That image reminds me of the Botez gambit.
That image reminds me of the Botez gambit.
Have you met lemmygrad.ml?
https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/4527265
There’s a comment someone made in lemmygrad that reminded of your reply to me.
Sorry to not address it point by point, but I hope the link is useful. I’ll try to do it later, but can’t really promise it. :D
The benefit is that there’s at least a goal that will benefit the poorest strata of society.
Capitalism doesn’t address it at all. It’s every man for themselves and fuck everyone else. That’s textbook recipe for sick societies, like all capitalist societies on the planet. None of them work for the poorest of the people, none of them attempt to do so.
It’s crisis after crisis, with random economical meaningless inflation fear mongering to get people to hate their fellow workers. To compete for an ever decreasing pool of jobs.
But it is rational for any individual to not work as hard, because he will bear less of the cost of that work, but still realize the same gain
They wouldn’t realise the same gain.
More valuable work is better paid. Skilled management is likely to get better pay than menial work. Dangerous jobs get better pay than safer jobs.
You are not allowed to become rich by exploiting others, though.
From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. - Marx in 1875.
Its not about equality, it’s about fair distribution of goods and services produced by the society. As in, it is fair that national leaders get to fly planes to travel abroad frequently,for example.
The recurring issue with communism is that capitalist powers keep on trying to corrupt, infiltrate and sabotage popular governments.
While there’s incentive from outsider agents to control the resources in a piece of land, and the population in that area, there’s risk that some people within that population will betray their people for individual gain.
There’s no passive corruption without active corruption. Active corruption happens for individual gain in detriment of other people. Active corruption is the role of money players, the capitalists.
What’s the use of multiple parties? To make sure that the interests of the imperialist bourgeois powers of the society are represented?
I think it’s fair to say that “nice cops” see themselves as civilians, and representatives of the population, trying to improve things.
Soldiers are military, and a very different category. But! I read many US military personnel go in there because superior education is not really accessible anywhere else. So, maybe there’s a gray zone, there? Cannon fodder soldiers from poor strata die first, in any war. Most don’t want to be there.
I have particular views about IDF being an genocidal maniacal occupation force for a colonising state that commits innumerable crimes against humanity. That you’re probably not interested about.
And I have particular views about NATO using disguised Nazi Ideology in puppet states to seize and control it, that I also wouldn’t think you wouldn’t be particularly interested about.
As if Gmail or Outlook were any better?
If money wasn’t needed. If people had access to dignified work to pay for housing, food and health, they would have a choice.
Cop work is always available, on a very low entry bar, paying generally better than equivalent positions elsewhere. And shitty people get to vent their violence unchecked.
Nice cops “just” have to sell their should a bit. Some people get desperate and are willing to pay the consciousness price.
In my opinion these positions shouldn’t even be available, the whole chain of command should be replaced by people representing the oppressed classes, committed to ending oppression.
I’m not defending police, I just think the criticism has to focus on the institution problem, not at the individual problem. Individuals are insignificant in the grand scheme of things, systems are everything.
That’s, again, an institutional problem. Yes, down with those institutions!
Well, I get it. There’s better places to spend ones time than being a nice cop.
Either they comply of they’re out. But… You know. People are pressured to pay for housing, and food, and health. Maybe they’re paying for someone’s cancer treatment in their family. And cop work pays well.
People don’t have much of a choice. We’re all fucked. But individuals are not the problem here. The system is. The chain of command is. Capitalism is.
Fuck the police, as the repression apparatus for the bonjoursie state. Care for the people.
Yeah, but we have to go after the systems heads, not for its fangs, or claws. These can be used against them.
It doesn’t, though.
The problem is the institution, not the nice people that think being a cop is a good way to make societies better.
There’s shitty cops, and the command chain that does nothing about it. That’s the problem.
Antagonising common peoples dads, and the people trying to be nice cops,and failing, is not the way.
We have to point at the right problem. And if you point at the corrupt chain of command nice cops will back you up.
For profit companies are horribly inefficient and there’s better ways to organize human labour, despite capitalist propaganda.
There’s logseq, but it’s not as polished.
Because updates also add paywall, which is worse than hackers! /s
I use a combo of lutris and proton, if you’re looking for keywords.
I dislike the urgency thing. “4 more people looking at this, only 1 spot left”.
I also hate when it when the ads follow me around every social media platform.
That’s why I love it here. Thank you lemmy.