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2020-10-22 at 11:52 PM UTC in Wintermute
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2020-10-22 at 11:49 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Meikai Labor unions are just businesses that sell labor as a commodity and use anti-competitive behavior to enforce their arbitrary monopoly on that kind of labor (see: retaliation against scabs, scab lists, etc). They are the thing they claim to hate. smh
I mean, yeah, in practice, that's often what they end up doing.
But they also serve a very useful function if you end up fired for unjust cause.
Originally posted by Billy teh Block Head Unions are fucking gay JUST FIND A DIFFERENT JOB IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT
Lol you make it sound like they're handing jobs out on the corner like it's candy.
In an ideal world, sure, you just move on, and some kind of mechanism reduces the friction of unemployment and a job that needs filling opens up immediately.
But that's so rarely a realistic scenario.
Unions have tons of flaws, but they are not unilaterally a bad thing. -
2020-10-22 at 11:41 PM UTC in WintermuteShe didn't seem particularly fat in her nudes from way back when.
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2020-10-22 at 11:17 PM UTC in People with Ghetto Blasters on Motor BikesGhetto Blasters?
Lol your thread took 25 years to upload. -
2020-10-22 at 10:55 PM UTC in Hunter Biden's laptop has CP on it
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2020-10-22 at 10:51 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Obbe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
Holy shit I didn't know it had a name.
That's the closest approximation to a political ideology that I (thought I) invented many years ago.
Although in fairness I should have figured others had thought if it.
My own variation had some minor differences, but that's damn close. -
2020-10-22 at 10:47 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Billy teh Block Head This is the kind of stuff I see on my facebook feed
To be honest, the particular meme template here is kinda lost on me.
Regarding that particular quote, though, I believe trade unions are a good thing in concept.
A major flaw though is the potential for corruption within them.
Some unions are historically notorious for being run by organized crime.
Which is ironic as fuck because it just creates microcosms of "organized greed". -
2020-10-22 at 10:38 PM UTC in Shwag: Special Addition; Last Clothing You PurchasedI bought a three pack of boxer briefs at Walmart like three years ago.
I generally lead a pretty simple life when it comes to fashion. -
2020-10-22 at 10:32 PM UTC in Hunter Biden's laptop has CP on it
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2020-10-22 at 10:30 PM UTC in Hunter Biden's laptop has CP on it
Originally posted by infinityshock lovingly allowed lard-ass lanny the luxury of lapping the loins-leviathan while the little lad larps as a laotian ladyboy lapdancer---.-.-.-------.-------.----.-.--------.-.-.-.-.--.----.------.-.-.------.-.-.-.----.-----------------(banned) i hope you fall asleep on the beach on sunny day and get raped by a bunch of niggers like a drunk college girl on a florida beach. (true story)
I'm sorry to hear that happened to you.
I offer you my thoughts and prayers. -
2020-10-22 at 10:24 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?I had a bunch more options but hit the poll limit unfortunately.
Anarcho-primitivist.
Monarchist.
Transhumanist (digital society where we just upload our minds to a computer system).
A few different flavors of centralist. -
2020-10-22 at 10:20 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?I actually used to consider myself libertarian, and somewhat flirted with the idea of anarcho-capitalism.
(They are both incredibly similar, except that libertarianism is small government while ancap is no government at all).
The reason I gradually drifted away from those ideologies though was when I started playing them out to their inevitable conclusions.
Like, libertarianism would be entirely consistent with a future where they have cigarette vending machines in schools, or even Disney movies pushing heroin.
Ancap could potentially be even worse.
Back when I was borderline ancap, I just always struggled with the question of dealing with particularly nefarious people who simply don't care who they tread on.
You could potentially have somewhat reliable private security to uphold the law, but then how long would it take for someone to get power hungry and to just establish themselves as an authoritative ruler?
It just feels like "governments" are inevitable.
Same reason I'm skeptical about anarcho-communism ever working. -
2020-10-22 at 10:03 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?I actually haven't voted in any federal, provincial, or municipal elections.
To be honest, Trudeau doesn't seem that terrible though.
He's also great for memes.
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2020-10-22 at 10:01 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?Oh wait, is legal weed good face guy Trudeau?
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2020-10-22 at 9:59 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Billy teh Block Head Let me guess, you voted for legal weed nice hair guy
To be honest, I don't know who that refers to.
If he's an anarcho-communist, then yes.
I'm incredibly skeptical of anarcho-communism actually working, but out of all the options above, it seems like it could potentially be pretty decent and fair to as many people as possible.
But it'll never happen though. -
2020-10-22 at 9:57 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
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2020-10-22 at 9:56 PM UTC in The Lunk Alarm - Planet Fitness sucks!Lmao I remember reading about this a while back.
They're still doing it? -
2020-10-22 at 9:55 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Splam Nationalism and socialism go hand in hand. If you care about your country, you care for the people that make it up.
Socialist ethnostates are surprisingly rare though.
Actually I was literally looking for historical examples the other day out of curiosity.
National Bolshevism is the closest real world example I could find. -
2020-10-22 at 9:53 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Nil I feel like fascism is just a flavor of generic authoritarian ultranationalism to most these days and not transcendmental authoritarian ultranationalism faux spirituality focused on the state and the body politic.
Unapologeticly a villain (to some)
I admit that "facism" is a pretty vague term.
I actually had a few other options I wanted to add, but there's an upper limit when making polls.
That being said, yeah, if you go with pretty much any brand of authoritarianism, someone out there is gonna see you as a villian. -
2020-10-22 at 9:51 PM UTC in What political ideology do you identify with?
Originally posted by Splam It's really simple. The less workforce participation, the less prosperous we are. Also, too few people command too much of the work force. Are all those rich people actually participating in the work force? Same with all the people on disability, who wouldn't have been 50 years ago, for vague mental shit, do not count in the unemployment statistics. Therefor, workforce participation is the methodology to judge a healthy society by. And we're not it.
Under communism, not working is punishable by forced labour. Maybe that's what we need.
First off, I used to actually say stuff like what you're saying all the time when I was in my 20s. Like almost verbatim. I saw so many people "lazing about", bums hassling me for change on my way to work, etc.
But a major shift I went through was when I later realized that the central issue is an inefficient and ineffective system that essentially renders it's citizenry either unemployed or unemployable.
There are so many unemployed people, including people on disability, that sincerely want to work.
If the system were designed more effectively, people seeking work could find it, and employers seeking labor could find what they need.
The problem is largely unrestrained capitalism leading to corporations making hiring and firing decisions with the profit / bottom line influencing every single decision.
And there are tons of other issues regarding the status quo that I could go on about, but I don't want to write an entire novel.
But the whole concept of "forcing people to work" feels like it would just result in people randomly assigned jobs. Like drawing entries out of a hat and telling people "go do that".
A truly enlightened ideology would result in all people contributing to society, but doing so in a way that is at least somewhat fulfilling.
