Not a Marxism thing, just a realist thing, perfect is the enemy of good

So you need to make steps forwards rather than trying to do one giant leap

Planning for idealism is the enemy, first we must tax them, then we must destroy them

“as individual countries”, cool, but I said “The Alliance”, as in the group, that agreed to work together, to fight on multiple fronts, against an enemy they weren’t prepared for

Or, and it’s a novel idea, work to push that war forwards in time by supporting progressives and doing local politics

Same here, same here

It’s simple: we don’t allow it. They force it.

By holding wealth they hold power, by holding power they can use coercion and violence to ensure they keep power

So that unless a large enough majority would choose to fight back, which is a huge risk that most wouldn’t want to take, they can just fend off all attempts to remove their power with very little difficulty

And you may say “but then why doesn’t a majority form to fight back?”

• fear of repurcussion - what if you lose the fight? They will destroy everything you care about in retaliation
• corruption of state - the state itself is willing to prop them up due to those with wealth using wealth as a tool to rot it from the inside out
• class traitors - those in power create a mythology that anyone could be like them, it just takes hard work, in so creating people who have no power that are willing to fight for them cause they think it will give them power (it won’t)

If things get bad enough, then all those bullet points will not outweigh the amount of people willing to fight back, it’s happened time and again. But in almost every case it’s gotten MUCH MUCH MUCH WORSE than our already shitty situation before there was enough will to fight.

Taxes require a state

Since when?

There’s ways to do taxes without a state

We can do both. Both is good

The money is the fulcrum for doing so, they wouldn’t want or need it if it wasn’t useful for that

A: UK don’t have presidents, we have a Prime Minister

B: Evidence of her TERFism is found literally in her books from day zero, but it just was excusable before she unmasked as “maybe she’s unknowingly parroting harmful stereotypes?” cause it turns out that some older creators had such an influence on media that lots of the stereotypes she used were just background radiation.

(Goblin = Jew is as old as WWII, but probably older “They’re just a Man in a Dress” and “Cis Woman that looks masc is funny” is at least as old as 1800s, etc etc)

https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/49834413/22829194

Cheeseburger Reich

So, atheism, but with extra steps?

Arguably every religion would fit in that

That’s really giving them too much credit.

This is all about data collection and data theft, to sell your data to advertisers

Coincidentally, the fediverse is suddenly gaining a lot of new users, especially Lemmy/Piefed

There’s a “rule of thumb” loose categorisation though, but blurry on the edges

I dunno, some philosophy is bullshit

Just like how Trump is just saying “common sense” things then?

(Whenever people argue against trump’s policies he just says “they’re just common sense”)

True and real