FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The silencing of r/hailcorporate was the first nail in reddit’s coffin and it was lauded by most of the userbase.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 week ago:
The idea behind end-stage capitalism is that capitalists have, by now, penetrated and seized control of every market in the world. This is important because capitalism requires ever increasing rates of profits or you will be consumed by your competitor. Since there are no longer new labor pools and resource pool discovery is slackening, capitalists no longer have anywhere to expand.
Therefore, capitalists begin turning their attention back home, cutting wages and social safety nets, and resorting to fascism when the people complain.
This is the end stage of capitalism. The point at which capitalists begin devouring their own. Rosa Luxembourg famously posited that at this point, the world can choose “Socialism or Barbarism.” In other words, we can change our economic system, or we can allow the capitalists to sink to the lowest depths of depravity and drag us all down as they struggle to maintain their position.
Of course, if the capitalists manage to get to space, that opens up a whole new wealth of resources, likely delaying the end of their rule.
- Comment on Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting 1 week ago:
No war but class war.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 2 weeks ago:
The economy of the entire globe is designed to siphon money into the West. Third world nations largely aren’t responsible for the failures of their economies, it’s mostly because the West is doing imperialism.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism is not reformable because it fundamentally relies on ever increasing rates of profit and exploitation. The first is impossible in a finite world, and the second is untenable to anyone who believes in justice.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 weeks ago:
How tf does this dumb shit get 15 upvotes?
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 2 weeks ago:
Because of
our wasteful and growth-oriented way of lifecapitalism.FTFY.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you’re only ever getting a few items I can see how self-checkout is faster, but for full grocery trips cashiers are undeniably way faster, primarily because I can bag while the clerk scans.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 3 weeks ago:
The Democrats have no interest in prosecuting cops because they’re all on the same team. It’s Capitalists vs Us, and the sooner we all realize that, the sooner we can actually start improving the world.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 3 weeks ago:
It’s wild how almost every bad thing in China is worse in the US now.
- Comment on Built to last 3 weeks ago:
Hi Zoomer! 👋 Believe it or not, those were all real words and some of us can still remember what they mean! Now excuse me, my back hurts and I need to lie down.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 weeks ago:
Apple is hardly the giant corporation you want to be switching to, though.
- Comment on kya 4 weeks ago:
The problem with American tax payers is that they have been taught that selfishness is the highest virtue, especially when it comes to their cars. You see it with the high beams, and you see it with the ginormous toddler-killing trucks.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, nowadays populism is used almost exclusively about progressive ideas that are popular as a way to dismiss them because they’re not profitable or some shit.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 1 month ago:
I hate how the term Luddite has been co-opted as a blanket term for someone who rejects technology for any reason. The original Luddites were a labor movement who were angry that technology was taking people’s livelihoods while society was doing nothing to prevent those people from becoming destitute.
Kinda exactly how AI is going to fuck over a lot of people while primarily benefiting the rich people who own it.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 month ago:
Those are the worldwide numbers for starvation and preventable disease, roughly.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 month ago:
Right, and my point is that it’s not surprising that you don’t see that evidence (assuming you live in the US or elsewhere in the imperial core), given the effects that class dynamics have on social behavior. By its very nature capitalism alienates people and turns them into individualist consumers. If you travel to more communally-minded places, it’s clear that human nature is very much place- and context- dependent.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 month ago:
Because countries didn’t exist when humanity’s mode of production was primitive communism, and then since the agricultural revolution the means of production has always been held by individuals, which necessarily creates at least two classes, those who have, and those who have not.
There have been a few attempts by the people to seize the means of production, but they have always existed within the context of a global class system that prevents any attempt at a truly classless society. (IE, a strong centralized state is necessary to survive reactionary attempts to take back control, but a strong state creates a class system of those who have control vs those who don’t.)
Most Marxists actually acknowledge that after a socialist revolution you will still have class contradictions that society will have to work through, like the potential abuses a strong state can inflict. We generally agree though, that the key first step to creating a classless society is getting the means of production out of the hands of private individuals.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 month ago:
Maybe. We’ve also never had a classless country, so we don’t know for certain how very large groups of humans interact when we are free from the exploitation, division, and oppression that is inherent to class structures.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 month ago:
Every year capitalists kill 10 million people by withholding food, medicine, and clean water. All because it isn’t profitable to them personally.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 month ago:
It turns out capitalism actively disincentives cooperation. Cooperation is how humanity became the dominant life form. We’re fucking great at it when we don’t have a bunch of leeches siphoning off our surplus value and using that wealth to turn us against each other.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
9/11 also marks the end of western hegemony as the West destabilized the world and ruined its reputation as a force for good in its pursuit for revenge, leading to the rise of BRICS and other anti-imperial coalitions.
9/11 also coincides with peak imperialism, the final stage of capitalism, which marks the point when increasing exploitation abroad has diminishing returns so capitalists must begin devouring the imperial core, leading to stagflation, enshittification, rent-seeking, and other parasitic activities. This in turn leads to an economically struggling population of former petit-bourgeois, which is a class condition that is especially susceptible to reactionary propaganda, leading to the rise of fascism.
Historians will almost certainly mark 9/11 as the beginning of the end of the American Empire.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
The overwhelming majority of Democrats also voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion based on what I wrote, but my suggestion is to not let companies escape consequences for shitty things they do simply because regulators fail to be effective at their jobs. Legally allowed is not the same as morally acceptable.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 months ago:
When our policymakers take direction from capitalists, it’s ok to blame to capitalists.
- Comment on [PDF] Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why 2 months ago:
Tesla knows immediately when one of its vehicles crashes because the vehicle sends Tesla HQ a detailed crash report that it then deletes from the car’s local storage. Wish I was making this up.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 2 months ago:
It’s worse than that. Wealth inequality is inevitable in any system that allows private ownership of the means of production. Marx wrote about this in great detail.
- Comment on UN plastic pollution treaty talks floundering 2 months ago:
The rich and powerful would be ecstatic with an extinction event. Fewer people means the odds are better for them.
For the rich, a true extinction event would be workers gaining class consciousness. They’d rather that everyone dies than that happen.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 months ago:
It’s not vandalism, it’s direct action. Or sabotage, if you consider this to be a time of war (which it undoubtedly is — a class war). Don’t use the enemy’s language against ourselves.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
You know that American conservatives have been banning books from libraries, and banning topics like racism and homophobia from being talked about in schools, right? American conservatives love censoring anything they don’t agree with. They are the original snowflakes.
I suspect your butt is just chapped because you can’t drop a hard “r” on BlueSky.