Is that a muppetjoker post?

Closest I got to a hobby is reading a shit ton of books. Highly recommend listening to an audiobook while you read a physical copy, cannot stress enough how much this helps me focus.

What murrrderr?!

Because political systems are not purely ideological. They are derived from a material (economic) basis and must satisfy existing relations to production or change them. In our case the two primary relations to production are those who own the means of production and those who produce. Under the economic base of capitalist production there are multitudes of political superstructures but you will be most familiar with the liberal democracy. This form of political structure provides some extra freedoms and luxury to its domestic working class but is only able to do so while maintaining the infinitely expanding profits demanded by capitalist production by exploiting a foreign working class for cheap labor. When the cyclical crises of capitalism eventually places an insurmountable strain on the liberal democratic political superstructure which can no longer hide or balance the class contradictions at its base you get one of two things. Communism or fascism. In the case of fascism it is essentially the owning class going all in, exploiting a foreign working class stops being enough so their imperialism turns inward on their own working class. Since they cannot increase oppression on every worker without inciting revolution they pit one section of the working class against another often along ethnic lines but who is pit against who is arbitrary. An out-group is intentionally created and alienated so that the owning class can maintain economic power. In the case of communism/socialism it is basically the workers taking full control of the economy and political superstructure because the capitalist class failed to maintain it. There is also anarchism but I am not well read enough to speak on it too much.

In short, western liberal democracies have essentially only two classes and the economic contradictions that the state exists to mitigate originate from a conflict of interest between these classes. If we are to be frank there is only the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the proletariet, and classless society.

I hope this isn’t too much of a ramble lol, my partner was watching tiktok so I was a tad distracted.

Made a steam family with my friends so atleast someone can enjoy my library

My girlfriends car got totalled by hail last night and my windshield is fucked. Woke up to what sounded like Armageddon at 3 am

The green of fir trees in the Pacific Northwest United States on a rainy day

I don’t think most of us are here seeking “maximum engagement” yk? I’m quite comfortable just getting a comment or two on a post and having long conversations (or arguments lol) in comment sections. The community of lemmy is really nice and I don’t want it polluted by people who use it in the highly impersonal way people use reddit.

Showing this to gen alpha to get them into communism

I’ve looked into and honestly they cover most of what people use the listening device for. Only issue is that they can be a bit slow and are often quite expensive. Haven’t checked in over a year though and tech like this can advance quickly.

I was stuck in an airport for the full eclipse without a view of the moon 🥲

Yeah I’m trying to have a breakdance breakdown actually. Would not be the first

While threatening their colony?

Weed is lowkey my sleep meds. I’m highly conflicted about it

This ignores the fact that the sun came out and dried up all the rain

Most of us do not unfortunately

We exist to revolt or something. True fulfilment comes from dedicating your heart and labor to something greater than wage slavery.

Honestly I think it’s up to those industries to find better markets. Doesn’t canadian aluminum depend on american aerospace pretty heavily? Unless you want to start a huge domestic aerospace industry there isn’t much you can do as the consumer I don’t think.

Thats definitely not a sentence I expected to read today

Capitalism is an ouroborus