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Breadtube if it didn't suck.

Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.

There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.

A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Merriam Webster seems fine.

Fascism - a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

Any government interference with economics is anti-capitalism. So automatically, a large government is incompatible with capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any government interference with economics is anti-capitalism.

data-laughing

Alright, I see we aren't being serious here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't tell if it is a bit account, or a reactionary (libertarian?) truly detached from conscious thought; bearing witness to 'Nazi Germany wasn't capitalist' and 'socialism is when the government does stuff' takes are absolutely hilarious, even swaths of reddit-logo don't buy that garbage any longer.

Further down, we've got the galaxy-brain take of "Remove power from the government and you'll get corporations out of lobbying"...yes? Obviously?

Much like if you want to stop getting door to door salesmen at your house, you can completely demolish it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Also from Merriam Webster:

Capitalism - an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.

Fascism - a political philosophy

Capitalism - an economic system

Clearly these are incompatible thonk

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Merriam Webster seems fine.

yeah, I remember when I was twelve too. here's some links in case you don't want to continue showing your whole ass while the world burns

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any government interference with economics is anti-capitalism. So automatically, a large government is incompatible with capitalism.

This is entirely false. A powerful state is required to uphold and protect private property rights for capitalists. It's also required to declare war on other states for not opening themselves up to capitalists and their businesses. See: the history of the West from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the present. The governments of Europe sent their armies and navies around the world destroying civilizations and societes wherever they found them, and the capitalists followed in their wake, establishing markets protected by those troops, with cargo ships protected by those navies going to and fro. The modern situation is not so different, with the state providing police forces to protect the businesses and homes of the rich, establishing laws to protect them from major consequences, destroying rebelling countries with their armies for the capitalists to come in and seize what remains, and so on. The state also helps corporations with subsidies, such as Tesla. In 2008, you might remember that the state saved the banks from imploding.

The market and the state are not opposites, especially when the bourgeoisie are in charge of the state, as the state is the apparatus through which their class interests are enacted. The market is a tool - often a brutal tool - that the state can employ to achieve its interests.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I feel for you man. Not only are you still going ham with the news updates, but now you gotta deal with libs like this person.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Merriam Webster seems fine.

Fucking hell, I cannot imagine being arrogant enough to start popping off about a subject I knew this little about.