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  • John@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJust one more reform bro
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    The USA has one party: the capitalist party. They do not represent you, they represent corporate interests. Your vote doesn’t even really matter because of the electoral college, and other racist relics such as the Senate, giving ridiculous power to to just a handful of “swing voters”.

    Voting once every 4 years for either the capitalist war monger or the other capitalist war monger, while they both ban 3rd party candidates from the ballot, does not make the USA “democratic”.

    Edit: also who cares if it’s one party? In each of these cases the party has brought the entire population out of abject poverty (usually the result of capitalism exploiting them), increased education surpassing the USA, brought healthcare to all, have higher home ownership rates than the USA, etc.

    Objective quality of life measurements all surpass the USA.

    https://youtu.be/FEHYeeRCtVI











  • Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it… leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can’t fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands.

    This was my experience as well … 20 years ago. I’ve not had many of these issues over the past few years using any distro. I used Debian for a couple years and now I’m on Arch. Really, it just works for me…

    TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.



  • John@lemmy.mltoSocialism@lemmy.mlCurious about socialism
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    13 days ago

    It’s a meaningless word that liberals and anti-communists use to try and down-punch and discredit us.

    https://youtu.be/YVYVBOFYJco

    I believe Norway still has a lot of good systems to take care of its citizens.

    Sure, I’m not saying welfare programs are bad, but the system is still Capitalist. We’re already seeing policies being rolled back as the pendulum swings. Norway is able to afford its citizens these luxuries because of its historical exploitation and wealth. That, and because of the proximity to the Soviet Union; they feared uprising similar to what was going on there, so concessions were made. It’s always concessions.


  • John@lemmy.mltoSocialism@lemmy.mlCurious about socialism
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    13 days ago

    tankie triad

    Anybody who uses the term “tankie” can safely be ignored and blocked.

    but social democracy has been a good way of keeping capitalism in-check in Norway

    Even though some of these concessions have been rolled back? Also, Norway, etc were able to offer these concessions by exploiting other countries.

    What I am interested in learning is how society would operate and function under socialism / communism. More about the differences. Preferably from less dry sources than The Capital from Marx. Where can I learn more? Preferably a bit entertaining.

    A podcast called Actually Existing Socialism is really good!