Idk, doesn’t matter where I go, be it Political Memes, Politics, Elon Musk Spam, etc, it seems everyone hates on capitalism all together-
If it’s any consolation, due to its refuge nature, at any given time, [email protected] is going to be the opposite to the norm.
If only for awareness.
Because there are far more unemployed, basement dwelling neckbeards with enough time to whine on social media that everything wrong with the world is because of the Right.
Is that why you’re here?
peculiar, that particular description seems to be much more apt for those identifying with the political right, from what I’ve seen.
LMAO
unemployed, basement dwelling neckbeards
But those are the typical far-right voters.
Most people dislike that everything is being dragged down for profit margins instead of taking care of humanity
Because capitalism is burning the earth down for profit and if nothing is done we’re all dead soon ?
we’re all dead soon
That’s a bit… extreme. We’re all going to be dead soon? You mind elaborating a bit?
Climate change, sea level rising, populations moving to an already overpopulated land mass, wars, pandemics… Capitalism is killing us slowly but surely. And “soon” is a figure of speech, it might take a while but compared to humanity span it’s soon enough. Some might survive, but on the long term humanity is running head first into a wall. We might have the time to change course and only get a few bruises, but the no return point is way past.
Well like everything, capitalism too has its downsides and there’s plenty to improve on, but it’s quite difficult to see how ending capitalism and replacing it with what ever you think it should be replaced with would end stuff like wars or pandemics. Ending capitalism would definitely end certains issues caused by it, but along would come a set of new issues we’re probably not having to deal with now.
capitalism too has its downsides and there’s plenty to improve on
No I think you don’t understand. Capitalism allows rich people to get richer by exploiting the resources of the earth at the expand of the climate and poor people altogether. It’s not something that can be improved, it’s something that needs to be stopped ASAP.
And there isn’t ONE solution to “replace” capitalism, like communism or socialism or whatever, it’s all about solutions to each problems : ban private jets, yacht, and stuff like that ; taxing the rich to stop them hoarding all the wealth, more carbon taxes to force companies into being more eco friendly, banning stuff made by slavery, children, and underpaid workers in far countries, favor locally grown goods, raise the minimum wage, etc.
It’s gonna be hard for everyone but it’s the only way to stop fucking everything up. Capitalism is a cancer that needs to be removed or it will grow until it kill its host. Only the rich will survive, all of us will die slowly.
You first say it’s not something that can be improved and then you list a bunch of ways to improve it. This is exactly my point.
If you want, but we need to get rid of the capital, stock markets, and all other stuff defining capitalism for this shit to work. Capitalism is based on infinite growth, it’s not sustainable.
…and replace them with what? I mean, it’s a nice fantasy that’s there’s abundance of everything, nothing costs anything and we’re all just dancing in a circle singing kumbaya happily ever after. However, if you really want to live in a world like that, then you need to come up with some system of economy to produce this abundance. Now you’re just listing things you want to get rid of but you’re giving none and I literally mean zero suggestions how to get there.
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias” Steven Colbert
Close: “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
Because capitalism is the problem, not the solution.
It seems like you’re not even allowed to ask this question apparently. It’s a combination of a large pre-existing far left base and the more center-left Reddit refugees I think. Lemmy’s creators, as well as some big “older” instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear are all communists. As to why they moved here, I have no idea. Maybe to have a separate space without an overwhelming amount of people with other opinions like they’d face on Reddit? Maybe because they hate corporations and thus don’t want to deal with them? Idk.
Makes sense lol thank you
Who said you couldn’t ask? People are answering the question; I haven’t seen a comment thus far that implies that.
Downvotes are 22 into the negative at the moment. How else do you read that, than people not being happy about you even asking?
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What in the way the question is formed indicates that it’s being asked in bad faith?
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What in their post/comment history indicates that it’s being asked in bad faith?
Have you seen the downvote ratio of this post? It’s at -22 currently
Because a majority of people are left sided. There’s a reason Trump hasn’t been able to win a popular vote, he’s not actually that popular. He might seem it in uneducated redneck towns, but it takes about 100 of those towns to match the population of a decent city, which typically votes left.
Common sense?
if only it was (common)…
Capitalism and the right is literally against humanity for the benefit of the very few. You’ll wake up eventually
Lol
we can hope that enough of them will wake up eventually, before it’s too late.
otherwise a lot of people aren’t going to wake up at all, I’m any sense, ever again.
I feel like the right is so damn far to the right, that everyone else appears to be on the left.
I must agree with you, I may be an authoritarian left person, but damn, I dislike the left almost as much as I dislike the right at this point-
To try to give you a genuine answer, perhaps because 1) Lemmy is a left leaning environment generally, 2) if you’re American, because the majority of the western and 1st world countries are dramatically more left leaning than the US (I live in Canada, and your democrats are more right wing than our main right wing political party)
here in NZ, our last right-wing leader laughed aloud when asked if he was religious, on national tv, and said no.
I live in Canada, and your democrats are more right wing than our main right wing political party
The same is true when comparing these ‘democrats’ to the main right wing political parties of any European country.
“Because we are all correct” seems to be the prevailing answer.
You expect an honest response here, the very place you’re talking about?
Regardless of how you feel about what the answers are, what makes you think people are lying, rather than speaking the truth as they see it?
Well, I don’t think they’re lying per se. But when you ask a group of people “why is it you all believe this” of course they’re going to respond “because we are right.” I’m more asking OP why he would even post this guestion here than criticizing the people responding, he’s not going to get any semblance of a helpful answer.
Some of these seem to have had insightful and worthwhile commentary. Of course, I might just be saying that because I think they’re right.
Honest answer the right doesn’t seem to have any good positions now. They are against fighting climate change, against tolerance, anti-science, and they speak of fiscal responsibility but instead of tax and spend they just spend. They are way too much into mindless defiance and dirty politics. And they are the most hypocritical “do as I say, not as I do” party IMO.
Thanks, you are civilized, different from the others, also, yeah, I know that the US right wing is batshit insane, but yeah, I don’t agree in capitalism = bad, I like the way it works, but we should actually focus on decreasing inequality and give opportunity to everyone
I didn’t mention capitalism but meant to, I think capitalism itself is great but like so many other things it needs limits. Huge mega corporations have a lot of disadvantages for the environment, competitors, customer service, and consumer choice.
Big brain ngl
Because a lot of tech culture is based upon the idea of sharing things with people, of enabling others, of bringing down barriers, of helping other people reach their potential. This is why open source communities are so prevalent, and even commercial tech offerings are sold to us with these ideals.
And all that is antithetical to many right wing policies, which are often about creating barriers and unneccessary limitations. Like DeSantis’s Don’t Say Gay laws. Or the defunding of community services like educational institutes. Or placing barriers on voting.
Also the Nazis already have X: The Everything App™ they don’t need this
