As an outsider I think civil war would be unlikely just because the broader USA society already has a tendency of allowing fascists to do whatever they want because "it's the law" anyway. I think they're more likely to just go into full "how many deaths is it economically viable" again like they did with the Covid 1 Million while the media industry just goes
Then they should have done similarly critical coverage of Yang's plans. Instead they hired him as political commentator so they at least think that his policies are not laughable (or more likely that he never actually stood for them in the first place). News outlets should be consistent in their coverage.
Wanna point out where I said it was? I'm saying that the presidential candidate that currently works at CNN advocated for something that would have an extremely similar impact, and yet it's being framed as if kids are being paid to wear diapers or some shit. Either CNN fires "thousand dollars month" man and acknowledges they actually hate errand kids and community-focused jobs, or they portray it fairly. To do otherwise is hypocritical, but what else would anybody expect from CNN on China?
Doesn’t Andrew “UBI” Yang literally work for CNN? Really weird framing for something he would at least pretend to love. People are being paid to run errands for their family, a tale as old as time. It’s still labour, but now focused at helping their families and community rather than getting some higher education formal job. Europe should try this out with their army of ageing sexagenarians. Kids would kill for 800 EUR a month to actually live for once.
It's kinda funny because NATO kinda creates the "Russian allies" themselves by making the conditions for anti-imperialist countries to become friendlier with Russia or other bigger NATO rivals. By constantly threatening and subjugating every single country on earth, those countries have way more to gain with each other than the Northwest and the overreaction from the State Department outlets sometimes even serves to bolster their resolve. In the end we will all be "Russia's allies," and that's NATO's fault.
My “hot take” is that we are not doing anything new or different now than we did thousand of years ago (so, before the advent of capitalism and globalization) when it comes to destroying our environment.
A thousand years in the past there weren't people in Europe/North America waging massive wars to protect their sources of oil across the world. Global imperialism is essential to this global crisis and no country would be exporting most of its resources to some foreign power to the detriment of its own people if they were not organised in a capitalist fashion. We already have many measures like hydro power that would be much less harmful to the environment but are not as profitable to the property owners as oil and therefore are not properly explored. "We" is already a loaded term because humanity was incredibly diverse in its organisations of society before the 19th century, but this whole crisis is caused mainly by our production methods, not their scale.
The good thing about this discussion is that I only need a single counter-example to disprove your thesis (but you can find many throughout history).
I think I see the misunderstanding here. The point is not that ecological catastrophes are only caused by Capitalism, but this one in specific is directly caused by it. If people owned the means of production they wouldn't force themselves into a catastrophe we all know is happening. We already understand the consequences in this current case, but just so happen to be ruled by a bourgeoisie that is more interested in fleeing to Mars than actually solving these issues. I fail to see how there could be any solution to this crisis without ending the control of a select few over the entire production of the world to our detriment, which is capitalism.
And for you to claim that something like this is "human nature" you don't need to just provide a couple of historical examples of ecological catastrophes caused by humans (even ones they knowingly did it), but to show that there has never been the case where humans changed course to avert one, or something of the sort.
I have listened to the whole podcast you linked and the Red Deal offers nothing of substance, just more opinions, as it has no predictive value (it doesn’t try to show quantitatively how much of the problem is remediated under which circumstance).
It would be pretentious to predict the economic effects in a manifesto from those who are not (and will likely never be) in power. If you want actual numbers you can look at how China has been leading the world in green energy production. As I said before, that one was specifically to push back against "human nature" causing this crisis when some very natural humans want to do the exact opposite but can't specifically because of settler capitalism. Humans want to fight the climate crisis, except for those few property holders who see this as an "opportunity."
Also what's with "opinions"? Do you expect some lab somewhere to do an experiment proving if redacting landlords has positive or negative correlations with emissions? Social decisions are based on historical analysis which would be too long for a 30 minute interview. Since you got so interested you replied to me 8 days later and want more of those juicy facts, you can go read their actual whole book on it their positions in depth. Part 3 does a better job explaining it than I could in a single lemmy reply.
It's anecdotal but I've heard a significant amount of Anglos talking about how they wish they could vote for the SNP. When both parties are austerity liberals a lot of the success for the ones out of government is in high turnout. If they don't motivate or even actively discourage voters (see barring a bunch of leftists from running or banning them from the party) they are liable to lose just on lack of votes. FPTP helps with that, which is why they should support the popular vote, but won't. "Controlled opposition" seems too tame a label for the current Labour leadership and people just don't bother voting anymore. Maybe Corbyn makes his own "Workers' Party" and gets to take the blame for spoiler votes in 2025.
They're even blaming their loss on ULEZ now, rather than on them shooing away every engaged and hopeful leftist activist.
I mean, they've been fumbling ever since they suspended Corbyn for his interview about the EHRC report. It's just now finally catching up to them due to people realising that people were onto something by calling them "Red Tories."
Care to explain the "another iteration of the problem"? Abolishing slavery ends slavery, abolishing serfdom ends serfdom, abolishing rent ends rent. The Venezuelan case is an example of the latter. You asked how to change the social structure, here's a tried and true method that has worked from Russia to China to Vietnam to Cuba. You're free to present your own with better track records.
Actually it's technically a part of Russia now. Hope they still help clean up in the case they lose the war. Though it is also the choice of the USA/NATO who provided those munitions in the first place. They'll definitely also help clean up, right guys?
quad core laptops with IPS screens that can run up to 16 GB are like $50 nowadays. throw it out.
Feel free to send me the $50 bucks and I'll buy one. I still won't throw out perfectly functional hardware. Until then I'll make use of what I have, thank you very much.
By "stable" I mean that for the majority of the time I will not have any electricity or internet. My use case explicitly requires battery and offline software.
Yeah, I didn't mean "prominent" as in wealthy or socially highly regarded but just in how they are a notable fixture of that society. It's very rare to read a Byzantine source that doesn't mention Varangians and eunuchs at least once, and yet those "successors to Rome" in Western Europe don't know much about either. As soon as things stop being relevant to the Normans, Westerner pop historians just forget about it.
I love that every headline on xtwitios now is like "The website formerly known as Twitter." I think this phenomenon is gonna last like 6 months.