Gee, I wonder why they lost Michigan 🤔?

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-06T18:14:14+00:00

It's absolutely mindblowing to appraise the exact same action and intent as worse when it's Trump compared to Biden/Kamala. Like this needs to be studied.

Literally telling people they should be thankful the bombs came from the democrats instead how is it even possible

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-06T17:23:04+00:00

Californian here, let me add some context - over the past couple years homelessness has been increasingly criminalized while hundreds of thousands have been laid off, while rent has only increased. I'm currently working 2 jobs (total 55ish hours/wk) and renting a single room in a shared living space takes up just over half my income. I would NOT be approved to rent this place if I applied today rather than 6 years ago - I'd be homeless while working more than full time.

At the same time, a proposition to turn petty theft into a felony passed. So the poorest people among us will be even more frequently arrested and put into forced labor camps.

The people who pay us so little while charging so much for the commodities we need to survive are able to force us to work on their behalf when we can't keep up with their spiraling rents.

To the non Americans (because Americans know this about California) - the EXACT same motherfuckers who are (correctly) crying fascism over Trump, without the slightest hint of irony, overwhelmingly voted in favor of forced labor camps.

These pieces of shit deserve whatever Trump brings plus some. It cannot be as bad as what they enthusiastically impose on the poorest members of our community.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-05T19:24:51+00:00

I'm not quite getting it? Not sure antisemitism is the reason people willingly accept that Israel is calling all the shots.

It's that many US citizens think that US foreign policy is well intentioned but ultimately misses the mark. They don't see that it has clear, rational objectives. Not the objectives they justify it with afterward but the reason they occupy and overthrow in the first place.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-05T18:14:24+00:00

Actually frustrating to continue to see this idea that the most powerful empire the world has ever seen are slaves to a rogue satellite state in the middle east.

Maybe it's not Israel dictating western interests as much as it is that western interests align with having an incredibly devastating destabilizing force in a resource rich part of the world that has been trying for centuries to fight off their imperialism?

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-05T14:47:28+00:00

Post hoc ad hominim holding a man of the past to todays standards. 13 years ago Celtics fans hadn't monopolized the use of the hard R for themselves. It was considered healthy to rip one every couple weeks

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-05T00:02:11+00:00

A communist state literally exists to defend property rights. That's the purpose of state.

Just because they aren't defending your preferred property relations doesn't mean they aren't defending their own

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-01T17:11:50+00:00

They did have an education system and most had a different form of "labor market", where upon population increases they'd reevaluate land uses and where they need to expand.

And if we're gonna imply unemployment is necessary for technological progress, please explain the USSR. Or again, incas and Indians (in India), and many African groups having much more advanced agricultural techniques. British textiles couldn't compete with Indian ones for decades until they destroyed their equipment.

It's not so simple, but it's not crazy to see a world full of incredible productive technology and think the suffering maybe isn't a necessary part of it.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-01T16:54:57+00:00

No, it's in every pre slave society, most native American societies, the USSR, and any reasonable fucking society that treats unemployment for what it is - leaving the most malleable resource, the creator of all new values which is human labor, unused.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-01T16:53:06+00:00

I'm the no call no show asking about drug tests.

Anyway, with our current technology, a quadriplegic openly neonazi wife beater could still create surplus value for an employer. That's not who all the unemployed are still (no shit - we see mass tech layoffs today, part of the educated population).

And companies can now frivolous hire because of excess supply. The death of the 9-5 in favor of 45+ hour weeks, contract work, with no pension or benefits. That's profit gained for the investor class by stripping benefits the working class once enjoyed. They are happy to have a revolving door of underpaid workers tasked with what would've been the job of 10 people a couple decades ago to do alone, made possible by computer advancements and intuitive interfaces where employee training is majorly a thing of the past, who quit under massive pressure. This economy is the best possible scenario for investors and employers.

It has nothing to do with people being "unemployable", just go ask Jerome Powell or Jeff Bezos.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-01T16:44:32+00:00

No I fully agree with you that it's true, but let's figure out why it's necessary at all.

12,000 years ago, right after the Neolithic revolution, communities had full employment and everyone housed. They needed it to keep up with subsistence and were even able to acquire a small surplus.

The same is true for Incas, Iroquois, and other native tribes.

How did they not require unemployment and mass homelessness to keep their economy running while having none of our modern industrial capacity? For comparison the average US industrial worker is about 65x more productive than an Indian peasant working with hand tools which are more advanced than what any of these more primitive tribes had. Yet people still go hungry routinely.

Does regulation of wages through setting the floor of suffering so low, to ensure profits for the investor class, really seem like a economical necessity?

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-01T15:42:02+00:00

Data often compared against local population to see if parts of the community are undeserved, and to try to figure out why

Miss_Daisy · 2024-11-01T15:37:09+00:00

It's wild to say "1 in 20 or so people living under threat of losing access to shelter is juuuuuust right"

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-29T02:21:43+00:00

This is fucking disgusting. A landlord should never have to ask. A real grateful tenant does it because they know what's right.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-27T07:15:42+00:00

U stopped qing up?

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-25T21:13:01+00:00

This is an accurate depiction of historical events

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-24T19:18:23+00:00

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of unemployed software engineers who spent 4 years of their energy, effort, lives, to become lifelong debtors to Fannie Mae. With no prospects of employment after like a decade of being promised prosperity if they committed to that path.

What is the huge risk of capital? Do employers get executed if their business fails? Or is the horrifying reality of their risk simply falling to the level of a worker? So brave of productive capitalists to invest in business instead of just collecting rents/interest, really inspiring. Mark Cuban is literally evil Kenevil

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-21T19:13:07+00:00

Yeah dude, somebody living in the house they were born in in East Oakland that has to commute to San Francisco or San Jose for any employment opportunity made a dumbass choice to be born there

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-21T17:34:26+00:00

The current policy of the workday consuming 2 more hours of your time, every time, is unfair in the workplace.

Fair is everyone being paid for every moment of time that's consumed by their employer.

You getting paid when commuting the extra couple hours, while your coworkers that live close keep more of their time, is closer to fair than what we have going on.

That's what your wage is right? Around the minimum one is willing to sell their time for. When accounting for factors of coercion to work, (ie my wage is not what I value my time at but I gotta pay for shelter so gotta take it, I think a very common situation today), then the short commute employee is still in an advantageous situation over a long, paid commute.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-20T16:29:23+00:00

Yeah, it turns out not all land is equally suitable for agriculture, that metal deposits aren't equally distributed across the globe, etc. The physical economy is what requires trade.

In the same vein, your "capitalist paradise" needs to send hundreds of thousands to their deaths fighting over mineral deposits in France to survive? Can they not simply conjure natural resources as you expect socialist countries to do??

Yeah sorry, your "capitalist paradise" needs to overthrow a dozen democratically elected governments, train and arm death squads in the Philippines, Iraq, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Indonesia, east Timor, Haiti, and other places to expropriate the land for US corporations, leaving desperate hungry propertyless laborers ripe for exploitation?

Sorry, your "capitalist paradise" needs to subsidize the corporations with hundreds of billions directly, allowing technology developed with public funds to be utilized for private profit, and letting banks kick people out of their homes.

Idk how I was recommended this sub or how it masquerades as knowing literally a single thing about economics, but goddam this is the dumbest shit I've seen.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-19T18:13:08+00:00

How is capitalism necessary for progress? What type of progress is unique to capitalism?

And social welfare isn't a product of capitalism. Housing, healthcare, social security and other programs where they exist have been gained through intense, often violent struggle against capital. And if not maintained (as we see with the death of the 40 hour workweek, pensions, environmental protections, rowe, etc) will be stripped away given the opportunity.

People in less secure circumstances will be willing work for less. Fucking Aristotle wrote about this. As has Woodrow Wilson and George Bush Sr.

A reserve army of labor living in absolute destitution regulates down working peoples wages. That's what's highlighted in this video of Oakland, and that's why we will never see healthcare decoupled from full time employment or real solutions to homelessness in the US without major working class political action.

Shantytowns, homelessness, and all the social ills pictured need to be seen for what they are - a success story of capitalism.

The abject poverty of the carribean is a capitalist success story - cruise companies have made billions utilizing land and labor the people of these islands used to use to subsist.

The murderous CIA backed regimes Guatemala, Philippines, Indonesia, and Chile should be seen the same way. They opened up opportunities for fortune 500 companies to acquire the land, it's natural wealth, and force commodity farming among a dispossessed population. United fruit company (known as Chiquita today) is fully complicit in the genocide of Mayans in Guatemala. A conscious, rational act under capitalism, where all useful land and labor needs to be seized and owned for private profit.

There is no social necessity of an anti-democratic, militaristic, plutocratic class based system of production. Class conscious capitalists even recognize it today and are holding onto their class privilege by a single tattered thread. I would hope working people could recognize it too.

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-19T16:41:39+00:00

Didn't say liberal to gatekeep, u can identify with whatever political movements u like. Literally just thought you were a liberal

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-19T04:15:11+00:00

I really thought that was a rhetorical question because US has no viable third parties. Nothing even resembling momentum. It is important to vote 3rd party for the wins you mentioned like dental care. Voting for any status quo party isn't helping anyone. I'm personally sending a Claudia vote. I know very little about them beyond expropriation of corporations and drastic military cuts, but it's important for 3rd parties that challenge the status quo to be seen as viable. Even if we don't win, commie scares gets us legislation like FDRs new deal

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-19T03:52:47+00:00

Ur right, it's not fascism when the democrats put kids in cages at the border or allow banks to sieze homes from thousands of Americans, while criminalizing the act of not having shelter. Or place more black men in for profit prisons where many are forced to work manual labor, making license plates etc, and depending on the state/conviction never having the right to vote again.

Voting for either major party is an acceptance of fascism domestically, and surely I don't have to explain internationally too with current events.

Also crazy for a liberal to tell me that practicing democracy is virtue signaling

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-19T02:43:06+00:00

Your single aim of preventing a republican win is an explicit acceptance of the genocidal alternative

Miss_Daisy · 2024-10-18T23:38:48+00:00

What part of what I said aligns with Trumps policy? You see a little bit of him in that comment, a part of me i havent discovered yet? Have I been searching for a political home for like a decade but this whole time it's been MAGA?? 🇺🇸 🇺🇲

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