rivermonster @ rivermonster @lemmy.world

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We could use all the money the red states cost us. They're the majority of the taker states getting way more back in federal dollars than they send.

I'm all for offering relocation assistance.

I'm glad you're past capitalism bad. But it's a critical message that the majority don't get. For example, in the US we have two capitalist parties with nearly identical fiscal policies. There's no party to vote for that isn't the problem with respect to fiscal policy and economic principles.

Thus, one thing you can do is work on the people who don't understand all the problems we have that are the direct result of capitalism. Sharing information, helping them understand the linkages between their day to day struggles, and thst our system is literally the root of it.

Another is to join or found a labor union at your workplace. There is a lot of opportunity to organize and get people involved.

If you're more just looking for how to prepare for the likely collapse, there are groups like the SRS Socialist Rifle Association. There's every possibility that capitalism will collapse the US.

You can join a third party or the democratic local group around you and try to move their policies and stances to the left and away from capitalism. I personally don't have a lot of faith in the system atm. But I prefer anything to collapse and possible civil war.

You could even google this stuff yourself? I think I've been really generous on your "I'm angry, spoon feed me." If you don't mean it that way, then take it as constructive criticism.

Ugh, this kind of shit is how civil wars start.

I would love for that to be the case! It's been too long since I've had any dealings in Southern VA to know. I'm glad to hear it's getting better.

Virginia will split up. NOVA will make the right decision. Richmond will wait for a new Sherman to come along and teach it to behave.

Do your history homework. Originally strong ally to the PLO and Arafat and evolved into tight relations with Hamas.

When corporations capture the government, the 737 MAX happens.

Actually, you make my point. Without regulation that was outside the hands of capitalists, they wouldn't have been grounded. Capitalism only cares about profits. Thank hell, that there are a few regulations left, right?

It doesn't do that. What you see is a giant dopamine hit to your confirmation bias. And the motivation of a bad actor attempting to abuse the courbts for political reasons is important.

Like I said, you're the target audience, it's just to rial up all the alt-left and get em circlejerking the upvotes on Lemmy and radicalized further the gullible.

I think genocide is not acceptable. I think the misuse of it by you and others is reprehensible and diminishes the term. I think you don't seem to know what genocide is or looks like. There are historical examples, and you could learn a lot.

Economically, yes, they're identical capitalists. The right is more fascists and racist and awful. But the dems don't fix anything when in power, which is why we've slid right for 60+ years. Dems = slow slide right, GOP = Fast slide right. Their paychecks are all signed by the same people, which is why their economic policies are nearly identical.

That happens all the time. They either fly the kid someplace or just have a private doctor, not keep a record. Laws for thee not for me.

Lots of things, you never privatize critical services like water, electricity, and healthcare. And if you do privatize it, you do so with strong regulation.

You focus on worker co-ops and never allow a company to have less than 50% of the board of the directors made up of workers (see Germany), this helps prevent short-term vulture capitalism.

You never allow private business to capture the legislature and literally hand laws to the congress they own who blindly passes it, the main way things happen in a dystopia like Murica.

Just realized I'm likely feeding the troll.... you can do some reading, I've given you a starting place. You can Google democratic socialism as well, which might help as a general starting point.

Imagine a violent, hateful maga person. Now put them on the left politically and make their focus anti-israel, anti-Jewish, or pro-Hamas. Give them blue Make Hamas Great Again baseball caps, if it helps.

Agree with you 100%.

It's been a terrible wakeup call as I'm left on most things and have no place in almost any left group at the moment with their rabid mindless hate frenzy. I'm anti-capitalist, atheist, pro bodily autonomy, an ally of lgbtq+....

But in general, all the bulk of these people can do is read whatever Hamas has Al Jazeera publish and knee-jerk, or learn one fact about 100+ years of conflict and think they know the score. Literally 99% of their historical claims are disprovable quickly and easily--super low effort. When it comes to history, they're Dunning-Kruger masters.

I think it's also that the bulk of the nutters are kids 18-24 and this is the first time they've really paid attention to war and how fucking awful it is in every way. These horrors are going on everywhere, and they're just too dumb or ignorant and are way past their ability to comprehend.

There are a lot of wars and war crimes and more going on. But when I look at their post and comment history, this the only thing they cry about, not Haiti, not DRC, not Ukraine, etc. This one is just really shiney for them because Jews, because it's DEFINITELY not based on principals.

Honestly, they look like Hamas MAGA to me these days. Just mindless hate machines.

You know this is world news, right? LOL, this group lives for clickbait and propaganda.

Take my upvote.

Capitalism views maintenance as an expense, not revenue-in.