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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

imo there's a big difference between someone venting about a desire for racial supremacy over people they see as genetic inferiors born to serve them with an overblown provocative statement, and people venting about being frustrated with men being misogynistic creeps to them with an overblown provocative statement.

Especially since my original post wasn't even saying "kill all men", I just used it as an example, like, I don't think that all cis men are bad, there are plenty of great ones, but I've had enough older cis men tell me how "incredibly r*peable" I look in DMs or send me unsolicited dick pics and stuff, and like had another one being a creep at me earlier today, that I was feeling more frustrated with them earlier. So forgive me for inserting some of my frustration into a comment barely anyone will see under some random meme.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It was just a dumb joke, not something meant to be serious.

Take it like "kill all men" statements, when people say that they're not suggesting a serious and coherent plan for the mass genocide of half the human population, they're just venting frustration about men being dicks to them in their personal life

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

gay trans communist who went to school reporting in 🫡

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

because of kolektiva the FBI has my nudes saved on a hardrive somewhere 💀

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

can you please not just be homophobic as like some epic own of the conservatives. Even if its supposed to be an ironic thing because conservatives would hate to be called gay, it just reads as normal homophobia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

this is a british propaganda poster, not a soviet one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

here's a relevant summary of Marx's thoughts on the matter:

Business Cycles and the Tendency toward Recession. Marx noted that something more than greed is involved in the capitalist's relentless pursuit of profit. Given the pressures of competition and rising wages, capitalists must make technological innovations to increase their productivity and diminish their labor costs. This creates problems of its own. The more capital goods (such as machinery, plants, technologies, fuels) needed for production, the higher the fixed costs and the greater the pressure to increase productivity to maintain profit margins.^(2)

Since workers are not paid enough to buy back the goods and services they produce, Marx noted, there is always the problem of a disparity between mass production and aggregate demand. If demand slackens, owners cut back on production and investment. Even when there is ample demand, they are tempted to downsize the workforce and intensify the rate of exploitation of the remaining employees, seizing any opportunity to reduce benefits and wages. The ensuing drop in the workforce's buying power leads to a further decline in demand and to business recessions that inflict the greatest pain on those with the least assets.

Marx foresaw this tendency for profits to fall and for protracted recessions and economic instability. As the economist Robert Heilbroner noted, this was an extraordinary prediction, for in Marx's day economists did not recognize boom-and-bust business cycles as inherent to the capitalist system. But today we know that recessions are a chronic condition and — as Marx also predicted — they have become international in scope.

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(^2) As an industry becomes more capital intensive, proportionately more money must be invested to generate a given number of jobs. But business is not dedicated to creating jobs. In fact, capitalists are constantly devising ways to downsize the workforce. From 1980 to 1990, the net number of jobs created by the biggest corporations in the United States, the "Fortune 500," was zero. The new jobs of that period came mostly from less capital-intensive smaller firms, light industry, service industry, and the public sector

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

it’s already on Lemmy

Lemmy was created by communists for communists, conservatives, "centrists" and liberals gtfo out

You can have right leaning beliefs and not be a bigot

the entirety of conservativism is openly classist, the entire ideology is built on ruthlessly attacking and stripping away protection for those most vulnerable in society. Besides, just because your family wont openly call me a slur for being trans it doesnt mean they aren't supporting a party who market themselves on wanting to strip away my rights. Frankly, you cant be pro-american at all without implicitly supporting the horrific crimes they have historically committed whether within their own borders or outside.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago

i'm the real bigot because i dont want to shag someone who happily advocates for making it as hard as possible for me to get gender affirming healthcare and openly supports the neoliberal privatisation that's devastated my country?

yes i very openly discriminate against conservatives, i have no plans for stopping or apologising

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

ngl, last time some conservative started flirting with me she got pissed of when i said i wasnt interested because they were a tory flag shagger, and then she called me a slur because im queer

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