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volodya_ilich

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  • War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses

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  • Replace "Israel" with "Russia" in your comment. Oh, wow, now suddenly neighboring nations have reasons to want them obliterated from the earth?

  • Amd fan

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  • Not really, and I say this being a communist myself. Capitalism just requires to extract the maximum profit from the capital investment, sometimes it leads to what you said, sometimes it leads to the opposite (e.g. no difference between i5 1st gen and i5 8th gen)

  • Los Angeles will urge public transit at 'no car' 2028 Olympic Games - CNA

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  • will urge

    You literally make the laws

  • Meh burger

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  • Funnily enough, I'm Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?

  • Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner

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  • Where are the mods when you need them to erase some comments...

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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  • When did I say I want to be a parasite? I want to abolish CEOs, not become one of them

  • "We've won, but at what cost?"

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  • But few people, who are qualified for that job

    CEOs do nothing. They rake in millions, and hire advisors to tell them what to do

  • Removed

    Both sides!

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  • The chinese government heavily subsidises EVs in a way unsuitable for the EU for example

    How exactly else do you think other industrialised societies have developed high-tech manufacturing? South Korea, Japan, the former USSR... All of it was through protectionism, you can't outcompete a historically more developed industry (UK, Germany, USA) in the free market. The neoliberal dogma is that countries should focus on the sectors in which they're competitive even if they're low value-added, the reality is very different if we look at history.

    Not happy with protectionism, though, the US and EU are now outright applying sanctions and bans to the Chinese economy, such as preventing them from importing high-tech lithography systems and technology. It's an economic war with China because the western hegemony is finally coming to an end and the west doesn't want that.

    Also, china has really done a bad job diplomatically to place itself as a rival of the US

    China placed itself as a rival of the US? The US is literally propping Taiwan, an island full of US military bases, and regularly sailing their warboats between the island and mainland China. Can you imagine if China had military bases in Cuba and they sailed warboats between the island and Miami? Or in Mexico and central America? Because the US has military bases all over southeast Asia. It's not "china placing itself as a rival of the US", it's simply the US imperialism resisting being overtaken.

  • Sorry if repost, my dad sent me

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  • Episode 1 is slow?! It starts with jedis being betrayed by the trade federation, escaping the ship and going to naboo, rescuing jarjar and meeting the gungans, crossing the planet's core to get to Theed, rescuing Padmé and escaping to tatooine, winning the podrace and going to coruscant, then finally returning to naboo to end the invasion of the trade federation, all in one film. How can it be more packed with action and events? Certainly more action and event packed than Luke spending 1h of the film in a swamp

  • Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit? - Fast Company

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  • Not how it works. Public transport isn't dying due to lack of demand, it's dying because of neoliberal policy and budget cuts in government spending are the norm for the past 30 years. As an example, in Tallinn public transport is free to use for all residents. 90% of residents agree that this is a good thing. Their government is going to drop it anyway.

    Even taking into account a little traffic I'd still spend 2x times the amount of time going to work compared to going by car. Not to mention it'd cost about 20-30% of my net wage to do so daily.

    So you agree that public transit is underfunded and shitty? That was exactly my point.

  • Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit? - Fast Company

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  • In most of the capitalist world, transit is getting increasingly defunded and low quality, except high speed rail in some countries (which idk if counts as transit)

  • “Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism

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  • "Grassroots organization raises $500k for the establishment"

  • Why is it so hard for the U.S. to build quality transit? - Fast Company

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  • Capitalism.

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • I explained in a funny way to another fella: it starts with "t", and rhymes with the Sumerian god of water and patron of the city or Eridu, "Enki".

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • Starts with "t", rhymes with the Sumerian god of water and patron God of the city of Eridu "Enki".

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • You could argue that what we have isnt true capitalism

    No, I couldn't. Capitalism doesn't need to account for every externality to be capitalism.

    If we could do that

    We've been trying for 36 years with no result. That's exactly my point. The people who benefit from the lack of account of externalities are the ones in control of the system.

    but there is a potential version of capitalism that could work

    That version of capitalism is "let's make the public opinion guided by the scientific research make the environmental decisions". At that point, why stop with accounting for externalities and planning the economy as a whole in a democratic fashion? Why this obsession with maintaining capitalism?

    Obviously China has immense demand for power and it is in many ways a developing country

    You got it. You can't expect a developing county to rely on new and expensive tech instead of cheap and reliable one during the process of industrialization. But currently, China is by far the country installing most renewables. I personally don't consider China to be very socialist, but saying they're right wing is far from the truth as well.

    The problem with capitalism as well, is the competition not only between companies, but between geopolitical blocks. You can't expect China or the US to degrow when they're geopolitical enemies that are in theory threated by each other. In reality, the US is the main threatener, followed by Russia, since they're both heavily capitalist and imperialist countries with opposing interests and different capitalists who fight each other for supremacy. Unless we eliminate these capitalist threats of geopolitical fights by transcending to worldwide socialism, degrowth simply will not occur, and climate deals that harm the economy of countries won't be agreed on.

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • While capitalism is a big accelerator of climate change, socialism could do the same

    The difference is that capitalism by its nature requires the degradation of the environment. Capitalism, by definition, needs to increase profits year after year. Unlimited growth is impossible in a finite planet with limited technology without degrading the environment, so capitalism simply ignores the climate in its quest for higher profits. After all, you can't risk getting outcompeted by another company which will be less afraid of abusing nature.

    Socialism, on the other hand, doesn't need perpetual growth. The objective isn't infinite profit, the objective is higher living quality for people, which doesn't necessarily rely on increased material wealth, especially not in a context of degrading climate which negatively affects the quality of life of people. It doesn't mean socialism doesn't have to work hard to prevent degrading nature, it just means that it's not a necessary logical consequence of socialism whereas it is of capitalism.

    You talk about historical proof. The reality is that historically, the groups concerned by climate change have consistently been to the left of the political spectrum, whereas the right wing (capitalism's most loyal defenders) doesn't seem to care. For 36 years we've had an International Panel on Climate Change (though ExxonMobil had reports of Climate Change being manmade since the early 70s and hid them), and for 36 years scientists have been saying the same: we're not doing enough. What's been the response of capitalist governments everywhere? "We shall continue not doing enough". How many years of capitalism in all countries failing to step up to the problem do you need to realize that capitalism simply has no incentives to solve this problem because it's fundamentally an antidemocratic system, in which the interests of a few in the owning class are held above those of the working class?

  • ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

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  • I wish it was tiddies, m8

  • The transphobia rocking olympic boxing has a Kremlin connection

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  • I beg you browse through the currently popular posts, took me quite a bit of scrolling to find one post about the far right in England, and that's after 5 posts attacking Russia (which, again, fair enough)