to good marketing.
@rbreich Liberal politics is just like hitting the reset button on capitalism.
The rules which caused the mess dont change you just reset the playing field.
@neatchee @GLaDTheresCake @Em0nM4stodon A historical material approach to some social issues is def rooted in class analysis.
Genders were an important cultural tool in early states as part of expansionist/settler dynamics (thus homophobia/transphobia), racism was an important tool in many states for imperial/slavery/exploitation purposes.
Ableism I see as just capitalist profit extraction dynamics and capitalist states reserving state funds for the capitalists. I'll leave it there, good luck.
@neatchee @GLaDTheresCake @Em0nM4stodon Wait, so enacting mass democracy, according to you, is futile because we have tribalistic tendencies? Its almost as if your framing of this discussion tends towards inaction...
I want to remind you that culture is like a front end, we can change it. Its been changing all the time.
I dont believe people will just automatically be perfect in a socialist framework, but if we remove the economic incentives to be shitty A LOT of progress can be done.
@GLaDTheresCake Workers, in this context, is a class of people who dont possess means of production.
How do you know people are still discriminated against in mass democracies?
Leftist movements are people, people are all subject to the same flaws. If a leftist movement has these flaws it must be called out and corrected. I wont defend them.
The "mythical" revolution is not perfect. But organizing to put political power into the hands of the marginalized is better than weird reparations talk
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I don't see sports teams fandoms or college pride as the same as ableism, racism and transphobia.
Cappies will exploit similar mechanisms present in both, but its not the same thing.
Racism was like "lets exploit unequal geographic/economic developmental differences and buy people to sell them for labor abroad and create a biological narrative that upholds this money making scheme"
Sports is like "theres real community in team fandom"
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