Edited to add - To be clear for anyone, it’s Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
Someone reminded me that I was using dogwhistle parlance in my use of they which may have suggested otherwise.
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The end of that one Brother Ali song, I have no idea who the vocalist for that part is.
They keep sayin’ we’re free…
But we’re all just loose.
Brother Ali don’t miss
💯
I had no idea this was showing up a couple months ago, and what a treat it is!
You ain’t free, you’re just free range.
Uncle Sam Goddamn
Society works exactly as expected for the capitalists. At the end of the day we’re only dollars to them.
Often both political parties answer to capitalist with Representatives that are also capitalists with absolutely no way to force them to answer to the people.
It’s time to let this system go and switch to something new. Electoralism will not save us.
Time to do a socialism.
I think literally any type of socialist system will be better than what we have 😮💨
Man, fuck all that. “Socialists” just let authoritarians into power who then never let go. Your revolution will just leave a warlord in a Che shirt.
Democratic governments with strong social safety nets and robust middle classes are consistently capitalistic. Do you have an example otherwise?
edit: 20 minutes, four downvotes, and zero examples otherwise.
edit: maybe I’ve blocked 10 authoritarian tankies that I cannot read their replies. Hmm.
Like we aren’t already living in an authoritarian hell hole where the government doesnt represent the will of the people.
Democratic governments have a strong safety net? Really? Better tell then nearly a million homeless in the richest country in the world that they have better social nets then china, cuba, USSR which all guaranteed a home for everyone to live in. Hell there is still a guarantee in the Russian constitution which is better then non-acknowledgement of the US.
Did you notice how the global south is still poor and has major issues and just about every fucking country is a Democratic government?
Calling Che Guvera a dictator is hilarious since he died fighting for Revolution in Bolivia after he helped free Cuba from the US imperialist grip. Definitely the actions of a power hungry dictator that already won power in an island nation.
You still haven’t done any fucking reading. Could you stop with the fucking NATO, imperialist propaganda please. If you aren’t then at least get more informed. Your embarssing to all the other boot lickers.
Edit:
Cuba has a strong protections for its people and a growing economy due to trade with the BRICS alliance.
China has uplifted millions out of poverty before capitalism was introduced in the 1990s
Rojava is doing well for itself considering its location in northern Syria.
Wow. Where to start?
Democratic governments have a strong safety net?
Like FDR.
Did you notice how the global south is still poor and has major issues and just about every fucking country is a Democratic government?
<citation needed>
Calling Che Guvera a dictator is hilarious
No, I call Che Guevara a silly commie.
Edit:
lol
Gee I wonder what happens to the line “Capitalism lifted millions out poverty” when you take out China. 🤦
Notice how we don’t have FDR style protections anymore and haven’t since the 1970s? Doesn’t count if it doesnt exist anymore. The only places those safety nets exist is in the Scandinavian countries and those protections are the result of the Second International which was a Communist organization.
Che Guevara is a commie so I guess I don’t actually have a problem with that. But a commie warlord would actually idolize Mao. Learn your communist figures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index?wprov=sfla1
71 countries in the global south are considered democratic by the West. Thats a full 45% of them including places like Argentina, Brazil, Chile. Notice how all of these countries have issues that are already solved in the US? Notice how having a Democratic government in place didn’t create safety nets. Notice how these place dont have a safety net.
Sorry what was that about socialist countries solving or having similar problems that “Democratic governments” still haven’t solved themselves?
China is capitalism with a red flag, and so is Cuba, and so was the USSR. All failed projects that just returned back to capitalism. The fact you’re trying to argue this shit while coming from lemmy.ml is hilarious. We all know your actual alignment.
China didn’t lift anyone out of poverty. Just like capitalists, they just lowered the poverty threshold. They’re currently oppressing their workers with massive work hours, no choice to join any union that isn’t the government’s, and they still have billionaires.
China is not and will never be socialist. You’re a capitalist with a hammer and sickle.
those protections are the result of the Second International which was a Communist organization.
BACK IN YOUR CAGE, TANKIE!
blocked, in case you can’t tell.
… and the Zapatists then? The Spanish Republic? The Makhovivschna?
Democratic communism is not only achievable, it has been done. And the issue is that often, capitalists seek to crush it the moment they can. So we must protect each other.
Tiny. Hardly a success. Those guys were kinda cool.
That’s funny because primary turnout is generally appalling, and still bad in general elections.
Oh so you have a magic switch that’s going to make everybody come out and vote right?
Because a ton of people have been burned by already trying to vote to fix the system That does not want to be fixed.
Oh so your magic switch is a new party in a fptp system or revolution? Good luck with that.
So why make a comment about voter turnout when voter turnout has never been good in a country where the government does not represent the will of the people.
Good luck trying to get all the apathetic people who have been screwed so so much by the system that won’t help them to vote.
That’s for sure going to be easier than talking to people about the reason why our system sucks and building a new one. 🤙
Yeah people that can’t be assed to vote are going to create a whole new system.
Good luck. Maybe fine tune nuclear fusion while youre at it.
I know this isn’t what you intended, but you gotta be careful on the Internet saying ‘guess who ‘they’ are’, cos a lotta places on the Internet ask this and the answer is supposed to be ‘jews’
Yes, that’s a great point that I hadn’t considered.
To be clear for anyone, it’s Oligarchs/Billionaires paired with rampant, unfettered corporate greed. (at least in my view)
I thought it was the lizard people?
What did you think that was a euphemism for?
Capitalist owner class pigs, the capitalist protector pig cops, and military industrial complex for profit pigs.
The illuminati?
Is this seriously a euphemism for Jewish people? I thought it was just a funny conspiracy theory.
It’s both, depending on the specific conspiracy theorists.
Just like not all “infowarriors” know that “the globalists” means “the Jews” and “populist” means “rich, white, racist” in the code of Alex Jones.
I wasn’t actually sure when i wrote it (it just sounded “truthy”), but I just checked and found this:
Some adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory have also borrowed from the reptilian conspiracy theory, including elements shared in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Yeah I can’t think what else OP could mean though? All the other answers I can think of are too broad and obvious for “three guesses” to be a thing you’d ask.
Honestly, I thought OP meant billionaires/capitalists. Jews did not even cross my mind.
Edit: clarity
Right, but saying “three guesses” implies that the answer is something that’s slightly hidden. “Capitalists” doesn’t really make sense because it’s essentially going “three guesses who it is that’s doing all this capitalism… that’s right, capitalists!”. If OP didn’t intend it as an antisemitic dogwhistle then it’s an odd title for other reasons.
(edit: I just had a glance through their post history and I think it’s probably not supposed to be a dogwhistle, but just unfortunately titled; I think maybe OP just assumed everyone reading it were already on the same page on whatever specific thing they themselves blame capitalism on?)
But it doesn’t really work for capitalists because these problems don’t exist in a lot of capitalist nations and it kind of exists for supposed noncapitalist nations as well where if you don’t follow the rules and don’t work then they take your commodities away.
TBH tho I doubt that sort of reasoning would stand in the way of anti-capitalists.
Don’t forget the $1.4T/year they took out of the economy to squander on elaborate, invasive, predatory mass surveillance, serial racialized harassment, and overseas mass murder, in the name of peace and security.
Literally everyone.
Most people think this shit. They’re all complicit.
Bloody apathetic species. I’ve no sympathy at all.
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please stop doing capitalism mr burgerpocalypse
I beg of you, please stop. Please end this suffering.
Dammit, burgerpocalypse! How could you‽
A truly free market will always result in total monopoly. There is no such thing as a “free market” and capitalism is evil. Everything about society is a human construct built by humans and can be rebuilt by other humans. We can create a just society.
them Duke boys?
And yet they’re all for government intervention when it’s stuff like zoning (telling you where and how you’re allowed to live) or copyright (telling you what ideas you’re allowed to share)…
And now they’re trying to automate community, the last thing we have. Don’t let them!
Maybe if y’all weren’t so scared to “throw your vote away”.
Lol, get out of here with that shit
In lieu of anything constructive or interesting to say, I’m going to pretend to be an LLM:
🔥 You’re not just complaining, You’re convicting.
Reptilians? Bilderbergers? Solarians?
The education being a debt trap is at least in part due to good intentions gone wrong.
College was a little expensive and they wanted it more accessible, so they tried to make it nice and easy to borrow money.
Universities responded to the influx of cash by… Charging more money…
We tried to fix affordability by just flooding that market with loans with no regulation in place to constrain the universities or the loans.
There’s nothing well-intentioned about making debt (borrowing) easier to accumulate.
Studying should be free.
I’m just listening to Uncle Acid
