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Because if you don’t have democracy you’ll eventually be living in a one guy dictatorship.

Democracies aren't really predisposed to avoid that, just look at America now.

Popular tyrants were pretty vilified in history because they would try to do things unpopular with powerful oligarchs, like forgiving debts so that the broader economy wouldn't collapse and people wouldn't be forced into lifetimes of servitude.

In the historical example I'm referring to, the oligarchs called in Rome to save them from those tyrants.

Not convinced that deposing those tyrants made things any better for the normal people stuck paying the oligarchs afterwards. (the oligarchs wrote the history though and said it was really cool actually)

But IMO it also has its good parts. Like medication and computers.

If you're ascribing all technical progress to capitalism as some sort of credit to it as a system I'm going to have to disagree too. Medicine existed long before capitalism for one, and scientific progress often happens in spite of the market capture rather than because of it.

the problem the world is facing today in the middle east started in the fifties, don’t forget history or you’re damned to repeat it as they say.

Not to just link you to a bunch of my comments, but it started long before the 50s.

https://lemmy.ml/post/20423526/13755171

Capitalism in its base version is quite good imo trying to meke better use of things, it’s the neo liberal capitalism that makes everything a hell hole. In my opinion ofc.

Disagree on the first half, capitalism has lots and lots of issues. Doing whataboutism re: other systems is not convincing, nor is blaming its failures on 'neo' liberals

Part of the cornerstone of what you're calling neoliberalism was free trade to enforce using international labor to break labor unions. This manifested as finance and industrial capital having different goals (and all manufacturing getting moved to china). Finance capital makes little of material value (lots of value on paper), and does not employ unionized workers to do it, so it was prioritized by policy to suppress American unionism.

Industrial companies like auto manufacturers transitioned to just selling loans to buy cars assembled elsewhere as their business model (Finance).

Makes sense, I keep hearing people using rust for microcontroller, even had someone telling me that it could be use for fpga code, but I'm skeptical of the utility

If it's from the 50s and unrelated to our politics, why are people who support places like Palestine getting called tankies then? Just feels like an ingroup-outgroup label.

Liberal I always took to mean pro-capitalism, hence why communists use it derisively.

For conservatives it's used derisively too, but more because they're not doing the warmongering with enough toxic masculinity

Maybe translation issue? I just meant for fpga work int is 32 signed by default, but it's way more common to use logic variables which are unsigned and arbitrary length (>=1)