Before Thatcher, the top tax rate for highest earners was 83%. If it was classed as 'unearned income' (eg capital gains), the tax could have a 15% surcharge, meaning the top tax rate for unearned income was 98%. (Under Thatcher, that went down to 60% - the top rate now is just 45%.)
And people wonder why we suddenly don't have money to fund public services anymore.
Hexbear is now officially a centrist instance.
I want to live in a world where Studio Ghibli dismantled Israel with a huge lawsuit.
The US has blatantly disregarded the constitution loads of times. To pretend that breaking it now would necessarily lead to collapse is a bit weird.
Bitch that is not an 'ethnic group' that is two blurry squares of AI-generated ass
This is the wrong conclusion. This looks a lot less "Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT" and more like "Something Bizarre Already Happened to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot". Like yeah no shit, lonely people will reach for whatever company they can get, however shit it is.
You mean nature acts a holistic whole and it's actually the imbalances introduced by recent, ubiquitous unthinking human exploitation that has had vast, all-reaching negative consequences?? 
At least in my county, the council doesn't really interact with or take responsibility for social housing. It was solely that social housing was offered to low-income families and that it's supposed to be charged at 75% market rate.
In fairness, most social housing is owned by supposedly not-for-profit organisations, but they're still typically making rich people rich and screwing over poor people.
Radio Free Asia too, hopefully.
The capitalist class becoming too stupid to sustain its own existence may be an even more lethal contradiction than class contradictions.
Really? London is full of them. I've seen hundreds if not thousands of buildings with plastics disguised as brick.
Sharing the truth would have it decried as a misinformation tool to the point of being effectively censored everywhere but China, so for the best global uptake, it's easiest to just refuse to talk about it.
It's kind of that simple.
I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.
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Frogshallah lives on as my headcanon
An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people. 
https://lemmy.world/post/18545268
I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines. 
@Rookwood
The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.
There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less . then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.
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Dharma Curious
Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of y’all do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means.
The correct response to “neo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism” should be “no shit, Sherlock”
It’s truly sad that that isn’t 100% of the comments here.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, y’all. That doesn’t mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism.
And just in case y’all also don’t know what that means, “liberalism” in that context isn’t “Obama liberal, Bush conservative,” it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of.
ETA: I’m not engaging anymore… it’s not my job to teach y’all the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck
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i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc.
Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit.
You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity.
Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way.
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@njm1314
Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say it’s natural conclusion.
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BlackLaZoR
fascism is the end result of capitalism
I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this
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This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:
ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.
perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks
They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.
if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives
My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.
One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.
Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.
Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.
That's all.
Nah I obviously don't care, r/greenandpleasant are alright. I just thought it was funny to see my own words out there.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls
"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."
Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.
This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?
You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???
It's easy to remember that Wine is just an API compatibility layer - Just gotta know its actual name: