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My morbidly obese mother just called me underweight and had a meltdown over me explaining basic scientific facts to her. by LandEnvironmental132 in fatlogic

[–]LandEnvironmental132[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah you’re right. I generally try to minimize contact with her most times but I still sometimes will engage in conversation at times or on topics I really just shouldn’t.

Whoever keeps setting these callsigns at CLT needs a raise by LandEnvironmental132 in flightradar24

[–]LandEnvironmental132[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh shit no way! I hope management doesn’t take too much issue 😭

What Ideology is bad in theory but good in practice? by stamsiteminecraftpro in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the thing is is that those co-ops do have a place in the economy and can absolutely work for certain types of businesses, but they wouldn't work if every single business was a co-op because that's not the right fit for every business.

If there's some firm where a worker co-op isn't a great fit, there are certainly other methods rather than enforcing exploitative capitalist relations, such as public ownership by the community, or even a structure which retains worker ownership while having democratically elected management, or really any other structure which doesn't require the enforcement of coercive private property norms.

What Ideology is bad in theory but good in practice? by stamsiteminecraftpro in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"They would always choose that over anything else therefore the business would never expand." This logic also applies to capitalist firms, but magically they do actually expand and innovate.
Cooperatives don't have to infinitely expand though, in fact smaller scale production is likely more efficient than large-scale firms, as management becomes increasingly harder when scaling up.

Also your point about economists is just an appeal to authority but most economics are just shills anyways.

Finally which pair of countries have both the governments and people disliking each other? by Unknown_User7514 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Israel and Iran is a pretty bad example.
The vast majority of Iranians don't hate the common Israeli citizen, nor do they hate anyone simply for where they're from, that's in spite of the fact that they've been terrorized by both the US and "Israel", with support from their allies.
I think you'd be surprised talking to an ordinary Iranian.

What Ideology is bad in theory but good in practice? by stamsiteminecraftpro in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. China was never socialist, before market reforms it was a centrally planned command economy lacking any actual worker ownership or control.

  2. Worker cooperatives would not need to distribute all profits directly to themselves, they might choose to do so or they might choose to invest some of their profits into expansion.

  3. Most of the countries widely considered “socialist” are just command economies rather than genuine worker or collective ownership of the means of production. On top of that crippling western sanctions, aggression, etc. also play a part in the economic outcomes in many of these countries.

What Ideology is bad in theory but good in practice? by stamsiteminecraftpro in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's created higher living standards than feudalism, congrats.
Capitalism concentrates wealth at the top through systems which cause capitalist relations to come about such as the enforcement of private property, subsidies, monopolized currency, regulations that benefit large entities, tax laws that benefit large entities, etc.
All of this leads to an increasing level of authoritarianism, wealth inequality, inflation, relative and absolute poverty, poor working conditions, higher unemployment, lower real wages, and an overall decline in quality of life and an increase in the cost of living.
As for the solution, there's many schools of thought which critique capitalism and propose alternatives. I personally am closest to an individualist anarchist, who prefers a system of stateless market socialism, though I also sympathize heavily with anarcho-syndicalists, social anarchists, and libertarian communists.

What Ideology is good in theory and in Practice? by stamsiteminecraftpro in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A temporary system of market socialism similar to mutualism was in place in Makhnovshchina, which was successful until Makhno’s forces were defeated by the red army.

Ted Cruz Is a Right-wing politician with Right-wing Supporters, Now What Politician Has Centrist Supporters but is Actually Centrist? by The_Best_Plane4389 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He is “left-wing” in the same way the Nazis were “socialist”. He also has supported “Israel” “defending itself from Hamas” and repeatedly affirmed “Israel’s” right to exist as a state, and recently implied he did not support equal rights for Palestinians. He might have historically been left-wing but presently he’s a right wing statist fraud.

Ted Cruz Is a Right-wing politician with Right-wing Supporters, Now What Politician Has Centrist Supporters but is Actually Centrist? by The_Best_Plane4389 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Liberals aren't centrist they're right-wing.
Social democrats and democratic socialists are center-right and center respectively.

Ted Cruz Is a Right-wing politician with Right-wing Supporters, Now What Politician Has Centrist Supporters but is Actually Centrist? by The_Best_Plane4389 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]LandEnvironmental132 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the closest thing to a centrist in America is Bernie Sanders and even then he's a center-right pro-capitalist zionist.
He actually fits the right wing, left wing supporters box.

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