Jorunn

That’s not true

?? I am saying that the people who believe in equality also mean equity and justice. Other people who have been conditioned to hate equality misinterpreting it as only being the first image is the thing that annoys me.

I hate the original so much :P

No one who wants equality means that they blindly want to treat people as if they are cardboard copies of each other

Please. Yes ofc the dems are to blame. They suck. And ofc they will lead to fascism down the line. Let’s just not make things worse than they have to in the moment.

One post implied voting blue was voting for fascism, implying you shouldn’t for the dems in the US. My point is that this is shortsighted and harmful. People should vote for the dems unless a third party is a viable alternative, they should also build up third parties to make them viable options, and they should also join political orgs and unionize, and do direct action.

Ofc more than voting is needed, but the republicans are causing more harm than the dems would have by miles and contributing to more voter apathy is not the answer.

Phrased like that it sounds super sinister 👀
or maybe just dramatic?

He did in an earlier post posted shortly before this one, and the title seems to reinforce this. The image itself doesn’t.

What I’m saying is that not voting is foolish, not that voting is the only thing that should be done. In fact I’m saying that other things should be done. We clearly agree, I just think it is harmful to spread anti voting rhetoric because while it can’t fix things it is still a meaningful thing that can be done with immediate consequences for many.

Socialism is built on the idea that we are better at enforcing our rights together, not on putting anyone else above yourself. I have no idea where this notion comes from. Again, you people have no idea what socialism is.

Almost every single good thing that has happened in the west has been achieved through unions and socialist or socially democratic parties. It hasn’t been achieved by liberals or conservatives.

Having their needs met means it’s not something to care about and so won’t care about it.

A big part of why the US is struggling so much is people don’t have the time and energy to care because they are too busy working.

Protests and riots also either happen either because A: people have time to do them, or B: people have time to do them because working no longer provides enough money to live off of.

You are right however that misinformation isn’t being countered and that any would be free society would need to work on ways to help people see through such things, and to not allow misinfo to be freely spread the way it is now. It’s another core part of the problems we face now, but it’s made worse by people literally not having the time to get involved in any way with politics, and with news being motivated purely by profits. Writing good articles isn’t profitable anymore, but eye-catching headlines is, regardless of how true they are. If you are concerned about the quality of information today you should also be concerned about news being profit driven.

Within a system where you can hoard wealth and property. You can’t under socialism. Really the big problem is wealth inequality. The less inequality there is the less corruption there is too.

Have you seen crypts other posts and comments? He is not in favor of voting. Also see the title

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You can do all those things and also vote. So vote. Sure, votes won’t make the system better, but you can make it harder for the fascists to get away with shit while you organize. Vote.

A concentration of small government power

You aren’t describing what socialism is as you have no idea what it is.

Processes are inefficient and slow incentivizing bribes(greed will always exist).

You keep bringing up greed. Capitalism doesn’t account for greed, it is built on it. It doesn’t stop greed from being abused, instead it rewards greed by allowing the few to hoard property and wealth which leads to those few holding more and more power and influence. Capitalism is literally designed like a pyramid scheme which everyone agrees is bad and doesn’t work.

Socialism is the idea that if you work at a workplace you own it along with everyone else there. It’s the idea that if you live in a home you own it with the other people that live there. It’s the idea that we all own the roads and parks together. It’s the idea that decision making (political power) and property is shared. There are centralized ways to do this, and decentralized ways to do this. The states you think are communist are shitty little oligarchies that pretend they will implement communism in the future yet never do. The problem with these states is that they aren’t socialist, not that socialism is bad.

A lack of incentive to innovate promotes stagnation and complacency(lazy acceptance of an internal takover).

Most scientific advances are state sponsored.

Hostile takeover is a thing that happens regularly in capitalism. Also liberals are always the first to compromise and then form governments with fascists. So that’s more of a capitalism thing I think.

This is such a bad strat. Vote blue unless a third party can win in your state, build up third parties, unionize, join active political orgs in your area, do direct action.

No? Socialism literally removes incentives to be corrupt. Why would you accept a bribe f.ex if your needs are covered and money is either gone or no longer useful to hoard? That’s not to say that any sort of socialist society would be free of all bad actors, but there’s less reason and less ways to abuse socialism because that’s sort of the point. The goal of socialism is to remove abusable systems via more democratically and collectively controlled ones.

TBF there’s not a lot of anti-commie music, but there is a lot of anti capitalist music. If you ignore the pro capitalist music we’ve at least kinda got the music.

I might’ve misunderstood? I thought you meant I had said this, or supported this claim.

But yes as far as I can tell there’s not much to suggest a strong political alignment of any kind. I don’t know what info we can trust that has been provided. If we take their statements at face value he was in a relationship with a trans person and found kirk hateful. He engraved memes from a video game on his bullets and shot this guy.

There were also some weird statements about his actions while running after shooting which confuse me, but it’s not something I’ve read all that much about.

That’s great. It’s not a claim I’ve made or implied at any point. I just said a thing about being queer vs being in a queer relationship.

I make no claims as to why he did what he did. If he is the one that did it, I dunno.