The myth of black capitalism : funny

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

Capitalist action to support communist ideals.

Analysis of true, lifetime cost tacked onto the purchase price.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The average American doesn't know what capitalism, socialism, communism, or fascism means. They don't know what representative democracy means. They don't know what first past the post means. They don't even know that they have an electoral college let alone its role. The 3 branches of government are largely a mystery. And most Americans are under some kind of impression that the POTUS is some kind of benevolent dictator.

I'm not surprised that someone on twitter thinks capitalism solves poverty.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

"I resent the average american, someone smarter like me should dictate their lives"

Not a criticism of you, you're free to have your own opinion. I'm just saying the quiet part out loud.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're arguing against your imagination.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm restating what was said.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't though

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Where do you believe it differs?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Alright, I'll bite

someone smarter like me should dictate their lives

You added that as what you imagined the original poster's point was, yet I see no call for action in their post. They simply made an observation. This would be like me saying "I notice that wild animals can often be aggressive when they have young children to protect", then someone else acting like my solution would therefore be to prevent them from having children.

It's a wild and unfounded extrapolation made from your preconceived notion of how this person thinks, based solely on their distain for the ignorance they've observed. I've seen many who make the same observation but their proposed solutions were better education, not dictatorial rule.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago

You added that as what you imagined the original poster’s point was, yet I see no call for action in their post.

That's true and a fair criticism. I think its a pretty probable guess though.

but their proposed solutions were better education

Education is a complicated matter in itself, that I'd rather not get involved in here, but Prussian schooling has a long history of politically motivated meddling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I read it as pro-political education. Something that many Americans are dearly missing

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago

Something that many Americans are dearly missing

Yeah this is what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I find it confusing why you put that in quotes, then suggest it's not necessarily their opinion, but following it up by implying that was the implied statement.

The guy just said American political literacy is embarrassingly lacking, which is far worse than what is needed for a functional democracy. Which has nothing to do with your "interpretation"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

then suggest it’s not necessarily their opinion,

I believe it is their opinion, I suggested that pointing that out isn't a criticism. Its a very common opinion.

The guy just said American political literacy is embarrassingly lacking

Because they don't know esoteric terms nerds like us argue about on the internet. They do know what they believe is right and wrong, and what they value in their lives. They vote for people who talk about what they value. You can criticize what they value, but that's just pitting your values against theirs. You can also criticize them for trusting, but if the last 20 years has shown anything, voters are actually not that much worse than technocratic governments at figuring out lies. And most lies that trick voters are lies to the people that tell them, or believe them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

I think you're doing yourself a disservice here by calling these terms esoterica. Political ideologies being clearly defined and understood on a wide scale is not a negative thing. Most of the terms here in this dude's post are talked about as solutions (or status quo) in the current era, all of it should be fresh unless you willfully ignore every single political post on every social media you use.

Way more importantly: You really think the last 20 years were a shining example of public intelligence? Truly? With the denialism, the outright lies that have been signal boosted, the public outrage over hypothetical people and made-up organizations who never existed? How can you justify saying "these terms are esoteric" when they are literally modern? How can you justify this position you're taking where low/no information being the norm needs to be enforced for things to be "normal" for you? You're flippantly dismissing the idea that people could have opinions or motivations you aren't instantly aware of, which is stupid beyond belief.

The entirety of democratic politics is conflicting opinion/value/ideology being weighed by the many. What the hell is the problem with letting people who are informed talk about it in a public space?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Gotcha. It's very effective if you want to make up stuff, and then argue that. But, in that case, don't you have better things to do?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago

It’s very effective if you want to make up stuff, and then argue that.

Thanks for the insight.

But, in that case, don’t you have better things to do?

Procrastinating is fun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Capitalism is a free market.

Capitalism is, for example, being able to buy a pack of cigarettes at $15 and sell them $2 a pop on the street to make $40.

We don’t have a free market; therefore we don’t have capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

Actually, I think it's a system which uses a medium of exchange to facilitate trade, e.g. capital. As opposed to a barter system. You can have a capitalist system without a free market. I think you could even have a communist system which uses capital to assign value, technically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I had to read the second post twice to understand what it’s saying due to the non-standard grammar. But I’m a foreign speaker.

I’m asking an honest question out of curiosity: Was this easily legible to you?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Yes, it was very clear (native speaker here). Something like this is more commonly spoken than written, so I can see why it might be confusing. If your experiencing with English is more formal (via education, reading, etc) vs talking to a whole bunch of different people, that would explain it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago

I’m a native English speaker and had no issue… but I come across (or hear) contractions like “ain’t” often enough that it barely registers as being non-standard… just much less formal, really. Some punctuation might’ve helped you here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Was this easily legible to you?

Yes, very easily.

English doesn't have one standard grammar, but yeah this was pretty easy to understand for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

FD Signifier is THE youtuber that i listen to on black issues, and this reminds me a lot of this video

[–] [email protected] 62 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Rest in power. Fuck the Chicago PD.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

It's so, so sad that none of them, or the FBI, has had to pay for their crimes. Not to mention all the other murders the US has committed around the globe. The people who planned and carried out these murders haven't paid for them in the slightest.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I think it's fucking bullshit they murdered Fred Hampton and got away with it.

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