exist
Nobody is questioning existence, we just don’t care for it being pushed at schools.
If I want my kid to learn solely about MAGA ideologies, should that be forced on every other kid in their class? Or, should I take some responsibility and teach my kids that myself?
what about the parents that want their kids to learn the facts
Then ya know…the parents should teach their kids that. It’s not schools responsibility to push social ideologies, it’s their jobs to help kids learn basic studies like math and reading.
Limiting public schools from pushing gender identity and sexuality on elementary students
Parental rights in the education system.
As a conservative, I’m fine with some broad anti-‘woke’ policies, but banning how people dress is absurd, and the insane focus from some candidates is wild.
It is.
If you want to get paid $20, find someone to pay you $20/hour
Maybe work on your reading comprehension and come back to me whenever you don’t find me advocating for cOmMuNisM.
Marxism put into a political system has always been a form of communism. If you aren’t arguing for that, why are you responding to a post and a comment about communism?
I was merely mocking your naive worship of a broken and failed system.
Because I acknowledge that capitalism isn’t perfect, but it’s by far the best political system that’s taken more out of poverty than any other economic system doesn’t mean I have naive worship. Also, it’s not a broken and failed system. You want to see a broken and failed system? See every single communist country that’s ever existed.
Maybe one day you will wake you up when they automate your very useful 1-2 hours a day position.
That won’t make me communist. And my field is one of the few that are still hiring at a good pace, most tech companies are in a stand still and laying people off. My field has been steady for the last 100 years at least.
Regardless, I’m selling my work for a fair rate, and that’s what capitalism is. If you are willingly working somewhere at an agreed upon price, thank capitalism.
Working for a living is the core of communism.
totalitarianism is the core of communism.
Workers are more populous and generate all the value
Then negotiate, if you do create the value, then you can sell your services for more.
we would like a larger share of the value we create.
See above.
I work hard because I want to retire in two years, not twenty.
Sweet, and because of capitalism you can do that.
I want to retire because I started out under the boot of surpressed wages because of the corruption incarnate in capitalism.
You mean because when you started, you couldn’t provide more than a small amount of value to your employer? It’s not anyone elses fault that nobody wanted to pay you more than you earned.
Someone like you with a cushy job (that sounds pretty ripe for being automated) has zero clue of the hardships inflicted on everyday working people. Maybe soon you will find out.
Ahhhh yes, you know so much about my work history because you’ve only heard about what I’ve done the last two years. I went to 5 years of school, earned 2 degrees, the hardest certification in the united states that took 18 months of studying, while working full time.
I worked hard then, so I can have a ‘cushy’ job now. Once again, at the heart of capitalism is that you’re worth what someone will pay you.
no way forward for the current system
Are you not the one that said that you ‘started out under the boot’ and now you do very well, and are self-employed? That you work so much harder than me (clearly a point of pride for you)?
That’s because of capitalism, homie. Under communism, you just work forever for an even lower wage than you earned when you were ‘under the boot,’ and if you wanted to earn more - that’s the thing! you couldn’t! you either get jailed or killed. Communism is fun!
Ya know, there are a few communist countries that you should try and go to work for, if you prefer that!
Do you think the people who built these platforms are teens?
I don’t know who created this platform, but I doubt they’re teens. The vast majority of users are young.
Marxist through and through.
Please educate yourself then. Marxism has only resulted in death and destruction. It has put countries back hundreds of years and have killed hundreds of millions of people.
Just because workers unions of the past were overturned by tyrants and capitalists alike
I’m pro union, and capitalist. Capitalism isn’t anti-union. Once again, please educate yourself. Advocating for marxism is 100x worse than advocating for nazism.
The system in which I am forced to participate in is fundamentally flawed.
Please move to a communist country and see what you’re forced to do.
The only reason you’re an engineer is because you were allowed that choice. Under communism you would likely have been killed simply for being college educated.
bootlicker
Boot licker because…I think communism is bad?
Or because I think the youth obsessed with social media and gender identity will have a rude awakening when they actually have to get jobs?
Btw, I’m 37 and I still haven’t become a lifeless drone who bitches about young ppl.
Btw I’m 29 and I still haven’t become a lifeless drone who bitches about young ppl. I bitch about idiots who think communism is good and gender identity is the most important thing in the world.
And before your next predictable retort; I’m successfully self employed and I work harder than you - I guarantee it.
And I don’t care. I’m glad you’re successful. I feel sorry for you that you work harder than I do.
I’m decently successful, working for a small company, and I work maybe 3-4 hours a day. I don’t want to work, I want to live life. I’m living a great and happy life every day, that’s what I strive for, I don’t strive to work as hard as I can.
Doesn’t mean I can’t advocate for a better life for the next generation because I had to work hard
Are you talking about communism?
If you are self employed, it’s because of anti-communism policies, and you have capitalism to thank.
You’re welcome - from Capitalism.
Young people haven’t experienced life yet and think communist is something good, despite 100 years of absolute failures and hundreds of millions of people starving, getting killed for things such as wearing glasses, and sent to work to death in prisons for having a different opinion.
Young people also over represent themselves on the transgender scale and don’t realize they aren’t actually special compared to the 7 billion people in the world, but like to feel special in their high school of 1,000 people.
Young people comprise the vast majority of people on the fediverse.
Young people will get a rude awakening once they find out they have to work for a living, provide to those they love and, once again, that their ‘identity’ doesn’t matter to anyone else.
Wasn’t there a huge civil suit against J&J that they avoided paying?
Just another big pharma company that is getting charged fines, but that’s just their cost of doing business. These suits against J&J, Pfizer & more should put the company permanently out of business.
I don’t think it’s a trap.
I was only 9 when we invaded Iraq, I wasn’t in much of a position to protest.
But seeing for the majority of my life, how that played out, along with studying American history and our involvement in other countries the last ~70ish years has made me a borderline military pacifist. We spent some 10-20 trillion on an endless war that got us absolutely nothing, and killed millions of people across the world. What Americans life was positively impacted from that?
I’m almost always going to say to stay out of foreign conflicts going onward.
I absolutely agree, I’m conservative and am fine with cutting 80% of our foreign military activity.
Using that money to help folk here including veterans.
If your neighbour, having been born in an extremelly wealthy family, hired 100 hunters and hunted all deers in a 100 mile radius and offered to sell you venison, and you subsequently went hunting, got 0 and had to buy the venison from him, that would absolutelly be his fault.
His fault of what? Hunting more? I don’t own the deer, nor the land the deer are on. In fact, it’d probably work better for me, he doesn’t have use for all the deer, and I can buy it pretty cheap from him without getting my hands dirty. Isn’t that what you do? All your stuff, do you make it? Or buy it from someone who provides it?
As it so happens my version of the metaphor is very much how it works nowadays at that level of wealth compared to the normal individual.
Not really. You didn’t explain why it’s my neighbors responsibility to give me food.
It’s funny that in your mind they work just like you, even down to doing it hands on: that’s not even close to how it happens with the vast majority of them and even the ones who do “work” used their wealth as a force multiplier to make way more happen than you could ever possibly do and thus get way more benefits than you could possible get (normallly make way more money which they can use as an even bigger force muliplier in the next round).
Yeah. Once you have your needs met and have expendable income you can use that how you see fit. Some use it for luxuries, some use it to make more money.
I’m not gonna be mad at how someone uses their property. That doesn’t do anybody any good.
Nobody would have any problem with the rich if their taking wasn’t so vast that it stops everybody else from getting even a little bit.
Yes, you and many other young left wing folks would. It stems from jealousy, not necessity. The world is a much much much better place due to capitalism, which has brought insane amounts of people out of poverty, into positions they don’t have to worry about starving everyday.
You’re just mad because your wealth hasn’t increased as much as theirs. Your life is easier than 90% of people throughout world history, your on your little Mac or Iphone, in your air conditioned home because it’s a little too hot this july, drinking your starbucks coffee, stewing in hatred about how rich people are awful, but anybody in human history will look at your life of luxury and be appalled how someone with so much comfort and wealth is complaining.
Every single conservative supports fascism?
That’s as wild as saying every single liberal supports communism.
I don’t know about Iran’s gun rights to have much input on that comparison.
From what I remember, I thought the protests were mainly by the youth in universities.
As with most things, take it from the wealthy.
I disagree that all of our problems can be solved by taking other peoples wealth and the government allocating it as they deem fit.
If it ever seems like there’s not enough to go around, blame those who have too much
Why? If my neighbor hunts deer and gets 10 deer this winter, and I hunt and get 0, how is it his fault?
We could solve these problems, but not while protecting the profits of the ruling class.
We could solve these problems but we gave 10 trillion dollars into a black pit of war and the military industrial complex over the last 2 decades.
We could solve these problems but the government has a budget with 50% going towards social programs that are economically unsustainable.
Where? I live in washington, I go on reddit/lemmy now for my social media.
The people I interact with that have extreme views are y’all calling 30% of US voters literal nazi’s.
Do you truly think we have some 30 million + people that are nazi’s, share nazi ideals and nazi culture?
I can’t affect how the very small minority of republicans that are alt right, or actually are nazi’s, behave. I can try to communicate with the people calling everyone that I interact with that most of us are disgusted by the extreme minority on the far right, too.
Agreed, but that’s not my argument.