yogthos

yogthos, 7 months ago

Germans 🤝 genocide

yogthos, 7 months ago

Pretty on point, given what the burger empire is doing in the Middle East right now.

yogthos, 8 months ago

Nordic countries have enjoyed a high standard of living built on the brutal colonial exploitation of the global majority.

yogthos, 8 months ago

A great deal of western economy runs on exploitation of Latin America and Africa where western companies commit crimes against humanity on the daily basis.

To say the US democratic model or the Middle Eastern monarchy model are predicated on imperialism would be far more accurate.

Scandinavians are part of the US empire, and Scandinavian companies are directly involved in exploitation happening in developing countries. US does provide the military might to back this exploitation to be sure, but the resource and labour extraction is done by all western countries.

The benefit of the Scandinavian model is in how it delivers professional health care and education labor. That’s the primary appeal of the system and it has nothing to do with cheap foreign imports.

Except that it does since Scandinavia is not a closed economy. This the whole point here, much of the labor needed to make Scandinavia run happens in the countries the empire subjugates. You have to look at this in a holistic fashion accounting for all the labor needed to make these economies operate as opposed to just the labor that happens domestically.

Success of social democracy is not predicated on the success of a consumerist market economy. Cuba is an excellent counterexample. It implements a raft of policies that are comparable to Scandinavian social services and reaps enormous economic benefits despite being entirely cut off from imperialist trade and cheap labor.

Sure, the positive aspects of Scandinavian economies aren’t exclusive to Scandinavia, and Cuba is indeed a far more principled example of socialist policies in action.

yogthos, 8 months ago

meanwhile in the real world

• telesurenglish.net/…/Scandinavias-Covert-Role-in-…
• scroll.in/…/hitchhiking-imperialism-the-case-of-s…
• theguardian.com/…/aid-in-reverse-how-poor-countri…
• aljazeera.com/…/the-dark-side-of-the-nordic-model

yogthos, 8 months ago

People of Gaza are so lucky that it’s the lesser of the two evils facilitating their genocide.

yogthos, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

LMFAO imagine only including a single US president, no Thatcher, no Churchill 🤡

yogthos, 8 months ago

turns out that most people are totally fine with trading their privacy for a bit of convenience

yogthos, 9 months ago

While the system does select for psychopathic behaviors, it’s not a meritocracy because you don’t need to be exceptional at being ruthless, greedy, selfish, egotistical, ignorant, arrogant, immoral, unethical and wicked to become enormously wealthy. There are plenty of deplorable people who never make it big under capitalism. It’s mostly just a birth lottery. People who are lucky enough to be born into money, who end up having family connections, and are plugged into the oligarchy are the ones who statistically make it.

And there are actual studies showing that luck is the major factor

• …scientificamerican.com/…/the-role-of-luck-in-lif…
• lisc.org/…/opportunity-atlas-shows-effect-childho…

yogthos, 9 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/534f6732-07d0-4acc-bd2b-352dce73abdc.png

the look of Biden when being called out on participating in a genocide

yogthos, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

somebody needs to get Emacs running directly on top of GNUHurd and we’ll have the ideal GNU operating system

yogthos, 9 months ago

The incentive to oversell the capabilities of AI and market it as being more than what it is stem directly from capitalism though.

yogthos, 9 months ago

A lot more than I’d trust capitalist leaders that’s for sure.

yogthos, 9 months ago

Communism is fundamentally a democratic system. The whole point of communism is that the majority is in charge. Maybe learn what communism is?

yogthos, 9 months ago

Thanks for letting us know you’re seething and coping dronie.

yogthos, 9 months ago

It’s funny how upset it makes people when you point out the elephant in the room.

yogthos, 9 months ago

Ah yes, red states like Minnesota and New Jersey. 🤡

yogthos, 9 months ago

You’re right, ultimately both sects are fundamentally rooted in liberal ideology. I just wanted to clarify that I was talking about the blue liberals specifically in my reply.

yogthos, 9 months ago

no, I mean mean US democrat liberals and the link I provided shows that child labor restrictions are being loosened in both red and blue states

yogthos, 10 months ago

I’m not saying we’re just going to abolish work, but we absolutely could be working far less if we structured our society differently. We’ve had an explosion of automation since the industrial revolution, yet people still work just as much as they ever did. A lot of the jobs we have are just make work jobs. There’s a whole book on the subject even.

Also, the way we do things under capitalism is dreadfully inefficient. Nearly half of the food produced is just thrown out, lots of new goods are sent directly to landfills to keep pries up, there’s shit like planned obsolescence. All to keep the consumerist society going so that a handful of oligarchs can keep raking it in. Not only does this create shitty living conditions for the majority, it’s also fundamentally unsustainable and what’s driving the current climate crisis.

The focus of a socialist government should be to ensure that the purpose of work is to produce things that we need collectively such as infrastructure, food, housing, healthcare, and so on. Producing things should be seen as a cost to society, and we should focus on making things that last and can be repaired. Consumerism needs to be abolished.

yogthos, 10 months ago

Unfortunately, it might also be the spring of fascism there.

yogthos, 10 months ago

It’s so adorable how many Americans think that the oligarchs they support are different.

yogthos, 10 months ago

That’s just one of countless examples from a two seconds of googling. It’s the height of intellectual dishonesty to try and frame it as an isolated incident.

yogthos, 10 months ago

Sure, that’s the real economy, but the way the west measures it is largely based on how the stock market is doing.

yogthos, 10 months ago

I find it funny how the only problem people see with Twitter is that the wrong oligarch owns it. The real issue is with reliance on privately owned social spaces. Corporations shouldn’t be in charge of how people communicate with each other.