Olgratin_Magmatoe @ Olgratin_Magmatoe @lemmy.world

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The elimination of private property and the shifting of ownership from the rich to the people doesn't change the power required to regulate/administer anything. Either way the same amount of regulation is needed, and the same amount of administration is needed. Capitalism is just dictatorship in the workplace, and it needs to end yesterday.

To put it another way, compare two cities.

City A:

• Has 100,000 mouths to feed
• Needs and maintains 1000 high density apartment buildings, 1000 medium density apartment buildings, and 1000 low density residential buildings
• Has 100km of transportation network to maintain
• The means of production is owned by the rich

City B has the exact same population, infrastructure requirements, etc. It is basically a carbon copy of city A. However in city B the means of production is democratically controlled (and therefore owned).

Both cities have the same food requirements, the same amount of concrete needed, the same amount of everything is needed identically between them. The implementation of socialism doesn't change the amount of political power needed to keep things running. It has however, shifted the political power away from the dictatorship of the CEOs and company board members to the vote of the people. Here in the U.S. we (on paper) wouldn't tolerate a dictatorship in the government. So why the fuck do we tolerate it in the workplace? The workplace should be a democracy too (and not the shitty failed kind of democracy that is the U.S. government).

Parts of it, sure. But not all of it. Europe hasn't been immune to the current rise in fascism. But there are clearly some countries in Europe that are fairing better than others.

Absolutely. But I wasn't talking about the lore reason why they're generally evil.

I feel like the bigger reason to have evil races is to have a more or less ever present challenge and point of conflict. For instance, the underdark is horrible place to be, in large part due to the drow. Their presence and general alignment of evil makes the setting dangerous and interesting. Is this town safe? Have the drow been messing about assassinating local leaders? Should we help this group by liberating them from slavery from the drow?

It's almost like their species is in of itself a character, with this species sized character being evil. Having an entire species be generally evil gives the world more scale than a single evil character would. But yes, an individual villain needs more than just their evil race to be interesting.

Shit like this is why they're getting called out as weird.

The only good thing about fascism is that it destroys itself. If it destroys itself because of that SC ruling before it even really gets going, I won't complain.

Hopefully it implodes soon.

We either:

• pay $3,240,000,000,000 to the middle men/corpos/yacht funds every year
• pay $2,930,000,000,000 to the government to provide actual service without bullshit denials of service

The cost is overall less, but shifted to taxes, which is how basically every other country that has their shit together does it. The choice is pretty obvious for anybody even slightly paying attention.

Maybe you're right, I don't have any certainty in this. But I don't buy google's word on this for a second.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/google-ai-lawsuit/index.html

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/07/google-selling-users-personal-data-despite-promise-federal-court-lawsuit-claims/

Corpos like to lie, and their promises to not sell data is worthless. Even if they're not outright selling data directly, or "anonymizing it" before selling it, at a bare minimum they're still abusing the hoard of data they have to make a buck. They want that data and get large amounts of it through people's broswers, even with adblockers installed.

They absolutely also get data through means other than their browser. But they data they get off of the browser directly is probably a shit load.

but also knowing tech these decisions were probably made by a series of mid level managers sufficiently sucking the air out of the room until a critical mass was hit to make this happen

1000%

I'm sure a bunch of bean counters were involved as well.

Not necessarily. They still get money from selling user data. So they likely still care about losing users who use adblocking to at least some degree.

It is the exact same topic

When a rival cartel gets weakened, there is less supply with the same demand. So another cartel will always use that to raise their prices. So the market never goes away.

I think the "weird" attribution has a way of infecting his supporters as well.

If you support a criminal, that doesn't necessarily make you a criminal. If you support a corrupt politician, that doesn't make you a corrupt politician.

But if you support somebody weird? Well that makes you weird. Trump's weirdness infects you. It's the cheese touch of politics.

Not really. Just as killing a person doesn't kill an ideology, killing a person also doesn't kill the profit motives for cartels.

If anything it makes the problem worse. Because you've suddenly freed up territory in a very lucrative black market.

The solution to the drug problem is to instead kill the motivations people have for doing the drugs in the first place:

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-teach-us-about-addiction

This means fixing the housing crisis, guaranteeing people jobs, food, water, shelter, and medical support. It means embracing harm reduction policy. It means ending the war on drugs.

Drug use is a symptom of an unhealthy society. Fix the health of society and the symptoms will disappear, and with it the cartels as well.

Even the popular vote gets fucked up thanks to the electoral college though. Blue voters in red states have little incentive to show up to the polls because of the EC.

Without it those voters would have more turn out.

One could hope that the designs get leaked and the tech becomes widely available without the corporate shitbags.

It may be worth doing more distro hoping. It sometimes takes a few to get it right for your needs/use case.

It's because the country has a long history of treating disabled people like shit. This country literally gave the germans the inspiration to do eugenics shit.

Fuck the polls, go vote

They'll say both. Cognitive dissonance isn't a problem for Trump voters.