Our tax money when they inevitably screw a whole market over. So socialism
Edit: you all think I’m shitting on socialism, when I guess I was failing to tie together how capitalists will enjoy socializing their loses, but never socializing benefits to society.
Socialism is not the government giving money to capitalists. It is not paying for the cops to get tanks. It is not having an army.
It is not even universal healthcare. That is just a government service you’ve been gaslit into thinking is socialism.
Socialism is the workers owning the means of production. End.
Now, if the government had bailed out the financial firms or car manufacturers and turned them into worker co-ops, maybe that would be socialism, but they didn’t.
How does that work when all of the production happens in other countries now? Is there some scenario where we have a socialist white collar economy? All the rhetoric surrounding Communism fits a blue collar economy where production is still the key driver of the economy. Most “1st world” economies these days are service economies not production economies. Is there some literature on how Communism fits in with a service economy?
The answer is why the fascists turned “globalism” into a dogwhistle. It’s quite simple: You don’t do that. You liberate those workers too, through whatever means work.
Socialism is by necessity a globalist ideology. It doesn’t do your commune any real good if you buy all your necessities from a slave labor camp.
An injury to one is an injury to all, workers of the world unite, etc etc etc. You must reject the principles of nationalism, or at least principles of non-interference, or you end up merely outsourcing the exploitation.
Owning the means of production can also be seen as owning the business collectively. So in a service model business, like say a restaurant, instead of the owner taking in profits and paying the workers less money, all the workers split those profits evenly.
Communism can only be truly global. You can have worker coops in a servive economy, which is a form of Socialism, but depending on the production outsourced in Capitalist manners means the economy overall contributes to global Capitalism, which can eventually take on the character of Imperialism.
Most 1st world economies are in fact Imperialist, they cannot exist in the manner they do without hyper-exploitation of the global south.
I felt so sorry for retail workers when I read a sign on a store that said they weren’t the ones making the rules and harassing them over it will result in a ban.
I couldn’t even imagine the shit they’ve been through at this point.
I had a chair thrown at me at work because I told a father he couldn’t pull said chair up to the table because they were all replaced specifically to be 2m away and they weren’t allowed to be changed.
Told off an old guy who was waiting in line at a grocery store during covid. I was directly behind him. This fuck actually had the audacity to call the store from the line, request a manager, and then told that manager over the phone that they had better do something about it or he would.
I went and watched it. All of it is accurate, really surreal he went with a Houston deep cut. He’s been at this so long that Beavis & Butthead made fun of him back in the 90’s.
Of course. He’s the tough, smart lawyer who gets results.
Granted, I grew up in DFW and those commercials of his I watched in between episodes of Gomer Pyle, Hogans Heroes, I Dream of Jeannie, and Bewitched on KTVT Channel 11 (Fort Worth/Dallas) on days I stayed home sick are forever and indelibly etched into my memory.
To be fair, this could be very make or break for Google. If someone else solves AI search properly, and they can’t catch up, it would be really bad for them. G+/Facebook were another market completely so it wasn’t really taking any of their current market share.
How odd that it’s only old men! Being that minorities, women and LGBT people are the largest gun buying demographic, you would think they’d be carrying as well.
I understand your sentiment but please don’t put words in my mouth. The topic of the meme was old men, I talked about old men. I know lots of women and minorities and other disenfranchised groups that are armed as well. And young men, but honestly few demographics are more armed than old men in my arsa. Also I have lived in many different places than where I’m living now.
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