volodya_ilich @ volodya_ilich @lemm.ee

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I hope solar eventually beats ICE engines for efficiency

I'm not sure your comment makes a lot of sense. The problem with solar isn't that it's not as efficient as internal combustion engines, it's that you can't generate electricity on-demand. But it's already a cheaper form of energy than burning fossil fuels in many countries.

Because of the implications and reasons of "what seems to be an authoritarian regime" for a European/American citizen might be very far-removed from the truth.

https://nlginternational.org/2024/07/national-lawyers-guild-report-election-monitoring-delegation-to-the-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/

There were 800+ international observers in the election who found no irregularities, the opposition claimed to have won "with 70% of the vote" without providing any evidence for it, and while it's suspicious that the government still didn't release the election acts because of a claim of "getting hacked", that doesn't give the opposition the right to call for violent protests against election results in a strikingly similar fashion to what happened in Jan 6th in the USA.

Why are y'all forgetting that there were over 800 international observers in the elections?

https://nlginternational.org/2024/07/national-lawyers-guild-report-election-monitoring-delegation-to-the-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/

You guys supporting armed protestors against the election results before the final election acts are released, are supporting something strikingly similar to USA's Jan 6th assault on Capitol. It's good to be cautious about the results, but outright calling Venezuela a dictatorship when there's no evidence of interference in the elections is lunacy.

"Half of the western world being transphobic and swallowing lies about someone's gender is totally exclusively Putin's fault! Every problem with society is due to Russian bots!"

As an empire, yes. That doesn't mean we want American people to suffer (I say this as a European who also thinks European imperialist countries should suffer the same fate)

Exactly my point, it hasn't been implemented anywhere because capital will fight tooth and nail against it, and they're, well, the owning class, so they have plenty of power. My point is we can't reform our way into solving social and economic justice and fixing climate change

Please tell us how environmentally friendly bringing infrastructure like internet, roads, electricity, water or garbage disposal to low-population density areas is, and how resource-efficient single family houses are. Go off living your happiest life, mate, just don't preach about the sustainability of it when your eco-footprint is twice that of a city dweller.

As advice: for solar panels to charge an EV, you're gonna need a fuckton of them. An EV battery is easily 50kWh, which means a 10kW solar installation producing full energy for 5 hours (assuming perfect efficiency on conversion). So be ready to buy a lot of panels.

56% of humans live in cities, and this is increasing over time. It's cool that you're the exception who lives kilometers away from the nearest store (poor planning in your village though), but the reality is that by proper city-planning and good public transit investment, most people wouldn't even need to have cars at all.

Wow, 1 megameter for a vehicle weighing 2 megagrams. That's some serious efficiency

Because carrying a 2-ton metal box around you for every single trip you want to do is the least efficient possible way of doing so. Walk places, ride bikes, take trains, minimize car trips and promote carsharing for the occasional trips where cars are actually necessary.

Practical solutions like the ones we've been failing to implement for the past 50 years of erosion of labor rights and welfare state all over the western world?

How does guaranteeing jobs make people any less replaceable

Because there's constantly a labor shortage instead of a pool of millions of unemployed people

Also we have a crises of bs jobs. UBI would help lower it a lot. Guaranteed jobs would make it ten times worse

Why would guaranteed jobs make it worse? Guaranteed jobs could be decided upon (at the very least partially) by local neighborhood councils. Care for children and for old people, cleaning the streets, building new housing... Even if 50% of jobs created were "redundant" (which is impossible), that's still 50% of actual useful labor compared to 0% of UBI

And even then UBI is just another form of maintaining this "unemployed reserve army". Guaranteed jobs for every citizen capable and desiring to work, on exchange for a living wage, would automatically eliminate the people's need to stay at shitty jobs or accepting shitty wages, since they can't be easily replaced; it would increase production of goods and services much more than UBI, therefore tackling possible inflationary tendencies... It's really a much better patch to capitalism than UBI

I don't think oppression of the global south is a valid criticism of Norway

You not thinking so doesn't make it less true. Norway engages in unequal exchange every bit as much as the USA.

used by their representatives in the Party

Nah, mate. Not the USSR nor Cuba were like this. You simply couldn't find wealth disparities in those countries as you can in modern capitalist ones, not even remotely close.

freedom for laborers was indeed a defining feature of capitalism. I'm not sure that puts the OP fighting against that system in a good light

"Not sure fighting against feudalism and saying that in antiquity there was slavery instead puts the fight in a good light"

Anyway, comoditized labor is nearly dead

Do you know what you're talking about? How is commodity-labor nearly dead? What percentage of people engage in free contracts in which they exchange their labor for a wage? I'd say the vast majority.

the 20th century created that entire labor market oligopsony thing. "You'll never work on this city again!" was something so feared that it entered plenty of movies.

Ok? That's not a defining feature of capitalism, ofc some things change but that's not even reflected in any Marxist literature I've read. Why do you insist we're in something fundamentally different? I feel like you haven't read on the topic

No gambling though

If you don't wanna be insulted, don't simp for the oppressors. I'd insult you if you said "I love absolutist monarchy!"

A stock-price bubble is the opposite of a good example in my opinion. Dumb techbros hyping a company to the point where it has a higher capitalization than literal Volkswagen group, because the stock price kept inflating. What percentage of the stock owners of Tesla 4 years ago are the same as nowadays? I'd bet it's low

Whataboutism? Sure, fuck the illegal invasion, but why the need for whataboutism?