There’s a lot of trouble with definitions regarding capitalism. (I’d call them intentional since muddying the waters serves the people who benefit from our current system.)
Pick any person who is complaining about “capitalism” right now.
If you proposed a system where everything was structured the same as it is right now, HOWEVER instead of shareholders and owners possessing companies, every, single company was a worker cooperative (owned and controlled by its workers) then I am 95% sure the anti-capitalist you picked would
Not consider that capitalism, and
Vastly prefer that over what we have right now
With some minor variation. (Tankies don’t think it’s possible to maintain such a system without monopolizing violence. Anarcho-communists wouldn’t be too happy about the scope and financial power of state and federal governments, and would seek to pare them down. Democratic socialists would think it was perfect. Little disagreements like that.)
But I think most other people (people who aren’t anti-capitalists) would think “that’s just a form of capitalism” if I described the above.
In fact, if I said,
A free market system, but ownership and control of the means of production is only allowed collectively and democratically. No shareholders allowed, no transferable individual ownership allowed.
Most ordinary people would consider that a form of capitalism. (Even though calling it capitalism is, technically, highly inaccurate). So it’s a difficult conversation to have. Because most “anti-capitalists” disagree with most “pro-capitalists” on the basic definition of what they are fighting or defending.
I’m actually convinced that a lot of “pro-capitalists” are more eager to defend the free market system than they are to defend transferable, stock-marketable, individual ownership of the means of production. I think they would compromise on the latter if they could safeguard the former.
I like this logic. Killing should be a last resort.
Further, if I had a billion dollars to spend, I’d sooner spend it on organizations like Life After Hate and get them the resources necessary to deconvert and deprogram Nazis than I would on any iteration of our current system of playing whack-a-mole with their censor-evading code words. Or on some Nazi-killing executioner.
I hate how quick people are to advocate giving up on their fellow humans.
Owen had serialized dream many years ago in childhood times. New dream chapters kept releasing for many nights. Dream parts were spooky. Owen was scared there, but felt like pain and fear was deserved.
However, when Owen was being pulled back to very scary place from earlier season, Owen chose instead to fight. Creature tried to pull Owen down, but Owen planted feet and pulled against creature. Creature fell into last season’s spooky place.
Panting, Owen spoke, “I’ve been down there.”
Weird dream stopped returning. “I’ve been down there” turned out being series finale.
Years passed. Owen decided to make anagram of “I’ve been down there.”
Owen failed: “Owen Ever Bind Thee” was closest Owen could come to good anagram. Owen got bored of scrambling letters. Chose Owen Everbinde and abandoned attempt at making anagram. Owen’s leftover ‘T’ and ‘H’ and ‘E’ will never have home.
Suppose you win 100 million. What do you actually do with it? Banks only guarantee 250,000. Do you have to invest it? Is there anywhere you can just let it sit and draw interest?
I’m cis. The flag does not belong to me. It does not describe me. You can ignore my complaints…
But nevertheless, my neurodivergent brain is very bothered by the fact that there are only four panels, with the backgrounds going, “blue, pink, white, pink…”
If you’d like to know who this guy is, here’s a paragraph about him on History.com
One such erasure was Nikola Yezhov, a secret police official who oversaw ██████ purges. For a while Yezhov worked at ██████ right hand, interrogating, falsely accusing and ordering the execution of thousands of Communist Party officials. But in 1938, Yezhov fell from ██████ favor after being usurped by one of his own deputies. He was denounced, secretly arrested, tried in a secret court, and executed.
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?...
I have found part of the answer to my question: it’s not a major mode, but the minor mode picture-mode is a necessary component in what I’m trying to accomplish. It has special commands like, “fill selected region with spaces” and its SPC and BACKSPACE keys now move across the text, replacing everything in their path with whitespace.
Do you suppose there’s a way to use artist-mode with Unicode characters replacing the ASCII ones? Because looking at artist-mode, the ASCII characters are causing a bit of hesitation.
EDIT: I do see an artist replacement table. Maybe I should paste the whole artist.el file into chat.openai and ask GPT3 whether and how I can use that to replace all four corners.
I’m just curious about this. As someone with a chronic illness, I pretty much never hear anyone talk about things related to the sorts of difficulties and discrimination I and others might face within society. I’m not aware of companies or governments doing anything special to bring awareness on the same scale of say, pride...
But his favorite way of weaseling out of giving any direct answer on his actual religious beliefs is to highlight how “true in a sense” the stories are.
There are two very good Cosmic Skeptic YouTube shorts about it: [1] [2]
Maybe they’re focused on playing for time so they can insure their assets and move to hedge funds that are shorting all of the above industries? I don’t know investing that well.
Look: a lot of companies would suffer from an office real estate crash.
the businesses that own the office real estate
car manufacturers
tire manufacturers
petroleum companies
coffee franchises
fast food franchises lining freeways on the way to work
And most importantly, funds invested in all of the above.
People who own businesses also own stocks in other people’s businesses. Meaning they all fall and rise together. Trying to keep the “work commute” and “office rental” industries alive is just an attempt on the part of those who hold capital to keep their portfolios growing.
In secret, they are probably also trying to hedge their bets, diversify and make themselves immune to the coming collapse. They’ll try to position themselves and their capital in such a way so that the working class is the only group hurt when it happens.
But in public? They are not going to devalue their assets by standing by, complacent, as an office apocalypse approaches.
Just a reminder: the actual Nazis never said their goal was to steal from and murder a bunch of Jewish people while they were still seeking power.
They did say they were against the “International Jewry” that was pulling the strings behind all the world’s governments and controlling all the media and manipulating the populace with their “lying press” (aka “fake news.”) They also said gay people were groomers. Does any of this sound familiar?
The fascist must always position their self as the defender of the free world, of stability, of decency, of natural values, of a natural hierarchy…
and they must always invent an attacker who seeks to forcefully, tyrannically rob society of everything they know and love.
Without an attacker (who can be slandered), the fascist would need to defend the actual value of their own positions against level-headed, logical scrutiny.
The fascist ideology can survive a violent foe: all you need to do is vilify them, murder them, or throw them into death camps.
It cannot survive logic.
So they need to stop people from ever looking at the ideology through a logical lens.
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
Intellectual capacity is a social darwinist fantasy.
That includes insults that go along the lines of, “Trump supporters can’t read.”
[Aside: I dislike Trump supporters, mind you. But if they couldn’t read (especially reading Breitbart, or the Epoch Times, or the text part to Russia-funded propaganda memes) that would actually be an improvement right now. Lower cognition would be an improvement if it were real.]
Anyways my reasons are as follows: I’ve tutored quite a few people, and never found one actually incapable of learning a particular concept.
I have, on the other hand, found a large number who were underconfident about their ability, citing their “low” intelligence specifically. And unlike their intellectual capacity, this belief in IQ was actually limiting. And harmful.
I have also encountered people (outside of my tutoring) who thought their “intelligence” was a source of superiority over the masses.
They were not superior people. Their vocabulary – which people often use as a misguided proxy for intelligence – was offputting because they often used words they had clearly never heard used in context. Indicating these words were added to their lexicon unorganically, pulled from a dictionary or thesaurus rather than an adventure novel, highlighting a strange set of priorities that always made these people suspicious to me.
Every time someone calls me smart, I tend to suspect they’re trying to scam me.
Every time someone calls me stupid, I shrug because they clearly haven’t met all of the people who call me smart.
But in all cases, they are invoking the idea that some people are just capable of more, and others are just capable of less. It’s social darwinism, like I said.
And I find it disgusting.
If you want my respect, never appeal to social darwinism in my presence.
I don’t know. The name feels weird. I could see calling your community,
“moderates”
“moderategop”
“RINOs” (just like Trump’s supporters embraced calling themselves “deplorables”, non-Trump conservatives should probably ready themselves for turning enemies’ insults into their own battle standards.)
plus RINOs also gives a decent logo idea for the community (the rhinoceros)
What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
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Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?
Essentially, I want us to sound like cavemen....
62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll (www.commondreams.org)
What Do You Do With Large Amounts Of Money?
Suppose you win 100 million. What do you actually do with it? Banks only guarantee 250,000. Do you have to invest it? Is there anywhere you can just let it sit and draw interest?
Rule (ani.social)
If 'carbon negative' and 'carbon positive' are terms used interchangeably to mean completely opposite things, what are alternative terms that clarify the difference without confusion?
For example, could alternative terms like “carbon reducing” and “carbon increasing” make it more clear and avoid misinterpreting which means which?
alternate rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Is there a file extension (and major mode) for monospaced unicode "art" ?
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?...
As far as public support goes, why aren't disabilities and chronic illnesses treated in a similar manner to LGBT issues?
I’m just curious about this. As someone with a chronic illness, I pretty much never hear anyone talk about things related to the sorts of difficulties and discrimination I and others might face within society. I’m not aware of companies or governments doing anything special to bring awareness on the same scale of say, pride...
Every Religious Person ever (lemmy.world)
why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?
I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don’t want to send traffic to Reddit....
What is "anti woke"
Someone please explain why people are using “anti woke” instead just calling it what is… example: racism, bigotry
What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
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