Nicht wahr. I failed my first Discrete Math exam trying to teach myself using only the provided resources (professor, text book, notes, etc). The only reason I passed with a C was because I was able to watch lectures from better professors on YouTube.

I have also used YouTube to fix my car and many other things. Old Reddit (corporate social media) was a very valuable resource of knowledge.

Every single human accomplishment of note was only made possible through social bonds and social collaboration. We need each other. We need tight knit communities, but since so much of the soul of our race has been eroded by capitalist zombie consumerism and the atomization of individuals through car dependent urban sprawl, we are sometimes forced to rely on social media to meet that need.

Some European countries have a 40 hour work week maximum (volunteered overtime is allowed).

The US is still living in the 1800s when it comes to labor rights so we don’t have the freedom of a living wage for 40 hours of work.

I believe there are three reasons our broken two party system stagnates and rots:

1. Our slavery founders intended for our system to be a plutocratic republic that would resist change, not a democracy

2. The purpose of every state is to maintain order which requires preserving itself

3. Fixing our system would require our politicians to vote against their own interests, to risk their own power and status… This goes against every ideal that capitalists believe in. Capitalists believe that as long as they follow the rules, they are entitled to everything they can take. The fact that the rules were written by the rich to favor the rich is of no concern to them.

Aye, too true. Trump was the greater evil, but it is hard to see the US as being a democracy when our only two choices were genocide + an aggressive regression to oligarchy VS genocide + a slower LGBT-friendly regression to oligarchy,

The bus analogy would have been better if the only two choices were 1. to run over a bunch of poor brown kids (Israel’s genocide) and being pissed on by billionaires before driving off a cliff OR 2. run over slightly fewer brown kids while being given moldy bread to eat.

If liberal democrats truly believed in democracy than they would fight to give us a multiparty system where people don’t have to vote for genocide just to prevent a more evil tyrant from taking power.

They have Gold Sickness which is a cancer of the soul.

Remember when Fox News called workers “dogs” that need to be starved to make us obedient? Never forget, never forgive

God I hate to use this word but it’s the only one that works… cucked.

Owned is a great word for this. Nearly all our news outlets are owned by billionaires which leaves journalists next to zero ownership over what they are allowed to write and how they are allowed to frame things.

Capitalism is bad at pricing in externalities. It’s pretty good at using price signals to allocate finite resources to more productive uses.

Markets do not equal capitalism. You can have the efficiencies of free markets (worker owned co-ops which are market socialist) without the all consuming greed of capitalism.

We joke, but Ronald Reagan signed California’s gun control laws because the Black Panthers had guns and minorities having guns scares conservatives

Great point. When the country has fallen to fascism is not the time to implement gun control.

The law can be whatever we collectively want it to be. The entire point of having Amendments is that the Constitution was supposed to be a living document that we would refine and improve over time.

Like farmers who refuse to let the government plant shelter belts to preserve our top soil all because they don’t want to take a 5% hit on their yields… So instead we’re going to deplete our top soil in 50 years and future generations will be completely fucked because creating 1 inch of top soil takes 500 years.

Here in the US, even if the driver is found responsible it is often only a small fine ($500) and maybe a 30 day suspension for killing someone.

Also, DJT is just the tip of late-stage-capitalism’s iceberg of evil so wake me up after we abolish billionaires, convert all large companies into worker co-ops, and design our cities to be walkable places connected by public transportation

This is what happens when basic political science isn’t taught, guys like Elon have no idea that socialism (the left) is fundamentally about expanding democracy to our economic systems.

Liberals will watch you drown in a swamp and then they will brag about how they kept their hands clean.

Letting tens of thousands of people die without access to healthcare is acting like an adult???

Liberals are the epitome of the trolley fallacy: passive choices are still choices, letting someone drown in a nasty swamp because you want to stay clean is social murder. Liberals might appear to have clean hands, but their souls are soiled by the deaths of all the people they chose not to help

It is expensive /complex because the capital class does everything they can to undermine and sabotage public institutions.

Any country that allows billionaires to exist will slowly regress towards oligarchy. Political democracy is not sustainable without economic democracy (small businesses, strong labor unions, worker owned co-ops, publicly owned resources / companies)