FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 hour ago:
Predators yes, carnivores no. Things that eat bugs are insectivores.
Honestly though, almost no mammals are purely carnivorous, herbivorous, or insectivorous. The majority of species will opportunistically eat what is available.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
If you’re going to talk about class society, you might as well use the Marxist terms: proletariat, petit-bourgeoisie, and bourgeoise.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
I don’t know why everyone is avoiding the Marxist terms, as they are far more accurate than low/middle/upper or whatever people are talking about in this thread.
Those wealthy workers are petit-bourgeoisie. They own enough capital so that they no longer have to struggle in the rat race of capitalism, but not enough to be controlling entire industries or multibillion dollar companies like the bourgeoisie.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 week ago:
It’s ok to laugh at satire of racists 👍
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
Oh you’re totally right. My bad. 🙏
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
No. A communist society is stateless and classless. If there is a dictatorship, even a dictatorship of the proletariat, it is by definition not communist, and no educated Marxist would argue otherwise. However, we do have another term for the transition state between capitalism and communism where it is possible to have dictatorships - Socialism. (And Leninists would argue that a dictatorship of the proletariat is indeed the preferable state of affairs for any socialist state trying to survive in a global capitalist hegemony).
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
64 per cent of Russians say life was better in the Soviet Union than now
Data is better than anecdotes.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
If you say something is bad, you must have some frame of reference to know how bad it is. So if you say communism is bad, we will want to know, “relative to what?” And since capitalism and western hegemony are the dominant systems, naturally they will draw comparisons. And those comparisons will be unfavorable since capitalism is clearly broken and incentivizes great evil.
So OK, we’re still not really discussing the merits and flaws of communism as they stand on their own, but most of you aren’t ready to accept that almost everything you have learned about communism is a lie and you definitely aren’t ready to engage with the actual historical record.
So instead, the arguments revolve around what-aboutisms. Because most of you deny the evidence of your eyes and just listen to daddy. Long before we can delve into how the soviets actually existed in the world, you have dismissed us as “tankies” and stuck your fingers in your ears.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
I think it says more about how Lemmings and other westerners understand authoritarianism. Because capitalist countries are way more authoritarian than any communist country has ever been. Y’all have just been fed lie after lie until you start repeating them yourselves.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
You’re hopped up on that US propaganda, bud. The USSR was democratic from the ground up. Working people’s voices had more power there than almost anywhere else at any other point in history.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
The USSR never intentionally starved its citizens as the US is doing right now.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 weeks ago:
Right off the face of the planet and into the sun.
Seriously. Can we please launch Peter Thiel into the sun?
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Why shouldn’t I be offended on behalf of other people? You just were…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
I reported the guy after he doubled down. Waiting to see if the mods will do something or if I will have to block the comm.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
Can you say that again without the misogyny?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
How tf does this dumb shit get 15 upvotes?
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 5 weeks ago:
Because of
our wasteful and growth-oriented way of lifecapitalism.FTFY.
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
It’s wild how almost every bad thing in China is worse in the US now.
- Comment on Built to last 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Apple is hardly the giant corporation you want to be switching to, though.
- Comment on kya 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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.