Commiunism

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[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I saw that before writing the comment, and it doesn't really change anything. If you want a blahaj of your own and got the sewing skills (from the looks of it you do need to be quite skilled), then sure but if you want to commercialize it and start sewing for others, you're now a small business and my comment above elaborates on what usually happens with small businesses.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That's literally impossible under capitalism. Blahaj is a commodity like any other, you can't attribute ownership to a certain group of people based on their qualities (welcome back racial segregation), and trans people aren't automatically more virtuous because of their struggles, so a trans small business owner selling Blahaj plushies for a living isn't immune from going full Hitler and abusing their workers, PR to get as much profit as possible.

One of the worst job application decisions you can make is working for a small business owner, given their legal exemptions in discriminatory laws, them always being on the edge of going bust causing them to take psychotic measures to increase profits, and very little infrastructure in place at the job location due to their lack of money causing safety/medical issues.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Male

Female

Consumer of our commodity

The 3 genders

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

true socialist commodity

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What's that? You don't want to throw yourselves into a meatgrinder to protect the private property rights of your fellow rich nationals?

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

I get that it's a slight against enlightened centrists huffing on their "civilized debate" fumes they just breathed out, but how much does it really matter?

It's not like if everyone magically acknowledged that Israel is committing a genocide, we're all going to organize just for that and overthrow our bourgeoisie states just for funding them. Having a couple more activists doing adventurism or protests won't do anything either as history shows time and time again (in fact, the former tends to make things worse).

Both workers and influencers are powerless in this regard, unless the state of current things changes.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's all fun and games until you get fined for neglecting your property

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

Critical support for proletarianization of r34 furry artists

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's a different use case - bottles is really good for playing games outside of steam (like pirated titles or non-steam games) since it has sandboxing + you just drag and drop the game folder, then add executable as shortcut and run without having to fiddle with paths and set up each game individually. Convenient for software too that runs better on proton too.

If you don't do/have a need for any of that, then you don't need bottles.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The thing with boycotts is that it's such an online thing. You can proclaim a product or an author the product funds to be problematic morally, call to boycott it to support some cause, and most people are indeed going to join the boycott then post about it on social media, do the moral song-and-dance to join the cause.

In reality, the vast majority of those people aren't invested in the product or the world and wouldn't have bought anything from it, boycott or not. It's much harder to say no to things when you're actually invested into them, meaning boycotts aren't likely to influence those people. With that in mind, you now have a bunch of free advertisement for the product in a sense that it won't leave the public consciousness, a bunch of people not interested in the product doing their "activism" and a bunch of fans of the product fighting the boycotters (as seen with Hogwarts Legacy for instance).

I haven't read or watched or played a single product from JK Rowling's catalogue, but I've seen this happen time and time again with other media or companies such as the infamous Blizzard.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

A prominent recent example is Christy Walton paying to promote the No Kings protest.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-christy-walton-walmart-heiress-no-kings-ad-sparks-maga-boycott-article-151841244

Though I do think I worded my comment a bit poorly I admit, meant it more in a collaborating with billionaires type of deal as opposed to right-wing conspiracies where protestors are paid by foreigners or some shit

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

The revolution in question: endless amount of protests that are supported by "progressive bilionaires" like il Duce intended

Kinda wish they didn't have an actual revolution yet, cause at this point all it'd cause is a fuckton of deaths just to put a group like democrats back in power, then for reactionaries to go back into power democratically a couple years later. People there are genuinely blind to their predicament still, thinking the problem is just Trump.

 

Alt Text: Flowchart depicting the life cycle of social democracy (or "democratic socialism"). SocDems rise to power! (Revolution or reform) > Can't escape capitalist crisis, conditions worsen > Lose election > Standard capitalism is back! But it's unpleasant, people want something new... > Repeat or SocDems rise to power! > Turn to nationalism to pacify proletariat > Get owned > Standard capitalism is back! > Repeat.

 

Alt text: Sam Hyde talking about how he's Hitler's top guy, and how Hitler needs him to lead the revolution with the caption "Average small business owner when the rate of profit falls by 1%"

 
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