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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You seem to be a bit confused about what exactly capitalism is. Capitalism is the ideology of private ownership, specifically with regards to the means of production. It is contrasted with socialism, which is the ideology of public ownership of the means of production.

Capitalism is the ideology that allows for someone to own a factory, for example. It allows for them to possess it, in some nebulous way, and to therefore be entitled to the fruits of labor produced there. Even if they themselves did not work to produce those products. Capitalism is the ideology of private wealth accumulation and the ideology of class. It is the ideology of wealth inequality (as opposed to wealth equality where capital is shared equally among all). It is the ideology that creates markets out of supply and demand, specifically designed to collect as much capital as possible from people seeking products. Capitalism is protected by the state, which creates justifications for its existence and prevents the working class from uprising against capitalists. The state colludes with capitalists. They exchange political power for capitalists' labor power. In this way, any party that is not explicitly anti-capitalist is necessarily pro-capitalist. To allow capitalism to exist is to protect it. In this way, capitalism is not just private ownership itself, but it is also the politics that protects such ownership and the states that choose to allow it.

Contrasted with socialism, the ideology of public ownership. Socialism is the classless ideology. Socialism is social welfare, including ideas like social assistance or UBI. Socialism allows for means of production, like factories, to be publicly and equally owned by all. It allows the fruits of labor produced in those factories to be shared by all. Like capitalism, socialism produces its own political ideologies. Socialism as a state of being requires some form of protection (much of the debate on the left can essentially be seen as "how should we protect an established state of socialism?"). As socialism is classless, and as its production is communal, it is open to encroachment by capitalists who will seek to establish private ownership and markets there. Most agree, some state or state-like entity must be established to protect the socialist society. In this way, any politics that are explicitly anti-capitalist must be socialist.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 week ago

Wow, who knew the fascist party supporters would be against women having political autonomy.

Not related at all to the article. We really need to stop invoking the US election every single time we encounter news of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm planning on voice surgery. There's a clinic in upstate new york that has a great surgical technique that I am in the initial planning stages with.

I can very much agree about breast growth. They've changed a lot over the years. Particularly after reassignment surgery.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is one of the most utterly disgusting things I have ever read in my entire life. You are repulsive. You should be in prison for saying these things. You are living proof that true evil is possible for humans.

Do not bring queer people and women into your calls for genocide. You do not speak for us and have no right to invoke us in open calls for the mass slaughter of, among everyone else, queer people and women and children.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

That last bit isn't really a fair characterization. We don't have to invent things people will say. There are already enough voices in this dialog.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

See in the start you're right, yes, Trump and Harris have the same policy in regards to the Palestinian Genocide. But you act like that means they're identical human beings who have identical intentions and who will make identical political actions.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So, your argument boils down to... Trump and Kamala Harris have the same attitudes towards preventing violence against queer people? Or are you arghuing he would be better than her at protecting the lives of trans people?

Yeah I'm not defending this system you'll note earlier I pointed out that they are genociders. I lamented that this is the reality we live in. I am an anarchist, a syndicalist and a marxist. I am in favor of the revolution. I also believe that mass murder is something that should be avoided whenever possible and that morality is affected by context. That the morality of sending one vote alone, one vote that does nothing to hurt the cause of revolutionary socialism, can be positive in that it works to prevent the status quo from being replaced by a significantly worse one that results in mass death of many more people. Your trans homeless friends defo have it rough, the queer americans in my community do too. They would have it decidedly worse if America was dictatorially controlled by christian white nationalists.

Jesus christ I'm so done with Liberals and I'm so done with people who see themselves as "enlightened" leftists. If I think that voting for a democratic government is a good idea, as it minimizes the likelihood of a total open fascist takeover of the US government and the placing of the US under martial law and enabling every political decision in the country to be made by a racist homophobic child rapist, then I'm supporting the neoliberal reality of America and killing homeless people or something. But if I point out that, Kamal Harris and Joe Biden are international war criminals who have committed acts of genocide by funding and arming a terrorist state actively committing the palestinian genocide, then I'm spreading misinformation or I don't care about women or queer people.

I'm so done with arguing on this. I'm nearing a state of utter acceptance that Trump will takeover and probably allow christian white nationalists to start a queer holocaust on American soil, or else that Kamala will win and the neoliberal western democracies will continue to death spiral towards inevitable neo-nazi fascism, and in either case all the while Israel creates its own lebensraum throughout the middle-east by committing genocide on a scale literally not seen since world war 2. You tell me not to vote, to just magically hope that everyone else across the continent will rise up and overthrow the american neoliberal machine all at once by some kind of act of god or something. You tell me that it doesn't matter if round ups start happening and trans people like me get thrown into mass prison camps and slaughtered. Don't play this nonsense game acting as though you have no idea about Project 2025, no idea what the fascist right is planning for queer people. They aren't subtle. They know if they get him in power there is literally NOTHING we can do to materially prevent them from making being trans point blank illegal, to have it classified as sex crime, and to use lists theyve made to round us all up en mass.

How in god's name do you think you're convincing anyone?

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Do you have a plan to radicalize enough people to topple the current regime by election day?

Or is your plan to tell me that I shouldn't care that Trump is openly allied with people who want to commit genocide against queer people like me? Do you have a plan for your queer friends if he wins? Would you have me see their deaths as permissible if he wins? Or inevitable? Is your message of radicalization "you might die but it's fine because the other government that wouldn't have killed you was also fascist"?

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Political vigil... for genocide victims... for people murdered in a genocide... I guess having a holocaust remembrance day at work is a political act now?

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