If you want to spread your American ignorance, take it somewhere else.

Likewise, Canuck

we didn’t vote for a Maple MAGA candidate for Prime Minister

Yet Carney was voted in, a banker previously, and now he wants to privatize health care, public transit, among other things. Really great job voting in a neolib that only cares about making his donors richer.

Billionaires, corporations, and corrupt politicians aren’t unique to America.

No, but chattel slavery was unique to USA, the racist fallout of which we’re still dealing with today. It’s also a fallout that billionaires, corporations, and corrupt politicians actively try to push, co-opt, and proliferate.

From Lyndon B. Johnson, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

People in the US are experiencing the worst wages in decades while elites and corporations are seeing the most profit. Union participation is the worst it’s been in decades. Car culture + suburban sprawl + smartphone usage mean that more people are divided and atomized than ever before in the US. The introduction of technology and AI into schools, defunding of public schools in favor of charter/private schools, and the increasing rates of censoring books and other information from public and school libraries means that students and young people are increasingly failing to receive a proper education.

These are all aspects of systemic forces actively dumbing and beating down the poorest communities in the USA to the point where they don’t give a fuck, or are convinced that Republicans are the better choice since Democrats are controlled opposition.

You might think that what’s going on in America isn’t unique, and you’re right because the same far right, fascist forces are popping up in Canada, in Europe, in Japan, in Oceania, all across the world. There is an international wave of fascism growing EVERYWHERE.

But sure, keep on blaming the voter. It’s the easiest way for you to remove complicity, isn’t it?

Don’t let the billionaires, corporations, and corrupt politicians off the hook, for they are the reason why more people DON’T vote as civics aren’t taught anymore in school, Election Day isn’t a national holiday, vote by mail is being actively attacked by the Trump Admin, and racist gerrymandering especially in the South mean that people have one more barrier to voting via checking if they’re registered in their new political subdivision.

Any time asshats on Lemmy shame THE PEOPLE instead of THE ELITES that set this system up in the first place need to be thoroughly ramrodded.

FUCK that shit

About 1/3rd wanted this.

1/3rd didn’t want this, and the other 3rd couldn’t give a shit, whether because they actually didn’t care or they were preoccupied and couldn’t.

Let’s normalize shaming and shunning individuals, like geneva_convenience in this example, over ridiculing an entire community.

Communities are not monolithic.

I was meaning authoritarian as in the sense of authority being commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or group over other people. And my argument was that even communist and anarchist societies will use power over other bad actors inside that society if those bad actors pose as threats to the prevailing political system.

If a bad actor seeks the pain and suffering of others, regardless of their mental health, or even if a bad actor seeks to persuade a society’s peoples away from the prevailing political principles, such as someone advocating for hierarchy in an anarchist society or a capitalist advocating for private property in a communist society, then those societies will still use their power to self preserve those modes of political power.

To the bad actors, those societies will appear authoritarian.

Shouldn’t have just said intruders. Of course self defense isn’t authoritarian. Authoritarianism takes place above and over a society’s own people. I meant to also include internal bad actors like psychopaths, sociopaths, serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, racists, etc. For those criminals within society, it’s still best to remove them from that same society via exile/deportation or take away their rights to punish them then rehabilitate them. Those actions will appear as authoritarian to the bad actors.

Sorry, I should have said intruders as well as internal bad faith actors.

There will still be psychopaths and sociopaths and serial killers and pedophiles in a communist or anarchist society.

Communities will still need to deal with those malignant people, whether by outcasting/exiling/deporting them or inflicting punishment + delivering rehabilitation. Those activities will be authoritarian over the bad actors.

Thanks for sharing this perspective.

As a baby leftist, I don’t want to fall into the traps of others when it comes to heralding the goods of past socialist experiments without criticizing the ills as well.

Nothing is perfect, as you say, and it a materialist socialists’ life long project to see the world clearly for all the material conditions that exist, and have existed up until this point. Idealist socialists and idealist communists will capsize their entire movement, and endlessly make things about purity tests.

All governments are authoritarian at some point. Even anarchist communities theoretically will exert force on intruders by mustering up the people where they are, where they live.

Trader Joe’s, Nixie organic, Waterloo, Polar, not necessarily in that order. Nixie is probably my favorite, especially the organic lime ginger one.

LaCroix can go fuck off. Not a fan of Spindrift either. I like Spindrift’s tastes, but they are ass with the carbonation. Carbonation is my #1 reason I drink pop, kombucha, or sparkling water.

Their point was that there are snakes within our ranks, and we need to root them out. Conservative Democrats need to go

Obama didn’t go far enough, and should have delivered Medicare for All like what was originally promised during the New Deal.

Biden didn’t go far enough in improving infrastructure in this country, and should have deployed the military on US soil to do sweeping infrastructure upgrades across the country while at the same time creating a guaranteed jobs program that trains people for valuable skills that don’t involve killing other humans.

It is wise to assume that Democrats will always half ass progress in this country because they are beholden to the same corporate interests as Republicans. That’s not to say that they won’t full ass some things, especially regarding social liberties like with gay marriage under Obama, but it’s rare and is always a fight. Democrats will never push max left policies, unless Democratic Socialists take office.

Sparkling water is my addiction now that I quit pop

Bro… He looks like absolute shit

Framework laptops do this. Double finger tap is right click, triple finger tap is middle mouse button

I’d be Ethan from Pokemon Crystal. Not half bad!

You nailed it