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A dat boy meme?? In this day and age?
It’s an old meme sir but it checks out
Old? It's only a couple years old.
-Checks - 2015
Ah.
So? That's still less than... -does elementary school level math 4 times- ...fuck
I feel like denying the existence of any amount of democracy everywhere on earth is exactly the mindset that empowers fascists and communist dictators.
It feels good to be able to simplify everything down, but concentration of wealth in market economies is a complicated issue that requires complicated solutions that the majority has been busy crafting and implementing for thousands of years as we progressed from the time of god kings to now. We have real democracies. We have means of the many peacefully controlling the privileged few. We just need more people to participate in that system.
My bet posts like this are from Americans who are waking up to the fact that they live in a shithole, but have already internalised that their country is the best so they assume everywhere else in the world must be the worse.
These sound like words from someone who wants democracy brought to them.
Sorry, but peacefully??? When's the last time the ultra rich did anything considerate for the rest of us? The time is now to work together, yes, but they expect peacefully so they can easily control you with police they own and politicians they buy!
To use America as an example: The Ultra Rich fear the IRS, that is why they promote people like Donald Trump in a bid to dismantle it. We created the IRS and we have a responsibility for future generations to empower and protect it, to harm people like the Ultra Rich, to harm Trump.
Where are the real democracies? The god-kings still keep on fucking kids. Why would they let voting stop them? Doesn't claiming their game as a degree of democracy just support their dictatorship?
Sure, participation is the least must-do right now, but if it worked, it wouldn't be allowed.
Prime example Finnland. Highest tax rate on the rich in the world and also ranks as the happiest nation on earth regularly.
Lesser example is that the USA, while failing, is still in a much better position than Russia which has been solely countrolled by a plutocratic oligarchy for decades.
Clearly there is a spectrum for how much or how little people control policy and wealth. There is a a battle going on between the rich and the governments built by the people.
Finland is currently run by the same oligarch network chain, vassals of Trump and his handlers, planning to use the area for nukes for the big show.
Capitalists have their brown shirts in the government, currently a child groomer as a Minister of Social Affairs and Health. Once in a while a centrist (still capitalist) party might become the biggest (next year probable), but it works in the ratchet politics method, never undoing the damage, basically a controlled opposition.
Highest unemployment rate in Europe. Food banks have to turn people away.
Everything that used to better than elsewhere is cut down. Austerity agenda.
The degree of riggedness is just more hidden, the same world systems "democracy" there isn't able to purge or become isolated from the now rotten institutions everywhere.
lmao
You may laugh, but if even some best example of democracy has the people in such a dire situation, they for sure aren't laughing
The best example of democracy is the happiest most well cared for people on earth.
The best example of an anarchy is Myanmar (at least before the 2021 coup) and has common people living like medieval peasants while the elite treat it as the world's most expensive resort location, while also being manipulated by China in proxy aggression with India.
If that is your view on true happiness and being well cared for, then what is the point of anything. Slavery with extra steps
My view on true happiness is that happiness is good and the system that creates the most happiness with the least suffering is the best system.
I'm having trouble understanding which part of that you oppose. Is it your opinion that there should be less happiness total or that all happiness should cost equal or greater suffering?
My view is that a system based on harm, suffering, exploitation and oppression causes an unjust ceiling to the available happiness
Edit: not even a subjective view, that's how it actually is
Progress is blocked arbitrarily by sticking to "it's not that bad somewhere" thinking
The system that demonstrably has the least suffering is built upon suffering? How do you figure?
It's like I'm arguing with Bizarro Superman.
Let's put it this way: Why do you want the system to cause even that amount of suffering when it doesn't need to be mandatory at all
Edit I see the reply talking in circles just two comments apart. Unbelievable Epstein/capitalist apologia
It already doesn't.
Dat Boi is a meme older than that song.
Heres another fun one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOb6Fykxz0
Hey chatgpt how do I stop obeying