• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    We’re always going to end up with people who can manipulate a crowd being in charge. We’re stupid like that.

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      11 days ago

      This is what I always find amusing about the Communist argument.

      Like, the elected politicians and bureaucracy can’t be trusted enough to regulate industry under capitalism so we’ll centralize things and then trust them to regulate industry under Communism?

      Edit: whoof, should’ve thought about human nature when I dared to criticize communism. Almost lime there is another lesson somehwere there.

      so, it’s the goddamn weekend. How does everyone have so much free time this late on a Saturday? I’ll do my best to get back to y’all on a dirty capitalist’s time slot.

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        To be fair, I don’t have to trust elected politicians to distrust unelected CEOs and other upper management more

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          But it’s not like companies or business entities won’t have folks in charge of them under communism… Someone has to run the whatevers…

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            Ideally, supervision over most non critical sectors would fall to randomly drafted, single term committees of the people, think jury duty except better compensated and obviously with bureaucratic resources available to enable these committees to fulfil their role adequately.

            Now this isn’t suited for everything, but in either system any true oversight is done by the people, not the state.

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              11 days ago

              Half of America wants to vote for trump and you want to trust in random people? That seems like a wild leap of faith.

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                11 days ago

                Around 30% tops but more importantly what do those trump supporters want? The exact same things you do, they just believe different causes for the problems we all see and thus have wildly different solutions.

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                    11 days ago

                    Cool have you done the work to find out why she thinks that way or what she actually wants? No? Great talk little buddy.