asexuals undergoing mitosis
bayesianbandit
joined 3 months ago
I support decoupling as quickly as possible
Me too, we just differ on how quickly that can happen without driving average people into the arms of fascists.
30% of our population would be glad to see it, and 30% is all it took in the US this past election.
What are you even talking about? Engagement in local politics and mutual aid is at historic lows, in large part due to the influence of US central social media corporations.
Why do you think the only two options here are your narrow ideas or nothing at all?
To be clear: the approach you've outlined is incompatible with anti-fascism. Therefore you can't claim that moral high horse. Your approach is fundamentally flawed in that it's still dogmatically invested in capitalistic top-down power consolidation.
Please, dear god. Get off the internet and sign up to help your local mutual aid organizations. We can do so so so much more to combat fascism by reminding each other of our collective strength, compassion, and humanity. That really is the antidote to fascism, and we all need to be working toward that more than anything our federal government can do via tarrifs or trade bans.
There are effective ways to fight fascism.
These are based on showing people there is a better way, and in particular showing average people that the left is working for them.
And then there are ways that directly embolden fascism by senselessly cratering the lives of everyday people thereby driving the masses directly into the arms of the far right.
You can't just disentangle overnight, unfortunately. And I'm sorry but if you don't think backlash is something that can/should be mitigated by an effective strategy then you haven't been paying attention.
A far more effective antidote to fascism is mutual aid.
That's all well and good until the electorate revolts by putting the CPC in charge next cycle. No thank you, if only for the fact it's politically incompatible with anti-fascism. You can't make such broad moves and expect there won't be backlash. Canadians are NOT immune to the same thing happening up here that's happening south of the border.
This is why I say it's not the American people who are to blame. I wish more people understood this. Canadian society isn't immune from the exact same thing coming up here, especially if the CPC wins and sells us out to the US. Lord knows too many of our population is culturally indoctrinated by US social media platforms.
70% of the US population DID NOT vote for Trump—they were either disillusioned with democracy (abstained) or voted for the least-bad option (Kamala). And of the remaining 30%, many of them don't necessarily like Trump so much as they were duped enough into thinking he was less bad than the alternative.
Real talk: is there such a thing as a non-tariff response to what the US is doing that doesn't amount to, essentially, rolling over while the US to curb stomps us? What's the alternative? Because 70% seems low.
Clearly, you do. And they've convinced you to blame your neighbor for the boot on your neck.
Your logic only makes sense if you completely ignore we're in the middle of a class war...
In my opinion, this is an issue that can be avoided by implementing UBI gradually.
Shortages and inflation don't just arise from people having more disposable income. If that were true, inflation would've been worse and supply chains would be facing shortages decades ago when everyone had more disposable income in real terms.
Rather, these issues are more a function of three factors:
- Rate of change in demand
- Price collusion among large companies
- Supply chain disruptions
During COVID, we saw all of the above, for example. Supply chains disrupted, people had more disposable income due to CERB and changed their consumption behaviours dramatically during lockdowns/work from home (rapid shift in demand), while large corporations such as Loblaw's & Sobey's engaged in well publicized price-fixing schemes.
This lead to the inflation crisis we are just now recovering from.
However, there's no inherent reason why UBI needs to include any of these things. You could instead, for example:
- "Boil the frog" when it comes to demand, by starting with small payments and phasing them in so that consumption habits do not change too rapidly
- Promote anti-trust measures against large companies to prevent price fixing (bonus: proceeds can go toward UBI)
- Similar to point one, if you take the boil the frog approach it will be less disruptive to supply chains, as people leave jobs gradually & companies are slowly incentivized to pay their employees more in order to stay competitive
At the end of the day I don't see it as all that different from setting interest rates, for example. Like YES the central bank COULD tank our economy by raising the interest rate 2000 basis points tomorrow. And YES they COULD also drive inflation through the roof by setting the interest rate to 0% as well. But they ain't gonna, because it'd cause... inflation/deflation and supply chain shortages.
Shit, I fell directly into that category & I still delayed my sex change by 10 years after my first attempt at coming out.
It worked until it didn't. And yes it was hell, I lost years of my life, and wouldn't wish that on anybody. I think about how much I missed every day, but also, younger me wasn't wrong.