42davenant [none/use name]

Just as awful is the fact that every potential job asks about your employment history, and why you aren't working there now. You are not supposed to say that you left because of bad working conditions or a bad boss. And god forbid if you've ever been fired in your life, then you don't deserve another job. Glad we don't have a system of social credit here!

That's a fair point, I'm not sure there's a lot of historical indicators either way. I guess my thought it is, say there was a serious drop in material conditions in say Norway - a drop large enough to potentially foment revolution. Do you think their social democratic setup would push people towards socialism? My gut says yes. Compare that to what we have in the US right now. It seems to me that we are so deeply ingrained with capitalism, that if we have revolutionary conditions here yeah socialism one direction we could go, but a lot others that are even worse.

But this is all admittedly conjecture, I don't really know for sure and thus don't have a particularly strong opinion on it.

I think AOC, Tlaib and Omar are not only good, but are very good. "But they aren't socialists!" - yeah well chocolate long johns aren't socialist, but they are fucking delicious and I'm glad they exist.

Which speaks to my even more unpopular opinion: I think social democracy, while of course is not the end goal, is good. Like, materially improving people's lives via social democracy while at the same time working via direct action and organizing to bring about socialism, is good. I'm not gonna thumb my nose at making the lives of the working class better by pushing for universal healthcare, a strong social safety net, public pensions, and mass unionization.

Which leads me to what is definitely my most unpopular opinion: I get the idea that social democracy only prolongs capitalist exploitation... but I'm not convinced that it absolutely is not one path to socialism, in the right circumstances.

I deleted that account so it's gone. It was just circlejerking about my cute doggo and people constantly saying "wow this is a cool club we're all in here"

I deleted my main when Chapo got banned but I have another I use for local news and a few hobbies.

As an aside, I had a post on my main that hit the front page, something like 30k upvotes. That unlocked some secret sub for people who have posted and hit the front page. If you think normal reddit is insufferable OMG, you have no idea. That secret sub was a black hole o'cringe...

I'd like to see Amazon nationalized and brought under the USPS' direction.

Yeah all the lame Kerry / Gorn / whatever posting drove me away from the discord pretty dang quick.

"I got better..."

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Yeah but then the town approves yet another faux neoclassical monstrosity.

Don't let libertarians you come across say this without challenging them on it. The "calculation problem" that the Austrian economists claimed meant that capitalism is always more efficient has been debunked. Just by math alone, computing power must eventually get to a certain point where it is automatically more efficient than the free market. Project Cybersyn showed back in 1972 this was probably already the case decades ago.