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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If we want to see this stop, we need a revolution. We need to build a worker-led anti-imperialist movement.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This is the type of delusion that keeps me coming back to Lemmy

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social -5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah... i've seen how that works. Workers are incredibly corrupt, like most people.

We need something that delivers transparency with intelligence and a huge amount of social empathy as it's core. Can't work in this world. Globalism is here but fragmented feifdoms of horror remain all over, even in the wealthiest and best educated areas. To prop up one nation on the grounds of social empathy at the cost of others invites the same kind of problem we're in today, and there's simply not enough to go around with 8 billion people.

I don't have a solution to fix the world's problems, if I did I would use it. Instead all I can do is push for some kind of regulatory action. Again, consequences for shareholders. There should be the biggest penalty for unethical, immoral and illegal actions taken against humanity by the people who have a stake in the business. Leadership comes from the top, and if they are unable to avoid horrors, perhaps they shouldn't have the assets that allow them to lead.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

thats just defeatist drivel.

organize with your fellow workers instead of making excuses to let your country kill us.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I would just be corrupt like the next guy. FYIGM is quite appealing vs fighting your whole life against a handful of people with vast resources in excess of everyone you have ever met in your entire life, including the billionaire ceos that you might have bumped into that one time.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

if you are corrupt, then you simply shut up about it.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So pretend like there's no problem, just be corrupt.

Hot take. Exactly why the world is where it is today. Human nature baybee

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

fascist* nature. though nazi fucks like you will get what's coming exactly like last time.

i don't worry too much.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

The primary enabler of fascism is the belief that it is inevitable.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anarchism is the solution. We have enough resources and land for everyone to have a fantastic quality of life. We just need to stop allowing people to rule over us. Make everyone equal and corruption is no longer possible.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, OK. Show me the anarchist paradise of yours on this planet today. Just one with more than a million souls.

The reality is that a minority of individuals will resort to problematic actions to gain control and keep control, and that's why there are so many dictatorships across the world in 2026.

Once you get beyond monkeysphere scale, things like anarchism fall apart quite quickly.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

the reason there are so many fascist dictatorships around the world is us interventionism.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Do you believe that everything that is possible has already happened?

The entire premise of anarchism is that individuals will always try to take problematic actions to gain control and keep control, so we need to build a society capable of resisting that. The entire system is designed around making it as hard as possible to sieze power. It's THE system which most resists becoming a dictatorship.

I encourage you to learn more about anarchism, check out an anarchist FAQ before you dismiss it.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anarchism is the solution.

Mmmm, I'm sorry to see this getting upvotes. Anarchism is great in theory, but the entire point of a government is to protect the weak, take from those that can afford and provide social safety nets for those who cannot.

Even with our broken democracy, a lot of that still works, even though a lot more is broken.

The solution to our broken democracy is not a lack of government completely.

People bitch about government bloat and inefficiency, but you know what's worse? Corporations with unfettered ability to maximise profit even more than they do now. The shitty limited regulations we have now? Gone in anarchy.

Anarchy is rule by the strongest.

It'd be great if we lived in some Star Trek future where everyone cooperated. But we don't. I wish anarchy worked.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

I am literally begging you to learn the fundamentals of anarchism, it isn't what you think it is, at all. Check out an anarchist FAQ to learn more.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

your country is literally murdering people around the planet.

you don't have the moral high ground here (esp against an ideology you seem to know nothing about)

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a whole load of whataboutism bullshit.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

the entire thread is literally about your country positioning weapons of war to kill iranians.