What’s stopping him is “civility politics,” even when he’s been handed a path to thoroughly purge corruption and fascism from the supreme court, he won’t.

The GOP has shown they do not care at all about civility, and will abuse this rule.

To not play by the same rules when people’s lives are at stake is a deep moral failure, and shows that politics are simply a game for them.

Lemmy is a federated Reddit-style Social Media platform like Mastadon is to Twitter/X.

Your instance should be one focused on that which interests you, like Lemmy.ml for FOSS and Privacy, or programming.dev for programming, etc. Shop around and find one with a good community you like that is federated with instances you also like. This means your Local Feed will have your interests.

You want one that is federated with other instances you want to see, so you can browse All for general content.

Finally, you can manually create your own feed by subscribing to communities you want, and browsing by Subscribed.

1. Why are people stupid and lazy? Is this a new thing? Why are conditions worsening?

2. Correct.

3. Correct.

4. Kinda vibes-based but strikes the target. It’s less that lying is encouraged, but that profit drives the system and money greases its wheels. Follow the dollar.

Kind of. American Proletarians have a unique position of enjoying the benefits of a super-exploited class of domestic immigrants paid lower wages via threat of deportation, and Imperialistic hegemony, but are also enslaved by vast amounts of debt. This is very different from standard Capitalism, but not quite feudalism. It depresses the revolutionary potential of the American Proletariat for as long as Imperialism is the status quo.

What problems are there with the solutions he gives? Welfare Capitalism solves none of the problems with Capitalism Marx describes.

In what manner has Marx been wrong? Where in the history of Marxism has democracy not been core to the central ideas of it, especially when compared to Capitalism?

The question then is, why do people choose the way they do, both when buying and when running a company? To me it seems, they don’t because of some external pressure (like monarchy requires).

The ideas that people have are shaped by their Material Conditions, and people generally act in their best interests. People will buy what is available in the market, and Capitalists work to accumulate more and more money in an M-C-M’ circuit.

The point can be summed up as a question: Why don’t people run (more) non-capitalist services and productions, and why don’t they prefer them when looking to satisfy their demand?

These are 2 questions.

1. People generally don’t run Socialist services as frequently because in the framework of Capitalism, it is excessively difficult to gain the Capital necessary to start one, and furthermore the people with access to Capital continue to act in their own interests and accumulate more profit off of ownership.

2. People do not care where their commodities come from, largely, as they work for their income and thus their access is limited by the money they have.

These non-capitalist things exist, it’s certainly possible. But as far as I know, they are all very niche. Like a communal kitchen, some solidary agriculture or housing project. Heck, entire villages of this kind exist.

This is known as Mutual Aid, which is a big cornerstone of Anarchism. The issue is that Anarchism generally relies on individuals making the right decisions due to their horizontal structures and has issues with scaling horizontally. These structures tend to have great success locally, such as Food Not Bombs feeding people, but without strong organization scaling becomes difficult and action becomes unfocused.

So the alternative is there, but it requires actual commitment and work. I don’t see how capitalism could be abolished in an armed uprising (in contrast to monarchy). But it can be replaced by alternative projects. Partially. Why are they so small and few?

Why don’t you think Capitalism could be abolished via revolution? It’s been done before.

Secondly, it is not simply capable of being replaced entirely via parallel systems because that depends on individuals outcompeting the immense resources of the Bourgeoisie. It’s certainly possible at a local level, but at a state level takes enourmous power and unity.

Read Marx, everyone.

I don’t think many people here are rich or think they are smart just because they use Lemmy.

Homophobia, racism, ableism, and more racism, lmao.

Guess Joe Rogan is too progressive for you, maybe Ben Shapiro or Nick Fuentes is more your speed?

Not even Australian myself lol

To be fair, that’s just Lemmy.world in general at this point in time. It’s only gotten worse.

Yes, pyongyang propaganda from a pair of aussies touching grass.

I think you need to take your own advice and stop watching Joe Rogan.

Not voting at all for your leadership isn’t democracy.

They do, though.

Besides all of this, China hasn’t even gotten rid of capitalism anyway. So they’re not only a dictatorship but they’re also practically a fascist one with worker aesthetics.

China has elections, so not sure why you’re calling “fascist,” it’s closer to a Social Democracy.

Half of the shit we buy in America is made in China by wage slaves who cannot advocate for themselves under threat of being carried off to jail or executed.

Mind finding some sources of this happening?

All in all, you’re deeply goofy. It’s like you believe everything the US state department says.

Try watching a video of two guys going to North Korea to get a haircut.

You do realize you’ve moved the goal posts over time, right? Flawed democracy is still democracy, and if you’re going to pretend it isn’t then we have to agree that the US isn’t a democracy either.

2019, I believe. Wikipedia has the results.

George W. Bush

Lmao

America is a one party dictatorship, and in typical American extravagence, it has two of them.

Not even checking the links? It’s wikipedia, lol

The USSR, PRC, Cuba, and DPRK all hold elections and practice(ed) some form of democracy.

They were not structured like Capitalist elections, but nonetheless had and have elections.

Social Democracy depends on Imperialism and Capitalism in the global north, is inherently unsustainable, and sees sliding of worker protections and rights over time, just like what happened following the New Deal in America. Reading theory makes it clear why.

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