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@luostsol@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social from the vantage point of Europe, the US doesn't have a leftist party, only a right-of-center, and a hard-right one...

@nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social imagine if "conservatives" were actually forced to conserve things; like, for example, a livable environment...

@Lisabet8931@universeodon.com @superflippy@mastodon.xyz the simplest way of keep a fire alarm box from beeping is to dismantle it #climateCatastrophe

@SmashDan@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social you make it sound like is a bad thing – have you looked at the state of capitalism and states lately? Also, no leftist *wants* to hang a landlord. It's just virtually impossible the parasitic class will hand over their ill-gotten powers peacefully, making violent uprising a necessity. Regarding the trolley problem, most philosophical schools argue that it's not moral to kill one person to save five. But now imagine that on one track, there is a billion people (projected victims of the climate catastrophe), and on the other, there are thousands of rich people's *wallets*... You don't suffer any harm from not being a billionaire anymore.

@jonsnow@mastodon.online sure, VPNs are the problem (via https://www.instagram.com/p/DYArdw5DJCs/)

@somlu1968@mastodon.social Bei so einer Prävalenz müsste man eigentlich glatt verpflichtende Werteschulungen für CDU-Mitglieder einfordern…

@quinn@social.circl.lu "Freedom's just another word / for nothing left to lose" Getting there, day by day...

@SpiritualAnnie@chattrbx.com @paulk@writing.exchange this. https://youtu.be/xfR0hDLsTm8

@isfies@mastodon.social Isso. Eine Revolution ist anstrengend und gefährlich, deshalb muss es sehr vielen Leuten sehr dreckig gehen, damit eine passiert. Siehe auch: "Es muss erst schlimmer werden, damit es besser wird"

@SueDiOh@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social same as it ever was… "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." —President Lyndon B. Johnson

@plinubius @Pe IMHO gibt es das Fediverse und es gibt Beschiss: Du meldest Dich an einem Social Network an, weil Du mit Leuten interagieren willst, die dort sind. Worauf Dir das Netzwerk alles anzeigt wofür sie jemand bezahlt, und quasi nur im Ausnahmefall die Posts von den Leuten, wegen denen Du eigentlich hier bist. Die einzige mir bekannte Ausnahme ist Tumblr.com

@kibcol1049@mstdn.social this should spawn a hugely profitable pro-bono lawyer company. Where's capitalism when you need it for once?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run sounds like you actually valued the goose!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #altText4you post by "powetheory": "I just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost tat Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never 'can we afford it'… it's what we choose to prioritize."

@eyebee@mstdn.social usually, firewalls just stop outsiders from accessing your devices, but not them from talking to anyone or everyone on the world wide net. Those notifications – if you receive them on your phone – will most likely get routed over an Apple or Google server. Not that a washer or dryer could have that sensitive information about people, though… @alterelefant@mastodontech.de @Flowermob@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @macacator@mastodon.social @PopTarts@gaygeek.social @Huntn00@mastodon.world

@streetartutopia@mastodon.online those two posts would be the #altText to these images

@robbo@mutual.tls.zone @njoseph@social.masto.host @davidgerard@circumstances.run I think by now, it's one in any language

@sarah_ist_muede@troet.cafe @somlu1968@mastodon.social Voll die Matrix, unironisch :/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZmOoarAI84

@plinubius @Pe ich nicht ^^ Wären da im Fediverse Posts dabei von Leuten, denen ich nicht folge, geboostet durch Leute, denen ich folge?🤔

@europlus@social.europlus.zone @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io yet I'd bet him any amount that it will go arbitrarily close, but never actually reach zero (unless of course, the metric becomes the target)

@Li@tech.lgbt I see. I mistook the implied "capitalism doesn't ease infant mortality" for "capitalism doesn't influence infant mortality", when we're both convinced it actively hurts it

@rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social @trebach@functional.cafe @stux@mstdn.social I wouldn't put shooting you on sight past them...

@deFractal@infosec.exchange @avilewis@mstdn.ca yeah, I was wondering what things must all have gone wrong for people to think socialism is somehow a bad thing

@MAJ1@beige.party alt text addendum: the sign says "Please don't feed the squirrels, no matter what they say"

@finche @GrueneVictoria spannend, das von jemanden zu lesen, dessen Posts in dieser Diskussion quasi ausschließlich Annahmen über andere und deren Motive sind. Danke, ich denke ich habe bereits ein recht eindeutiges Bild und halte es nicht für Wert, hier mehr Zeit zu investieren. Ein schönes Leben noch.

@Matta0b_@mastodon.social @Li@tech.lgbt @SmashDan@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social I don't have a fully formulated model, but there are a lot of issues that come up time and time again, which IMHO suggest these changes: UBI would be a cornerstone; every time we trialed it, results were very encouraging. This would one one hand massively shift power from company owners to workers - if not having a job doesn't mean destitution, people would be much less likely to work in a hostile environment, or work demanding jobs for minimum wage. On the other hand, work that people deem valuable might even be done for significantly lower wages, as your job doesn't need to support your life then. Currently, which work gets done is mostly decided by people with money, as most people require a salary to survive. And they prioritize things that make them money over things that improve society. A hard limit on how much wealth one person can possess: "...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself." —Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract UBI takes care of one half of that issue, a wealth cap of the other half. Research indicates happiness rises linear with income, up to about $100k per year. Assuming lifespan of 100 years, 100 years times $100k/year means $10 million should set anyone for life. Heck, cap it at $100 million, I don't even care – the difference between a few billion dollars and 100 million is... a few billion dollars. Taxes on income should exempt a large part of the annual $100k mark, and instead be shifted onto use of fossil fuels and all other non-renewable resources. This would make recycling more profitable, and incentivize producing things in a way that they can be recycled better. And of course, a land value tax. This would stop people from hoarding land, making it available to people looking to build themselves a home.

@luostsol@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social so unless the communist revolution has successfully taken place, communism is left and capitalism is right? Edit: what does "being a centrist" even mean then? I.E., what's the average of changing and not changing a system? I think even changing things only a little, still qualifies as changing...

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social hi! Do you think it's possible that you could add some alt text describing what's in the video? You don't want to draw a line *dividing* your followers along their sightedness, right?

@luostsol@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social I think you might be mixing up a political system with the Overton window. The range of actions *any* government can take is basically the same, what changes is your perception, based on all the administrations you lived through. If you think Europeans and USians have different definitions of left and right, then it's by definition the US version that's wrong, because shit was invented over here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum

@GuidoKuehn@mastodon.social an der falschen Stelle kann schon eine einzelne Reiche zu viel sein…

@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social @Wuzzy@cyberplace.social That's the main selling point, IMHO – federation and open source make the Fediverse enshittification-proof. Whereas "L" Social is backed by private investors who *will* demand return on their investment soon.

@leopleop@mastodon.social @netzpolitik_feed@chaos.social "Am krassesten sieht man das bei den Kreditkarten in den Vereinigten Staaten. Die wurden eingerichtet, damit die Mittelschichten schnellen Zugang zu Krediten bekommen und einfach bezahlen können. Das waren vor allem die weißen Mittelschichten und die profitieren bis heute am stärksten von den Kreditkarten." Ich hätte ja vermutet, am stärksten von Kreditkarten profitieren die ausstellenden Banken🫠

@Matta0b_@mastodon.social @Li@tech.lgbt @SmashDan@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social or, for starters, do what Granada did. https://youtu.be/uOAYMRBVDxk?t=334

@JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @Nonilex@masto.ai nah, think of all the innocent teenage girls…

@Li@tech.lgbt @Matta0b_@mastodon.social @SmashDan@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social it's true, they're doing capitalism *best*, for most of their citizens. However: A) they are doing it in a very uncapitalist way – having high taxes and providing lots of great, state provided services, eg. top notch public education, guaranteed children's day care that doesn't rob them blind, and so on. B) they're only good compared other variants, not compared with what would be possible. Simile: I'm a software guy, and only recently learned that almost all software is *absolutely terrible*, from a performance viewpoint[1]. Like, most things could be rewritten to be 100 to 1000 times faster (times, not percent), without even breaking out the "dark arts" of optimization, that automatically come to mind when hearing such claims. In such a scenario, if one application works 3 times faster than all others, while clearly preferable to the users, it's hard to argue that it's really good, efficient software. We don't usually stop to think about how "efficient" our society could be (eg. in terms of hours worked each week vs. stuff gained for it). Like, we could provide decent living standards for everyone on earth with only about 30% of our current economic output[2], and even in "rich" economies – that notably help themselves to resources and labor output of "developing" nations – many people don't enjoy that "luxury". Politicians usually know this, but they won't tell it to their populace. This seems to be the reason why the USA are that hellbent on destroying, couping, or otherwise sabotaging any and all counties that try out communism – because having a direct comparison, people would realize just how much of their labor's worth gets withholden from them... (Sadly, the USA proves the point about infant mortality wrong – medical science isn't enough, it also needs to be accessible and affordable by the people) [1]https://youtu.be/pgoetgxecw8?t=78s [2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

@finche @GrueneVictoria mein Ton war der Versuch, ihren zu spiegeln. Sie haben OP gebeten, ihnen weiterführende Informationen zu geben und sind ziemlich patzig geworden, als sie nicht bekommen haben, was sie wollten.

@jbz@indieweb.social I'm afraid it's not computers who abuse kids, but people with computers. Although, barring convicted felons from ever accessing the class of tools they used ever again, might actually deter some...

@luostsol@mastodon.social it indeed would appear so: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." —Frank Wilhoit Like, pardoning the violent goons that commenced his stupid failed coup, based on his frivolous claims of a stolen election. Sicking his private army onto anyone who doesn't look like them, ignoring the constitution and their basic human rights in the process. Being the most obviously corrupt president a civilized nation has ever had: Pardoning criminals who made "contributions" to his causes, shielding them from paying high multiples of that in fines and damages in the process. Repeatedly manipulating the world's economy to have his buddies make billions in insider trading. Running on a platform of "draining the swamp" only to do a 180 after it turned out he was one of the swamp monsters himself all along. This even irked many of his most ardent supporters.

@luostsol@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social ok, I fold, this is pointless. I present you a reductio ad absurdum and you pick it up and run with it

@deadtom@dice.camp by having each other's backs, we can literally become a great power... https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115403766112156810

@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run OURcrosoft!

@luostsol@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social so the current adminstration is extremely leftist because they eg. instead of codifying it, they tore up decades old Roe v Wade, and undid multiple administrations worth of slow change regarding trans people?

@mausmalone@mastodon.social @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io not sure I get that one. Especially as a tourist, you'd might want to take the scenic route 🤷‍♀️

@CoralineAda@ruby.social @emilianosandri@mastodon.bsd.cafe pretty sure that time isn't over. While some companies are firing a part of their employees, current AI cannot replace them – let alone, all employees – yet.

@bri7@social.treehouse.systems OH (tumblr post I don't recall verbatimly enough to search for it): If we guaranteed everyone food, shelter, and mobility, people would just do all kinds of things they thought are useful. Eg., there would be an autistic person cleaning every pipe in a 10 miles radius,...

@stux@mstdn.social 1. Throttle domestic economy through tariffs and inflation. 2. Reduce global oil supply by having Iran close the straight of Hormuz. 3. Sequester CO2 from the atmosphere by growing huge amounts of algae in the Reflecting Pool.

Contrary to his "Drill, Baby, drill" announcements, Trump is the politician who most consistently fights the human-caused climate catastrophe 😁

@snailinjection@mastodon.social @greenpeace@mastodon.social why have police, jails, and the whole legal system? People should just choose not to be criminals!