Not specifically communism but mine is The Tragedy of the Commons where they explain that in a free market (completely deregulated), profit maximizing situation among competitive, non-communicating economic actors the environment is destroyed and there is complete resource depletion. Not only is it just neoliberal capitalism but the economic actors are all from the guy’s imagination and don’t behave like any group of humans ever, anywhere, in recorded history. This is somehow a vErY iMPorTaNt EXamPLe of why capitalism is the best system for social organization and managing scarce resources And it has persisted for like 50 years or something, which is incredible considering the argument falls apart at the first investigation.

My second favorite is the picture of empty grocery shelves in Amerikkka during COVID 2020 that says “this is life under socialism”. For some reason there were no pictures of Goldman and AIG guys in 2009 with that caption but that’s a different story.

Holy shit nailed it lol

The genocide people? You mean the IDF?

The US Constitution seemed to have this idea in mind with its intent, though it’s evolved into the same old concentration of power over time. Doesn’t matter which party either. The reality is power is so concentrated now that there are no true parties anymore. This is a mafia that transcends both sides.

So no China is no proof of anything except improper concentration of power. Mostly capitalist by the way.

If your opinion is that power is concentrated in the hands of the few in both the USA and China, how do you explain the difference between how bad it’s going for America rn vs. how good it’s going for China rn? Sure, both have their problems, no country is perfect, but it really looks like the USA is completely falling apart while China is having technological breakthrough after technological breakthrough.

Thanks for your response btw, the original commenter is right that people who downvote and leave don’t contribute anything to the conversation, unlike you.

From 2022?

I really don’t know (it’s probably fake and/or an experiment on the users) but it does change periodically while scrolling.

I don’t get it either but I bet Robert Cainer voted for Brexit.

In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.1 This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consummation of their mission to answer every query on Google instead of sending you to outside sites.

Something I never understood is how is AI overview different from the Knowledge Graph? They were both instant summaries of data found on the web, only the Knowledge Graph didn’t boil a gallon of water per query or turn us all into Palestinians.

Wow, thanks for this comment. I had no idea.

White Empire: <Commits appalling violence and repression against the Iranian people>

KKKeir SStarmer: “Iran can end this now. They should refrain from further strikes, give up their weapons programs, and cease the appalling violence and repression against the Iranian people”

Wait do you mean in 1970 or was there also one in 1973 that I’m not finding?

These days Israel can just randomly bomb a school and kill dozens of girls her age to start a war!

Chris Gilbert gives me such weird vibes. I don’t think he’s disingenuous, and I can easily verify any verifiable claims he makes, but he’s just so in love with Venezuela, Chavismo, and the Bolivarian Revolution in general that I think that makes him… maybe not unreliable but more like that you won’t get the full picture from him. He’s just like too enthusiastic about the subject matter to look at it impartially.

I haven’t read the book but thanks to this good post and the links I will.

You can see more of Chris Gilbert on The Empire Files.

Good find.

Blockades are an act of war, so any violence coming out of Palestine after 2006 and directed at Israel are legally justified (even ignoring the whole moral and survival aspect). Since Palestine is occupied by Israel, Israel has no legal right to use military force in Palestine, only police force. The response to Oct 7 was illegal from top to bottom (again, not even taking into account the whole moral/most basic possible level human rights aspect) and the Oct 7 uprising was legally within bounds.

Sorry for the tangent but you know how it goes.

Wait are we not considered lemmy? I’ve only been here like 2 weeks, nobody told me.

But does North Korea have foreign funded political parties? No? That’s right, authoritarianism akshually

Rare W for Hungary.

I can’t believe the EU settled on $90 bn from private banks to lend to Ukraine, basically putting all EU citizens on the hook for $90 bn + interest (I didn’t check the specifics but it could easily come out to ove $150 bn of EU citizen tax money going to private banks to repay this loan instead of going to their own healthcare and education and public services). As usual, the people who pay back the loan wouldn’t have been those who benefit from it or those who decided to take the loan in the first place. Truly a banker’s paradise.