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  • Comment105@lemm.eeBanned from communitytoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comCapitalism could not be explained any simpler
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    2 years ago

    You can’t just build shelter and grow food. All the land, clay, and wood is owned by someone else. You need to earn your land, clay, and wood. But we will give you some free food. We won’t give you shelter, we were playing with the idea and kind of set it up, but decided to not really do that. We allow you to temporarily set up tents in our woods and pick some foods there, but you can’t plant anything and you have to pay us if you want to hunt our animals, and if you camp in one place too long the forest police will arrest you. If you camp in our cities, we’ll have the normal police chase you around. Maybe break your stuff, maybe beat you up. Sometimes we’ll go farther. Don’t camp in our cities.



  • Comment105@lemm.eeBanned from communitytoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comZero overlap... Tonight's just for the freaks
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    2 years ago

    Through my Overton windows it is.

    Just so happens mass deportation looks normal now, too. But giving up on transport and deciding to just start culling and burying those rounded up deportees in waiting is still a little outside frame for now. We’ll get there though. But don’t worry, we’ll just do a few hundred thousand so it won’t be like the Nazis, really. It’ll be like the diet version. For a while, maybe 10 years or so. Then it’ll go into full gear.






  • Comment105@lemm.eeBanned from communitytoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comResearch
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    2 years ago

    We can choose to either provide for those who lack food, housing, and other things, or we can choose not to. We often choose not to despite having both sufficient food and shelter.

    We can also choose to pursue the goal of making the poor independent.

    But if we choose to leave people unprovided for, that is just what we have chosen. There is no way around that.

    Making the poor independent is a separate project, in the same vein as making people stop being violent, or unhealthy, or depressed, or sick. An eternal pursuit , with a curious caveat. Because in the case of the poor, if the population of dependent poor die off while the newly improved Independent population remains, it would be a success. No more dependants is the goal, quite literally. It is treated more like ridding ourselves of leeches.

    Because contribution is demanded, no matter how banale, cynical, useless, performative or downright harmful. Marketing, manipulation, waste and serving up garbage is all much better than the insufficiently productive poor. Learn to weld, only to make giant steel flower beds to decorate an apartment building, supply the ridiculous demand. Supplying something is the point, regardless of how necessary the demand is.

    There’s also the matter that we’ve chosen very explicitly to disallow the poor any power to simply leave the city and establish their of towns of rejects with the materials that exist in nature, as harvesting huge quantities of wood and clay without permissions – unlikely to be obtained – is expressly illegal. Apparently we have to, to protect the environment from people. But it’s not civilization’s responsibility to rectify that injustice, is it? It can just disallow you your shelter and leave it at that. Civilization does not have to compensate a man for the option it has taken away from him.




  • Comment105@lemm.eeBanned from communitytoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comFrench libs right now
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    2 years ago

    The left leaning parties are liberals and the center are fascists, they’re keeping real leftists out. None of the “left wing” parties in France are trying to start a revolution in the streets to take power. They’re all too happy sitting there, just being in power… It’s pathetic.