It's funny how similar AI generated images are to accompanying drawings for "what are ten things that are wrong with this picture?" style questions in an IQ test.
I'm out touching grass right now and Joe Rogan can eat a dick along with your favorites fucking pooh bear and the tiny penis moron who looks like he accidentally walked into a hedge cutter.
Also Australia sucks y'all are a bunch of American wannabes.
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Nah I'm good on pyong yang propaganda. You're fucking goofy. Touch grass you dumb bootlicker.
Flawed democracy is still democracy
Not voting at all for your leadership isn't democracy.
It has nothing to do with flaws, of course countries have flaws.
If Trump manages to turn the country into full on dictatorship I'd acknowledge that as what it is, instead of pretending that it's a flourishing democracy.
Besides all of this, China hasn't even gotten rid of capitalism anyway. So they're not only a dictatorship but they're also practically a fascist one with worker aesthetics.
Half of the shit we buy in America is made in China by wage slaves who cannot advocate for themselves under threat of being carried off to jail or executed.
Enjoy bitch
Kim Jong Un did not stand for election, marking the first time that a North Korean leader did not participate as a candidate.
He's not even pretending anymore because he knows he's God Emperor for life.
George W. Bush was elected.
When's the last time haircut doofus had an actual election that he didn't somehow manage 106% of the vote in?
In general, the "debates" have always been a nationally televised pissing contest for as long as I've watched them.
They're sham elections. You telling me that fucking haircut in the DPRK is God emperor of North Korea because he has some mandate from the masses? He's atop the throne because he's the son of the last blowhard.
I've never seen a debate where the moderators did a fact check.
During the one Obama Romney debate I remember Obama asking for a live fact check of some sort and getting it. So it's happened before.
The USSR, PRC, Cuba, and DPRK all hold elections and practice(ed) some form of democracy.
Lol, alrighty we're done here. 😆
Edit: The only time tankies believe in voting is when they're on lemmy hitting the downvote icon on the deep posts. 😜
Why not? Why do you say Socialist countries aren’t democratic?
What countries are you counting?
The former USSR, China, Cuba, North Korea, and on and on do not hold elections.
The northern European (and other socialist-lite countries) that are closer to what I would want for America didn't abolish capitalism... So...
He does, did, and I linked the sources.
You're right, he does have a prescription...it's just one that doesn't work in practice despite being tried over and over again for more than a century at this point.
Capitalism cannot be truly democratic, only Socialism can be.
Sure seems like this country at least gets a say in voting for who runs it, unlike many, many socialist examples (with great reading scores! yay!) where they are not only not doing that, but it is prohibited structurally (or behind the scenes through radioactive tea administration).
Also, don't bend my ear with all the grand achievements of socialist countries that are decidedly not democratic and then pay lip service to democracy.
Socialism being temporary never was meant to mean it was supposed to be a short term sacrifice, but an improvement on Capitalism and with the continual goal of improving production to get to the stage where Communism can be accomplished.
That doesn't happen either. You get "Communism with Chinese characteristics". You get the USSR that falls apart and was never really communist to begin with. You get Cuba with great food and nice looking old cars, but in an otherwise isolated and somewhat dire state and in consistent poverty. You wind up with Russia with sham elections and an international alliance of creeps including North Korea. You get czars and emperors masquerading as "presidents". It's all a worthless facade: still authoritarianism but comrade-chic; dictatorship but by che guevara wannabes.
I don't like capitalism either, and I think Marx's critiques of it are well founded. He just doesn't have a prescription: exactly like many other analysts throughout history and various wanton technocrats today.
I'll stick with democracy until the cossacks come knocking at the door thank you very much, and I'll do it while reading whatever I please instead of useless theory.
EDIT: I think the actual prescription is labor unions, worker protections, state administered social welfare and safety nets, etc...monopoly busting...all the new deal stuff basically. At least we have a historical example to point to of that shit working.
Why do you believe it is weak ass and half-thought out?
Because it predictably goes the same way it always goes. You start with your "temporary period of single-party state socialism" after a half decade of bloodshed, and then the party never wants to give up power. So again you're just following what some stupid asshole / dear leader wants to do and that's never the real actual communism™.
You get "SocialismCommunism with Chinese characteristics" (aka fascism with a different name and aesthetic).
EDIT: It's communism that supposedly has the chinese characteristics of being actually capitalism with an emperor...my apologies to the CCP.
Calling Marx and Marxist contributions “weak ass half-thought out ideas that never wind up getting implemented in whole or even in part because of their obvious flaws” is just plain silly.
Thinking that we'll take down capitalism with some revolution and then go through a temporary period of single-party state socialism and then eventually move to communism is a weak ass half-thought out idea that'll never wind up getting implemented in whole. So, I stand by my characterization there.
A lot of this writing has the same flaw that many other analytical texts have: great at diagnosing or discussing a problem and absolutely shit at coming up with any solutions to it.
The "what is the problem" part of the text is like 95% of it, then it's "what we can do about it" is the remaining 4% before the author thanks his wife.
The "what is the problem" part is full of cogent analysis, data, and decent hypotheses and is well researched.
The "what can we do about it" is weak ass half-thought out ideas that never wind up getting implemented in whole or even in part because of their obvious flaws.
I personally think that's because actually organizing people to do anything about any problem is infinitely harder than identifying one.
My boss Nikki Hailey switch parties but I don’t like her at all.
In here posting about an ancient man's debate performance and then end it with a sentence like this shit. 😝
The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.
This one is almost a not the onion post.
Billionaires now control 1 out of every 25 dollars of American wealth.
I almost fell off my chair when I read this headline.
Kirk Tanner, the new CEO and president of Wendy’s, shared with analysts his various plans to increase company profits, including investing in digital menu boards that will have the capacity to display dynamic pricing that fluctuates throughout the day by 2025. Here's what customers need to know.
Hold on honey, before we get our Wendy's I'll have to check the wsj for the historical prices on chicken nuggies first.
CR (Consumer Reports) - How to eat less plastic (February 2024 edition)
Awesome song, was just thinking how it makes a really great test for new audio equipment (especially for the mid-bass / bass part of the system).
Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/669370
> Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
Fourteen experts on the roots of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster and why Republicans keep destroying their own leaders.
Kevin McCarthy was ousted as the Speaker of the House. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida forced the vote on the “motion to vacate.”
Pick topics you're not interested in:
- Club Shay Shay
- Chad OchoCinco
- Shannon Sharpe
NFTs, once hyped as a revolution in cryptocurrency and digital art, have crashed since their boom market, becoming worthless.
Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4251114
> Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay. > > At least four have turned to crowdfunding online, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for defense lawyers. One now has a political action committee to help with legal fees. Another has an ally in Congress vowing to support his legal defense. While another ended up spending nearly a week in jail because he initially couldn’t afford to hire an attorney. > > Trump has covered the legal bills of aides, advisers and employees during the House select committee’s probe into January 6, 2021, and federal investigations, including his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom work for the former president. > > But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”
An X account that appears to have belonged to the deceased suspect has violent anti-LGBTQ messages dating to 2018.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3660014
> The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media. > > The suspect, Travis Ikeguchi, gunned down Laura Ann Carleton, 66, on Friday, after confronting her and “yelling many homophobic slurs” over her clothing store’s Pride flag, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a news conference Monday. Shortly after fleeing the store, Mag.Pi, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with law enforcement.
The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.
A new survey shows that the vast majority of senior executives say would've approached their return-to-work push "differently."
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/workreform@lemmy.world/t/367568
> A new survey shows that the vast majority of senior executives say would've approached their return-to-work push "differently."
(Bloomberg) -- In 1995, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates sent a memo calling the internet a “tidal wave” that would be crucial to every part of the company’s business. Nearly two decades later, Microsoft’s current leader, Satya Nadella, said he believes the impact of artificial intelligence wil...
In a real shocker for the ages, a guy who has a personal and professional stake in a technology thinks that technology might just be the most important thing there is.