Sure we will: we give them gold, they give us golden showers. Piss trickles down fine.

Double standard, doublespeak and hypocrisy all seem applicable. So maybe like chauvinistic double standard or exceptionalist hypocrisy or some combination thereof. It does feel like there’s a lack of terminology with broad appeal in this respect.

Maybe like “state(/applicable noun) sugar coating” gets the message across in a way that even those with the reading age of a 9 year old might get the gist of.

Enschuldigung aber mein Deutsche ist schelcht. Lemmy im inglisch bitte?

Billionaires are all bad. That said if some of them want to squabble over who is the least bad billionaire, and that causes a rift between them, so much the better.

Organised gamers are generally speaking a right-wing movement. See: how gamergate turned out. Those guys are all MAGA now.

This is why I “play video games” but would not call myself a “gamer”.

One day there will be a computer with enough ram to run java hello world

Never poo on your lunch break, save it until you’re on the clock

Can you tell us how the Dems are going to reform the voting system so that people’s choices are fairly represented? No? They have no plans for that because they perceive themselves as beneficiaries of a broken electoral system? Wow it’s almost as if they’re self interested crooks themselves

Edit: people downvoting this are the same people who’d hear about coca cola paramilitaries in South America and then switch to Fanta, thinking they’re voting with their wallets

At some point, a bunch of tech bros out there are going to happily put neural interfaces directly in their skulls (probably by deregulated cranial technicians with dirty hands) that will plug them into the marketing and skills dependency directly.

Technically correct because greed is the cause of capitalism. But don’t be fooled into thinking there’s a long term, greed restrained capitalism that is going to work out for us; wealth is power. With sufficient wealth, a man can raise an army.

As soon as you allow him to accumulate it, you raise the possibility that he will buy your politicians and corrupt your citizens through amplifying his messages to make society ever greedier in his image. He will hire people to make unlawful works, and pay the fines and dodge the court room.

When you resist this corruption, they respond with fascism.

They don’t have to be new or good. Or recently washed.

Crohn’s here. You would not believe what my body can produce. The other side of it as well is when you really need to go, and somebody has thoroughly destroyed the only available cubicle(s). I once just walked out the state of the loos was so bad. It’s ok to touch the toilet brush to sort out your own stuff people 😭

To understand this you need to understand the theory. Marx outlined that socialism and communism each had to be transitioned to after reaching a given level of social/economic development. In particular there is the notion of “withering away of the state” which would happen after a global revolution, which is the aim of this classless/moniless society they outlined.

The communist manifesto is a short read!

In fact the USSR implemented explicit market policies, a sort of contained capitalism, which was designed to facilitate reaching the necessary preconditions for socialism and communism. Essentially all of the “communist” states we’ve seen so far have been some play on the notion of just “socialism in one country” in the Marxist-Leninist version of communist parties, who have/had the goal of eventually reaching communism.

What’s probably most interesting is that the idea behind the USSR wasn’t initially to have the state direct everything from the top, but in fact to facilitate worker councils (soviets) to direct their workplaces.

But you have to remember this all happened in the context of a state which had recently undergone a revolution, was rife with counterrevolutonary action (see revolutionary France and civil war Britain to see how this played out during the birth of liberalism) and was then plunged into WW2 where most states involved were acting fairly dictatorially for the duration of it. Followed shortly by the US making it an explicit goal to prevent world communism through e.g. CIA intervention because they feared “domino theory”

As it happens you don’t actually have to be a social chauvinist for the country in which you reside.

“hey guys I was just chatting with the wives and they all think waging war is for guys with small dick energy”

I’m fine enjoying their leavings.

hello, .world! 👋

It’s too easy to reply “it is” at this point for sure.

The victims are those who want musk punished

We covered this, it’s not the case

Sounds to me like it’s a victimless crime then.

I think it’s fair to say Musk already screws them to the maximum extent possible, so the degree to which they are screwed is probably not responsive to changes in insurance premiums and we can expect that to more or less come straight out of Musk’s pocket.