[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 4 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Not really.

The fundamental critique of capitalism is that not even the capitalists are really in charge. Marx lays out quite thoroughly in Capital that the profit motive is what's actually in charge, and the capitalists are just along for the ride, and that any attempt by the capitalists to flex their power in a way that the market cannot abide will result in them losing their privileged status and being replaced by a different capitalist who will better serve the needs of the profit motive.

By contrast, socialist systems are run by people. That makes them flexible and able to serve the needs of society in a way that capitalist societies simply aren't. And yes, people are capable of mistakes, failure, and betrayal; but so too are they capable of insight, success, and solidarity. The best of existing socialist societies past and present is when they buck the demands of the market and provide for their people in ways that capitalist societies don't, and the worst of socialist societies is invariably the things that they are required to do in order to maintain their existence on a predominantly capitalist world.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

The worst things that happen are when students lock the door to a building, or when fascist counter protestors (often in police uniforms) show up and escalate shit.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 25 points 4 hours ago

Americans live in one of the police states of all time. Capitalism can only produce this result, there is no alternative, because the ruling class knows just as well as the socialists do that the contradictions will only keep getting worse and the protests will only keep getting bigger but of course instead of wanting to change the equation to produce a different result like the socialists do the capitalists want to cling to power by any means necessary.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 30 points 4 hours ago

If you HAD to choose between Communism and Fascism

Oh no, please don't force me to make this choice, it's impossible.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 15 points 4 hours ago

Slow news week? Just make some shit up!

Of course the post-gamergaters have been making shit up from the jump. Come to think of it so were the gamergaters and pre-gamergaters.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 4 points 11 hours ago

Nobody drives in New York, there's too much traffic.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago

I feel like, because you can see the moon moving towards the sun for the hours leading up to the eclipse, and see it moving away from the sun in the hours afterward, you'd be able to put two and two together even if your sense of scale is way off.

Plus there's gonna be institutional knowledge whether you're agricultural or not - eventually you're going to see multiple eclipses, and eventually your tribe will have elders telling kids about them, and eventually someone will think to record when they happen and start being able to predict them.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago

Mar-a-Lager

Damn that's a good one Trump could become a billionaire again if he sold this.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago

And then setting the car they're sitting in on fire.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 38 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

AMERICANS BUY OPTIC AND FOREGRIP OF CHEAP DEPARTMENT STORE INSTEAD OF MANY CARTRIDGES OF PRACTICE. SOME BUY TWO HUNDRED RUBLE LASER AND TWO THOUSAND RUBLE NIGHT VISION GOGGLES SO THEY CAN PRETEND TO BE FASCIST MURDERER SPECIAL FORCES KILLING CIVILIANS OF DARK SKIN COLOR WHILE NOT ABLE TO HIT BROADEST SIDE OF BARN. AMERICAN MARKSMANSHIP HAS FALLEN FAR SINCE DAY OF MARINE CORPS TRAINED MARXIST PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSIN LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

[-] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Like all things it's a spectrum. This conflict has been about 1% a war between Hamas and the IDF, and 99% the IDF indiscriminately killing civilians.

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