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knfrmity
joined 2 years ago
I haven't thought much about this yet personally, but my hot momentary take is that it has to do with class consciousness. I'm going to ignore the volume of anti-labour/anti-communist propaganda in capitalist nations for a moment as I'm not sure that's as important to this. I also just read the essay "Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” which was pretty hot on lemmygrad a month ago which has definitely changed my perspective.
People in the west do not have class consciousness, or even the sense that class struggle exists and is happening. I think if you'd ask random people on the street they'd tell you that class is basically just income brackets.
Capitalism forces all of us to be selfish to an extent, so without a base level of class awareness and active class consciousness we often choose the path of highest rewar and lowest risk for ourselves. When the going gets tough in a union building situation for example, we can cash out as it were, and rat on management, thus turning the situation positive for ourselves.
Whereas in socialist countries, there is a common sense of class consciousness. Even if the thing your union or workplace or municipality is doing in this moment may not benefit you directly in this moment, you have been given the tools to see how it will be beneficial for your community, your class, and thus for you in the future. Or maybe it's not beneficial to you personally at all, but again with that class consciousness in mind you still work towards that goal or at least step aside to allow others to do what they need to do to for the advancement of the cause.
I also question this idea of leftist infighting. I see a lot of it simply coming from the fact that a lot of self-proclaimed leftists aren't leftists at all, and they get in to fights with radical anti-capitalists such as MLs. There's not going to be any unity there without breaking the ideology to the point where it's useless.
Not like any member states will be ready to support that many electric cars by then. It's also just kicking the personal transportation time bomb another few years down the road.
Let's goooo!
I've also read that Tesla is having a hard time adjusting to German labour laws and expectations. Absolutely shocking. /s
One brand, I think it is Vizio, is specifically known for over the top selling of user data to "subsidize" the consumer facing price of the TV. Of course all of the brands do it but even the ones who are very transparent about it do well enough to stay on the market.
I have a Google TV based "smart" TV and use PiHole. The balance is blocking just the right queries to maintain acceptable privacy and security, while allowing queries which are necessary for desired functionality. The domains often change as well. These can be more efficiently blocked with RegEx queries but those have a higher chance of breaking functionality as well.
You can also deactivate the "smart" features or simply not connect the TV to the network.
Ah yes, the supposed final bastion of western liberal democratic values and civilization, making all political opposition illegal. At least they're up front about it, other countries do it more quietly in the background.
Not surprised. Sure it's another industry entirely, but Walmart tried to break in to the German market about twenty years ago and couldn't make it work. They were forced to treat their employees with a tiny bit of respect, so profitability went out the window.
That's weird, why is real inflation over 10% when my wage hasn't changed in years?
Every country* is on their side.
*every country they control
Massive polluters like oil companies, steel producers, car manufacturers, and military suppliers all need time to transition to new unbelievably profitable products before the world can be transitioned off fossil fuels. Pollution is also just part of the whole profit making machine, so most of the alternative products and solutions slowly becoming avaliable have their own massive drawbacks.
To be honest we need net negative now, but it's just not going to happen without a couple revolutions.
His main grift is stock price manipulation, I figured it was just that.