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  • There’s a little bit more nuance than that isn’t there? You can provide these things, but we still need to produce things right? Because we haven’t yet reached full automation. So the question is if we provide those things and a significant part of the population decide that they are happy with the minimum and thus they don’t want to work, and we start having massive labor shortages such that the goods needed to sustain the economy cannot be produced, what do we do? Well the only solution at that point is to make labor mandatory, and forced if the individual is noncompliant. Which is why the labor market as it exists is seen as the lesser evil. This is a bit of an oversimplification because I’m not looking to write an essay here but that covers the gist of why a liberal may oppose full on socialism.

    For me, the imperative is achieving that automation. Only then is full socialism viable.

  • No. I wish that were the case though, then I wouldn’t have any reason to dislike them. But being that It isn’t the case, I’ll continue my campaign of hostility against gringos.

  • Bingo. Someone making 120k makes 5 times the median here. I know about 3 people of my age that own a house and 2 of them left for the US. The other one came from a well off family and was well connected. But the housing market is hot hot hot. And the supermarkets now do their promotions in English.

  • Maybe not in US cities. But I’m not talking about the US, I’m not even talking about cities. More like towns with heavily distorted markets thanks to expat parasites.

  • Third world problems but it’s true.

  • This is a good thing.

    Fuck these kids getting overpaid remote jobs destroying the housing market of poor countries like mine.

  • There’s some more details here:

    https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/media/french-streamer-frequently-humiliated-and-mistreated-on-air-dies-in-sleep-during-livestream-marathon/

    https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/tiktok-star-jeanpormanove-dies-during-livestream-torture-challenge-10200847/lite/

    I don’t know who, if anyone at all, should be considered guilty here.

    Edit: Found a thread on X going deeper on it. I do think this was a torture and murder now that I’ve seen parts of the stream myself. They weren’t hitting him really hard, but the guy had heart issues and they really weren’t allowing him to sleep well. I can see while you’re in the middle of it it might look like it’s all fun and games but in retrospect the entire thing looks perverse as fuck.

  • Has it occurred to you that some people may like eating radioactive shrimp? They should be free to do so!

  • I wasn’t retarded as a kid, I only became retarded as an adult.

  • I can’t understand people who believe international law has any legitimacy. If you are not willing to bomb another country to enforce the law, the law doesn’t exist.

  • Would you look at that, education reducing drug use. Who would have thought? Maybe this is how we reduce the other types of drug use? Nah send them to jail.

  • What happens when there is no consensus on an important decision and people split in half and one half tries to impose their will on the other? How is this mediated? And if they do not have authority what happens when someone doesn’t want to do what needs to be done? Who has the authority to punish coerce them?

    And I have so many questions about security both domestic and foreign that I don’t even know where to start.

  • I do have these views. You can read all my comments, I’m pretty consistent on my stances and if I change them it’s because someone truly gave me reason to, with well justified arguments. I’m always open to changing my mind. The thing is i have evaluated my beliefs pretty well and the root is anti anthropocentric, so when your parting point is that humans are not special you tend to have friction with everyone because everyone’s views originate in human exceptionalism.

    Also I find that like 99% of all political arguments are just tribalistic reactionary bs or emotionally charged, and I do not play that game.

    Though I do enjoy debate, I’m not gonna lie.

  • Everyone else’s but theirs.

  • As a substitute for sodium in uses other than nutrition. Do not blame on LLMs what can be attributed to natural selection.

  • I agree, but this is a hot hot take on a place like lemmy.

  • Hegel is, once more, proven right.

  • Ah my western bias is showing! You are right.

  • Is that true though? I mean I just did a mental review of collapses that came to mind and not even the USSR resulted in mass deaths? I mean the mass deaths were for causes the led to the collapse of the USSR but the actual collapse was not what caused the deaths.

    Unless you mean that the new order that takes the place of the one before is the one that causes mass casualties because that does seem to be the usual case. No one actually falls in line with the ideology that wants to dominate, which I guess is your greater point.