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[-] Sarla@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

You can tell that this audience is primarily American because they still defend capitalism, even after being shafted by it over and over. Careful everyone, big bad socialism is going to take your kids and your wife!

Don't dare dream of something better, instead keep swallowing the propaganda of the state and its controlling elites.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Man socialism keeps sounding better and better they will even take those pesky wife and kids off my hands/s.

But in serious most Americans don't know shit about socialism our capitalism they live under. Dumb fucks look at you with surprise when you mention our highway system would be considered socialist program.

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[-] Coach@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

American here and fuck capitalism.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Hey now, that's unfair!

As à Canadian, I can attest that we also blindly defend capitalism.

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[-] Zozano@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Workers should control the beans of production.

[-] version_unsorted@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Rise up! Seize the beans of production!

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[-] LeylaaLovee@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Commie memes on my front page? This place is cool AF

[-] thelemonalex@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The problem is: capitalism.

[-] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 18 points 1 year ago

Damn, a lot of capitalist bootlickers in this thread

[-] lasagna@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Goes without saying. Look at the profits of the companies providing essential resources like energy. They most certainly didn't let a good crisis go to waste.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Attention, people of Bikini Bottom! You have been cheated and lied to! The gentle laborer shall no longer suffer from the noxious greed of Mr. Krabs! We will dismantle oppression board by board! We'll saw the foundation of big business in half, even if it takes an eternity! With your support, we will send the hammer of the people's will crashing through Mr. Krabs' HOUSE OF SERVITUDE!

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

KRUSTY KRAB IS UNFAIR!

MR. KRABS IS IN THERE!

STANDING AT THE CONCESSION!

PLOTTING HIS OPPRESSION!

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[-] onlinely@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Yes, or at a bare minimum, CEO-proof everything and put more power in the hands of users of monolithic infrastructural utility products like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit

[-] platypus_plumba@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Capitalism generally allows for a range of ownership structures, including traditional privately owned businesses, publicly traded corporations, and worker-owned enterprises.

I guess an argument would be that privately owned companies are already too wealthy to allow for fair market competition, but in worker owned companies nothing is stopping them from becoming large corporations that can also do everything a private lobbyist company does. If you don't believe me, just look at your democratically elected capitalist government. Just because something is democratic doesn't mean it will be ethical or fair internally or externally.

[-] Sabo_Tabby@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Amazing how many people will step in to defend the ownership of everything to a small minority. They will not reward bootlicking yet yall continue.

[-] viciousme@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

What I learned from observation is that they tend to believe that, one day, they will be part of the "small minority". The American Dream!!!1

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

“It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it”

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Look, they're just temporary inconvenienced billionaires.

[-] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Alienation isn't limited to the workplace anymore. It has found it's way into the platforms we spend our free time on.

[-] vibe@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Or at least have them be publicly owned common good, owned by multiple countries with editorial independence from the get go and funded through taxation. That would be a start.

[-] Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

today I learned an important new word

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