Atlas667

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by Atlas667 1y ago
Thats not the world we live in though. Most of the world, like 90%+, is verifiably poor and struggling. Every year the world economic organizations (all of em) pump out metrics about people coming out of poverty, but these are political and
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I think there are a bunch of assumptions in your take. There are billions of us. We cannot all be capitalists and start our own businesses. Literally 100 years ago American socialists like Olive Johnson were already pointing out how the pro
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by Atlas667 1y ago
> Looking back at 2025 we'll be saying "Remember when they said everyone would lose their jobs to AI..." Even if... one would think that a capitalist economy would do great with more and capable workers. One would think th
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Ah, this is what i come to Hacker News for: out-of-touch rich people figuring out how to escape the influence created by out-of-touch rich people. I agree in general tho. There are billions of us subject to this private facade of public pla
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Text is better together with specific formats like Circa, ranges, exact years or dates, and unknown.
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"I feel like something is missing in my life" > Thinking... > Have you ever had that energetic and refreshing feeling after a Baja Blast(TM)?
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Cool and terrifying proof of concept, it's public info at the very least.
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Nearly all the countries that support cartels are capitalists. Venezuela is a progressive reformist state with many many capitalists. The reason why its considered a rogue state in your capitalist media is that it wont play ball with the am
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Damn, dude. Dont embarass yourself. You have no idea what socialism is. If you dont know of any murderous actions on behalf of transnational capitalist entities and states I suggest you read any modern history. From the invasions and massac
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I dont defend mass executions or even the mistakes of communism. Mismanagement and murder is inexcusable. But i do not see them as inherent to socialism, but as product of their times. Conveniently you dont mention any of the mass execution
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To laud Afghan mujahideen with their verified acid attacks on women is insane on your part. Afghanistan was a monarchy before the people overthrew their monarchs for socialism and before the americans funded their extremists, who you praise
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lol, marketing knows no bounds. Almost like its all emotional-level gimmicks anyways. If I see "No AI bullshit" I'd be as skeptical if it said "AI Inside". Corpos tryina squeeze a buck will resort to any and all man
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Most non-democratic countries that exist are capitalist countries. Even the ones you're probably thinking about are capitalist, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Sudan, etc. All capitalists. Capitalism creates authoritar
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The problem with fake socialists is that they suggest solutions that do not fix the fundamental problem with democracies. That there isn't democracy. How will higher taxes guarantee that they will be used appropriately? How are the peo
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Never took a politics class. There are dozens and dozens of books outlining revolutionary experience of different peoples. I can't tell you all of it cause I haven't read every single one, and for the ones I have read this isn&#x2
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Maybe to you cause you've never read about actual revolutions. Like I said, a lot of this actually happened. Its word salad cause you're probably used to reading fiction. Take the state and distribute its functions across organize
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The Khmer Rouge were not communists. China, the CIA, and MI6 backed them solely because they were against the NVA. They were tools. And they severely lacked an ideological backbone which is why shit go so bad in Cambodia. It was fascism. Li
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lol, you've made no argument yet you act like you have presented something here. Corporations already fund some politicians and judges whole careers. Corporations fund the policy groups within popular political parties. They fund the p
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by Atlas667 1y ago
Can you point me to the critique you mention? Also I mean "what it looks like" to you is kind of irrelevant because we really do not live in a democracy but it probably looks like one to you. Are you OK that your country aids in t
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What do you mean? I'm literally going off of historical realities. Shit like this actually happened and not even that long ago. It sounds like you've been Americanized in such a way as to see social change impossible. You've
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If Pol Pot was a Marxist why did Vietnam (Marxist) fight against Pol Pot? I'll tell you. Pol Pot was never a communist. He was an anti-intellectual who himself said he had never read Marx and said he admired Hitler. Western Nations cla
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Mass starvation was very, very common in that region of Asia. Refer to this link, but of course dig more into them to learn more. Wikipedia is like average-tier knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_i
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Marxist theories arent just floating in space they are grounded studies. Marx's Capital is actually a very well written piece of research, fully cited with notes for each citation. The dude was a proffessor. Lenins books are research p
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Usually selecting is something like .class.subclass:nth-child(4). Which will sometimes block what you want, but not always since they switch their layout so much. You need conditions. Its really finnicky to get right and I usually want to b
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Im the person he replied to, check this: "So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state." Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917) So, the goal is that the people must become the stat
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Regulations themselves are not bad, but regulations without changing any of the power/property relations in society politically means NOTHING for the masses (you and I are part of the masses btw). You are doing wishful thinking. The wo
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Then why it's so pertinent that capitalist countries waste billions fighting it wherever it arises? More murder and war has been perpetrated as part of anti-Marxism than any other cause in history. - The Vietnam "War" (Genoci
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This may sound rude, but "democratic socialism" is just wishful thinking. How can regulations stop corruption? Is that really your best bet? I'm a socialist because I know you can't stop it that way. It's simply imp
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> The form of capitalism that existed when Marx wrote his thing, stopped being used in most places around the Great Depression era. The type of capitalism Marx described is alive and well. It exists in the undeveloped parts of the world,
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I've tried adding rules to ublock origin but sites like youtube and many others now have "component obfuscation". Meaning there is no unique ID on their components/elements and it makes it much harder to target. And some

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