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  • NewDarktoNews@lemmy.worldIsrael is About to Empty Gaza.
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    2 days ago

    And if people voted for the democrats, and they continued the genocide which I’m certain they would, they would be far more culpable.

    Sorry, it’s a democracy. Threatening (or actually) withholding your vote is a valid tactic to get concessions. If that isn’t true, this isn’t a democracy (and I’d argue it already isn’t and hasn’t been but the theoretical one we understand).


  • NewDarktoNews@lemmy.worldIsrael is About to Empty Gaza.
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    That’s what you care about? 2 million people are being starved, bombed, and shot, and you’re bitching that people had a conscience not voting for the party perpetuating it? Maybe they could have done the bare fucking minimum and not full throatedly supported ethnic cleansing and genocide. Jesus christ man.













  • NewDarktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldMove the Overton Window
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    14 days ago

    No. You need labor and materials extracted by labor. Labor built the computers. Labor mined the minerals to make the computers. Labor built the factory that makes the computers. Labor operated the factory that makes the computers. Labor uses tools built by labor to repair people’s houses as a laborer.

    The only thing a capitalist does is own that factory or building or enterprise, and pay workers less than what it generates. That’s the definition of profit.




  • NewDarktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldMove the Overton Window
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    14 days ago

    “Don’t like slavery? Well start a farm picking cotten with all of your non-slaves then! Easy.” - You in pre-civil war America probably.

    All well and good, but that doesn’t change how the system in of itself is exploitative (obviously less so than slavery), and we should not allow such strong private property rights. Capitalists are leeching your labor value, don’t lick their boots in the process.




  • NewDarktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldMove the Overton Window
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    15 days ago

    Ok, how do we solve that? More markets? Based on what you said above, that sounds like your solution.

    I’m of the opinion that workers need ownership of the companies they work for instead of capitalist ownership, but that’s just me. After all, they’re the ones doing the work by definition.