• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get it. Billionaires do billionaires things, but this meme being made the same week as a liberal policy requiring fair taxes for the rich to cover social security for the next 75 years makes this poster 100% out of touch.

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The use of the word liberal here is not the same as the one used by the one commonly used in conversation. This meme is talking about neoliberalism which is the dominant economic idea in the US and UK right now.

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        1 year ago

        It’s the dominant economic idea in the entire western world.

        Even the Social democracies like Sweden are just a degree of neo liberalism. You won’t find most people saying they want communism.

        If anything hardcore leftists are out of touch, including the OP.

        You can downvote me all you want, but it’s no secret that this instance was essentially a communist refuge lol.

    • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      First of all, I don’t know which country you are talking about which put these policies in place. And it does not matter as it does not alleviate the exploitation inherent in capitalism, it only puts a nice coat of paint over it…

      • Gorilla Thug@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They’re probably US-American, who thinks liberalism is the farthest you can get as a “leftist” and that liberalism is not just spiced up centre(-left).

    • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Has this liberal policy you talk about actually done anything to threaten capitalism in any way?

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      1 year ago

      Liberal in economics and Liberal in US politics mean two very distinct and different things. It’s like the way a ‘runner’ in a race is different to a ‘runner’ in a restaurant. They’re not the same things at all.

      Economic liberalism means free trade and deregulation. If it makes money, it’s good. Neoliberalism is also referred to as ‘hypercapitalism’.

      ‘Liberal’ in US politics means ‘left of the GOP’ and is its own unique thing. It bears no relation to economic liberalism at all. The two may coincide but they’re independent of one another.

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      It’s the kind of meaningless vague posting that rightoids are rightly criticised for when they post shit about the people they consider to be the ‘problem’. It’s vaguely shaped like the way they see the world, but really this is about as substantial as the ‘immigrant benefit fraud’ posts your shitty uncle posts.

      I don’t even know what this is referencing, or how this would work, but everyone is in here saying ‘Omg so true’ and believing that this is the reason that things are shitty.

      Like, everyone’s quick to jump on bollocks conspiracy theories, and consider such things as flat-earthers to be significant in any way, but you’ll constantly see vague shit implying these enormous, unlikely conspiracies between multiple competing companies, the government, involving the collusion and silence of thousands of people, and they get up voted because people believe it’s the sort of thing that could happen.

      What bothers me is that it ends up coming to ‘someone should do something about this!’, but exaggerating constantly makes extreme options look reasonable or even necessary.

      Very few people can actually say what they’d want the new status-quo to look like though, outside of vague slogans or utopian ideas that those in power will somehow do things wisely, justly and selflessly, like they never have before. We can’t compare to any other attempt at communism, and even the most prosperous socialist state would be considered ‘neolib’. Because the thing is, it’s really not clear how communism is the silver bullet many think it is, but also, the vagueness and disparity about the end goal means that we can’t really look at our current situation, look at the proposed one, look at what it will take to get there, and make an informed decision on which is likely to actually make things better.

    • Steeve@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      OP’s account is full of this type of half thought out, zero context, communist propaganda memes. I don’t even disagree with the premise of most of them in general, but it’s just turning this place into an auth-left Facebook.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Oh no! Not the “auth-left.” They may make corporations exist for the good of the people instead of profit.

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          *exist for the good of those in power. I really don’t see the value of concentrating power into a single point of failure.

        • Steeve@lemmy.ca
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          Yeah see, these are the lazy non evidence driven meme statements I’m talking about which Facebook is commonly criticized for

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            1 year ago

            You’re so right lol. Most of these memes are completely brain dead.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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      Which policy is that? Does it have a built in way to prevent accumlation of wealth? Maybe a death tax? Maybe some nationalizing of industry’s? No? Then it sounds like you are the one out of touch.