How To Explain Socialism Clearly In a Way That Actually Persuades People

“A ghost is haunting the United States—the ghost of socialism.

“Socialism is a society whose top priority is meeting all of its people’s needs, ranging from food, shelter, and health care, to art, culture, and companionship.

In contrast, capitalism only cares about any of that basic human necessities stuff to the extent that money can be made of it.”

#socialism #capitialism

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/how-to-explain-socialism-clearly-in-a-way-that-actually-persuades-people

The U.S. is a Nation of Savage Inequality

This is capitalism.the billionaires don’t give a damn.

And they call the shots. They own the congress, the supreme court, the white house, statehouses, governors’ mansions, Hollywood, the military and every other political or social institution the way they’ve bribed their way into control of the supreme court

Our oligarchs do not care about vagabonds tortured by psychosis, even if there are lots of them

#capitialism #savage

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/07/the-u-s-is-a-nation-of-savage-inequality/

The Myth of the Free Market

It should be obvious to anyone at all familiar with economic policy over the last four decades that it was not about the free market, it was about structuring the economy in ways that made the rich richer

Sounds much better to tell the public the vast majority who are losers from these policies, that “the market creates both winners and losers,” as opposed to saying “we’re implementing polices to transfer money from you to us”

#capitialism

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/03/the-myth-of-the-free-market-2/

Capitalism Is a Conspiracy

“capitalism’s widely felt adversarial transactionalism is , from tobacco companies lying about the well-known health consequences of smoking, to petroleum companies funding research functionally proving global warming only to better sow doubt about its existence, to Purdue Pharma paying off doctors to overprescribe OxyContin and then patenting a drug to treat the very addictions they had fomented.

#capitialism

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/capitalism-is-a-conspiracy

The widespread air pollution across Canada and the US is a graphic demonstration of the impacts of the deepening climate crisis, which scientists have repeatedly warned is fueling worse droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and other devastating weather events.

The consequences of unchecked global warming are not in the future, they are already happening and being borne by workers around the world.

#ClimateCrisis #environment #labor #capitialism

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/08/misv-j08.html

The Political Tragedy of Capitalist Rule

Now more than ever what is needed is to check and reverse capital’s onslaught on the earning power and living standards of the world’s working and oppressed classes and on the natural environment that is the indispensable foundation for civilized life on an already endangered planet

And the final lesson surely is that success in this struggle must eventually lead to the definitive overthrow of the rule of capital

#capitialism

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/05/01/the-political-tragedy-of-capitalist-rule/

Capitalism:

Both patrilineality and patrilocality allow the nuclear family to become the core institution in capitalist societies that facilitates the intergenerational transfer of wealth and privilege. Radical changes to the way we organize our own domestic arrangements can profoundly disrupt the persistence of these traditions. It turns out that humanity has over two thousand years’ worth of cross-cultural experiments to help us imagine...

#capitialism #Patriarchy

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-smash-the-patriarchy-we-need-to-get-specific-about-what-it-means/

The deception of #Capitialism (C)

"C provides more choice!"

Fact - that "choice" is a broad range of lower quality products & wage slave conditions for many.

We could have a quality, rather than quantity, market economy. E.g., fewer brands of phones, although, they were high quality phones. Designed to last (e.g., be repairable).

C is wasteful!

Deception - "C is freedom"

C depends on many people being forced into wage slave employment (debts. E.g., rent)

#sustainability #economy

@juneberrychan I have an answer?

If you intend them to be a formidable foe, I wouldn't introduce them until 1/3 into the game? Introduce them slowly. Make them peak about 2/3 through the game when the player can access a spell or item that identifies these mimics?

Or you can be a BRUTAL Dragon Lord Queen and introduce those monsters right away and make the player break their controller?

Only do this is you own stock in controller production? #capitialism!!!! 🤣

Filed under shitty capitalist behaviour:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Who at Mercedes honestly thought this was a good idea?

#mercedes #capitialism

/cc @pluralistic

Because #capitialism can coexist with #fascism , but NOT #socialism. It's about greed not #HumanRights, corporations and their leadership give no fucks about you.