First off, capitalist power structures invented police - which means that everything police does is tied up with capitalism straight off the bat.
Second, just because something has been declared illegal does not make that thing immoral - and police doing something that is legal does not make the police any less inherently immoral. The fact that the police is doing the patriarchy's bidding by policing women's bodies in this way is about as immoral as it gets.
Third, you could argue that the women in question shouldn't have admitted this information to the police in the first place - but that ignores the conditions under which these women were probably interrogated.
Fourth, capitalist institutions will inevitably always side with the power structures that protect the status quo - it doesn't matter how many "Woman's Day" marketing they put up... at the end of the day, they will side with the patriarchy and enable it's violence - as you can see with the link I provided to you in my first response.
The US propaganda complex is the most spectacularly successful propaganda effort to ever exist - even modern-day China have zero hopes of even approaching it.
The entire political establishment here in South Africa has essentially decided that poor immigrants from the rest of Africa and the middle-east are acceptable scapegoats for everything going on here... they aren't doing it as openly as politicians in the rest of the world, though. Not yet, anyway.
No. We wouldn't. The labor would simply be spent on that which people find important.
Nobody’s going to grow crops for you out of the goodness
Says who? PragerU?
That’s why capitalism exists in the first place.
No, Clyde... that's not it. Maybe don't extrapolate your politics from Civilization games, okay?
That has already been attempted several times
Yes, it has... and everywhere it was tried it was destroyed by fascists, capitalists and other power-hoarders because they were afraid it might work. For instance, Catalonia in the middle 30s and Ukraine in the early 20s.
Machines may yet solve this problem for us,
No, they won't.
and we’ve got the history to prove it.
Alt-history doesn't actually count as real history.
No, it isn't. We have more labor on this planet that we would know what to do with if we stopped repressing it in order to keep a small group of billionaire parasites in the money.
and a technological Holy Grail is required to bridge that gap.
Absolutely not... there is nothing humans would need that we couldn't produce in spades using already existing methods. The heinous abuse and mismanagement of human resources in our current mode of production does not require techno-fetishizing non-solutions - it requires a social solution. Hence, socialism.
I'm afraid not - goon squads around the world still has tons of chemical weapons for use against pesky protests. And then we're not talking about all the toxic stuff they use during colonialist wars under the thin pretext of "defoliants"...
We already live in a "post-scarcity" world... there is absolutely nothing humans could need that we couldn't grow or produce. All the scarcity you see around you is artificially created and maintained - and that means socialism is far, far from obsolete.
You've got a point there... Robert Heinlein's books were so fashy that Verhoeven decided the only way Starship Troopers could be turned into a film was if it was done as satire.
Is that the "politically correct" term for fascists these days?