• Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com
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    2 years ago

    Obviously those things (except capitalism and some wars) are bad, but literally every country has a history of essentially the same thing.

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      2 years ago

      Late stage capitalism is bad, we don’t have a better system really, so on that issue, I say we just reset the whole thing. Capitalism reboot.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      That’s…capitalism. In a profit-seeking society, there’s no greater profit than taking control of the society’s government. There’s no such thing as “crony capitalism” if that is what you are referring to. It’s all a part of the game. Any sufficiently powerful company will eventually attempt to manipulate the law and regulations for their own gain.

      The Soviet Union is basically what it would look like if a single corporation managed to completely take over society and push out all competition. That’s why some people argue that it was a type of society known as “state capitalist”, instead of communist, since they never actually did away with money, class, or hierarchy.

      Another good example would be “Buy-N-Large” from the movie “Wall-E”, although from reading the backstory on them, it seems like a more benevolent entity than we would expect from such a monopoly. Faced with declining profits from a failing economy and environment due to their grip on it, they implemented a system of universal income so that they could continue to have customers. They slowly became the world government and effectively operated as one.

    • Riddick3001@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      To me this meme comes across as fascist , rascist and prejudiced.

      You have become 200%, what you supposedly hate so much.

      " Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you."

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          2 years ago

          No he’s saying making a captain planet meme about a country being shitty makes you a fascist. Because that makes sense

    • Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone
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      2 years ago

      Well yeah… in lots of ways.

      Good in others, as an Australian who traveled there the average American is great. I just think you’ve been intentionally fragmented and manipulated. So there are large groups of people who want their country to change but cannot seem to find common ground and band together to strengthen those ideas.

      Then you have such powerfully rich and crazy groups that seem to be able to rule the narrative

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      2 years ago

      This could apply to any number of countries and it’s getting kinda tedious. It’s like a bunch of American teenagers just learned that their history books aren’t telling the whole story and literally cannot stop talking about it. You hit college level history, congratulations, good for you champ.