Hooverx

joined 2 years ago
[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So communist democracy is the solution?

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

why is democracy the goal? democratic nations have pretty much universally profited from the plunder and destruction of poor nations.

the british empire, the french empire, the german empire, the american empire. democracy is a tool of imperialism and colonialism. when those avenues for extracting wealth fail, what's left? increasing concentration of power and wealth to the rich, privatization of public goods, right-wing extremism, and societal stagnation through a return to conservative values.

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

seizing their assets will

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn't the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?

in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn't more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

yes but my freedum

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes but political pandering

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that's the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes but see china bad

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

and yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock

turns out that when profit isn't the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what's best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what's best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)

[–] Hooverx@lemm.ee 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The absolute disregard for Palestinian lives.

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