Sociopaths always win.

That’s not exactly my point, it’s more that our current political economy penalises pro-social behaviour (a business is more likely to be out-competed and fail if they actually treat their workers and customers well, so it’s an exceptional thing to see) and sociopaths are rewarded for profiting in this system, their gain comes at our exploitation so they’re effectively rewarded for hurting us.

If we can restructure our political economy so that sociopaths are rewarded by contributing to society, then their own competitiveness and greed is much less of a problem. For lack of another better developed-world example, look at how China keeps their billionaires on a leash^[1]. Now obviously there’s plenty of problems in their political system and some would say they their billionaires are still a problem despite them being dominated by the government, but it’s an example of an alternative to the oligarchical system we know, proof that there are successful ways forwards which are applicable to our economies, even if we don’t copy them exactly (that would be silly).

(On top of this, a society is certainly capable of detecting and ostracising or punishing anti-social people such as sociopaths. The problem is that the most important ones are effectively out of reach in our society since they have a police force protecting them and we have a more alienated, disorganised society)

You do realize Australians can’t vote in the US election, right? Why the hell is she wasting time over here? We don’t want her.

Why do you hate Bill Gates now?

Always have. This isn’t a new concept, and their reputation laundering philanthorpism does not come close to countering the harm they and their foundation are still doing.

Hasn’t he been redistributing wealth properly?

For starters, holding around a hundred billion is hardly redistributing. That’s still hoarding.

I don’t have time right now to find that short-list of critiques @davel@lemmy.ml has, but in the mean time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthrocapitalism is a good diving board, combined with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation#Criticism

If AI replaces a lot of workers, we’ll have too many people in the country.

Unless you’re in China or India, you can look at those two countries to see just how high population can get without destroying a country. Literally in the billions. The bigger problem is how the country organises, not just the number of people. I’m guessing you can look outside for a few minutes or hours and notice plenty of jobs which could use people doing them, the problem is our political-economic system forces people to do what’s profitable, instead of what actually needs to be done. And when the people with enough money to employ people (i.e. to decide what work we do) are stingy parasites, we get this mass unemployment. In fact, some of that unemployment is intentional.

But, with all that said, you’re absolutely correct that we also need to consider the current situation and cope with that, and that a good government needs to try and manage that. And they’re not.

but decrease how much each person has available as resources? Essentially just throwing a lot of people into poverty?

That is not implied. Especially if we consider that the resources we waste are through supply chains rather than our own direct use. If my electrical supply comes from from a more efficient source, then my usage can be less wasteful and potentially cheaper. If my city continues to improve public transport, I can actually save money and use less resources in daily transit. Products we consume have serious potential to conserve resources at a mass scale, and often it even saves them money due to paying less for resources needed in production. A lot of waste also comes from overproduction, think of those Dunkin’ Donuts end-of-day-disposal videos. We make far more than we need in so many areas.

Furthermore, the most wasteful people are a minority of the mega-rich. You and I probably don’t need to cut down much on jet fuel costs. People close to poverty usually aren’t (directly) wasteful, hell, some of them actually reduce waste through dumpster-diving and recycling schemes.

If that would ever happen.

Well, you see, the thing about capitalism is it empowers exactly the people who don’t want that to happen. Consumerism-driven, wasteful capitalism is the in-built trend of capitalism itself, not an unfortunate variant - even government regulation doesn’t solve these problems.

Exactly. There is a world of difference between millions and billions, has horrible and deluded as many of the mega-millionaires are.

“I was hoping for either Big Macs or [fast food] pizza. That would have been better than the food that we were served,” said Nicholas Pinto.

This is a depressing statement. Especially the first half.

It’s the colour historically associated with liberalism (as in capitalism).

Yellow/Gold is historically the colour representing liberalism (as in capitalism), which has a solid history of ending royal monarchies.

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Almost none of their ‘culture’ is original. I’m struggling to think of a single part that is, whether NSDAP or neo-nazis.

• skinheads: nope (imitating of the punk movement, SHARPs are still beating up neo-Nazis)
• fashwave: nope (shallow copy-paste of vaporwave-inspired techniques)
• ‘based’/Pepe/Wojak: nope (even on 4chan, none of these originated from the /pol/ board or political discussions)
• NSBM: nope (BM)
• roman/viking/etc. roleplay: nope (Nazi Germans copying Roman culture is kinda funny when you think about it)
• Nazi ideology/neo-Nazi ideology: nope (both are a syncretic mess of other ideology’s conclusions, as a result there’s no consistent worldview capable of long-term success)
• “National Socialism”: nope (name borrowed from an Austrian party^[1], named to try and appeal to a wider audience by borrowing ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ symbolism. In fact, Hitler was in favour of a different name to try and distance from socialism)

I really can’t think of anything.

That’s a desperate stretch, they were actively celebrating the Trump assassination attempts.

Not sure if the comparison is apt: I think the lemmies in that second panel have a celebration party planned in the case a Trump assassination succeeds.

Funny how you guys have latched onto Gaza like shit on velcro, but have not had a single thing to say about Sudan, Myanmar, and the Uighur’s being ethnically cleansed.

My government is not supplying weapons to those other conflicts, of course I care more about the one that me and the people around me have more ability to stop. There’s no merit to whining about the world, the point is to change it, and I have worked with people to disrupt weapons shipments to the Zionist Regime, just like the union movements before me did with shipments to Apartheid South Africa and Imperial Japan.

According to tankies, both sides are liberal.

That’s according to political science in general, including Wikipedia^[1]. The US is a liberal democracy.

Political scientists evaluate all politicians in the United States as liberals in the academic sense.[28] In general, rather than the Democratic Party, which is close to social liberalism, the Republican Party is evaluated as a conservative-liberal party.

lemmy.world does not appear to be blocked in China [1][2]. It seems to just be lemmy.ml and hexbear.net (e.g. not .world, lemmygradm sh.itjust.works, etc.)