Br00ses 🐇
OrangutanI do feel pretty anti-imperialist, so I can get down with the commies on that
It also seems pretty clear that whatever stage of capitalism we're in now in the US is not ideal
I don't think I'm really against the idea of markets and money, but the constant drive to squeeze the maximum amount of cash out of consumers while offering the lowest quality product possible seems like it can't go on forever
Not to mention the growing wealth gap and increasing power of the individuals with the money
idk I certainly don't have the answer for it. Things could be worse, and I'm definitely thankful for the position that I'm in.
I feel like their hearts are in the right place and I agree with a lot of their opinions I am just not sure how they would expect us to ever reach a point where how they want it to work is actually how it works
- Br00ses 🐇
We kinda missed the boat on that
- Br00ses 🐇
The gap is too big their bombs are too tough their guns are too strong
·2 repliesBr00sesIdk how that plays out in their minds
Even the people who do have all the guns aren't communists
I respect the energy but it's like a first grader preaching to the other first graders about how they should just fight their teachers but the teachers are all professional mma fighters
yup
and the first graders are like “we will educate ourselves! and create our own school” lol
- ·1 replyOrangutan
I do feel pretty anti-imperialist, so I can get down with the commies on that
It also seems pretty clear that whatever stage of capitalism we're in now in the US is not ideal
I don't think I'm really against the idea of markets and money, but the constant drive to squeeze the maximum amount of cash out of consumers while offering the lowest quality product possible seems like it can't go on forever
Not to mention the growing wealth gap and increasing power of the individuals with the money
idk I certainly don't have the answer for it. Things could be worse, and I'm definitely thankful for the position that I'm in.
there are loads of solutions to those problems though that have a much, much higher chance of working out than a revolution tho!
and the usa is an oligopoly funded by war, its not a good example of what capitalism with proper guardrails could be.
in the present day, unless we go back to bartering goods and double coincidence of wants, money will always be nescesary.
- ·1 replyturntout
yup
and the first graders are like “we will educate ourselves! and create our own school” lol
I wanna be a custom funko pop painter after the revolution
- Br00ses 🐇·1 replyturntout
yup
and the first graders are like “we will educate ourselves! and create our own school” lol
I can say with confidence that I am not a fighter
If there's a revolution I'm at most hiding
More likely I'm going with the winning team
- Br00ses
I can say with confidence that I am not a fighter
If there's a revolution I'm at most hiding
More likely I'm going with the winning team
if there was a revolution i would probably immeditaly get ptsd and go into psychosis.
- Orangutan
I wanna be a custom funko pop painter after the revolution
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my hot take is all the pro communist stuff online is a psyop from the us government to fracture the discourse of people who are just anti imperialism by radicalizing people
- ·1 replyturntout
there are loads of solutions to those problems though that have a much, much higher chance of working out than a revolution tho!
and the usa is an oligopoly funded by war, its not a good example of what capitalism with proper guardrails could be.
in the present day, unless we go back to bartering goods and double coincidence of wants, money will always be nescesary.
yeah like I said I don't have an aversion to the concept of markets and money
my opinion on this stuff means next to nothing though
- ·1 replyOrangutan
yeah like I said I don't have an aversion to the concept of markets and money
my opinion on this stuff means next to nothing though
same with mine!
and also pretty much every single person who talks about it online lol
- ·1 replyturntout
same with mine!
and also pretty much every single person who talks about it online lol
Sure, I'm just saying you seem to have a better handle on this stuff than I do
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I'm just gonna keep buying my trinkets until something happens
- Orangutan
Sure, I'm just saying you seem to have a better handle on this stuff than I do
i appreciate it, but ive really only done a few introduction to economics and business courses for electives. thats like the extent of my understanding. certantly nothing people should take at face value
- Orangutan
I'm just gonna keep buying my trinkets until something happens
- Br00ses 🐇·1 replyturntout
my hot take is all the pro communist stuff online is a psyop from the us government to fracture the discourse of people who are just anti imperialism by radicalizing people
They are being brainwashed by Russian government to support the eventual robot Putin takeover
- Br00ses
They are being brainwashed by Russian government to support the eventual robot Putin takeover
hmmm
this could be it
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we can all agree putin a badass though
what do you have to be made of to rise through the ranks of the kgb and become the dictator of like the second most powerful country in the world. one that doesnt even have real elections.
truly insane he really is a sociopath genius
he could kill me with his hands tied behind his back, even if i had a drone strike team
They start typnng paragraphs late at night itt and my eyes go cross
- turntout
we can all agree putin a badass though
what do you have to be made of to rise through the ranks of the kgb and become the dictator of like the second most powerful country in the world. one that doesnt even have real elections.
truly insane he really is a sociopath genius
he could kill me with his hands tied behind his back, even if i had a drone strike team
Idk anythng about him but i know theres meme of him walkk g down hall way looking cool. I thnk i could over throw him though
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we can all agree putin a badass though
what do you have to be made of to rise through the ranks of the kgb and become the dictator of like the second most powerful country in the world. one that doesnt even have real elections.
truly insane he really is a sociopath genius
he could kill me with his hands tied behind his back, even if i had a drone strike team
xi jinping lived in a cave and lifted like 100 million out of poverty, authoritarianism be damned
crazy that their biggest problem seems to be getting too much dip on their chip with hard pushing education, leading to a younger generation that's overeducated and parents that refuse to let their kids become a "laborer"
Pretty sure they deadass banned tutors like 5 years ago and now there's a black market for tutoring because parents are still that competitive
So now you have a bunch of young people with degrees that worked their asses off with nothing to show for it, and a plunging birthrate because having kids is so expensive and the young people are already demoralized
Or at least thats my cursory understanding of it
·3 repliesDidnt know chinese had presidents thought they has emperors
·1 replyCutiePieHoleDidnt know chinese had presidents thought they has emperors
- CutiePieHole
Didnt know chinese had presidents thought they has emperors
Now that's mf that grew up in a cave