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OurToothbrush

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  • The former option. Why, would you pick the latter option?

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  • Sure, but it is incentivized by capitalism as a real system that exists and is studied. It doesn't have to exist in capitalist theory for it to be a real phenomenon that has be empirically proven.

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  • One of the most basic economic arguments of Marx's Capital is that 1) firms compete for higher profit margins 2) it is easiest to reduce wages in order to increase margins 3) you only have to pay workers enough that they're able to, as a whole, maintain your workforce (the available workforce in general can shrink though, especially as automation shrinks the needed size of the workforce)

    Throw in some accumulation by disposession theory(the need to proletarianize the population, separating them from ownership of their own means of subsistence) in order for capitalism to function, and you have good old social murder, the end result of a system designed for efficient accumulation without consideration for human suffering outside the practical consideration of stability.

    Socialism, which is designed to manage the needs of a population through democratic processes, does not have this issue, except in the context of fighting capitalism where accumulation needs to be prioritized to some extent, in order to defend their social project from covert and overt hostility by existing capitalist powers.

    I've cited Capital, you only really need the first dozen or so chapters to understand the primary argument. Marx provides detailed figures to cite his arguments. I would also suggest reading about accumulation by dispossession/primitive accumulation, social murder, and siege socialism.

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  • Because killing people through neglect can improve the efficiency of your workforce

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  • It is because they care about the population more than they care about profits, both for moral reasons and because the whole mandate of socialism is prioritizing democracy (and therefore the needs of your constituency) over capitalism

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  • Let us take medicine as an example:

    Higher doctor to patient ratio, better life expectancy for countries income level. Doctors in Cuba go door to door for routine checkups.

    Cuba life expectancy is comparable to US life expectancy and has a hard time acquiring sterile needles due to the blockade if that gives you an idea

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  • You should read Davod Katz on holocaust trivialization through making the Soviets into a boogeyman- basically used to justify exterminating people because they were collaborating with the evil soviets, especially in the Baltics where holocaust collaboration was very thorough.

  • The US passed a law saying that all students must be tought that communism is evil: Crucial Communism Teaching Act

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  • World system theory

  • What scientific study are you waiting for that'll just shit on everything we've once thought to have believed in?

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  • Were you around when the Fort Detrick conspiracy was going around? Obviously not true but has more evidence than the Wuhan shit so was fun to use to push back against that.

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  • Lol someone got to it before I could.

    Crazy how history doesn't agree with your gotcha.

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  • Telling me that I’m not a Socialist because I’m not a registered member of a Socialist organization doesn’t encourage me to join any organization. It encourages me to dump you and find an actual mutual ally.

    "Saying I'm only sympathetic to abolition if I'm not doing abolitionist work doesn't make me want to do abolitionist work"

    Okay what will then, do you want a headpat or a handjob or what?

    The dumped metaphor is great because in this metaphor you weren't dating to begin with. You were just admiring.

    But seriously if someone questioning your commitment when you aren't committed makes you react with fleeing somewhere else that is on you.

    Stop saying stupid exclusionary things about your left-wing allies if you want to actually have a movement capable of change.

    If you're not in the movement you are not a socialist. The movement is a real, organized thing, not just vibes.

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  • He sometimes tells his audience to log off and join an org, we get a handful of new recruits occasionally due to the guy.

    So he actually is successfully moving people from being socialist sympathizers to actual socialists (you need to be part of an org to be a socialist)

    That's all I really know about him, besides some people being thirsty about him.

  • [Serious] What keeps you sane in these troubling times?

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  • Being involved in a local socialist org, having community, logging out

  • Hard to swallow pills

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  • You know plenty of Chinese people speak English right? And Chinese citizens can pretty trivially bypass the firewall, the point of the firewall is protectionism for China's tech sector.

  • Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was warning to the west

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  • Okay so it looks like:

    1. you need to learn to read sources more critically
    2. You don't actually have any that say "fighting in Ukraine"

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  • Wow that is a lot of citations needed.

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  • Except imperialism is actually incredibly inefficient in the long term. Western nations become imperialist due to the contradictions created by capitalism.There is a reason why China's foreign policy is centered around mutual advancement.

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  • Sure, if you know literally nothing about the military industrial complex and government capture and its role in creating war, and you want to buy into the propaganda that the US only attacks when it feels threatened.

    When countries are threatened and dropping bombs relieves that threat instead of increases it, then they do.

    Settler-brained-as-fuck idea about how conflict works

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  • Who decides what speech threatens the government? The government.

    Uhuh. In other words, governments restrict speech that they think threatens them.

    I can say fuck Joe Biden, fuck Donald Trump, and fuck every member of Congress and the Supreme Court. Can you point me towards someone living in China who’s comfortable openly saying “fuck Xi Jinping?”

    First off, how many Chinese people have you actually talked to? You know there are Chinese people on the internet that you can talk to, right? And foreign exchange students? You can even visit the country if you want.

    And yes, you're free to say things that don't actually threaten the US, like saying fuck Trump or Fuck Biden. You're allowed to be as ineffectual as you'd like. Compare your statements to all the black lives matter organizers who've been found to commit suicide by bullets to the back of the head or public hanging from trees.