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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 23

Every city that Trump sends troops into should organize a city-wide #GeneralStrike, both as a protest, and to protect vulnerable workers. And if other people outside the city want to join in for solidarity, that's great. Shut everything down. The fascists are outnumbered. Make their economy bleed

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wow, you are such a smug asshole. I mean, I knew you wouldn't admit you were wrong, but damn. No wonder the left can't ever seem to unite. Go argue with somebody you actually disagree with on something substantial

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 21

You are describing the results of capitalism, not the concept itself. Capitalism is simply when markets are left to their own devices. Yes, it always leads to massive inequality and abuse. But it does so efficiently, because it requires no additional effort like regulation or accountability

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you just want to shit on capitalism, go for it man. I'm a socialist. But you aren't contributing anything to the conversation by ignoring my explanation and accusing me of swallowing propaganda. Capitalism will always exist. We need to understand it to control it

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 21

You're misunderstanding the meaning of efficiency. It is efficient because it requires no extra work, not because it results in the best outcome (or anything close to it). I'm not advocating for capitalism, I'm just describing a free market. Controlling it requires work, and thus is less efficient

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 21

Capitalism does have one useful purpose. It allocates scarce resources efficiently. The problem with that is that market efficiency doesn't care about equity, or even survival. It can be used effectively within systems that prioritize those vital human things over the cold efficiency of free markets

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 21

Capitalism isn't a weapon we can simply take away. Wherever there is scarcity, there will be capitalism. Attempts to completely remove all capitalism always resort to authoritarian communism, which is unsustainable, and unnecessary. Controlled markets with a powerful social safety net is superior

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

One of the problems the modern left has is that it often adopts the terminology of the right rather than countering it. Words we use for ourselves frequently become slurs, and we just accept that and try a new word. Not me. I don't care what stupid people think

Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yes. She's a very nice cat

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Good choice. I wish more top level Democrats stood with their constituents instead of their donors. And yes, fuck Trump and all his fascist enablers

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Weapons are also just tools, and they can be controlled if we try. If good people don't use them, evil people still will. More good people need to study these weapons so they understand how they are dangerous, and when they can be made useful for noble purposes

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Cancer is just unregulated growth. Capitalism is fine in controlled circumstances with clear limits. It works fine for distributing unnecessary luxuries, but not for basic human needs like medicine. It's only when it takes precidence over vital systems and strangles them that it kills the host

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

So much of conservatism is just nostalgia for a time that never was. Youth is a time of ignorance, and ignorance is bliss

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can't take states at their words, especially about themselves. Just ask the so-called "Democratic Republic" of North Korea

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Agreed. Accountability is a fundamental aspect of any functioning society. I wish it wasn't so rare

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

I never said those places were socialist. Far from it. China is not socialist, and neither is Canada or any European country. Social programs are still necessary, and fully in line with socialism. Just because they can fail or be abused doesn't make them wrong or useless

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Perhaps not truly fundamental, but they are always necessary. The key to a functioning society is to keep capitalism firmly under the thumb of socialism, rather than the opposite, as it always seems to be. Power must remain with the people, and competition must always serve the greater good

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yes. But we've all seen what happens when markets and competitions don't have rules. It gets very ugly, very fast. If people's lives depend on it, it becomes a fight to the death. Capitalism is like fire. It must be kept small and controlled or it will consume and destroy everything

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Selfishness is absolutely a core tenet of Capitalism, and it does lead to hate. Capitalism is only viable in controlled settings. Left to itself, or worse, held up as a universal good, it inevitably leads to social alienation and collapse of public trust. Capitalist government is just oligarchy

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fair social programs are actually a fundamental aspect of socialism. Socialism can be a good thing. People should stop balking at a word they've been conditioned to fear and consider what it really means

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's just the three Cs.

Complacency
Complicity
Corruption

The oligarchs already own everything. The Democratic party is just their faux-progressive wing

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 20

It will be a nightmare unlike anything anyone living in the USA has ever known. The alternative may also be a nightmare, however, as fascism has the potential to kill millions of innocent captives. It's a no-win scenario. Is it better to die in a war against evil, or in a country overrun by it?

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 19

Biden could have had them all arrested, every Republican. He could even have had them executed by the military, and he could have gotten away with it, because the supreme court said presidents are above the law. He only protected his own family, and he threw the rest of the country to the wolves

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 19

Yeah... There aren't enough characters to actually list the USA's crimes. And it's such a relatively young country, too. Not that it's alone in its depravity. History is filled with countless villians and precious few heros

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Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 19

There have been strides, though I don't think any American president was a totally good person. Obama killed civilians with drones. Biden fully supported a genocide. The best of America was always, at best, a mixed bag. Corruption always advanced, and now Trump is a cancer ready to kill what's left

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