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  • Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.

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  • The word colony comes from the Latin word colonia. I guess you could say the Romans were "European colonizers" but their socioeconomic systems were fundamentally different from modern Europe.

  • Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?

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  • I'd like him to be eventually prosecuted, but chronologically. So prosecute every corporate murderer, every war criminal former president, every judge who sentenced innocent people to their deaths, etc. Prosecute all of the murderers who are currently free, and when you're done with all of them, you can prosecute this guy.

  • They're afraid!

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  • Are we expected to believe that this is actually happening?

  • Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?

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  • A lot of people have aspirations of themselves being rich and if they can vote like rich people they participate in the rich aesthetic.

  • What you rather?

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  • I tried Zotero/Libre with Ubuntu and it had some bugs. Unfortunately I don't have time to troubleshoot software combinations or go into source code... I'm just a user.

  • What you rather?

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  • Anybody know of citation software such as Zotero that runs stably on LibreOffice? I will gladly switch but this is holding me back.

  • "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."

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  • Thanks, Joe von Hindenbiden

  • I'm feeling like just hiding in bed for the next 4 years. Friends on Lemmy, got any advice for us Americans coping with the oncoming shit show that is the Trump GOP takeover?

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  • I didn't mean you specifically but I'm so glad that happened! I've recently left the US but while there I was active with DSA, labor organizing, and a local urbanist collective. My biggest gripe with the American left was always their insistence on throwing their weight behind this or that Democrat. Maybe now it will finally be clear that mass mobilization is the only way forward. We did this in the 1930s and we can do it again today.

  • I'm feeling like just hiding in bed for the next 4 years. Friends on Lemmy, got any advice for us Americans coping with the oncoming shit show that is the Trump GOP takeover?

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  • Please actually do this. Not on the internet. Join a local activist chapter. Go to the meetings. Use your speaking voice. Contrary to what politicians and corporations tell you, it is possible to organize society in a way that does not result in oligarchy.

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    Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign?

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  • The Bush administration pioneered the theory of the unitary executive, which is the idea that the president can do anything because he is the president. They're the ones who kicked over the guardrails, they just did it in the context of an endless war that they started. For more on this I recommend Sheldon Wolin's work.

  • The market is unpredictable

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  • They're only useful for parties imo. Otherwise you put your spatula (or whatever) in the dishwasher and have to wait all week for the dishwasher to fill up with all the other dirty dishes just so you can have your clean spatula back. But yes in the US they are in every kitchen.

  • Is martial arts really that useful?

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  • Not enough data for language scrape

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  • To illistrate this, I just typed "restaurants" in Google Maps in downtown Prague and the first result was an ad for KFC (it looked like a real result but it said "sponsored" on top). But I do have a US phone.

  • Simple, really

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  • Yeah, it's not an easy problem to solve. As someone who is mainly versed in the socialist tradition I view class conflict as the primary impedement to social progress. And any system that incorporates competition will, in my view, generate class conflict. It's all or nothing: you can't have a cooperative structure operating within a competetive framework.

    In practical terms, this has meant a lot of different things over the past few centuries. Nobody has found the correct answer. In the present system, the first step is unionization and increasing class consciousness among the labor force. The second step is coordinated action via targeted mass action (think cross-industry work stoppages that disrupt production and logistics). Essentially you cripple the owner class at large by disrupting their profits and force them to make concessions. You could have a gradual move towards cooperative ownership by forcing down the ratio of CEO to average worker pay. You could force the passage of the types of tax reform that you are arguing for. You could force the passage of social welfare reform.

    But ultimately this movement would have to be worker-led, because the ruling class will always invent new ways to entrench themselves in power. John Maynard Keynes referred to the "euthenasia of the rentier class". In other words, they would humanely pass into the dust bin of history because they would no longer exist as a class, because the workers would not tolerate them.

  • Simple, really

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  • It already exists. See for example Mondragon

    The major issue is that it has to compete on a global market that's exploitative.

  • Simple, really

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  • If you want to maintain a market system under socialism you need to separate it from public production. We would need to democratically decide what is a public good (e.g. housing, food, medicine, etc.) and what is a market good (essentially luxury goods). The private market would also have to be heavily regulated to prevent capital accumulation and associated power concentration. It's a really difficult problem.

    One of the reasons the Soviet economy failed is because computers were not advanced enough in the 1950s-80s to automate the kind of consumer goods production that a command economy would require to be able to compete with a market system. I think if we tried this again today we would have an easier time of it, and if you look at a large vertically integrated corporation like Walmart, they've more or less figured it out already.

  • Simple, really

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  • There is a simpler way to do this, and it's a worker cooperative. Workers own the business and they democratically decide what the business does. There is no separation between the leadership and the workforce. Maintaining that separation will always result in conflict because the interests of the owners will never be the same as those of the workers.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • Sure, no arguments there. I guess it's the "green" label I take issue with. Carbon-free capitalism is definitely possible as long as there are enough critical elements to produce all of the necessary solar panels and wind turbines (and I guess fusion reactors if we're really ambitious about printing money 🤑). I do wonder about rent collection long-term though, especially with such decentralized energy sources. Overproduction will also come sooner than everyone thinks. But I guess these are much better problems to have than imminent eco-catastrophe.

  • Political mindset evolution

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  • Yeah that's my point. The average democrat would consider him to be a dangerous radical leftist.