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  • spookedbyroaches@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mleat the rich
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    8 months ago

    Fuck the owners.

    Fine

    Prove it (terrible outcomes for socialism)

    The USSR, Cuba, PRC is better but for some reason they are very authoritarian.

    What competition?

    Granted there are many industries that don’t have good competition, but the vast majority do. Look at clothes makers, construction, pharma.

    What value does Donald Trump bring to society?

    He bought real estate where there was more demand than people expected, and took advantage of that. There was no apartments in the empty plot before Trump Tower, now there is and people want them.

    Prove it. (innovation)

    The USSR did have great amounts of innovation in the beginning, but once you get to a certain point, it just gets pretty much impossible. Look at the second person’s answer.

    Prove it (reconcile)

    While it is dumb to say that there are no texts to reconcile these issues. It is crazy how the USSR didn’t implement any solution except rewarding innovation to drive innovation. I’d say that is enough evidence to say with confidence that there are no existing solutions to the mentioned issues.

    You mean completely unlike people brainwashed into believiing “capitalism gud?”

    Sure there is some brainwashing in the right where they think capitalism is great in and of itself. I think that people also recognize that capitalism needs some good amount of regulation that would curb the failures there. It’s not perfect as it exists now, but it sure as shit better than any socialist or communist nation.

    Socialism seems perfectly alive and kicking to me - despite the uncountable amounts of treasure spent violently crushing it.

    If you’re gonna make enemies with the most powerful nation in the world, that usually happens. The USA saw a threat to their influence and took action.







  • There’s no need for a new internet. Every garbage service has a somewhat viable alternative.

    You have peertube instead of youtube Kagi, duckduckgo, marginalia, etc instead of Google search Lemmy instead of reddit Mastodon, polycentric instead of twitter Gitea instead of github Bandcamp instead of spotify There are probably more things but you get the idea. The problem is not the internet itself but that you have to have many people go to objectively less polished or paid services to protect their personal data. I don’t know how that would happen since honestly, the privacy shit doesn’t affect people’s everyday lives, but using different services does affect their lives.