Give me the whole deck bitches, unos a kids game and were talking about causing political unrest.
Huh…just realized that Austin Powers’ chest hair is in the shape of a penis.
I never noticed that, either. Intentional or not, it’s on-brand.
Especially when someone blames capitalism for something which has been a problem since the dawn of humanity, and if anything, has improved under capitalism.
Care to share a representative xample?
Snakes
“You don’t hate women and feminism. You hate capitalism.”
https://slrpnk.net/post/17820010
As if misogyny is a new thing that came along with capitalism. Women have been second-class citizens for most of recorded history. While they’re still not on par with men, if anything it has improved in the modern, capitalist world.
“It is always capitalism’s fault”
https://lemmy.world/post/23607277
Despite the nazis being fascists, somehow it’s not their fault, it’s actually capitalism that’s at fault.
Lemmy search isn’t very good, but I’ve replied to a bunch of Lemmy posts over the last while where the argument is basically that capitalism is the worst possible system. They seem to be unaware of just how brutal and awful life was under Manorialism / Feudalism. They seem to equate every modern ill with capitalism, even when it’s something that was 1000x worse under say fascism.
I thought that had more to do with the rise in misogyny from men looking to blame something that isn’t capitalism. I would say the the issue is more complicated then capitalism, but capitalism is definitely a major factor.
Look at just the advertisements in mainstream culture. Ads designed for men appeal to masochism, but modern society, or at least the white collar work that society tells men they want, has no need for manliness. You get this glitch in people’s minds and men fall into a Man-o-sphere spiral. It’s actually stunning how actuate Fight Club predicted types like Trump and Tate. Only real issue with Fight Club is that Tyler Durden had to have believable charisma. His real life counter parts have the charisma is a wet paper bag.
I’m not trying to argue the point of “capitalism good or bad”, I just feel you misunderstood the posts you linked.
The first one does not say that misogyny in general is begotten by capitalism, just that the current problems that today’s misogynists experience and attribute to women and feminism today are actually caused by today’s ruling class under capitalism.
An the second one faults capitalism for enabling nazism, it does not say “it’s not the fascists fault”, but that “capitalists are fascists with the mask not yet fully off”.
All I’m saying it’s different arguments.
Hunger. What other form of economic system has kept people this fed? All communist countries have had famines mass killing their population.
The dust bowl ran a few thousand deaths in America compared to Mao’s famine killing millions, Soviet famines killing millions every couple decades, the '90s North Korean famine killed God knows how many people. Americans get fed dogshit slop, but they don’t starve.
I’d urge you to compare systems by comparing other factors as well. We know communism produced Stalin, but it produced Stalin as an alternative to the Tsars, who were not much better. The Chinese Empire was also not famous for its humanitarian values. We don’t know how Socialist America would look like because it’s never happened.
I’m not here to advocate for anything, to be honest I’m on the side of “let’s solve actual fucking problems before arguing ideology”, but I feel comparing the USSR to the US is a stupid comparison.
It’s kind of hard to critique communism when capitalism declares war against every instance that sprouts up
Mao was an idiot tho
Greed. Violence. Self-interest. In vs. Out groups. Shall I go on?
What distro is this?
Ubuntu
The abundance of overconfident one-line retorts and trendy slang make me think people’s major source of knowledge here is memes.
HEY, THAT GUY’S HOARDING ALL THE CARDS. LET’S KILL HIM!
You’re definitely a CAPITALIST
Hahahahaha
I just got this. It’s been a long day 😂
Was it like “No I’m not! … wait I don’t get it but I can tell that’s supposed to be funny. I will say nothing until I understand”? Because I do that all the time.
It was like “Well, I don’t like being called that, but I can tell they’re joking, and it kinda makes sense that if I were a capitalist I’d want that guy dead because I want his cards, but that’s not really what I was going for. I’ll upvote, but I don’t really know what to say about it.”
And then as I was wrapping up my shift at work, I went back through my notifications to see if I’d missed anything; my eyes went right to “CAPITALIST” and I was like “heh. Kinda funny that that’s all… in… hm. Oh. Ohhhh… HAHAHAHA”
I am afraid we are way past that point, it is more like a discussion between should we kill all billionaires or just -force redistribute their wealth or not draw 25 cards
What relation this has with capitalism? Are you trying to claim capitalism created wealth concentration and reduced class mobility?
Because that’s exactly what the OP is about.
It isn’t about what evil capitalism created. It’s about what evil capitalism has enabled to be perfected at scale.
I swear it’s like people want to be serfs.
serfs
Ironic…
You use exactly the word that capitalism deprecated.
My choice of words isn’t accidental, and you seem to have spotted the irony without appreciating its flavor.
Well if it weren’t for capitalism you wouldn’t have to complain about Lemmy complaining about it…
Really? Advertising Sprite on Lemmy?? A Coca Cola Company product??? Keep your capitalism out of here! /s
You know what can REALLY be a bit much sometimes?
It’s Capita-
The capitalists got him, guys
Can we not? Like of all the shit to defend…
Not wanting to hear constant complaints about something does not equate to defending or endorsing that thing.
For example, you likely wouldn’t want to have a roommate constantly complain about their diarrhea after they eat dairy. You asking them to not constantly update you about their shit doesn’t mean you are defending diarrhea. Most people don’t want to be subjected to constant complaints about something they don’t have the authority/ability to change.
The alternative is normalization of capitalism and the status quo, which is already very much the case in most of society. People are constantly dying and suffering because of capitalism, the bare minimum is constant critique.
How many more memes until capitalism collapses? Roughly.
You have heard of commodification of capitalism criticism now get ready for commodification of criticism of capitalism criticism
Without capitalism you never would have made this meme!
We can appreciate a system for how it has developed the productive forces but determine its time is up… or whatever I can’t help myself I’m sorry
/draws card
