vonbaronhans

Socialism has several different lineages. All of which used different strategies for accomplishing socialism (workers own the means of production) and maybe eventually communism (stateless, moneyless, classless society). (I often use "socialism" interchangeably as both the movement for and the desired end state, which I think Marx used to do, too, iirc).

The Marxist-Leninist/Maoist version is what most folks are familiar with - create a "vanguard party", leverage that political power to take over the government in a workers' revolution, and then use the power of the state to accomplish socialism and eventually transition to communism. That strategy was how we got the USSR and Communist China, loosely speaking. How much that strategy actually fulfilled the promises of socialism/communism is up for debate.

But there were other socialist movements in other areas of the world. The European version tends to be either democratic socialism (use standard political power to ease a transition to socialism, sans revolution) or social democracy (use government to implement the desired economic egalitarianism without the precise goal of the workers owning the means of production). (I hope I got those right, I often get them mixed up.)

I would agree with you that no European state has reached the end state of socialism or communism, as they're still pretty dang capitalist, but a good number of EU states are a lot closer to the promises of socialism than the rest of the world, as far as I understand things.

I just watched the Rerez video essay about the Ouya debacle earlier today. I followed Ouya news for a bit when the hype was strong, and I knew it fell off hard. But man, I didn't realize just how bad it was.

Probably?

An important thing to note is that "Breadtube" is an exonym. That is, no supposed "member" of Breadtube joined or formed a group with that label - it's just a label that some leftists put on a few video essayists who are/were either socialists or were perceived to be close enough.

Contrapoints, Lindsay Ellis, and HBomberguy were some bigger examples of this "group". All of them can be critiqued for different reasons, but I will usually give them a watch when they put out something. I usually learn something of value, IMHO.

For most people, the gov isn't actively watching you. But they are surveiling you nonetheless, keeping records (for fun and profit). Raise a stink with your local police or local government, though, and you'll find out how quickly that data will be mined and used to make your life a living hell.

Ah yep that'd do it.

#notallburgers?

Why burgers?

That is nice. Even a small support system is something to cherish. I wish you the best of everything!

Yeah. That's scary. I hope your wife is supportive, at least?

I'm not from Lemmy.world, but I also have no idea what's going on here. Anything remotely concrete would be helpful.

Lashing out with violence is definitely ingrained in most people as part of the fight/flight/freeze response, which then gets shaped by experience, etc.

"Beating the shit out of people for fun" is waaaaay further down the line in terms of behavioral development, personal experience, and cultural influence, for sure.

There are some ingrained behaviors, instincts, emotional reactions, etc. While we're not fully blank slates, there is definitely a lot of room for influence to shape children into different sorts of adults.