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I mean yes, I love airshows, but there's something about a mass celebration of these machines of death where a crowd gathered for a completely unrelated purpose gets to see the last thing an afghan child at a wedding sees gives ick in a way that normal airshows, even with all the military recruitment and propaganda don't.

It doesn't even apply to all flyovers, sometimes it's like F-14s or Chinooks or WWII era planes where the message isn't so dark.

Does anyone else also fly bombers and fighter jets over stadiums at the start of a game? Do you take 2-5 minutes to honor some guys in the military during half time?

A cubic centimeter is ~150th of a modern nuclear weapon's core. U-235 production accounts for every single gram, plutonium is even stricter.

I literally listed countries where you wouldn't be meaningfully contributing to the system.

Periphery countries still contribute to the system; the US doesn't have military bases in most of those countries by happenstance, but because keeping them in that position benefits the bourgeoisie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory

To be clear, the answer isn't to say everything is futile and hopeless, it's to participate in organizations which don't contribute to the system and build duel power within these countries, or just move to non-capitalist countries.

They do increase the monetary supply though, in 2008 it was .9 trillion, in 2020 it was 6.4T, and now it's 5.6T.

Turns out inflation doesn't quite work the way most economics courses teach. That may be related to the way billionaires fund a lot of university's economics departments.

stop working for those billionaires

There is only a few countries you can move to that allows you to not contribute to those billionaires.

I'm not saying that fleeing the US isn't a good idea.

That’s money (ideally) used to benefit everyone.

Not really; the federal government prints money; they don't tax you to fund programs, they tax you to reduce the monetary supply.

State governments do have to be funded though.

I am not talking about taxes, I am talking about the profit the capitalists make off your labor. The trillion dollar media empire OP is talking about, Fox News, CNN, Reddit, twitter, etc aren't funded by your taxes, though they are subservient to the state department.

Not to say that dodging federal taxes isn't either good or neutral, but the problem isn't specific to this administration.

Where are you living that the wealth you create doesn't end up in the hands of billionaires who then spend it on propaganda to convince you and others that that is just?

Cuba? Vietnam? Laos? China?

If you're working for a wage while they reap the profit or subject to market forces they dictate, they're taking your money.

Lets test that: 🧀

Are you a woman now?

https://www.akiya-mart.com/explore

Let us know if you end up doing something like this, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be interested in how it turns out.

Do you remember the title of that video? Even if it's got concrete floors and walls you're not allowed to cut, I'm surprised if you can't improve it enough to sell for more than 4K.

They saw "Look at all the cool technology capitalism is going to bring us!" instead of "Holy shit capitalism will use this amazing technology to make everything worse".

Territories are still citizens, who can vote when they reside in states. If 2-3% of Canada immigrated, that's 1 million people, which would shift the balance in a lot of places.

Of course, even if you shifted 10 seats in the Senate, the democrats would probably give republicans half the budget and let them write their own bills in the name of bipartisanship (again), and you'd quickly become as hopeless as the average american is in the democrats helping them.

Thank you, I will.

Pulls up a chair and starts eating off your plate

Communism isn't when everyone lives like a farmer from 200 BC.

Unironically though, you can see the same pattern going all the way back to Rome.[Michal Parenti's The Assassination of Julius Caesar]

Something about the history of all hitherto existing society being the history of class struggles.

The Khmer Rouge was never socialist, they were some weird feudal ideology, hence why the CIA supported them and the US recognized them as the legitimate government of Cambodia for like 30 years after Vietnam liberated them and put an actual socialist government in power.

Russia hasn't been socialist since 1992; Putin's Russia is what happens when you overthrow a democratic state run by the workers for the workers with a vibrant, multiparty capitalist "democracy".

“Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is more democratic than the US; the average Chinese person feels they have far greater influence on the government than the average American. They tend to be confused why Americans hate and fear the police and why we aren't able to vote for politicians who will fix the problem.

There's also Cuba, who had a referendum on a new constitution a few years ago. After years of debate at the community level, they came up with a final draft that 92% of Cubans voted yes on. Could you imagine if we had that level of influence over our own government?

See the thing you're missing is that the communist parties of these countries themselves democratic; they're typically structured such that every member above the rank-and-file is elected, with instant recall and "give us a better candidate" options.