Comment on Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC

• DessertStorms@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah, yes, incremental change, that's worked so well ..checks notes... never.

  Lulling the population in to a false sense of security, but more importantly - comfort, is exactly how you not only maintain the status quo, but how you enable fascism.

  But sure, to those who are privileged enough not to already be personally impacted, I'm sure voting for team blue feels like a real win.. 🙄

  https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

  https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/

  https://nyanarchist.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/scratch-a-liberal-a-fascist-bleeds-how-the-so-called-middle-class-has-enabled-oppression-for-centuries/

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Union wins weren’t inctemential change for the betterment of worker conditions…?

    You really should check the dates on all those achievements… They weren’t granted from the beginning of even the young US, nor all at once.

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• KepBen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "We can’t have a revolution against capitalism until after we address all the symptoms of capitalism individually!"

  • Somebody deeply invested in solving problems and certainly not a beneficiary of this corrupt and broken system

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No need to strawman; you already made a good point in the first half of your comment.

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    • KepBen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No I promise whoever says that definitely fits my description of them. It’s not a strawman, it just looks like one because you assume I’m pretending to quote somebody I’m not.

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not necessarilly. They could very easilly be a victim of propaganda; they don’t have to be a benefactor of capitalism in order to believe in incrementalism (which keeps capitalism as the main economic force).

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Temporarily embarassed millionaires aren’t your enemy unless they choose to believe AFTER they consciously observe how fucked up the mindset is.

        Before that, they could easily just be ignorant. It’s not like US schools teach how fucked up and skewed it all is. They just say, “yep, this is how it works, and that’s how it works and why is the history of the stock market and yep we have it now!”.

        They are presented it as if it’s not bad, so unless people get burned, they don’t think about it. “Well I’m not that bad off and I’m not that special (despite having the embarassed millionairre’s mindset) so everyone else must only be whining.”

        You are feeding the exact same ignorance from the other side. Stop it.

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• Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean capitalism is literally enabling the fossil fuel industry to continue to ramp up production, while we are heading into a climate apocalypse. It’s too late for steps.

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