FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 8 hours ago:
Yes, except they’re not leveraging your data for advertising, they’re leveraging it so they can manipulate your political views and keep you from finding solidarity with other working people.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 18 hours ago:
The people the West labels as terrorists have been exploited and oppressed for generations. They don’t have the resources to get into Israel and perform meaningful acts of sabotage. Actions like that are better coming from the citizens of Israel who still have a conscience. They could look to groups like Palestine Action, whose sustained sabotage efforts against an Israeli weapons manufacturer lead to the closure of at least one factory in Britain, and led to Barclays bank divesting from the company. Of course, now Palestine Action are labeled as terrorists for that…
- Comment on Slay Girl 3 days ago:
Someone one on Lemmy is going to suggest exterminating the tankie ducks now.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 5 days ago:
I dunno man, killing a genocidal maniac makes someone a hero in my book.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 week ago:
LOL If companies were honest we’d have a socialist revolution within 48 hours.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 1 week ago:
Capitalism is a mode of production where the means of production (ie. capital) are owned by individuals who then use that ownership to exploit workers for their surplus labor value to turn it into profit.
Contrary to popular belief, “true capitalism” does not require free markets.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
This is also what the DNC wants. Vote socialist.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
This has deliberately been done to us. The atomization of our society serves no one but the capitalists (who are the masters of ICE).
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
The Black Panthers had so much success at preventing police violence by simply showing up with guns when the cops came that Reagan made it illegal to open carry in California.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, obviously.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
All good points, although I think multiple things can be true, especially when a narcissist like Trump is calling the shots. I suspect he saw the non-renewal as a threat he had to respond to with a disproportionate show of force, and Venezuela happens to tick that box too.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The backbone of the petrodollar is the deal with the Saudis where they agreed to exclusively trade oil in USD. That deal is no longer in place. Furthermore, Iran is reaching rapprochement with the Saudis, and the Trump tariffs have destroyed US trade credibility. The geopolitics of oil are shifting, and not in the US’s favor.
This is the real reason the US wants to steal Venezuela’s oil now. Their global oil hegemony is no longer enforceable through soft power.
So the petrodollar may not be dead today, and it may cling onto life for another decade, but (to my view) the writing is on the wall.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The Petrodollar is dying fast though, with some saying it’s already dead.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
China is going to flip the script very soon. They have already overtaken the USA on some economic metrics, their industrial power is growing while the petro-dollar is in its death throes and American trade power is collapsing on every front.
America’s only real power remaining is the military, which is incredibly strong, but maybe not enough to exert power over a world united behind China’s Belts and Roads diplomacy while simultaneously dealing with a divided populous at home.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 weeks ago:
It’s gotta be less dangerous than letting individuals have it. I mean, look around.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 weeks ago:
Just enough to escape capitalism. 5 million invested in stocks means you would never have to work again. Any more than that and you are part of the problem that everyone is trying to escape.
Honestly though, really we should all be working for an escape for our entire species, not individual escape pods.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 5 weeks ago:
Political posts on shitposts? Who’s got the corn?🌽
- Comment on Far-right Kast wins Chile election in landslide 1 month ago:
The guy’s dad was literally one of Hitler’s Nazis.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
We have all always had the choice to make politics something that the people do, and not something that is done to us.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Well the impression I’m getting from you is that you’re an asshole 🤷🏼♂️
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Imagibe trying to police other people’s language in 2025
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How about we do it together?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sorry, but revolution is a far simpler way to stop corporate greed than trying to change everyone’s buying habits.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 month ago:
Why use AI at all? The environmental costs alone should be a dealbreaker.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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).